Show THE FOR prohibition it a good thing if the bill introduced in the senate to prohibit regulate or control the sale of eliqa or could be passed the decision of the supreme court in the original pack age case of iowa has thrown off much of the restraint put on liquor dealing if the officers of a state can prevent the local traffic only of liquor and have nothing to say against pack ages being imported from another and then be distributed among the people there is not half the restriction that a high license would afford the bill introduced is not merely to give authority to enact laws prohibiting the importation in a state where its sale is forbidden but it comprehends the whole subject of legislation with regard to the liquor traffic K a detate is to be denied the right to prevent the sale of imported lianor when distributed in the original pack ag cs in which they were introduced as decided in the iowa case before the united states supreme court it might as well be denied the right to prevent the sale of all kinds of inton mcants the court affirmed the right of a state to prevent the sale of all liquor manufactured in the state but that is not enough and if tha ruling of the court was according to law it clearly shows the necessity of congress enacting some law that will give a state full authority to govern its own lianor trade |