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Show BBJ THE NEW LIQUOR LAW. bbbbM I BBBjT I i The recent supremo court ruling re- BBBjf I I gnrdlng tho scopo of tho new state BBK liquor law Is creating no end of ilia- B'j , ' cusslon among city officials nnd nt- BBBR 1 torneys whose business It is to pro BBBjg cccuto trltflckcrs In liquor; and oplu- BBBBJ ions regnrdlng tho same aro as plcn- BBBBt tltul, if not qutto ns welcome, "as BBBBf tho flowers In May." BBBBt And yet tlici'o appears to bo no vnl- BBBjC Id reason for any misunderstanding. BBBJ Tho decision holds that city ordl- BBBjg nances mado prior to tho enactment BBBM ot tho new law for tho regulation of BBBjB tho liquor traffic, aro now repealed by BBBB that law, nnd thercforo prosecutions BBBB cannot bo instituted under ordinances BBBB which do not B This docs not mean that communl- BBBl, tc3 nru thereby doprlvcd of tho prlv- HK, ilego ot making laws for the regula- Hw tlon ot liquor soiling Vithln their B' midst, but it moans that n roadjust- H ment is mado necessary; that whoro B present lavB conflict with tho now B state law, thoy must bo corrected to B meet requirements, and that nil vlo- B latlons ot tbo Uauor law are now sub- H ect to prosecution under tbo stato B law, as tho county Is the unit of tho B Btato under such prosecutions fall B nnturally to tho county attorney and B a number of tho cities hnvo been turn- H Ing over all prosecutions of liquor H dealers to tho county attorneys in an- ftVBB ticlpntlon ot just such a ruling as H that recently given by tho supremo BBBBB B Nor does It mean that tho law V against Illicit liquor dealing Is to bo BBbBBL less vigorously enforced. On tho con- BBBBV trary the activity of tho various mu- BBBftm - vMn nlclpalltlcs will now be enforced by iBbBbYbBBBBjhI. tho diligence of tho state. What tho effect will bo locally Is undetermined ns yet. Undoubtedly now liquor laws will hnvo to bo mado to meet tho now requirements, but tbo solution of the proposition Is by no menus difficult. |