Year: 1874

When man pays the tax. however. his can
ital IS tied up and the investment is irksome
to him, and he is apt to be too snxious to
realize upon it.


MEN ARE TEMPTED


to buy goods in bond, with the expectation
that they will be able to sell at an appre-
ciated price before the tax becomes due.
Disappointed in their expectations their
stock Is forced upon the market to meet the
tax, and then they suffer a loss
on their investment. While whisky is in
bond there is always an outside speculative
oeIhsnd In the hope and expectation that
the government will increase the tax
IT'S there any difference in the
distilling business between sister states or
different sections of the countrs7


Mr.. S.-Just as


DISTINCT AS THE DRY GOODS BusINrss.
We have been fighting that thing here for
three years and have just sue
ceeded in getting the insurance men
to understand it. The same rules governing
the whisky business in Indiana or Ohio
should not apply to our business in the state
of Kentucky.


R.-By the way of variety, that is, to re-
neye the monotony of this fruitful theme.
what do you think of the financial affairs of
the country, Mr.. Shirley


Mr. Swell, really, I have never thought
enough upon the subject to tell you much
about it. My idea is that money which
will circulate from one section of the coun-
try TO another Is all right. think, though,
that the government should


PROTECT THE TAXPAYERS
10 certain extent better than at present,
especially those who pay the tax upon whisky
and tobacco.


R.-Do you believe in initiating the cur
rencyf


Mr.. 81 can not say as to that; have not
thought much about it, but believe that
there there, is :, enough money in the
in hand would loan it to the producer
Much of it is in the hands of parties who
will not loan it at all, else loan it at usurous
rates of interest.


R.-Now how do you feel over the result
OF the recent elections? and how do you
think it will affect the trade and commerce
of the country?


Mr.. S-Some of my customers were jubi-
liant and sent in orders for ten
or twelve barrels and an announce
ment that they would order forty
next time. Right here L want to say
that temperance can take to itself the blame
or the credit-which ever it chooses to call
it-of causing the defeat of radicalism in
Indiana and Ohio, il not other states
Their extreme measures aroused repub-
leans who were engaged in the whisky traf-
hc to the importance of


THEIR OWN INTEREST,
and while they took care OF No. that is.
themselves-No. 2-that is, the republican
party-went by the board. The hard times
helped, of course, but the business was
Done by the incorporate temperance people,
But be the cause OF the defeat what it NAV
the result will be beneficial to the country,
especially to the South. The good results
may not be reached at once, but they will
come nevertheless, and be apparent in due
time.


At this interesting juncture Mr.. Shirley
had a half dozen business calls and the re-
porter megndered, much TO the relief of the
incoming and waiting-perhaps dry-cus-
TONERS.


Failing to find any other representative
distillers the reporter started out In
search of the tobacco manufacturers
and found several without difficulty, the
first being


BIR. N. sTIENBER6,
who hasquite large establishment, but was
not running to his complete capacity. How
ever, he understood the business and had
been a small as we'll as large manufacturer
and could represent both. He favored TAX
ing the tax off the manufacturer and trying
it on the speculator, by applying it to the
raw material. II the tax were taken off
the manufacturer direct, the business
of manufacturing would be greatly facili-
tated. The reporter here interposed this
interrogatory: How would it facilitate your
business the tax were taken off the man.
ufacturer?


Mr.. S.-We would not then have


THE TROUBLE AND THE EXPENSE
of keeping an extra set of books, paying for
and using burning brands, government
government at our expense. 1t it were not
for that tax we could use a cigar box more
than once. As you will observe by
this we are not even allowed to use our
cigar boxes twice. (Tossing to the reporter
the following label):