Show TEMPERANCE FORCES FORGES WIN IN GREAT VICTOR VICTO Chicago April JS i. forces won on a sweeping 8 victory over o the Intel Interests of or Illinois to today ay when the supreme court COUlt at Springfield Spring Spring- held field handed han ed down on-n on an opinion upholding uphold ing big thu tho constitutionality of ot the anti antl- act JL ll particular it t hr mr I iT i upon the lie record Thu Tho main Que question Uon lh the court coull was called on to consider was whether the legislature has the thc right to lo pass pats a law creating saloon anti-saloon territory The court says ays this right Is is' unquestioned un and amid can not be qualified or restricted In iii any way The court was unanimous in su sustaining sun sus taming the statute under which al already ai- ai rea ready in less Jess than a years year's time lime saloons have o been voted out of or busIness business busi busI- ness in the state stale ion Decision lon Not ot The decision was not unexpected however for never In its history has the supreme court failed to sustain laws Jaws restricting or regula regulating tinS tinS' tho the liquor traffic The decision today was rendered in inthe inthe the lie case caso of tho the people against McBride McBride Mc- Mc Bride a u saloonkeeper of oC Randolph county who openly ran his saloon In violation o of the law for 01 the thc purpose of testing sting the statute an and who was fined fluted b by a n ju justice The Tho caso was appealed appealed ap ap- ap pealed to lo the supreme court where the law lait was attacked by attorneys representing breweries and amid distilleries and sustained b by attorneys for tor the tho Saloon Anti-Saloon league In all 2 grounds were cited against the laws law's validity vall it but the llio supreme court overruled o ever every everyone everyone one of them |