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Show 1 S laws. We can have no doubt thai congress has complete authority to prevent paralyzing of state authority, Congress exerted a power to co-ordinate the national with the state authority." This knocks from under John j Barleycorn one of his most substantial substan-tial props and means that the most ' drastic liquor bills passed by the "dry" states will stand the test before be-fore the court of last resort, for the liquor interest. Heretofore, it has been almost impossible to make any , state "dry" as it was generally be. lieved that common carriers might haul "wet" goods into a "dry" state without molestation. It begins to look more and more like a dry United States in 1920. At least, there will bo few "oases" left. Prohibitionists have won another smashing victory through the decision decis-ion of the United States supreme court that states have the power to regulate inter-state shipments of liquor. What the world's greatest tribunal virtually said was: "The states may now prohibit the possession, receipt, sale and use of intoxicating liquor and not be ham pered by the agencies of interstate commerce." The decision came in what is known as the Webb-Kenyon law, which prevented the shipment of liquor from "wet" to "dry" states and it was brought to a test in the West Virginia anti-liquor amendment which prohibits citizens of that state from receiving liquor foT personal ue shipped by common carriers in irter-state commerce. In announcing the court's decision the chief justice was very emphatic in this language: "The purposes of this act was to cut out by the roots the practice of permitting violation of state liquor |