The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-12-17
OPINION IN PART SUPREME.
COURT JUSTICE ON WAR
TIME DRY LAW

InS lH' proclamation declaring In" u'
termination Of rehabilitation for which
this act provides.
NO principle Of 9ul constitutional
law is more firmly established utm
that this court may not, in passing
upon the validity of a statute, enquire
into the motives OF congress; nor may
the court enquire into the wisdom ul
the legislation; nor may it pass upon
the necessity for the exercise Of a pow.
or possessed, since the possible abuse
OF power is not an argument against
its existence.
"Concedmg, for the purpose of The
present, that the question of the con.
tinued validity OF the war prohibition
act under the changed circumstances
depends upon whether it appears that
there is no necessity for the prohihi.
ton OF the sale Of distilled spirits fer
beverage purposes il remains to bs
said that on obvious grounds every
reasonable intcndmcnt must b. made
in favor Of its continuing validity, the
prescribed period OF limitation not hay.
Ing arrived; that no congress in The
exercise Of its powers. not least the
war power upon which the very life
Of the nation depends Il wide latitud"
Of discretion must be accorded; and
that il would require % clear case to
Justify 81 court ia declaring that such
an act. passed for such a purpose, had
ceased to have force because the power
q congress no longer contmue. in
view Of facts Of public knowledge some
of which have been referred 20 we arc
unable TO conclude that tho net has
ceased to be- valid.
"Was the act revealed 10y the qdop.
lion Of the eighteenth amendment? BY
the express terms of the amendment
the prohibition thereby imposed be
comes effective after one year from
It's ratification. Ratification was pro
claimed on January %, 1919.
"1he contention is that, a~ the
amendment became on its adoption an
integral part Of the constitution its
implications are as binding as its Ian
guase; that in postpoung The effective
daie Of the prohibition the amendment
implicitly guaranteed to manufacturers
ana dealers in Intoxicating liquors "a
year Of grace; and that not only was
congress prohibited thereby from On
acting meanwhile new prohibitory leg.
'' -, w.. Co.,.
time prohibition act was removed.
"Tna eighteenth amendment with its
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