Show Britons Britons Boycott j I Expensive Whisky I LONDON April 11 A A whisky i rebellion is ia brewing in his majesty's majesty's i tys ty's domains The fact fact that one pays more for the legal pur purchase hase of ofa ofa I a bottle of ot whisky hisky In Britain than than- for an illegally obtained one In America America- is too much for the Scotch dis distillers and the English consumers Several visits to the chancellor of ot the tho exchequer and a n. boycott bocott on spirits have e been een under taken This dual effort has been I Chancellor Churchill is making no provision for tor a a. reduction reduction reduction I tion of ot the tho excise tax in his coming coming corning com corn and home I ing budget although the consumption of ot spirits has dropped 50 per cent from gallons In 1914 to In 1924 the foreign demand has kept the vats filled tilled and the distilleries wide wido open About gallons were distilled distilled distilled dis dis- dis- dis tilled last year against I gallons less than that amount in 1914 The Tho distiller and the consumer who thus thus have hn e been bro brought ht to together together to- to gether have have organized a society with the thc object of t telling their less interested countrymen of ot their grievances The society is contemplating contern- contern plating a a. a wide nation-wide campaign for forthe forthe the reduction of or tho the domestic rov- rov tax on spirits The society has f found nd out that Englishmen are going back to port I wine as a substitute for tor the highly taxed whisky The government only taxes this wine vine two shillings sixpence sixpence sixpence six six- pence a gallon and the growers out in Portugal get the profits |