The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-10

railroad with profit and get money to buy
necessarieS. These small distillers made
the great aggregate of the
whisky The whisky monopolists had
to be protected against these small home
dStllers, so that a regulation was parsed
forbidding any one to be licensed unless he
could distill twenty gallons of whisky every
three days. IT they make whisky without
a license they have to go TO Jail, and they
cannot get license to make whisky in
less amount than twenty gallons every
three days Thus protected against foreign
whisky in the custom house, by 50 gallon
duty, and from the home distlller by re-
stricted license, the whisky monopolist has
an easy time, and against the little distiller
he has the whole power of the courts in
cluding spies, collectors, marshals dis
trlct attorneys and the Albany peniten-
tiary.
DECLARED NECESSITIES.
1t is said internal revenue repeal will turn
whisky and tobacco loose without taxation,
that neither are necessities, that both are
luxuries, and it is better to lower the tariff
and give the poor free trace chains and free
wool hats, which are cheaper than they ever
were before, than TO give them free tobacco
and free whisky. Tobacco has become
a necessity, and even if a luxury, the
poor will have it. and the
money for tobacco is taken from the family
support. Every dollar of tax, therefore, on
tobacco that is taken off gives the poor man
so much more to support his family and
will probably be a greater relief than any
other act of legislation could furnish which
does not reduce the tax to greater amount.
The same rule applies substantially to
whisky. 1t may be denied that it Is neces-
sary, and yet few families do not use it'and
they will continue to use it at any price.
When we put 9Oc tax on what cost 2Oc. a
gallon, we put a tax of 800 per cent. on
what the laboring man will have, and relief
i'll this matter will help the poor.
WON'T INCREASE DRUNKENNESS.
1t is asserted that repeal of the tax will
turn everybody loose to make whisky, bring
the price down and cause more drinking.
This the Senator held to be mistake. The
production in 1887 added to the stock in
bond at the beginning of the year, gave
nearly two and One-fourth gallons to each
man, woman and child in the country. No
other system will keep more on hand to
tempt the people, or keep SO much when the
owner has to protect his goods
at his own expense. Georgia has
paid since the war, under the
internal revenue law, $22 ,750, 900 into the
Federal Treasury, or about Sl,0OO,OOO
year. This would almost pay the amount
of the direct tax levied by the State govern
ment of Georgia for its own support, and
leave the farmers and their plantations,
live stock and property, almost free from
taxation. Under State control offenders
would be tried in their own counties, and
there would be a correction of the abuses of
the present course of Justice. The more OPP
pressive features of the internal revenue
laws would be eradicated by the proposed
change, and whisky and tobacco would still
be required to pay their share of the direct
taxes imposed on the people for the supporj
of the government of the State.
SENATOR BROWNS FINALE.
Declaring the internal revenue to be a sys-
tenn of espionage, injustice and wrong, that
ought to have been abolished long ago, and
with a surplus in the Treasury almost equiv
aent to the amount collected under the
revenue system, which is not needed, and
which should not be continued, Senator
Brown thus concludes: LET us, therefore,
| return to the practice of the great men who
formed this government and OF the great
men who administered it for many years,
who as soon as the emergency ha0 passed
which called forth the enactment of such
laws, swept them away from the statute
| books, and let uj without delay get rid Of
internal taxation by the Federal govern
ment all its espionages, its trivial prOsecu-
| tions, its expressions, its outrages and its
wrongs. A return to the old familiar prac-
tice OF the fathers Of the better days of the
! plus i'll the Treasury, and relieve Congress
/ and the administration of all further embar-
rassments on that question"
MR.. BECK's OBJECTION.
At the conclusion of Mr.. Browns re.
marks at 2:45 o'clock, he moved that the
resolution be referred to the Committee on
| Finance. Mr. Beck objected to that refer
ence on the ground that chat committee
| had no jurisdiction over the subject, as the
House of Representatives alone could
! initiate bill for a reduction of taxes. He
wished to have the resolution lie ON the table,
so that some Senators could be heard on the
opposite side of the question. The Senate had
| Just listened to a defense of Georgia moon
sinners and to an attack on the government
and its officers. He wished chance to
reply to it. The resolution was laid on the
table.
| SUPREME COURT OF THE NATION.