The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1931-05-01

ENACTMENT OF REPEATER WOULD
LEAVE ILLINOIS WITHOUT STATE
Law RESTRICTING LIQUOR
TRAFFIC
Because the adoption of this repeal
bill will in my opinion be a direct and
unequivalent violation Of my oath of Of
flee, and because it, if enacted, will leave
cur state without any state law Of any
kind restricting the traffic in liquor, de-
cline to write myself down upon the rec
ords of this senate as. a traitor to my
country and my state.
IF this repeal bill is passed, Illinois for
the first time in its history as state will
be without any law restraining the traffic
in alcohol and its attendant evils in any
respect whatsoever.
when the so-called search and seizure
act was adopted July 1, 1919, we had on
our statute books the so-called DRAM
shop act passed in 1874, and the local OPP
ton law of 1907, besides certain special
acts which I shall later refer to.
But our friends who are demanding
that we pass this repeal bill say that they
will thereafter Immediately lend their aid
to reenact these laws that were in effect
up to twelve years ago.
'The dram-shop act in Section de-
fines dram-shop as place where liq-
uors were retailed by less quantities than
one gallon, etc.
Section provides penalty for selling
liquor without a license
'Inasmuch as it does not lie in the
power of any state, city, county, or other
municipality to license the sale of liquor
SO long as the Eighteenth Amendment
remains part of the constitution of the
United States, the reenactmeat of Section
of the dram-shop act at this time would
amount to reenactment Of the very pro-
hibition act you are now proposing to re-
peal
"This dram-shop act that stood as law
for forty-fVe years and was then merged
into the Illinois prohibition act, also made
it crime to sell or give Intoxicating LID
uor to any minor without the written Or
der Of his parent, guardian or physician,
or to sell or give liquor to any person who
is intoxicated or in the habit of getting
intoxicated. And the buying Or procuring
or aiding in procuring of wine, lager beer
and cider, alcohol or other fermented 1iq-
uor, or any Intoxicating liquor whatever,
for any minor, without the written order
as hereinbefore defined, or for any person
intoxicated, or who is in the habit of get
ting intoxicated, is likewise made an Of
fence.
places where liquor is sold in violation
of the dram-shop act were defined as
nuisanceS, and penalty for their opera
ton imposed.
And there were other wholesome pro-
visions making any person who by the
sale of liquor either with or without q liz
cense caused the intoXication of any per-
son liable for the reasonable compensa-
ton of any person who should take
charge of and provide for such intoxi-
Gated person, and required the liquor
seller to pay So per day in addition there
to for every day such intoxicated person
should be kept in consequence of such in
toxication.
cit also made an offence to sell, dis
tribute or give away any liquor outside of
villages and towns, or within one and
one-eighth mile Of any national home for
disabled volunteer soldiers or within a
like distance of any United States naval
training schools, or military posts; or
within two-thirds of a mile of any land
owned or maintained by the state as
soldiers and sailors home in this state.
"And it was also made an offence to
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