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that was no more than an obiter dictum. What is sauce to the goose, is sauce to the gander, and if there is any comfort to be had for either side from the mere 89 The Rule of "Not Too Much." dicta of courts, the liquor people may enjoy it as freely as the antis. They say every man in Indiana is a politician. There seem to be some men on the bench, however, to whom this does not apply. If Judge Artman hoped to be- come a popular hero by his decision, he finds his wings clipped rather rudely by one of his brethren. Judge Charles E. Henderson of Sullivan, Ind., in the case of Dudley against the people of Hamilton township, not only sustained the constitutionality of the law permitting the licensing of the sale of liquor, but administered a scathing rebuke to judges who allow their personal prejudices to influence their judicial acts and seek opportunities to get into the limelight. He did not mention Judge Artman's name, but the allu- sion is pointed enough as it stands. Judge Henderson said, among other things : It is no small matter for a circuit judge to take on and arrogate to himself the declaring of a law unconstitutional which has been on the statute books for more than fifty years in some one form or another; has had new enactments, numerous amendments by several different representative

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