Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1891 — THE INTERNAL REVENGE. [ARTICLE]

THE INTERNAL REVENGE.

Facts About the Extent of Thai Branch of Government. Classification ol Tradesman Haw tbs Business of Tobacco ManuTfcotaring and Distilling Is Divided. •a A Washington special to the Indianapolis News on the 20th says: There areß9,127 people who have to interview the Internal revenue collector before they can do business. In other words, these parties are engaged In those lines of trade which the law has covered with a special tax. These tradesmen come under the following heads: Rectifiers 14, retail liquor dealers 0,914, wholesale liquor dealers 64, manufacturer of stills 1, manufacturerers of cigars *3OB, dealers in leaf tobacoo 63, dealers In leal tobacco not exceeding 29,000 pounds, 44; dealers in manufactured tobacco 20,925, manufacturers of tobacco 18, peddlers ol tobacco 24, brewers 59, retail dealers In malt liquors 264, wholesale dealers in malt liquors 134, manufacturers of oleomargerIne 1, retail dealers In oleomargerine 40, wholesale dealers In oleomargerine 4. There are bntseveh~Statea, It mtght bs said In passing, that have a larger number of liquor sellers than Indiana. As may be imagined this army of special taxpayers contribute a handsome fortune each year to the cash-box of the treasury The amount paid by each particular branch can be seen from the following:

Rectifiers, 81,375; retail liquor dealers, 1152,413.99; wholesale liquor dealers, 86,005.35; manufacturers of stiffs, 828.34; manufacturers of cigars, 83,150.50; dealers in leaf tobacco, 8510.42; dealers In leaf tobacco not exceeding 25.0C0 pounds, 8149.43; dealers in manufactured tobacco, 842,782.40; manufacturers of tobacco, 894.50; peddlers of tobacco, 8167.40; brewers, 84,379.17; retail dealers In malt liquors, 86,451.80; wholesale dealers In malt liquors, $4,470.93; retail dealers In oleomargarine, 81,316; wholesale dealers in oleomargarine, $1,920. The total amount paid by citizens of Indiana as special taxes Is 1224,148.21. Indiana is not very heavily engaged in the manufacture of tobacco, the total output last year being but 34,163 pounds. Of this there were 468 poands of plug and twist, 1,152 pounds of fine-cut chewing tobacco, 5,2T2 pounds of smoking totacco, and 27,371 pounds of snuff. A better showing is made in the production of liquors. There are fourteen grain and forty-six fruit distilleries in the State, The first named establishments used the following quantities of grain In the production of distilled spirits: Malt, 139,536 fcushelf; rye, 94,399 bushels; corn, 1,179,537 bushels; oats, 16,673 bushels; mill feed, 13,530 bushels and other material 98 bushels, making in all 1,433,873 bushels. From this grain there was produced 5,380,933 taxable gallons of spirituous liquors of the following kinds: Bourbon whisky, 224,440 gallons; rye whisky, 241,107 gallons; alcohol, 1,731,186 gallons; gin, 15,950 gallons; high wines, 199,254 gallons; pure neutral or cologne spirits, 62,318 gallons; miscellaneous, 4,444,607 gallons. The liquor termed miscellaneous was spirits ind whisky. The fruit distilleries did not produce so much, the entire quantity having been >4,561 gallons, of which 53.984 were apple brandy, 394 peach brandy and 183 grape brandy.

The production of spirituous liquors has greatly fallen off in thelast ten years. Indeed, last year the quantity made was Several million gallons less than was manufactured in 1881, the year of the largest production within the past decade. Rut as whisky has declined beer has ;ome up in the market. Indiana, like all the States, shows a wonderful increase in the production of fermented liquors In the last tea years, and H proves that in the States, as well as in the country, beer has become the popular drink. In 1880 the brewers of Indiana produced 260,912 barrels of fermented liquors. Now more than double this quantity is made. Altogether beer bids fair to supersede whisky as the national beverage. ' ™