The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-17
TO A FINISH IS
 PLANNED

Chicago, H., Jan. 1S.-Three hun dred distillers of the United States in Chicago today decided to fight the dry forces before the Supreme Court of the United States at every possible angle of attack.
 Questions that have not been raised before in the country's history will be put up to the Supreme Court One is the constitutionality of the constf- tutional amendment article itself. The highest court in the land will be asked to pass on the question as to whether thirty-six or any number of states can impose a rule of personal conduct on other states that are not included in the combine.
 This attack will be based on Ar ticle :, of the Constitution, which provides that powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitu- ton, nor prohibited by it to the respectively.
 Claim of State Rights.
 Another point to be raised is whether the Federal Government can force state to surrender it's inher- ent right to handle exclusively mat ters pertain to the personal liberty rights of the individual citizen of a state.
 The distillers got little ray of hope when 1t was discovered that ci- der cannot be manufactured if the prohibition amendment is ratified by the constitutional number of states required. One report from down
 East, where they still have apple or- cfards, was that the farmers were up in arms over the possibility of not
 being permitted to make up the
 F1ndfalls of the orchards into cider for commercial purposes.
 Throughout the convention, how ever, there seemed to be a general
 feeling that the prohibition amend ment would receive the indorsement
 of the thirty-six states and that the
 fight will have to be carried on be- fore the courts subsequent thereto. The distillers also laid stress on 1 the provision of the pending dry
 amendment that fixes a time limit of i seven years in which the ratification i by the two-thirds states shall take f place. This time element, they were | advised, constitutes an unconstiu-
 tional limitation not contemplated by 1 the amending article of the Federal <; Constitution. This was the point
 raised by Senator Borah at the time 1 the resolution was pen ling in Con- | gress.
 Danger of Socialism. It is the belief of politicians and
 newspaper men that if the dry forces I won finally there was danger of the United States going to a so- ciaIst party basis, or the great ma jority of the working classes Hopping over to the Berger -Stedman- Germer | standard.
 This report is said to have been compiled after 8 survey of the loliti- cal rumblings among the working | classes, who are demanding, l. is stated that the reformers leave tkem alone to the enjoyment of their gls ss J of beer. One spokesman for the con- wention declared that Russia did not r-volt until vodka was taken iron, the working classes, and that Lloyt. George, who started out teetotaler
 for England, Wales and, Scotland threatened an uprising if the ration
 ing of their beverages went farther. A prominent Socialist leader was i quoted as saying that he was hoping with all his soul the prohibition amendment would be ratified, as he | counted on at least 3,o00,000 voters among the working classes joining l the Socialist ranks as an immediate
 result