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sale of such liquors. In the absence of legislation, the busi- ple to engage in such traffic in any such sense as to remove Press says that the question of the constitutionality of prescribed territory. * * * it from the sphere of legislative control. * * * This is surely as clear as need be. for the legislature of a state to delegate to municipal corpora- the license law was not at issue and until the question But then the anti-alcoholists have always paraded with great gusto the utterance of the Supreme Court of the whether by prohibiting or by restricting and licensing the stricted by constitutional provision, to enact any measure this means what it says. The Associated Prohibition United States declaring that the right to sell liquor is tions power to control and regulate the liquor traffic within is squarely presented the judgment of the higher court ness of selling intoxicating liquors has universally been re- cognized as lawful, but there is no inherent right in the peo- not a natural right inherent in citizenship, although It is well settled that the several states in the exercise traffic. The court said : the evils resulting from the traffic in intoxicating liquors, cannot be anticipated. Of course, literally this is true. In the absence of constitutional inhibition it is competent of their sovereign power have full authority, except as re- deemed expedient to suppress intemperance and minimize The prohibitionists, however, refuse to admit that

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