The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-09-23
Some Instructive Figures.

The reports of the Commissioner OF
Internal Revenue.to Secretary Sherman,
as to the collection TO the revenue taxes
and condition of the service, shows that
during the past fiscal year, which ended
on June 80 last, s123, 1881 ,916 10 of inter.
nal revenue taxes were collected and paid
into the Treasury. During the past.four
fiscal years the total collections have
amounted to s467, ,0S0,S 10, at an ex-
pense to the Government, including the
salaries and expenses of the Bureau, of
about S16,929, 900, or title more than
three and half per cent. upon the
amount collected. The total receipts
from the collection amounted during the
past year to s11G,S48,219 so, and the cash
receipts from the sale of adhesive stamps
to 81, ,133, ,696 30. The collections in the
Southern States were as follows: Mary.
land, $2,393,9 ,957 OIL; Virginia, $5.7S1,-
400 IS ; West Virginia, S37O,G72 IS;
Carolina, sl11,96O 7S; Georgia, s322,.
074 IS; Alabama, sl35, $50 So; Florida,
$2O4,590 So; Mississippi, SS1, ,299 so;
Tennessee, 81 1856 64; Arkansas, 1926.
0S9 12; Louisiana, S7l2,049 IS; Texas,
s2s3, 3,l06 55; Kentucky, S9,SS5, ,644 90;
Missouri, S., AS, ,674 0S making grand
total of SOS, ,2SS ,055 76 taxes paid, to the
United States Government by "the States
lately in rebellion" or in sympathy
with rebels.
The report of the Secretary of the
Treasury for1S79, which we have already
published, shows that there are 155,S5O
retail and 1882 wholesale liquor dealers
in the United States, besides ! ,O53 recti-
fiers. In Massachusetts there is one IL
qour shop to every two hundred and eigh-
inhabitants, in Connecticut one to every
two hundred and twenty inhabitants,
and in Ohio one to every two hundred
and fifty inhabitants. In Texas there is
only one barroom to every four hundred
and fifty inhabitants, and in Georgia one
10 every five hundred. In Alabama, Ar
kansas, Mississippi, Virginia and South
Carolina there is one liquor saloon to
every six hundred people, and in North
Carolina there is only one to every eight
hundred inhabitants. The general aver.
age in the Northern States is one dram
shop to every two hundred people. Thisis
bad showing for the God.and d-morality
shriekers of f"the great Christian North"
who can beat their Southern neighbors
drinking whiskey if they are not able 10
keep up with us in the matter of census
returns and good sound Democatic ma.
jorities. A striking contrast between the
temperance and morality of the two Sec
tions of the Union is afforded by these
figures of the revenue department.
A noteworthy feature Of the report is
the statement that "frauds in most of the
districts have been reduced to a-mini-
mum" and that "it is gratifying to be
able to state that the frauds upon the
revenue have been greatly reduced, and
that violent resistance to law has prac-
tically ceased in all of the Southern dis
tricts of Georgia" The Commissioners
also says that violations of law and the
spirit of resistance have not been .volun.
tarily Abandoned" but have been sur
pressed and subdued by the enforcement
of the laws after the loss of number of
lives of those engaged in the service of
the government. The bald fact stands
out, however, that there is now no vic.
lont resistance to Federal authority in
Southern States, and that the collection
of taxes is not in any way impeded.
This condition of things is the result, as
we all very we'll know in South Carolina,
of q change in the administration of the
local governments of the Southern States.
As long as the Republicans were in all.
thority there was lawlessness and outra-
ges committed upon the revenue officers
of the government, not because they were
in the Federal service, but because they
we're actively aiding and abctting the
rascality of our robber rulers. Since the
Democrats gained control of our State
Governments there has been almost alb.
solute peace and good order. The off.
cial statement of Mr.. Green B. Raum,
that peace reigus in the South is, indeed,
asignificant as we'll as gratifying admis-
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