Show BRITONS BOYCOTT I HIGH PRICED RUM LOO LONDON t DOl-t April A 11 whisky 11 whisky rebellion I Is brewing In HI His MaJesty's domains domain The fact tact that one pays more for the legal gal pur pur- purchase pur- pur purchase purchase chase of ot a bottle of whisky In British than thon for tor an Illegally ob- ob ob obtained tamed one one in America Is la too much for tor the Scotch distillers and the English consumers Several visits to the chancellor of the exchequer and a boycott on spirits have been undertaken This dual effort has been un- un unproductive un unproductive productive ve Churchill Is making no provision for a reduction reduction reduction tion of ot the excise tax In his com corn corning coming ing budget and although the home consumption of spirits has dropped SO 60 per cent from gallons In 1914 to 10 In 1924 the foreign demand has kept the vats filled tilled a and d the die dis- distilleries dis distilleries wide open About 29 p- p gallons were distilled st b-st year against gallons less than that amount In 1914 The Tbt distiller and the consumer who thus have been brought rought to- to together together to together gether have organized d a society with the object of telling their less leIs Interested countrymen of their grievances The society Is contemplating a wide nation cam cam- campaIgn campaign campaign for the Ibe reduction lon ot of o the do- do domestic domestic do domestic revenue re tax on spirits The society has found out that Englishmen arc are going back to port wIne as aa a substitute for tor the high high- highly highly ly Iy taxed whisky The only taxes thi this wine two shillings aix pence a gallon and the grow grow- growers ers erl out In Portugal get the profits |