rebellion come of this one for years helping to shape practices and methods of the institution that would later become the irs. >> it becomes a mechanism to hire just a chain of law-enforcement operators, law enforcement figures that travel across the interior of the country looking for illicit moonshine. the next thing you know, there are actual battles, gunshots being fought between the moonshiners on the revenue men. that led straight into the idea that you should have a professional internal revenue service doing this with modern tools and a high degree of professionalism. but to make tax collection more professional would require a major, major change in how the internal revenue code bureau with staff. >> james garfield is elected in 1882's deal with the spoils system. one of these jobseekers who didn't get a job killed him.