The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-07-12
TAX ON JERSEY RUN.
Interesting Figures From
the Internal Revenue
Record.
WHAT APPLEJACK PAYS.
New Jerseys Contribution to Uncle
Sans Cofers-Home Tobacco.
Social 70 de SUNDAY Morntra News.

Special 10 the Sunday Mornano Nerss.
WASHINGTON, D. C., July II. 1891. The
continued discussion aqout the tariff has
completely ''lost to view'' the Internal
Revenue system. Nevertheless this .sold
war horse Is still doing business at the
old stand, although in mere restricted
way. The tax is now on luxuries. such
as whishey and tobacco, not to mention
oIeomargarine. and is, therefore, not much
combated, except by the moonshine dis
tiilers and that unfortunate class who are
devoted to the search for free Whisiey.
Colonel Bob Ingersoil once said If the
Mississippi flowed whiskey instead Of
water, and its ieeyes were Of loaf sugar
instead Of aIluviaI soil, with the rank,
luxurious vegetation tine seif-satisfying
minL. there would be no more drunken
ness IN the country than there is
today. This is some more pagan
philosophy, but the Internal Revenue
detectives and United States Deputy
Marshals know by experience that ia the
moonshine districts Of the South the peo-
pie brave the penitentiary gates to manu-
faeture the sscritteE''-noE for sale, bur for
home consumption. BY analogy, there
fore, II Royal Bob could effect such q
transformation in he beverage served up
BY the Father Of Waters, it Is safe to say
there would be q pretty large emigration
westward. But this is wandering away
from the true subject Of this article,
which deals with prosaic facts and figures
instead of the poetry of an imaginative
mind, and Intends 10 show the relation in
which New Jersey and her people stand
TO tine Internal Revenue system.
A FAR REACHING SYSTEM
There are q good many people in the
State who are amenable TO the Internal
Revenue laws, with but few directly in
contact with the Customs Houses. In
other words. there are IN New Jersey 90
239 people VINO are special taxpayers I'M
der the Internal Revenue laws. These
parties are divided into the following
classes
Rectifiers, Is; retail liquor dealers,
1888: wholesale liquor dealers. 50; manu-
facturer of stills, /; manufacturers of
cigars, $50; dealers in leaf tobacco, IS:
dealers in manufactured tobacco, 10, 95f;
manufacturers Of tobacco, 70; peddlers of
malt liquors, 292: wholesale dealers in
matt liquors. EOS; retail dealers IN oleo-
margarine, IS: wholesale dealers in oleo-
margarine, H.
II becomes of interest to see how much
money these parties pay Uncle Sam for
the privilege OF doing business. The
total amount Is z277, 702 IS, aud this small
days. Is contributed In the following pro-
portions
Recfifers. 8, 425. OF; retail liquor deal
ers. 1857 ,537. 80; wholesale liquor dealers.
81, 7S7. 81; imam ufacturers of stills. SIS 50;
stills or worms manufaci ured, S25D
manufacturers OF cigars. s. Is; dealers
in leaf tobacco, Sl02; dealers in manu-
factured tobacco. $45. S38. 81; manufactur-
ers of tobacco, $el: peddiers OF tobacco,
S996. .; brewers. s6.06S69; retail dealers ia
matt liquors, S., 63o 81; Wholesale dealers
in malt liquors, $40, 36S.19; retail dealers
in oieomargarine. 81 ,sSS. wholesale deal
ers in oleomargnrine, 50, $40,
JERSEY TOBACCO.
There are only Two States that mann
facrure more tobacco than New jersey
Virginia and Missouri The total pro-
duct Of our own State last year was
q. 446. $50 pounds. Plug and twist made.
13,0y0.37t pounds; fine cut chewing
5.412, ia pounds, smoking, 4,f3o.o05
pounds and snuff, 5, 39S, 40 pounds. This
tohacco paid the government s, 173. S45. 81.
In the whiskey business New Jersey IS
not much. as there is but one grain dis-
tillery operated There are though, sixty
one fruit distilleries in operation. They
produced of apple brandy, rs $40 gallons.
and of peach brandy. 25s gallons, or. in
all, q 099 gallons. The rectifiers got in
good lot of work. as they returned as
rectified lgS. $50 proof gallons Of spirits.
We are now 10 see what these people
pay to the government in the way of
taxes, the transition being from indivi-
duals to commodities. The following
shows the receipts from each specific
source of internal revenue paid BY citi-
zens OF New Jersey
Spirits distilled from apples, pc aches,
or grapes, $50, zoe. IS; spirits distilled from
materials other than apples, peaches or
grapes, $3.50 375. so; cigars and cheroots of
all descriptions, domestic or imported,
sl92 9l3 10; stuff of all descriptions, $685.
$50 so: tobacco, chewing and smoking. ST.,
737, sec 52s fermented liquors, s., 412. 096. %.
These are the principal sources of rev.
enue, and it is not worth while 20 recapit-
ulate the smaller items.
Since the origination of the internal
revenue system the people have paid into
Uncle Sans cash box over <l25. 00O, CO.,
While there has been decided falling
off in the quantity of distilled spirits pro-
dnced In New Jersey during the past dec
ade there Is different result shown in
the production of fermented liquors OF
the latter the product has increased
nearly threefold, until there is now man
ufactured over million and half of
barrels year
The total expenses involved IN the coli
lection of internal revenue in New Jer-
seq amounted to So 81. Us. the percentage
of cash for collecting being less than
twelve Der cent.