manufactory of pistols had been built up in Nashville, in- sanction of protecting law, and suppose the legislature should should be protected by an inhibition of the sale of the dan- law that destroyed it was enacted? While it is a recognized volving an investment of, say a milion dollars, under the nessee, and by such an enactment cause the pistol manu- enact a law prohibiting the manufacture of pistols in Ten- part of the owner and when the property has been built up prohibition was introduced. It seems that when tion, in that his business was not unlawful until the new property where there has been no violation of law upon the common-sense and their feelings of fairness and equity consideration of equity obtain in the practical confication of with the consent and by the encouragement of the state? the good of the community if it be necessary, does not a The same thing happened in Iowa and Kansas when question involving property rights under the law. The Rule of "Not Too Much." facturer a loss of half a million dollars. Would he not feel gerous and deadly weapon. But let us suppose that a great people approach the liquor question they leave their This question does not involve the right of a state to pro- principle of government that the individual must suffer for mote temperance, except incidentally, but it seems to be a that he had a just claim against the state for some repara- behind, they cannot think straight, being usually undei 105