People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1893-07-07

nothing.
In 1891, however, business wa
brisk and the collector undoubtedlv
perspired; for he collected 1880 a
a cost to the taxpayers of only
$952.50.
In Saquina, Oregon, they spend
81, 100 in salaries, and collect $50 il
duties.
At Great Egg Harbor, N. j., the
office holders get 1881, and the
treasury gets SIT.
At Sagg Harbor, the collector has
a nice snug salary of 1854, and he
collects nothing at all.
In the State of Georgia $4,000
was collected in 1890 at cost oil
$4,000.
At Savannah $58, 900 was collected
at cost of $4,000.
At Brunswick, $1,000; at cost
of $4,000.
AT Atlanta, they collected $1,000
at cost of $4,000.
At St. Mary's they raked in $50,
on tonnage duties, at the moderate
expense of $1,400.
In 1891 this booming seaport
spread herself. She spent $1,000.
Collecting $50!
At Chattanooga (1891) they COL
lected nothing, and drew a salary of
$500 for doing it.
At Beaufort, North Carolina, they
collected nothing, and drew salaries
of $1,134 for doing it.
At Beaufort, South Carolina, the
Office holders determined to make
the North Carolina town ashamed of
itself.
So they collected $1,000, and
charged the "poor, down trodden
taxpayer" $4,000 for doing it!
At Georgetown, S. c., they whirl-
ed in and harvested $50 as the gross
result of twelve months official toll.
Their charges to the taxpayer
footed up $1,1O0.
At Vicksburg, Miss, the weary
office holder had to collect $500.
The weary taxpayer paid him
1888 for doing SO.
Comment upon such a state of
things would only weaken the force
of the facts.
1t is safe to say that ofthe $7,000,-
600 now paid every year to collect
the Tariff Taxes, at least 100000
are absolutely thrown away in erect
ing Custom Houses at places where
the only demand for them comes
from those who want to get within
the genial atmosphere of a govern
ment appropriation.
THE INTERNAL REVENUE SYSTEM
DENOUNCED.
Mr.. Jefferson also denounced Ham
ilton "Excise" -the parent of our
Internal Revenue System.
The great expounder of Demo
cratic doctrine described it as an
1" Internal System.
He opposed it during the admins
trations of Washington and Adams.
Whsn he, -himaalf, was elected
President he swept the entire sys-
tenn with it's horde of spies, inform
ers and pap-suckers, off the face of
the earth
It was one of the achievements of
his administration in which he most
gloried, that he had utterly destroy
cd that much of Hamilton's bad
work. He supposed he had uprooted
it permanently.
To-day it is fastened upon us more
heavily than ever before conceived
Of.
1t supports an army of officials,
fortifes the power of the terrible
Whisky Trust, and exerts a control
over legislation which stranger to
our laws could not believe.
The fact that the Government has
created the system, and demands a
tax of 80 cents per gallon upon dis
titled spirits, does no harm to the
distiller, because his customer pays
the tax. But he uses this 80 cents
tax as leverage to extort favors.
He compels the lawmakers to estab-
lish for his benefit a Sub-Treasury,
or Warehouse System, to the loss of
the taxpayer and the gain of the
Trust.
No Legislative body ever passed a
more indefensible act than that which
allows the Distillers to put their
g fire. water" in a Bonded Ware
house, and obtain a Certificate of De-
post, and loan of the Tax for three
years at 4 per cent interest.
From the Official Report of 1891, |
| find that the enormous quantity of |
100000 gallons were thus left
On deposit for that year. At 80 |
cents per gallon, the tax would have
been $100,800,000. This amount |
was due, then and there.
But the Government steps in by |
special legislation and agrees to
end them that sum of the peoples
axes at 4 per cent interest.
Corn juice can get its Warehouse,
is Sub Treasury, its certificate, its
oan: but the corn itself cannot!
sUB-TREAsURY FOR WHISKY.
In the hands of the Farmer, it is
he staff of life-necessary to man
ind Thu ,.inh ronr1rA horo Il LIZ