The Saint Paul globe., 1897-08-19
to assure him that 1t would be the end
of his public life and of his last shred
of title to public respect.
COLLECTIONS OF INTERNAL REV
ENUE.

taxation, with comparison with the
income of the preceding year. from
which facts Of interest to the general
reader may be cleaned There Is
decrease in the total receipts of SILL
106 leaving the gross receipts at $146,-
619,50S, thus meeting the expenditures
on account Of pensions and leaving
a few millions for other expenses. The
receipts from spirits, distilled from
other than fruits, were equivalent to
81 per head Of population and amount
ed to $75 52S, an increase over the
preceding year of nearly $2,0000O0.
Spirits from fruits and special taxes
decreased about 100000 the latter in
dicating marked decrease in the num-
ber of dealers, that item of revenue
having fallen $246,756 There were
Withdrawn from bond for consumption
during the year 6S,SS3,245 gallons of
spirits, an increase of 1, ,793, 1886 gallons,
making the consumption something
less than one gallon per inhabitant.
Next in amount stand the revenues
derived from fermented liquors, mostly
beer, which yielded $31, ,S41, 1852, and
show loss of $1,297,77S over 1896. This
tax was derived from "a, 423, ,094 barrels
of beer, ale and others of that kind,
Withdrawn for consumption, being a
decrease of !, ,403 004 barrels.
The next largest revenue producer is
tobacco, which yielded $50, 710297, a
loss of $1,331 from last years receipts.
Of this total $12,1S9,5O7 were derived
from cigars and cheroots; $2,075,S43
from cigarettes weighing over three
pounds per 1000. Snuff takers con-
tributed only $4,7S4 to the fund, indi-
eating that that old-fashioned and
once prevalent habit is falling into
disuse. But the smokers of pipes and
the chewers of plug, the great demo-
cratic mass, came to the rescue of a
falling revenue with consumption that
paid a tax amounting to SIS, 710,297
The financial conditions prevailing
during the year are indicated by the
gains and losses from these various
forms of the weed, naturally cigars
bearing the loss and smoking and
chewing contributing the gains that
so nearly equaled the loss as to leave
the net deficit but $1,331. Men still able
in 1896 in indulge themselves in cigars
evidently substituted the pipe while
the repressive legislation of several
states, intended to protect guileless
youth from the destructive cigarette.
evidently proved as futile as might
have been expected, for 109, ,278, ,120 more
were smoked than in the preceding
year; and then youngsters imagined
they were mature by sucking 4,O42, 39l,-
46O of them, but the treasury was $54.
639 the gamer for it, Four billion
siXty-three million one hundred and
sixty-nine thousand and ninety-seven
cigars paid their quota into the funds
for the general welfare, but ia, ,5S6, ,S46
less were burned than in the previous
year. ..-.e. s4=sr-
1t may. afford dairymen and con-
sumers of butter who lack confidence
in the nature of the article served
them some qualification to learn that
there was a decrease of 5,OS9, PA pounds
in the product of oleomargarine, even
If it did result in loss to the treasury
pI1f q
are solicitous for the health of their
constituents, they are Indifferent to
that of the foreigner and permit oIeo
and its margarine associate to go
abroad at pleasure; so that what was
lost to the trade by less use here was
more than made up in the increase
of over 100000 pounds exported. Filled
cheese figures for the first time in the
receipts, and that abomination of the
dairy paid taxes amounting to $1S,992,
$16,661 Of which were on /, ,666, 1877 pounds
of the stuff that somehow found its
way into "the midst" of unfortunates
who imagined they were getting cheap
cheese. The old 10 per cent tax on
note issues, designed to kill off state
banks and leave the nationals the
field, still manages to dribble a little
revenue into the common fisc, $S5. .394
having been obtained through it. The
little tax of 2 cents a pack on play
ing cards brought in $251, ,3O652, thus
making the amusement of some and
the business of few give up some
thing for the common veal. It may be
we'll to close this summary of the re-
port with the request that those who
that there was taken quite directly
from the good people of this country
by these taxes a sum nearly euualing
that derived from customs, got with
out a word of protest, a stir Of poll
tics or sense of wrong inflicted. while
all the industries of the country have
been hampered for three years by DO
Htlcal contests over customs taxation.
There should be food for thought and
material for wise conclusion in this.
WHERE 1T GETS IT'S READERS.
According to the 'blue book" there were
3:Z22 votes polled in this state for the Ma
ttonal Democratic ticket last fall. Wonder
where the st. Paul G l b gets it's readers?
-Lamberton Star.
The query of the Star is a very
natural one to those who take the view
Of newspapers that sees them as mere