Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-11-27
PROHIBITION AND HIGH
[FrOm the Washington Post

From the Washington POST
The new license schedule of Birming-
ham, Ala, to make up the loss OF rev.
enue from the liquor tax through State
prohibition, the been placed in book
form by the city council. These pages
disclose some interesting figures, and
many businesses, professions, and indi-
viduals are now taxed through being
compelled to take out license that never
before we're assessed. State prohibition
has worked tremendous loss OF revenue
and this loss is taxed against, the
people.
The farmers, in the future, will have
to pay more for their hardware and
agricultural implements and their seeds,
for the reason that hardware stores must
ray license tax from SIS to 200 Q
year, according to the value of the stock
they carry. All seeds dealers must pay
from $26 to rs per year. Dealers in
horses, COWS, end other live stock are
assessed $50. Grain dealers are on the
list from $50 to 100. Already prices
of these commodities have been advanced
on the farmers, and in other eases less
"a d 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 IL
axed from $l6 10 40, and the milk
pfddler who brings taoy's food must psy
500 to SO, while the undertaken who
closes your tax-weary eyes and "plants'
you must give up sos The prize of your
gave will coet mOre, as cemeteries must
have a 800 license. The shaft lhst
uarks your last resting place you will
pay more for, as tombstone dealers are
taxed $35.
DEALERS In the necessaries OF life are
not overlooked, a, is witnessed by the
following schedule Of licenses; Nest
dealers, $75 t. 250; grocers, $l2 so to 200;
sausage makers, 10; shoe dealers $l5 10
200; coffee dealers, $50; bakers, S26 10
IS; coal dealers and Peddlers, 10 to 100;
furoiture dealers, s15 to 200.
Fish and oyster shops will have to
gay $25 to 100, and should they retail
Oyster stews, $l5 additional; produce
dealers, 80; crockery dealers snd makers,
$25 to rs; dry good stores, $l5 to 400;
clothing stores, sl5 to 200; lsundiiea,
$50 to 100; boarding. houses, 20; coop.
erstive home buildiDg companies, 800,
AID the places where you deposit what
you msy rave saved, bui d ug assocIa-
tons, 800 t. 500.
Some of tie high-piiced licen'es Gre
81 900 for express companies. 2, 500 for
gas com panies, 1000 fer brokerage
houses, 1900 fer street rails az romra.
MES, 1850 for oil companies, l, 700 for
railroad companies n a tainiog Offices 10
Birmingham, 10, 900 for persons, firms,
or corp ratioDs furnishing stesm h'a
900 to 2, 800 for telephone companies,
aid Is, 600 FIR water companies.
Miscellaneous license fees are: Add
'ug achine agents, SIC; advertising de.
vices and com pspies, 10 to 200; abst'ac
title companies, rs to $50; automobile
dfa'ers. 100. and automobile licenses, s
To 10; Advertising with handbills, 10;
raj estate sgtDts, so; artificial limbs,
%; assignment OF wages companies, 300;
auct:oneers, 35 t. 70; audit companies,
90; tag make 9, 90; banks, 300 to $50;
afe deposit vaults. 300; bicycle dealers.
% TO 65; bill posters, $40 to 200; bird
dealers, %; b acksmi'hs, 5, book deal
ets. rs TO 90; bootblacks, 2. 6Oi boltlers, |
5 to so; bowling alleys, $26.
Brewers mus, pay 5000; brick makers, |
sS5; broom makers, $lOi buggy makers, |
$40 to $50; cabinet makers, $40 to IS;
candy makers, $40 to 75s carpenter
shops, $40; carpet dealers, $l5 to 200;
cars AID drays, $40 to IS; msnieures,
s25; conftctioneries, $40 TO 81; drug
stores, s35 to 200; electrical supplies,
$I5 TO $50; electricians, $50; foremen, |
$25; florists, $50 foundries, $25; fruit
stands, 65 to 1875; fruit trees, 10; halter.
dSshery, S5 to $50; hair dressers, Is;
h. tbs, Go 10 276; Ice fsctory, 300; 10, |
6rmsres, IS to $50; insurance, 10 to |
100; insurance fgents, rs to 100; labor
'geOts so to 5OOf lawyers, doctors, aud |
dentlsis, is to 40; livery stables. IS;
lunch stands, 35 TO IS; machinery
makers aud dealers, so TO 200; taIlorS,
"a; newsI a2ers 10 to $50; pa'o tuners,
8; plumbers, so to ESQ; pressing club, |
20; 'ign painters, is; stove d. alers, 10 |
to 10; tin shops, %; tobacco dealers,
1880 10 200; trading stamps, 500; uu-
brella mender, 5; Vegetable dealers, 80
vinegar mskess, SO; watch repsirer,
1880; yeast SCENT or dealer, IS.
Many of the license scales are basVd |
on the volume OF ssles daily Of each
business taxed, and the license ordi-
nance requires that each day the grots
amount OF sales OF each business must ee
reported to the license collector, under
penalty of ine and imprisonment.