high-handed tyranny as that proposed in Georgia f. i., If there had been a campaign of publicity and there country in which the confiscation of private property, in England. But none of them ever had the temerity with the people engaged in the brewing business, such Let us take another business by way of analogy. In Ten- the pistol carrying practice is a great evil and that society The Nashville (Tenn.) Banner, after adverting to Confiscation of Property. accumulated and employed under protection of law, Confiscating Property Under Prohibition Laws. eries of that state, says : tion. lature decides to stop the brewing business they simply courts. There are anti-alcoholists and prohibitionists the iniquity of the Georgians in confiscating the brew- to propose the suppression of the brewing business nessee we have a law forbidding the sale of pistols in the existed today a public sentiment that could deal fairly confiscate the breweries without a dollar of compensa- 104 would be impossible. America is the only civilized without compensation. In this country, when a legis- is practised and sanctioned by the legislatures and for it. This law is based upon the demonstrable fact that state, a law that does not effect the end intended, as any- one wishing a pistol can get one if he has the money to pay