Liquor Laws of the United States Their Spirit And Effect
Liquor Laws of the United States Their Spirit And Effect
G Gallus Thomann
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The professional distillers at all times cheerfully submitted to the law. As to the consumers, it may safely be asserted, that, as they did not find fault with the tariff, which in fact made them pay the duties on foreign spirits, they would not have grumbled at the slight increase of price which an excise on domestic spirits would have occa- sioned. The opposition was almost entirely confined to dis- tilling farmers ; but had not their cause been made a party issue, they would undoubtedly in a... very short time have learned that their own interests demanded a moderate restraint upon distillation, and, accordingly, rather than pay the tax, many of them would have discontinued distilling, as great numbers did during the operation of the first excise laws. As it was, they were educated to the belief that to advocate unrestricted country distilling was equivalent to displaying a zealous solicitude for the security of individual rights, and CHAPTER VII. • 157 that the political party who did so deserved their support.
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