| Show bear B ear ahe lexi congress special to D G july 17 1895 IB very much at the prospect of the republican congress a bill raising th duties on auch arti clea as are too low in ha ui tariff law in order to furnish the miney to run the government and t ia retorting to all sorts of schemes to create a public sentiment against any revision ol 01 the tariff and m favor of the mone by acme method of internal taxation one of the shrewdest 0 these schemes ial that for the in reasa of 1 a barrel in the internal revenda tax on beer they calculate that the temperance element will favor an increase in this tax hut their principal reliance ic upon the influence of the eastern will it is said favor the increase because it will have a tendency t drive western beer which is now largely consumed out of the big eastern cities the brewers already have to pay the freight and meet the bricea of the eastern brewers in their home cities and it is alamed clamed that with a dollar a barrel added to the tax and no increase in tha selling price they would cot be able to do this and that the eastern brewers would gladly pay a dollar a barrel additional dit ional if they coald thereby get the eastern trade now hald by western breweries |
