| Show 11 Moon shiners 11 not long igo ago two dom tore tora took place between united sluice revenue of fleere and ana moon shiners 11 tho the latter are simply amply lawless men who dastil distil nicholle spirits illegally it lit ia well known that tho the government lays a tax upon overy gallon of spirits whisky brandy rural raia ota bisti distilled led in ia tile the united states very ery much the urgent largest amount or of the internal ln revenue collected collect ell Is in obtained from this source dairing iring tho the last year moro more thru than sixty ORB one millions of dollars were paid into the treasury na its tax on oil spirits tile tho yield of 0 internal being toi for the name time one hundred anil and twenty live millions millious milli oua As an the tha tux tax laid upon tipon spirits is ia several I 1 limes I 1 wee us as much as i ilia cost coat ol of it iab mauu there la Is is 11 very strong temptation to BY ado it tile government has livix been borcea to put int distillation culler the most moat supervision roll huil even when revenue of floors are looking oil OB tilt lot tux ld ia evador orai loil besides the distill distilleries erieg which tire registered und anti carried carlod on openly it ft is ia unit thero there urn are ut lit joust stills in m bechet operation opera tiou the iho case is ia put in a i low aw words worda by the commis hibner mioner of internal Int ermil Rev devoutie in liia his report for or 1878 to ia which alter after mentioning certain districts lial riota in ia the tha Virgin virginias laff I 1 north carolina kentucky find some other states H tales ito ho says saya ot of these theao frauds frauda would startle belief these stills are ara of a producing bapa capacity city of irom from ton ten to fifty gallons per day thoy they aro are finally situated at poin cointa t 8 in tha lite mountains away from the ord onh nary lines of travel imil and are generally by unlettered men ol cl d a etc charge character t at armea and ready I 1 to 0 resist abo of ficare of the law 11 when occasion occasion requires they come coma together in companies ol of ire from in ton to persons guns in hand to drive the officers ficera of out ont ot of the tha country they resist 03 45 long as resistance Is ia possible and whon alion their stills ure ura seized se izail and they uro are at mica they plead ignorance and poverty and at onea once crave tho the bardou of 0 the alio government dating the iho your year for which that report was made there were tire hundred and ninety eight stills seized Bo izail of which ono one hundred handrail and leventy ovo were iu in north carolina and ninety oliven in georgia nearly one thousand two hundred arrests were made and flix ali persons were killed D dm aring ing tho the next year 1878 9 there were moro more tuan thou it thousand stills atilla seized of 0 which two hun hundred drol and twenty six wore were in north carolina two hundred und and three in in G or 9 ono one hundred and sixty two I 1 in T att i eshoo and eighty three in alabama one thousand nine aino hundred ind and sov onty lour four persons wore were arrest ar rosted J and five officers were killed and thirteen wounded in in accomplishing the work the 1 bo story of a raid which was mail amlo a u upon clr n ah 11 last march near gon abo a a dit v I 1 I 1 ii 1 m between kentucky and virginia biow w how do deB I 1 these lawless rn in are three or lour four t times imes before the revenue officers oora hall had traced tho the outlaws to their hiding place a stillhouse still house houam owned by tour four brothers named middleton but kad had been driven away in marcu march the Midd letona with fifteen or twenty other 11 moon shiners supplied themselves thema elres with provisions provi siona unaa arms and ammunition and abid for tilled themselves in the ihu stillhouse still house the chief of the revenue organized orga nied a force to attack them a demard that they BIU render having been refused rotus od A hot fight took place three of the Midd letone were veto killed and several other moon shiners were wounded dod but bat the in trenched party poured so terrible a ura fire upon the abe assailants that hat wore forced to retire and to rott rotraut 0 at in tite the utmost contusion confusion down the mount mountain ain one of the worst features of this whole business is that the popular sympathy in the localities where illicit distilling is carried on is generally with the moon shiners in one ease case mentioned by the commissioner which occurred in august 1878 in tonnes see sea the moon shiners collected a band of two hondred armed men anil and besieged the for totty forty two bobre youths Vout hg companion |
