sale of such liquors. In the absence of legislation, the busi- is squarely presented the judgment of the higher court ness of selling intoxicating liquors has universally been re- It is well settled that the several states in the exercise whether by prohibiting or by restricting and licensing the this means what it says. The Associated Prohibition not a natural right inherent in citizenship, although cognized as lawful, but there is no inherent right in the peo- cannot be anticipated. Of course, literally this is true. ple to engage in such traffic in any such sense as to remove prescribed territory. * * * deemed expedient to suppress intemperance and minimize the evils resulting from the traffic in intoxicating liquors, The prohibitionists, however, refuse to admit that tions power to control and regulate the liquor traffic within In the absence of constitutional inhibition it is competent traffic. The court said : United States declaring that the right to sell liquor is stricted by constitutional provision, to enact any measure great gusto the utterance of the Supreme Court of the it from the sphere of legislative control. * * * the license law was not at issue and until the question Press says that the question of the constitutionality of But then the anti-alcoholists have always paraded with This is surely as clear as need be. for the legislature of a state to delegate to municipal corpora- of their sovereign power have full authority, except as re-