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Confiscating Property Under Prohibition Laws. If there had been a campaign of publicity and there existed today a public sentiment that could deal fairly with the people engaged in the brewing business, such high-handed tyranny as that proposed in Georgia f. i., would be impossible. America is the only civilized country in which the confiscation of private property, accumulated and employed under protection of law, is practised and sanctioned by the legislatures and courts. There are anti-alcoholists and prohibitionists 104 Confiscation of Property. in England. But none of them ever had the temerity to propose the suppression of the brewing business without compensation. In this country, when a legis- lature decides to stop the brewing business they simply confiscate the breweries without a dollar of compensa- tion. The Nashville (Tenn.) Banner, after adverting to the iniquity of the Georgians in confiscating the brew- eries of that state, says : Let us take another business by way of analogy. In Ten- nessee we have a law forbidding the sale of pistols in the state, a law that does not effect the end intended, as any- one wishing a pistol can get one if he has the money to pay for it. This law is based upon the demonstrable fact that the pistol carrying practice is a great evil and that society