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

The reports of the Commissioner OF
Anternai Reyenue.to Secretary Sherman,
as tc the collection TO the revenue taxes
and condition Of the service, shows that
during the past fiscal year, which onded
on June 80 last, 1928, ,991 ,916 10 OF inter.
nal revenue taxes were collected end paid
into the Treasury. During the past:four
hscal years the total collections huye
amounted to S467, ,O80, 1856 10, at an ex.
pense TO the Government, including the
salaries and expenses of the Bureau. of
ABOUT SIG, $4,000, or o title more than
three and half per cent. upon the
amount collected. The total receipts
from the collection amounted during The
past. year to $116, ,848, 219 80, and the cash
receipts from the sale of adhesive starnps
to 81 ,l3S,696 80. The collections in t6e
southern States were as follows: Mary.
land, $2,393,957 OIL; Virginia, s5.7Si..
409 6S West Virginia, $370,672 Is.
North Carolina, $2,35s ,o06 II; South
Carolina, $ill,960 78; Georgia, $500
vVa4 IL; Alabama, $l35,S90 38; Florida,
S204,59O So; Mississippi, SSl, ,2S3 SO:
tennessee, 81 1866 64; Arkansas, sl26.
oS9 ~; Louisiana, $7l2,049 65; Texas,
$2s3,lO6 90; Kentucky, $685. ,644 80;
Missouri So, ,M9,674 08; making a grand
total OF $2S, ,2S8, ,055 &c taxes paid. to the
United States Government by "the States
lately in rebellion" or in sympathy
with rebels. f"'
The repc.t of the Secretary of the
Treasury for 1879, which VIC have ALREADY
published, shows that there are J55. $50
retail and ,252 wholesale liquor denIera
In the United States, besides / ,053 recti-
hers. In Massachusetts there is one IL
qour shop to every two hundred and eipb-
inhaoitants, IN Connecticut one to eyerv
TWO hundred and twenty inhabitants.
auI it Ohio ono TO every two hundred
ahu nity inhaoitants. In Texas there is
only one narroom to every four hundred
TO every five hundred. In Alabama Az Az
kansas, Mississippi, Virginia and Sontb
Carolina there is one LIQUOR saloon -
every six hundred people, ard in NORTH
Carolina there is only one to every c;aht
hundred inhabitants. The general AVER.
age in the Northern States is one dram
shop to every two hundred people. Tbisia &
a bad showing for the God-and morality
shrlekers OF the great Christian Nortbb
who can beat their Southern peiehboyn
drinking whiskey if they are not oble N
Keep up with us in the matter of cens1a
returns and good sound Democatic mn &
jorities. A striking contrast bet tic tho
temperance and morality OF the two sec.
lions OF the Union Is afforded by these
figures OF the revenue department.
Noteworthy feuiure or the report is
the statement that frauds ir, 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 tho $,
revenue have been greatly reduced, and
thnt violent resistance to law has prac-
ticaily ceased in all Of tile Southern dis. 4
tricts of Georgia." The Commissioners
also says that violations of law and the
spirit offcsistance have not been To,un.
tariiy Abandoned" but have been sur
pressed and subdued by the enforcement
OF the laws after the loss of a number of
lives ot those engaged in the service of
the government. The bald fact stands
our, however, that there is now no VIC.
lent resistance to Federal authority in
oouthefn states, and that the collection
This condition of things is the res,,It ~
we all very we'll know in South CaroI;no
of change in the administration of tbs
local governments of the Southern States
As long as the Republicans were in an.
thority there was lawessness and outra-
ges committed upon the revenue officers
Of the government, not because thew were
in the Federal service, but because thew
we're actively aiding and abettine tho
rascality of our robber rulers. Since the
democrats gained cuntrol of our State
governments there has been almost alb.
solute peace and good order. The off.
cial statement OF Mr.. Green B. Raum.
tnat peace Ieigns In the South is, indeed,
as,gnincant a;s,gl Ta as well as gratifying admis-