Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-15
TO THE LIMIT.
Alabama Lays Heavy burdens on Her
Citizens 10 Make Up for Revenue
Lost by Prohibition-Nothing
Escapes.
From Tonn and Fnrm.

The new license schedule to make up the
loss Of revenue from the liquor tax through
state prohibition has been placed in book
fern by the Birmingham, Alabama, city
ccunc A perusal Of its pages discloscs
some interesting figures. and many bust
nesses, professions and individuals are now
taxed through being compelled to take out
a license that never before were assessed.
State prohibition has worked a tremendous
loss of revenue, and this loss is taxed
against the people.
The farmers, in the future, will have to
ray more for their hardware and agricul-
tural implements and their seeds, for the
reason that hardware stores must pay q
license tax from SIS to $500 a year. accord.
ing to the value Of the stock they carry.
All seed dealers must pay from s5 to $40
per year. Dealers in horses, cows and
other live stock are assessed $50. Grain
dealers are on the list from SO to 800. Al
ready prices OF these commodities have
been advanced on the farmers and in other
cases less paid for their farm products.
Taxed from the cradle to the grave may
be illustrated by the fact that the doctor
who assists one into the world is taxed
from $5 TO $40 and the milk peddler who
brings baby's food must pay $40 to $5,
while the undertaken who closes your tax.
weary eyes and plants you must give up
500. The price OF your grave will cost
more, as cemeteries must have a 800
license. The shaft that marks your last
resting place you will pay more for, as
tombstone dealers are taxed $S5.
Dealers In the necessaries Of life are not
overlooked. as Is witnessed by the follow
ing schedule OF licenses: Meat dealers. S75
to $3.50; grocers, $3.50 to $500; sausage
makers, S10; shoe dealers, SIS to 500;
coffee dealers, $50; bakers, $25 to S6;
coal dealers and peddlers. 30 to 800.
furniture dealers, SIS to 500; fish and
oyster shops, S25 to 800, and should they
retail oyster stews, SIS additional; produce
dealers, so; crockery dealers and makers,
$5 to SIS; dry goods stores, SIS to $500;
clothing stores, SIS to $500; laundries. $50 to
S10O; boarding houses, SIS; cooperative
home building companies, 500, and the
places where you deposit what you may
have saved, building associations, 500 to
$500.
Some of the high priced licenses are: One
thousand dollars for express companies,
$500 for gas companies, $1,000 for broker
age houses, 5000 for street railway COM
pan.es, $3.50 for oil companies, L,750 for
railroad companies maintaining offices in
Birmingham, $4,000 for persons, firms or
corporations furnishing steam heat, $500 to
$500 for telephone companies. $4,000 for
water companies.
Miscellaneous license fees are: Adding
n achine agents, SIS; advertising devices
and companies, $40 to $500; abstract title
companies, SIS to $50; automobile dealers,
500, and automobile licenses, IS to $40;
advertising with handbills, $40; real estate
agents, $50; artificial limbs, SIS; assignment
of wages companies, $500; auctioneers, S35
TO SIS; audit companies. $50; bag makers,
$50; banks. 500 to $3.50; safe deposit vaults,
$500; BARRIERS, 50; bicycle dealers, SIS to $65;
billposters, $40 to $500; bird dealers, $25;
blacksmlths, S.; book dealers. $25 to $50;
bootblacks, $3.50; bottlers, IS to $50; bowl
ing alleys. SIS; brewers. 500; brick makers,
SIS; broom makers, $40; buggy makers, SO
to $50; cabinet makers, $40 to $75: candy
makers, $40 to SIS: carpenter shops, $40;
carpet dealers, SIS to 500; carts and drays,
$40 to $25; msnicures, $25; confectfoneries,
$40 to $50; drug stores, $S to $500; electrical
supplies, $40 to $50; electricians, $50: fore
men, $25; florists, $35; foundries, s25; fruit
stands, $65 to SIPS: fruit trees, $40; haber-
dashers, $S5 to $3.50: hair dressers, SIS;
hotels, SIS to &75; ice factory, $500; infirm-
aries, SO to $3.50; insurance, $40 to $50;
insurance agents, sos to 800; labor agents,
800 10 %OO; lawyers, doctors and dentists,
s5 to $40; livery stable, $S5; lunch stands,
S5 to SIS; machinery makers and dealers,
$50 to 500; tailors, $S5; newspapers, $40 to
$3.50; plano tuners, s.; plumbers. $50 to $3.50;
pressing club, $25; sign painters, SIS; stove
dealers, $40 to SIS: tin shops, SIS; tobacco
dealers, $3.50 to $500; trading stamps, $500;
umbrella member, IS; vegetable dealers, $35
vinegar makers, $S5; watch repairer, 81. 50;
yeast agent or dealer, $35.
Many of the license scales are based on
the volume of sales daily OF each business
taxed, and the license ordinance requires
that each day the gross amount OF sales
of each business must be reported to the
license collector, under penalty Of fine and
Imprisonment.