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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



The points of interest made apparent in the foregoing tabu- 

 lar exhibit, and to which attention is especially asked, are as 

 follows : 



(1) The regular and great increase in the quantity of fer- 

 mented liquors annually made subject to internal revenue taxa- 

 tion i. e., from 62,205,375 gallons in 1863 to 1,071,183,827 gallons in 

 1893, and an increase in per capita consumption very far in excess 

 of the rate of increase in population i. e., from 1*86 gallons in 

 1863 to over sixteen gallons in 1893. 



(2) The concurrent regular increase in revenue from this 

 source i. e., from $1,558,000 in 1863 to nearly $32,000,000 in 1893. 



(3) The variations in the product of fermented liquors which 

 the Government has been able annually to subject to taxation 

 since 1863 have been inconsiderable and in remarkable contrast to 

 those occurring in the case of distilled spirits. Business depres- 

 sion from 1874 to 1879 and for the year 1884 appears to have been 

 influential in checking per capita consumption, though in a small 

 degree, and to have exerted little or no influence in the subsequent 

 years, that are subject to analysis, down to 1894, when financial 

 and industrial depression was again operative in the country, re- 

 sults indicating that similar larger and contemporaneous decre- 

 ments in consumption and revenue in the case of distilled spirits 



