The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-02-23

missioner the general oversight, have left
the agent to prosecute the business at his
own risk as to profit and loss, while guard
ing against unlawful sales The practical
workings of both these systems are the
same, but in the latter case, all the inhabi-
tants of the town would not be compelled
to engage in an uncongenial business and
indirectly receive the profits of traffic
which they loathe But, for the present,
we must take things as they are. If we
turn to the report of the "liquor agent for
the current year, we find that the cost
price of liquors purchased, including
freights, was S2,206.43, being more than
onc-half of the amount of the current ex-
penscs termed miscellaneous. The cash
received for these same liquors was 3d.
1861, or a triflc over one-third of the
same expenditures. To prevent misapre-
although, probably, every one is
aware of the fact-thcse receipts and pay
ments for liquors do not enter in the items
making up these miscellaneous current cX-
pcnscs, or in the estimates, as presented by
the sclcctmcn and auditors, as basis for
taxation They are distinct accounts Sat
urday, large quantity of liquor was
seized In such eases, when adjudicated
upon and declared forfeited the law re-
quires that il shall be inspected and that
such portions thereof us are sufficiently
pure for medicinal, mechanical or chemical
purposes shall be placed in the town agency
to be disposed of for such purposes Those
too impure for such purposes are to bc
placed in fit placc--namely, the gut
ter BY an examination of the reports
from 1851 TO 1874, it will be seen
that the sales of the current years
in, round numbers, - twenty ight
hundred dollars may be taken as u fair
average o. the sales for the coming year,
and that the cost price thereof would be,
without freight, some twenty-five hundred
dollars difference showing the eXpcn-
Sos of the agency and the towns profit on
the sales Surprising that upon the forfei.
turc and inspection of the liquors seized
Saturday, it should appear that there was
at cost price, twenty-five hundred dollars
worth of liquor fit for medicinal, mechanic
cal and chemical purposes, or double OF
half that amount, what will the towndo il
the premises ? There would in such case
be a supply for six months, year or two
years, delivered at the agency without cost
which the agent, by law, is to sell for the
town. Surprising ii to he just a year!
stock, shall that which was sold last yea
for 81, 115.5i, be sold this year for five hun
drcd dollars thereby aifordng those, who
require it for the legitimate purposes men
toned, the same quantity and quality Of
liquor. for which they have paid tho cur
rent year one dollar, at small fraction owe
eighteen cents? This, upon the supposed
case, would pay the expenses of the agenc,
alone without pecuniary benefit TO tn
town. On the other hand, surprising Their
is a years supply of pure liquors, shall i
be sold at the ordinary retail prices-that i
at the same price as if bought in market
and some twenty-five hundred dollar
placed in the town treasury for the pay
ment of current expenses, the lessening o
taXcs-not this year, but next-and the re
| duction of our Indebtedness. If there wa
no moral considerations in the way,
would be easy of decision, but, rs it is
what course will the town pursue?