Show The Farce of Prohibition The Iowa reformers are learning that it will be necessary to ingraft the prohib itory principle into the constitution of the average Iowa man before i will be I generally effective Ingrafting it into the State constitution does consttution not seeifl to do the work While no liquor is sold openly as a beverage the increase of drug stores and places where liquor is sold asa as-a medicine is marvelous Over 1000 persons have paid the internal revenue fee to the Federal government since the law went into effect the latter taxing I dealers just the same whether they sell the article as a beverage or as a medicine I The peculiar feature pf the Iowa form of I disease requiring alcoholic treatment is i that it does not require the prescription of a physician to procure the remedy Under a decision of the Supreme Court of the State every man has an inalienable inalien-able to be his right own doctor and proscribe pro-scribe for himself i he wants to I is scarcely necessary to add that the num ber of Iowa men who think they know what ails them and what is good for the I disease better than any doctor is very I large The Iowa law requires the dealers deal-ers to make monthly reports of their sales A small dealer in MuscatineTrnds I that it requires fiftyone feet of paper to enumerate his sales for July I took 152 barrels of beer eightynine gallons of whisky nineteen gallons of gin seven gallons of alcohol and two and onehalf gallons of brandy to kee hs customers in j 1 i I good health during that time Philadelphia Philadel-phia Times tin1Phiade1 I |