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On Canadian spirits $4,029,359 Oa malt liquors 6,748 On malt 775,354 $4,811,461 LICENSE FEES. v Distillers' licenses $2,500 Malsters' licenses 6,200 $ 8,700 CUSTOMS DUTIES. On imported ale, beer, wines, and spirits of all kinds $2,242,763 On imported malt 8,391 $ 2,251,154 Total revenue $7,071,315 This amounts to about $1.37 per head of our population. It is estimated that about 32 cts. per head is for spirits used for medicinal, mechanical and scientific purposes, and that the revenue from the liquor- traffic for beverage purposes is about $5,400,000, or about $1.05 per head of the population. In leaflet No. 1 of this series, it is shown that consumers of liquor pay for it the sum of $39,879,854, and that the country is impoverished by the full amount of the money paid for liquor. If this traffic is stopped, the people at large will be richer at the J Ifl^ NATIONAL-REVENUE QUESTtON. end of a year by $39,879,854 than they would have been if the traffic had continued. In ten years the change will make a difference of more than $400,000,000 in the wealth of the community. Here lies the answer to the question " What about the revenue ? " It is hard to collect money from people who ar^ poor. We make revenue-raising easier by making people bett^ off'. The Toronto Globe of May 19th, 1897, states the case forcibly in the following paragraph :-- Taxation paying power depends not on the number of items in the tariff, but on the number and wealth of the people. Consequently the fiscal result of Prohibition is to be judged by the answer to this ques- tion : " Will it increase or diminish the taxable wealth of the people?" If wealth is increased, the expense of Government, as of everything else, can be more readily borne The liquor traffic robs us of much more than the amount which the liquor consumed costs. It has been shown that through intemperance we lose yearly more than $100,000,000 additional in various indirect ways. Prohibition would enrich our country, and the richer country would yield a richer revenue. Much of the money saved from drink would be expended for other goods that pay duties, and here would be new revenue at once. An English Parliamentary Report shows that in the years of the Irish famme when the Government closed the dis- tilleries, the people of Ireland bought more tea, sugar, clothing, hardware, etc. than in the years of plenty and a greatly increased revenue was collected on these goods. When the great Father Matthew temperance revival reached its height the yearly revenue from liquor was vastly reduced, but the total yearly revenue collected was £90,000 sterling above the average. It might be needful for Parliament to plan to meet the revenue deficit for a year or two, but soon we would find a ris- ing revenue flowing in from a happier and wealthier people. It is easy to pay taxes when there is plenty of money to pay with. Various methods have been suggested by which the revenue now derived from the liquor traffic may be at once replaced when prohibition is enacted. It is not the purpose of this tract THE NATIONAL-REVENUE QUESTION. d to advocate any special plan. Parliament may be relied upon to adjust its revenue-raising so as to make it as eft'ective as pos- sible, and at the same time as easy as possible to the people. Some of the suggestions that have been made are however, here submitted as information : — The whole amount might be raised by direct taxation, in which case people would have to pay about one-sixth of the amount they now pay for liquor, retaining the remaining five- sixths and leaving them as a whole more than $30,000,000 better oft* than they are under the present plan, a new $30,000,000 being added to their wealth each year. Direct taxation is how- ever, only one of the available methods of revenue-raising. A tax of one half-cent per pound on sugar, seven cents per pound on tea, coffee and cocoa, and sixteen cents per pound on tobacco, levied on the quantities of these articles now used, would make up the amount named, $1.05 per head, or $5,400,000 on the whole. The Government might take over the liquor-trafRc remain- ing for permitted purposes, carry it on and retain all the pro- ceeds. It is estimated that this would give a revenue of about $4,000,000. It would be the safest way of supplying pure liquor for medicine, etc. If the plan just mentioned were adopted, the balance of $3,000,000 to make up the whole temporarily displaced revenue, could be secured by an extra excise duty of thirty cents per pound on the quantity of tobacco nov/ consumed. The same amount could be secured by a special customs duty of four and one- half per cent, on the va!ue of all im- ported goods that now pay duty. On the preferential duty plan it could be obtained by an extra duty of seven and one-half per cent, ad valorem on the quantities now imported of all other than British goods, leav- ing the duty on all imports from Great Britain unchanged. As it is clear that the deficit would only be temporary and that a richer country would soon make up the missing revenue, the temporary deficit might be met by a special loan as in the case of some other national emergency. All that has been said to the effect that under prohibition our people would be richer and our national revenue really 4 THE NATIONAL-UEVENtJE l^UESTlOI^. helped instead of hindered, is forcil)ly corroborated by state* ments made by many of the world's ablest financiers. The following paragraphs are taken from speeches made by two eminent British Chancellors of thj Exchequer. i. y^" ^L ^'«^*^onc. Gentlemen, you need not give yourselves any trouble about the revenue. The (juestion of revenue must never stand m the way of needed reforms. Besides, with a sober population, not wastmg their earnings, I shall know where to obtain the revenue. u ,^J'^ ^^"'fff^'^fi ^^rihcote. If the revenue diminishes from increased habits of temperance the amount of wealth such a change would bring to the nation would utterly throw into the shade the amount oT revenue that IS now derived from the spirit duty; and we should not only see with satisfaction a diminution of the revenue from such a cause, but should find in various ways that the PJxcheciuer would not suiter from the losses which it might susUiin in that direction. Sir A. T. Gait, Sir Leonard Tilley, Hon. Geo. W. Ross, Hon. Geo. E. Foster and many other Canadian statesmen have as forcibly expressed the same views. The last named gentle- man on one occasion, after setting out the vast drain that the liquor-traffic had made upon the country during a num- ber of preceding years, added these words: The wonder is that with such terrible waste our country envoys any prosperity. If this waste could be made to cease, Canada in ten vears would not know herself, so prosperous and wealthy would she have grown. Speaking on another occasion of the probable results of Prohibition upon the national revenue, he said : Although direct receipts from this traffic would certainly be expunged fro. , our revenue, still the improvement in the general commerce of the country, the improvement in the general welfare and well-being of our community, would be so great that the receipts in all other branches of our revenues would be increased correspond- ingly, and there would practically, after the first year or so, not be any dimmution whatever in our revenues from our tax-payers. PROHIBITION PAYS. luued by the Dominion Alliance for the Supprosaion of the Liquor Traffic.