Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1907 — The Revenue Map Changed. [ARTICLE]

The Revenue Map Changed.

The revenue map of the United States will soon look as if a cyclone had struck it. Revenue districts will be consolidated and readjusted until they lose all semblance to their present shape. The disfigurement of the revenue map will be an eloquent testimonial to the victories which local option has been achieving. So many counties have gone dry that revenue agents in many places find them Selves without any work to do. Secretary Oortelyou, learning of this condition, decided that he could save some money for Uncle Sam. He has readjusted the revenue districts so as to reduce the employes This will cut off a lot of political pap, but it can be depended upon to relieve a heavy drain on the treasury. The boundaries of the two Indiana revenue districts will not be changed but a number of Hoosier clerks, storekeepers and gaugers will probably be let out. Georgia, which recently went prohibition, will lose its revenue district, and the state of Georgia will be hooked on to North Caro lina as part of the revenue district of the latter. t Kentucky, where 97 of the 119 counties have routed John Barleycorn, and Tennessee, where only the towns of LaFollette, named tor Harvey M. LaFollette of Indiana, Memphis, Nashville and Chattanooga are wet, will be changed materially by the consolidation of the districts.