The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-04-26
New Jersey Revenue Tax Payers.

There are only seven states lnab have !
larger number of internal revenue taxpay
ers than New Jersey. This statement be.
comes more conspicuous when it is explain
ed that the people of the sandy State pay
more internal revenue taxes than Mass
achusetts in the East, Virginia i'll tht
| South, or Wisconsin ill the West, all lead.
ing States in their respective sections.
There ale, then, in the State %, 242 per
sons who arc special taxpayers under the
Internal Revenue laws, and they are in
cludcd in the following classification:
Rectifiers, IS; retail liquor dealers, 1899:
wholesale liquor dealers, so; manufacture
ers of stills, 8; manufacturers of cigars,
72S; dealers in leaf tobacco, 0; dealers in
manufactured tobacco. 16,404; manufac-
turcrs of tobacco, s; peddlers of tobacco,
Is; brewers, Al; retail dealers in malt liz
uors, 36S; wholesale dealers in malt liquors,
| 1914: retail dealers in oleomargarine, 80;
wholesale dealers in oleomargarine, 2.
SCHEDULE OF PAYMENTS.
The total amount paid into the Treasury
last year by these special taxpayers was
s257, 49f. G6, divided as follows:
Rectifiers, 50, 15S. 81; retail dealers, $685.
22S. SO; wholesale liquor dealers, s., 2333. 80
manufacturers of stills, $685. 6; manufact-
urers of cigars, 81, 3G5. 80; dealers in leaf
acco, $50, $40. so; manufacturers of tobacco,
s4S; peddlers of tobacco, $791. IS; brewers,
So, 7s7. 90; retail dealers in malt liquors,
81, 1861 .G5; wholesale dealers in malt liquors,
So, 195. s.; retail dealers in olc~omargarine,
81, 67S; wholesale dealers in o~lcomargarine,
5000.
While there is but one grain dlstillery
in operation in New Jersey, there are
seventy.five fruit distillerics, tw~enty-seven
of which are in the First district aud forty
eight in the Fifth district.
This single grain distillery produced last
year 451 $50 taxable gallons Of rye wills.
key, in the production of whicli there were
used 81, $50 bushels of malt, AZ, 775 bushels
of rye and AZ, IT'S bushels Of corn; a total
of 1877, 400 bushels of grain. There were
rectified 203, Ss8 gallons Of proof spirits,
of which $780, 37 gallons came from the
Fifth district and but 4,S51 gallons from
the First district.
JAck N WINES.
From spirits distilled from apples, peaches
or grapes there was paid SO, Cos. 81, OF
which the First district, $31, 1G4. 30; Fifth
district, ga, 534. 22; spirits distilled from
gain, Fifth district, 1913, 231 80; total col
%lcctions on distilled . spirits, including
special taxes already enumerated, $685.
249. 90; of Which Fifth district, $40, 371.-
%; First district, $72,S78.S7.
Tobacco Cigars and chcroots of all de
scriptlons, 3199, AS. 40; First district, $4S,
AL %; Fifth district, 1851, 004.1S; snuff OF
all descriptions, Fifth district, 1926, SIT. 70.
tobacco, chewing and smoking, First dis
trict, s439,47; Fifth district, 81, III G45.-
90; total, 81, FTP, 0s4. 10; total collections
on tobacco, including special taxes, 50, 245,
GA 70, of which the Fifth district paid
50, 1871, $50. Go, and the First district $64,
494.0 OF.
Fermented Liquors-First district, ST..
T36. 70; Fifth district, s1,215, Gil 81; totaI
collections Oh fermented liquors, including
special taxes, 81, 800, 800. 10; of which First
district, 50, 7S7. 81; Fifth district, 1929,
534.G1.
Olcoinargarinc - Collections, First dis
trict, $324; Fifth district, 81, 73S; total,
5000.
Penalties-First district, 500. 80; Fifth
district, 1907. 90; total, 81, 903. 81.
A BIG JUMP IN PRODUCTION.
Since the organization of the internal
revenue system the people of New Jersey
have paid in taxes the sum of $113,434,
528. "A, an amount thai has been exceeded
by but nine Of the States.
During the last year it should have beer
mentioned, the production of fermentet
liquors in New Jersey amounted 10 1916,
052 barrels, more than 100, 600 barrels il
excess Of tho output Of the previous year
and by far tho largest manufacture of any
single year. Indeed, during the last de
cade there has been a steady increase il
the production of fermented liquors, begin
ming with 1878, when 5l7,G02 barrels wa
the product. In this manufacture New
Jersey ranks as seventh among the States
1t might be imagined that with this i'm
mense business under the supervision o
vigilant officials that there were numerou,
evasions and violations of the law detected
but it can be said, to the credit Of the hon
esty Of the people, that the reverse is th,
case. When the provisions Of the laws ar
not followed seizures of the contraban,
property are made, aud of the hundreds o
thousands of dollars thus sacrificed las
year, New Jersey contributed but forty
one gallons of spirits, valued at 500, an
miscellaneous property to the vaIne OF s25t
or in all $3.50, a record equal to the bes
and superior to the great majority of th
! States.