The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-09-27
Au Attempted yindication of the Reve-
nue Service.

r-s-=.s. or arrow seems to have struck
y,-,.a,,sv in the First Revenue District, for
-. fps the Assessor Of that District rushing
srss print with an attempted yindication of the
-svs1zs service in these particulars. That
y, Wv not do him injustice, we insert his
auulnz13o2tion:-
--,---vT STATES INTERNAL REVENUE, AssEssoR's)
PHLADELPHIA, Sept 2S, 1897.
sTSr1IllEs: THE EvENISe .TELEeEArH, Of this
EilH-nDcI contains what is eoltor lpaghes " oe
yfsr-atus service" the whole object Of which Is TO
~ lisFsi may be wrong IN this, how.
FTs- ~ rs closing paragraph calls for such
= anIIn s-ip0n 70 some sense Of Us duties
T-ssm s FapublicsD then the appeal for reonke is
n Huut Ll.Efb. and no doubt but the people WIZ
iug h8passIy ~, MORALLY demoralked' i not true
sl. l "a AZ ,as assessed ior he m0HtSs Of August 1909
EnluI1a assessed August, oleoo
lb56....-..........a-...' AO5 2iA w
1,-uus rrgr TIE same month Of last year 7iils
a-a q ne ioregoing months hake ~ the as'9i, ,s
WI 1-,s Ia In wien tie ra5st fraud is perpetratgd
wsu ne sgEsrnDent. I present me above ogis,as %
Eu-7 llt suL. Z. W: Rollins. The sOle Commiasoner
S1a manages ne internal Eeyspng, ahAir' OF the
-''''O- JOHN W. FRAZIER
EM- Frzzisr thinks that the revenue ser
vlas Il 1us 6sDUralizsd because some taxes
Elz 'assszssc snd the thieves and plum.
Isrsu LIVE NJ yst managed 10 steal e0ery
tnrl IL a vslgous - his opinion. Tho
uuastluz VIA 1us ysyyis, however, 81 not how
nrILai = Esssasssl- ". Low much is paul. and
zUn 1llsrs,T INV uzneh is psid, but how much
lu1uIr "a ~ zszi x1o IL not. revenue ser
rEs g1as1 z.lDEf zGiaky 70 be BOld In this
s1rssE T. 5saf 1tzE- tns Government tax upon
I. VT a11z-lE ssy WA pretty thoroughly de.
uIu-s-I.s-sS
VII ~ lit,ss-Tsa fhst the figures given
Elurs fr NJ Y-zLisr prudsntly conceal the
Enm11r II ~ Essssssa 1pon distilled spirits.
1-ss-7T-slI1r Il -Iys5 togsther To have
zEuils II -1LeiEEs- E.z.S-ent, be should have
rvH1 l1s Gsua rz-E-i-E % distilled spirits
sssga.-Is.siy III sha- L. E1guli have given the
Eum1-1r .aLss-z. Il VEL - assessed, for it is a
WslI-E1Dw1 1EIl "a. zueh Of the tax assessed
IN ilHi5lIei fyiz-rx -s never collected. Thus,
W presume l.ls III vas properly assessed on
lie -ar VI whuiry = Mr.. Frazier's district
Ealar fu1ne Gr1is 1-Ds ago was stolen from the
sar-siH ly-1g u 4 Es--sin distillery, and mater
ETISsi1rT-ssi IA 1iassz zad ia that condition
sent % 4 sHndssf v4.sls-se; bat We doubt
whether taa 5uusI,1lIsz1 sTer received much
zlGrEy sn 3s.C EaassHlz-ls-z-
We are aaus nlwsTsr- tysn another source,
&c s1Ppiy FGnls e Tie 6sszeneies Of Mr.
FrAzleE' sG&zs1zsz.- T1s tax assessed during
the E011E Of AEgzs+ IN his district upon dis
tiled spiri1z was 0-ly s57, 1928, out Of the
So, 1880 pa-zisa above. How much was
pad ne Do not knoE. Let rs analyze thess
figures lttIs- The Tax upon whisky is two
dollars Per gallon. Dividing the amount
above given as the assessed tax upon distilled
spirits By two, we obtain 43, 732 as the number
Of gallons Manufactured in the First District
during the month Of August. There were
twenty working days in August, so that
dividing the 43, 752 gallons manufactured
during the month by tEenty-seven. VIC
have 1919 gallons as the daily product o.
aH the distHeries in the First Revenu,
District Now does Mr.. Frazier suppose tina
there is single intelligent man in the city 0
Philadelphia who does not knol0 that such
return Is a fraud upon its very face Onl
sizfeea hundred gallons day from all the dis
fiHeriss in the First District! We need go n
further for a complete demonstration of tn
Justice Of our structures. If such figures q
these do not indicate that the revenue servic
is becoming ''hopelessly, mortalIy demo
rallied" /" what would The actual daily pro
duct Of the distilleries in Mr.. Frazier's distric
cannot be less than fire thousand gallons O
distilled spirits; it is probably much larger
The Government is being daily aefrauded
therefore, of the tax upon 34OO gallons o
spirits, or Of nearly Sepea thousand dollar
per day. No wonder whisky sells for les
than the Government tax. No wonder tina
people complain. No wonder other branches o
industry languish, burdened with excessiy,
taxation, while this great and profitable brancf
of the revenue is dissipated among thieve,
and plunderers, who grow rich and insolent of
of their il-gOtten gains.
We judge that the Secretary of the Treasur,
and the Commissioner of Internal Revepu,
viii not thank Mr.. Frazier for his volnn,oo,
and "oficial'' ''vindioation." Let us not
however, be unjust TO these distinguished
officers. They are, after all, mere subor
dinatss. They are not permitted un
trammelled action in carrying out the law
The President regards the triumph of hi
stpoliey" as of far more consequence than tn
honest collection Of the revenue. The grea
trouble, as we have said in our previous arti
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