PROHIBITION CONSTITUTIONAL. THE following extracts are from the records of the Supreme Court : Chief Justice Taney said: "If any State deems the retail and internal traffic in ardent spirits injurious to its citizens, and calcu lated to produce idleness, vice, or debauchery, I see nothing in the Constitution of the United States to prevent it from regulating or restraining the traffic, or from prohibiting it altogether, if it thinks proper."-[5 Howard, 577.] Hon. Justice McLean said: "A license to sell is a matter of police and revenue within the power of the State."—[5 Ibid., 589.] "If the foreign article be injurious to the health and morals of the community, a State may prohibit the sale of it."—[Ibid., 595.] Again he says: "No one can claim a license to retail spirits as a matter of right."-[Ibid., 596.] Hon. Justice Carton said: "If the State has the power of restraint by license to any extent, she may go to the length of prohibiting sales altogether."-[5 Ibid., 611.] 66 Hon. Justice Daniels said of imports when cleared of all duty and subject to the owner: They are like all other property of the citizens, and should be equally the subjects of domestic regula tion and taxation, whether owned by an importer or his vender."[5 Ibid., 614.] In reply to the argument that the importer purchases the right to sell when he pays duties to the government, the Judge says: "No such right as the one supposed is purchased by the importer. He has not purchased and cannot purchase from the government, that which could not ensure to him a sale independent of the law and policy of the States."-[Ibid., 617.] 66 Hon. Justice Grier said: 'It is not necessary to array the ap palling statistics of misery, pauperism, and crime, which have their origin in the use and abuse of ardent spirits. 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