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...normal price, plus tax. The distillers in turn agreed not to ask for refunds if the tax was declared illegal. As a step to curb bootlegging the State Control Board also bought from Continental Distilling Co. 24 carloads of Sweepstake whiskey to retail at $1 a fifth, of Cavalier gin to retail...
What can be done about it? The President is considering a plan of control which, if adopted, would mean telling every farmer not only what he can plant, but how much will be accepted from him when he comes to dispose of his product. Thus, at the cotton gin, if a farmer brings a supply in excess of a quota prescribed for him, he will have to take it back or pay a tax that will be prohibitive. This would cause a loss on the surplus of his crop. The idea would be to discourage him from doing it again...
...there any solution as yet to the problem of disposing of the excess cotton which would be turned back on the producer at the cotton gin if the new tax on surplus goes into effect. Will it be surreptitiously sold? With a surplus be grown? Human nature thus far has resisted control almost everywhere, even in Russia, where the peasants from time to time have refused to give the government its full quota of wheat because they needed it for their food...
...descriptive writing have of late been pushed off the front pages by articles on the latest boost in federal tax per gallon on all liquors. The thinking man has retired from all this balderdash and poppycock to splash about in an oversize bathtub of the good old home-mixed gin; and in so doing, he unconsciously indicates a way out for the nation...
...show that it is the retailer, although God known the diatiller is cutting down his profits to only about four or five hundred per cent. There is some excuse for these extraordinary prices in the case of whiskey where the supply is completely inadequate to meet the demand. With gin which can be manufactured in ten days at the most there is absolutely no justification for the present scale of prices; it represents nothing more nor less than a sincere effort on the part of the distiller to some extent and, on a much larger scale by the retailers...