Show ONE PROHIBITION I Something Something- of especial interest to the tho people of oC Utah Is found In a recent recent re rC re- re cent decision b by tho the Supreme cour court of oC tho United States In the case of oC the Adams Express company compan against the tho commonwealth of or Kentucky Briefly stated BUtted these are the facts W. W G. G Tharp a resident of oC Hart county count county coun coun- t ty Kentucky Kentuck was was and and probably still Is an Js-an an intemperate man It is HOt not stating tho the caso case too strongly to say that Mr 1 Tharp was a n. drunkard JI bought and paid for whiskey at Nashville Nash Nash- ville yule Tenn and at Now New Alban Albany Ind md I That is ho received ed advertisements of oC liquor quor offered for Cor sale salo by dealers In those cities and sent his mone money ordering ordering or 01 or- or dering tho liquor The dealers shipped the whiskey as ordered b by tho the Adams Express company prepaying the charges Tho The local agent In Hart count county Kentucky knew Tharp was In Inthe Inthe the habit of ot being being- Intoxicated ret Tet rethe rethe he delivered the liquor to him The express company was prosecuted prosecuted prosecuted prose prose- in the Circuit court of Hart Balt county countr under the tho Kentucky Kentuck law which provides Any person who shall sell I lend nd give e. he procure for or furnish vinous or malt liquors or an any mixture of ot either cither knowingly to an any person pernon who Is an Inebriate or In the habit of ot becoming Intoxicated or drunk b by the use of oC any such liquors or who shall suffer or pt permit any such person to drink any ny Honor or In Jn his h barroom saloon or b aI fi each offense tUt fifty dollars t On the trial tho the defense the o ox- ox press preS company compan contended that the quoted section of the state law Interfered interfered Inter inter- f red with Interstate commerce and rested The court hel held that the aid transportation and delivery of the said liquor to the said Tharp did not constitute constitute constitute con con- Interstate commerce within th the meaning of or the tho clause of the federal constitution which gives to the Con- Con ress of the tho United States power to regulate commerce between the tho states and that the defendant is h guilty gunt of or knowingly furnishing liquor to an Inebriate Ine me- as charged in tile the tion And so conviction was had The express express cx- cx ex ex- press company compan being denied appeal within the tho state went directly to the Supreme court of or the United Stat States s. s And there Mr Justice Brewer delivering ering aring tho the opinion of oC the tho court h held ld that the Kentucky court erred that tho express company was vas engaged d In Interstate commerce and that no law of or the state could in an any wa way prevent its delivery of oC goods purchased in another another an an- F other state Last winter while the legislature Pj of ot Utah was In session a Ca Cache he county count man brought to tho the e of The lie Ito publican a a. a. a weekly paper published a at Chicago and ond circulated generally In Lt rural communities in which were eighteen advertisements of ot whiskey Icy totalling two seventy Inches It waa was wa wast t A a a abid bid for tor mall malI order business The publishers were flooding Utah with tho those papers No matter what laws Vs might be passed b by Utah any man could by sending a dollar to Chicago or Kansas City or Omaha or Denver be assured that a pint of oC liquor would be delivered to him It would probably probably probably proba proba- bly be very bad in quality But he would get it If rr ho he paid for tor it That Is la one prohibition difficulty |