The Rule of "Not Too Much." The same thing happened in Iowa and Kansas when enact a law prohibiting the manufacture of pistols in Ten- should be protected by an inhibition of the sale of the dan- prohibition was introduced. It seems that when 105 facturer a loss of half a million dollars. Would he not feel question involving property rights under the law. nessee, and by such an enactment cause the pistol manu- mote temperance, except incidentally, but it seems to be a with the consent and by the encouragement of the state? behind, they cannot think straight, being usually undei common-sense and their feelings of fairness and equity sanction of protecting law, and suppose the legislature should gerous and deadly weapon. But let us suppose that a great consideration of equity obtain in the practical confication of part of the owner and when the property has been built up This question does not involve the right of a state to pro- the good of the community if it be necessary, does not a principle of government that the individual must suffer for tion, in that his business was not unlawful until the new law that destroyed it was enacted? While it is a recognized manufactory of pistols had been built up in Nashville, in- volving an investment of, say a milion dollars, under the that he had a just claim against the state for some repara- property where there has been no violation of law upon the people approach the liquor question they leave their