sell liquor without any restriction except such as of license laws squarely presented to it in the so-called ing the liquor traffic would, says the court, "operate out regard to their fitness, or, in other words, abso- Sopher case in which Judge Ira Christian of Noble- ville had followed Judge Artman. The supreme court of the anti-alcoholists that the right to sell liquor That not only settles the "freak" decision of Judge The Rule of "Not Too Much." Artman but also demolishes one of the pet contentions to restore all persons to their unrestricted rights under and controlled the liquor traffic and that license laws that as early as 1535 the English Parliament licensed stitutional wholly untenable and indefensible. It shows distinctly recognizes the right of every person to territorial law. The overthrow of the statutes regulat- have existed in Indiana since 1807, beginning with a who desire to engage in the traffic could do so with- To Sell Liquor is a Common Law Right. may be imposed by law. This reverses the en- the common law to retail intoxicating liquors, and all 91 Since the above was written the supreme court of is not a common law right. The court here lutely unrestricted." declares the position that the license laws are uncon- Indiana has had the question of the constitutionality