Wine Duties, Considered Financially and Socially

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Excerpt from Wine Duties, Considered Financially and Socially: Being a Reply to Sir James Emerson Tennent, on "Wine: Its Taxation and Uses" Under existing circumstances, when the country is called upon for extraordinary contributions to meet the exigencies of an expensive war, it would seem not only superfluous but useless to urge upon the attention of the Public any thing tending to a reduction in duties, no matter upon what article. Entirely coinciding with such views, the present volume is not offered to the Public to urge any immediate reduction, but to set forth a correct and truthful exposition of the real state of the present duties on foreign wines, in answer to a semi-official publication, entitled "Wine, its Taxation and Uses, " by the Secretary to the Board of Trade. In the work referred to, very partial averages of dates and statements are set forth to support inferences otherwise untenable. In the following pages the history of the gradual increase in the rates of duty, and their frequent changes, are touched upon, showing the injury inflicted by them on the Wine Trade. The commercial interests of England in connection with the wine countries are also considered, as well as the social character of a temperate though general use of wine among the middle and the industrious classes of the community. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.