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administration, to tax the prosperity of
any manufacturing
concern in a lump
sum, without regard to detail, and the Governor, when he fixed $2000. as the
license fee,
must necessarily have been
in complete ignorance of the part Distilling has borne, or is likely in the future to bear, in the prosperity of the Company.
What figures, or what basis of calculation, His Excellency has been proceeding upon,
we do not pretend to
guess; whatever they were, they must have been untrustworthy, if they led to the result arrived at by the Executive.
As a matter of fact, the
history of the Distillery has,
already pointed out, been hitherto invariably disastrous, and it is beyond all question that the Distillation of Spirits, as carried on by this Company,
has never been conducted as an independent industry. It is only
Sugar Refiners, with a
constant supply of surplus molasses, which enables us, or makes it worth while,
to