Show A CURIOUS CASE IJ 4 Js dlf cult t from point nt of r vie of the ayman a how an aa aaa a action to c n a 8 corporation to do something that is m Illegal could J possibly acquire any standing In court A case reported from Kansas City In the he United States State district court shows that this wu was done THe outcome however and naturally enough was RS against the complainant It appears that the American company refused to transmit for a whisky manufacturer packages of whisky addressed to MIS MI MISsissippi local option points This action was waa based on a Mississippi sippi statute the importation of whisky Into those and imposIng Imposing Ing a penalty of a fine for each nse Prior to the passage of the act the compary had in transit to these points packages of whisky y which the e express rees company now re reus refuses fuses us s to deliver but wit wiN return to the Attorneys for the express company showed that if their corpora corporation corporation tion delivered the whisky It would be liable to fines aggregating something Uke N Naturally the company not do dore sire re to take any such ch ellanee when the saM sm It would receive for transporting the goods would be in comparison with the prospectIve fines merely nominal nomina The United States court held that the express people were right In their refusal re refusal that they could not be ed by a United States court to violate a perfectly constitutional l state law So the whisky will be returned to the dis distilling tilling company ad aad the people of Mississippi will m be deprived of C it And If they are they will admit that they are better off without it l IM seems to YO a l local eI op law that is really local option In Inmany Inmany many states this law Jaw is a farce In Inmany Inmany many of them local option seems pl ply that more li liquor ler Is consumed tl than an when hen the WOODS saloons were opened This because the stuff is keB aken m in gro great t quantities by tile the and railroad companies It is only a matter of the people in the prohIbition district writ writing log ing f for r the stuff stuW paying for it and Dd gettIng it lit in any Qu they do de deske sire or eQ can pay C for forIt H HIt It might be well ell for other states hay jag local option laws Jaws to draft a new statute after the order of the one In force in Jo |