The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-12-16
UNCLE SAM LIKES
BEER AND WH|SKEY
He Is Also Very Fond of CT
gars, Cigarettes and
Chewing Tobacco.
"A REVENUE REPORT
u. S. Getting to Like Spirits
Better than Beer, the
Report Shows.
"A REVENUE REPORT
(National News Association)

WASHINGTON, Dec. ia severe
jolt to temperance is administered in
the annual report of Commissioner Of
Internal Revenues, Royal E. CabeL,
to the Secretary of the Treasury which
was made public today.
The report disclosed the fact that
the country, if judged by that standard
OF morality set up by temperance ad-
vocates, was rapidly going to the dem
milton bow-wows, with every man, wo
man and child apparently in fair way
to fall heir to an annual apportion-
ment of a barrel of beer, several gal
Ions of spirits and enough tobacco in
the form of cigarets, cigars and Chew
ing, to comfortably smoke his or her
self 10 death--Were the annual out
put of the manufacturers of these com
modities to be equally divided per CAPT
ia.
The commissioners report showed,
for instance, that there were enough
cigarets produced during the fiscal
year to circle the earth more than a
hundred times if they were all taken
from their respective wrappers and
laid end to end, and these be it under
stood were only those cigarets on
which taxes were paid by the manu-
facturers. The taxed output of snuff,
chewing and cigars made of tobacco
would bring the per capita allotment
OF this weed up to many pounds-or
many hundredweight were the women
and children eliminated from the sup
positions equation.
Our Taste Is Changing.
The report goes on to state that the
total taxed output of fermented liqu-
ors, including beer ale, etc, was g.
1864 barrels, decrease of 1905 Apo
barrels from the fiscal year. To make
up for this apparent loss of appetite
among our beer drinking generation
however, Commissioner Cabell states
that the fiscal year ended June 80,
1912 witnessed the largest production
of distilled spirits in the history of
the country. The taxed production OF
this commodity, according to the re-
port, was 17S, 249,985 taxable gallons,
exceeding the largest previous produc-
ton, which was for the fiscal year
ending June 80, 1911, by 2,S47, 1905 gal
Ions. These figures were compiled to
include only the spirits distilled from
material other than fruit and therefore
do not include many wines and cord
ials. The total production of spirits
was 1877 ,571.S08 gallons.
The sum total of these figures to-
gether with other taxable products go
to make up the best record of internal
revenue collections with the exception
of'the fiscal year of 1911, since the
year of 1866 and exceeded record set
by that year by 11,495 1866. The
total receipts of the bureau for the pre-
sent fiscal year fas 1921 ,615, 1874 SO. OF
this amount, ordinary sources, includ-
ing the tribute levied on the beer,
whiskey and tobacco produced, $685.
032,e34.SS, an increase over the pre-
vious fiscal year of $4,017 ,S60.15, and
from the special excise tax on corpora
tions there was collected $2S,5S3,259.S1,
decrease of $492S, 265.19, making a
net decrease from the collections OF
1911 of $910,405.O4.
Corporation Tax Falls.
The decrease in the amount of cor
poration tax collected in 1912 says the
commissioner, was due to the fact that
of the corporation tax assessed on re-
turns of corporations for the calendar
year 1909, the first year of the law,
nearly six and a half million dollars
could not be collected until July 1,
1910, which fell in the government S
fiscal year 1913 at approximately $685.
100000, appropriating to ordinary
sources 1927 100000 and to the corpora.
ton tax, $29,000,000.
Deviating from his figures for the
fiscal year, the commissioner states
that the total number of corporations
filing returns for the 1911 calendar
year was S2SS.352, which was $1S,15O
in excess of the number which made