The Federal Supreme Court gives ample power to all states to enforce this great fundamental principle.  It says:  “The state cannot by any contract limit the exercise of her power to the prejudice of the public health and the public morals.”—­111 U. S. 751.

Speaking specifically, a sweeping decision of the highest tribunal of the land, is as follows:  “There is no inherent right in a citizen to thus sell intoxicating liquors by retail; it is not a privilege of a citizen of a state or a citizen of the United States.”—­137 U. S. 86.

No state or citizen of the United States then has any power, authority or right to vend intoxicating liquors at all.

That there may be no misconception or misconstruction, in a case from Kansas, this final court of appeal in American jurisprudence, said:  “For we cannot shut out of view the fact, within the knowledge of all, that the public health, the public morals, and the public safety may be endangered by the general use of intoxicating drinks; nor the fact, established by statistics accessible to everyone, that the idleness, disorder, pauperism, and crime existing in the country are, in some degree at least, traceable to the evil,”—­Mugler vs.  Kansas, 123 U. S. 623.

And again:  “The statistics of every state show a greater amount of crime and misery attributable to the use of ardent spirits obtained at these liquor saloons than to any other source.”—­137 U. S. 86.

Hon. Justice Grier said:  “It is not necessary to array the appalling statistics of misery, pauperism, and crime that have their origin in the use and abuse of ardent spirits.  The police power, which is exclusively in the state, is competent to the correction of these great evils, and all measures of restraint or prohibition necessary to effect that purpose are within the scope of that authority, and if a loss of revenue should accrue to the United States, from a diminished consumption of ardent spirits, she will be a gainer a thousand-fold in health, wealth and happiness of the people.”—­5 Howard 532.

These far-reaching decisions settle forever the disloyalty and un-Americanism of any state or citizen presuming to authorize or condone liquor selling.  The whole license system of the United States is clearly illegal and unconstitutional.

Abraham Lincoln interpreted the Constitution right, when he wrote the Emancipation Proclamation.  The Presidents of the United States are oath bond to enforce it, and the license to vend intoxicating liquors as unconstitutional.  Mr. Roosevelt is violating his oath to allow this business to continue.  He has the same right and more cause than Abraham Lincoln to cancel every license, and shut up every brewery and distillery in the United States.  God says, “Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards—­Yes, this thing at the head of the nation is cursed—­Look at the assassinated Presidents, since the license was given by the Republican