Certain matters are generally recognized to be within the police power of the state. For instance, the control of infectious and contagious diseases, of the insane, of habitual drunkards, spendthrifts, vagrants and mendicants. And finally, by forced construction, it has been extended to the liquor traffic. The law, it is said, may prohibit the sale of liquor to minors, lunatics, persons intoxicated, confirmed inebriates, and other persons with certain weaknesses of character. Courts maintain that while the liquor traffic is subject to the police power, yet it may not be entirely forbidden as necessarily injurious to the public in a legal sense. To quote the Supreme Court of Indiana, in Beabe vs. State: “Where injury does result (from the use of beverages) it is usually caused by the shortcomings of the purchaser, without any participation in the wrong of the seller. No business can be prohibited altogether, unless its prosecution is necessarily and essentially injurious. It is the abuse and not the use of beverages that is hurtful. The use of beverages is not necessarily destructive to the community.... Fire-arms and gunpowder are not manufactured to shoot innocent persons, but are often so misapplied. Axes and hatchets are not made and sold to break heads with, but are often used for that purpose. Yet who has ever contended the manufacture and sale of these articles should be prohibited as a nuisance. We repeat, the manufacture and sale of liquors are not necessarily hurtful, and therefore may not be entirely prohibited.”