Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-11-05
MISSOURI HELPS
OUT UNCLE SAM
STATES ANNUAL TRIBUTE TO
NATIONS TREASURY CON-
TINUEs TO GROW.
NEXT YEAR TO SHOW GAIN
Tax on Beer Has Increased so Per
Cent and Income Tax Dodgers
viii Be Compelled to
Come Across.
Jefferson City


Year by year the amount Missouri
pays into the United States treasury
as internal reyenue increases, a fact
which emphatically demonstrates
that the state is continually progress
ing as a commercial and manufactur-
ing commonwealth. Information just
furnished the bureau of labor statis-
tics by Commissioner John T. Ftz-
patrick reveals that in the fiscal year
which closed June 80, 1914, Missouri
turned into Uncle Sans Golfers $751;
331,518, compared to $12,470,71 for
the fiscal year Of 1928 and $12,-
082,821 for 1911-12, all of which goes
to meet the costs of a government
which is so great that its annual ex-
penses exceed $1,000, 900, 900.
Uncle Sans Missouri collections
for the fiscal year just closed break
all past records, a condition partly
due to the new individual income tax,
wealthy citizens and others of this
state who have an income exceeding
$4,000 a year for single men and
$4,000 for married men having paid to
the United States in the IL months
ending June 80, last, $657,05S.
The revenue from Missouri brew
cries on beer manufactured during
the last half of 1918 and the first half
of 1914, at 81 a barrel, was nearly
$s,250,000. During the fiscal year
1914-15 the sum turned oyer from this
source will be considerably augment
ed, the European war having raised
this tax TO $3.50 a barrel, which will
cause the brewers to pay nearly
$6,375,O00
The information, prepared by Super
visor Of Statistics A. T. Edmonston,
states Missouri is divided by the fed
eral authorities into two revenue dis
tricts, the first having St. Louis as
headquarters and the sixth district
with Kansas City as the headquarters.
Most of Missouri's annual federal
revenue comes from the eastern dis
trict, there having been collected
from there during 1894 $~11,343 I'll.
Manufacturing, banks and breweries,
distilleries, mercantile and other mer-
camille corporations and citizens sub
ject TO the income tax, of the western
district, paid in during the same pc
riod $1,9S7, 1907.
A future bulletin will give details as
to the number Of wholesale and retail
liquor dealers there are, 1914-15, in
Missouri, including, for the retail por-
ton. fr~aternal, commercial and social
clubs, which, until a day or two ago,
SOLD liquors to members and their
guests without a state, city or county
tax, hut each did pay Uncle Sam $25
annually for the privilege. The latest
figures on this subject will not be
available for a few weeks, but those
covering the fiscal year which closed
June 80, 1913, throw light on how far
reaching the supreme court ruling is.
Then there were 9,672 federal tax
paying Wholesale and retail liquor
and beer dealers, rectifiers and brew
ers in Missouri. Those solely licensed
as retail dispensers Of wet goods"
numbered 1851. At that time there
were $500 state-licensed saloons and
dramshops, leaving 1881 retailers
holding licenses from Uncle Sam, to
represent organizations with bars in
their efubrooms, "lid-lifting'' clubs
dining cars with buffets, operating
without either state, city or county Ii
censes.