Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1868-07-10
Progress Of Congress on the Tax
Bill.

patch last week. The tax, which
for the last four years has been two
dollars per gallon, and which has
proved a signal failure, has been WISE
" reduced to fifty cents, while other
charges have been imposed on dis
tilleries, licenses, rectification and
sales, that carry the aggregate up to
ninety cents per gallon. The effect
of these measuses, if sanctioned by
the Senate, will be of immense bene-
fit to the country.
At the present moment the Illicit
traders have the entire control OF the
market, and the current price OF
whisky is but one dollar and forty
cents per gallon. although the cost
of manufacture on a large scale to
the honest dealer is now thirty cents
and the tax TWO dollars.
The Whisky Ring. paying duty on
possibly one gallon in ten, sell their.
spirit at ninety cents below the cost
to the honest trader. They avail
themselves of the Government tax
to keep up prices to one dollar and
forty cents, and find the business SO
profitable that instead Of selling at
two dollars, they compete with others
and thus bring down the price to two
thirds Of the Government impO5t.-|
Three years since we confidently pre-
dicted the failure of the two dollar
tax, for it was in violation Of the first
principles Of political economy tC i'm
pose a duty Of eight hundred per
cent, but u war upon King Alcohol
was popular. The English excise Of
four hundred per cent. on spirits vas
cited to sustain the law. Commits
sioners predicted a revenue Of ninety
millions, III place of which they have
seen the revenue TALL from twenty
eight million dollars, at taxes Of TWEEN
ty-hve and sixty cents, or al average
OF thlrty-slX cents per gallon, to 4
paItry thirteen millions at two dot
lars, d large portion oI which mas been
sunk il fees and expenses, In this
rasu experiment against the advice OF
| the Revenue Commission, and OF
many Intelligent men, ,Ie nation has
probably lost several hundred mil
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and prepare; give Us ,uree months t
j. sell our stocks, aad then put it on a
made alter that period. Their az
wee was followed. III the INTERN
; stiLlS-w were driven night and day, an
= stocks accumulated. These paid
T. profit OF five hundred per cent, an
when these stocks were sold the lille
= trader came IL o. I'LL the vacuum
Hypocrisy aeduced philanthropy, an
II thus robbed the treasury. 1t is no
! understood that the actual cost Q
- spirit to the honest dealer does NJ
= exceed thirty cents per gallon, an
u with the new tax he can sell from tt
{ still for one dollar a gallon. TIL
!, will reduce the price Of pure alcoh
- to one dollar sCyenty-fve cents ga
= lon, and restore it to the arts.
l. this shape nearly half the spirit mac
- was formerly used for tinctures, was
II es. preserves. lipht and manufacture
II but will still cost the timber. wi
ID contributes to the taxes dealers Al
ID rectifers at least two dollars per gs
2. lon but will cost the trader less
m With snirits at ono dollar IN the fra
III nr the Illicit daaIa, will he Aoora
r Worliuo IN tho dark and ON SIN,
re scale his nrodnct onst cost him wit
ne ont the dntv more than sixtv cen
e. per gallon. while the onalitv will
.e interior. and to co,nnota ba mnst :,
Is at ninety cents and divide his pro
Of thirty cents with those who ass
at him in robbing the treasury.
III Now. he can afford to lose t,
IG casks 0ut of thrnn on, mora lint hnr