Weekly journal-miner., 1919-02-12
 PROHIBITION QUESTION STILL ALIVE ]
 

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 Some persons seem to have the that when hry-six States ratified the Federal prohibition amendment and ad
 ona States joined for good measure the pro fbiton issue eliminated from politics for all time
 As matter of fact whole wet and dry question sim ply was turned like fapjack pan andfrom entire ly new ngc-promse be much of issue in politics in the future as the immediate past From will revove definitions what constitutes in tocatng liquors This the burden placed upon the legislatures of the fortyght States by the federal amendment and it looks as would furnish enough ground for discussion to satisfy truculent.
 Within days there will be introduced i'll the New York legislature bill marking the line which this State will soft drinks and intoxicating liquors and all of the vets in the legislature of the drys their fix the line at five cent o alcoholic content Should this bill become law would permit the sale of beer and light wines soft drinks and would go
 long way satisfy goucles and super-grouChes which bound follow in the wake of prohibition The made easily could pass five per cent test while plenty good caret and other paaabe likewise get by Beer manufactured last and being sold country under the government food regulations supposed contain than 34 cent of alcohol Such bill proposed however, would give hope the devotee Of champagne whisky, brandy other hard liquors Furthermore it remains be five cent bill be passed and if it will stand up enacted
 For instance if should five per law and the Congress should fix the basis
  the courts eliminating with the supreme court of the United States settle the question of jurisdiction and what is meant by the constitutional provision giving congress and the several States power enforce this article by appropriate eg ton"
 There feeling however, that if New York declares for five per alcoholic standard congress any the other States will follow suit Anyway the experiment is regarded well worth trying
 Legal experts who have studied the federal prohibition amend struck by its peculiar wording.
 is believed be the first in constitutional statutory law that the intoxicating liquors has been used in this country Yet the federal amendment merely declares that thc manufacture sale transportation of intoxicating liquors within the importation thereof the cxpoaon thereof from the United subject the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited"
 In New York years the have spoken distilled spirituous quors have mentioned Intoxicating quors Other States virtually the position Every drink manufactured and sold soft drink during the generation percentage alcohol Therefore the line soft drinks ing liquors be drawn somewhere arbitrary per centage of alcoholic
 Clearly under the constitution the way open every its line of dcmarcaon for congress do like There may be orync different lines drawn before every gets through with only the supreme of the United States say what's what and also such thought is pcms sbe of such august body-to Say when
 States may fix high thirty per its stand Others may x per Likewise, each State ix its own penalties for violations
 Any person who believes the question of prohibition settled has another guess.