Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1891 — Facts About the Internal Revenue. [ARTICLE]

Facts About the Internal Revenue.

To collect the internal revenue costs in gross, mainly for salaries, abput $4,250,000 a year. You might suppose that the distilling of fruits, say apples, peaches and grapes, would amount to a good deal, but the internal revenue received only about $1,333,000 from those sources, and from grain distillations it received over $75,009,000. The government taxes retail liquor dealers, and from them we received $4,500,000, and nearly $500,000 more from wholesale liquor dealers. There is a tax amounting to hardly $5,000 upon the manufacturers of stills and worms. Tobacco cuts the aggregate figure of about $34,000,000 per annum as compared to alcohol at $82,000,000. The cigar makers within our country pav the government over $12,000,009 a year ; the tobacco dealers in the chewing and smoking departments pay some $20,000,000; snuff pays $750,009, and cigarettes over $1,000,000. Cigarette consumption increased the mere tax in that department about $41,000 last year .—Gath, in Cincinnati Enquirer.