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lIOrreSpondenre OF the kfgSsef anu doufhhhJ
WAsHNorok, October. 1916.
Permit me TO call YOUR lArticnlIr attention 10
IN article in the October number Of the South
era Literary Messenger. addressed 10 the Mem
phis Convention. sud which las been maled 10 your
address. This is AN impsiiafl meeting, and II The
msssofes brought before ii ale ally discussed and
property treated IT'S ,oic, :" be heeded here--he
ciaims al the south and west , III I've fully acknowl-
edged AMI that neg ecIed regbn OF the country VIII
get exactly that measure Of Justice which ii asks
and which the public gnoi u this great coninon-
wealth requires should he meed out to il,
Among The Snbiects OF leading importance your at
lenlion is particularly invited 10 The warehousns
system. It's vast subject, lrimiuli Of advantages
TO your city and State. Take this single view Of III
land only point al it, for soa can give body and
color, and present it in much more striking aspect
than have time In do,) under the present system
New York is the great place ii imporation--lhere
the duties paid. the revenues are collected, and
to that point there is currelt continually setting
from your State, which drains It Of it's capital and
Expresses its people ,sih "lard times" Every
spring and fall western and sallhern merchants re.
qaire their customers To- ellle up." that they may
go on to the north ID atresh slocks. One dol
lar out ofevery " an average; and in high
dutied articles every three. and even
three out Of . Custom House, or which
is the same ii 70 feimburse the importer Iur
the payment q dnties "a lilo government already
made. Thus he present system requires the duties
ia, a.......,ad IA, vanr Gta,a b. luaoed
to New York; and il the government hasa dsburse-
lnenl to b. made IN your State, this money has 10 he
lugged back again, and at tunes as We have seen,
will no small Inconvenience and expense. Now the
warehous ing system would obyate all this. For it
exacts the duties, moi WIEN the goods taken out
OF the ship, but when llev go out of the bonded
warehouses into consump,on; and each port Of en-
try would have its bontsd warehouses, e., the
storehouses of merchautsand Others, with govern
mcnt locks aud keys upon them. Thus (suppusns
the revolution in trade to e efectedby the introduce
ton OF the svsiem be mother Than ls bu, ihsle
would be Dtany) tho Merchants of your city when
they 60 to the north for spplies. instead Of taking
none, with them TO pay, o reimburse for the pay
ment Of duties there. woult not drain Jour Stale SO
efecualIy as they now do put would bay exactly The
same quantity Of goods for exactly one third less on
the ge-have them transferred from The bonded
warehouses of New York the bonded warehouses
Of your city; and then WIN they were sold thence
into consumption, The duies would be paid, and
thus the consumers in eacl State would pay into
their own Custom House, Is it were, their quota o.
re venue. And thus moreove'. the advantn
ges and perqusites arising from The collection, de-
post and redistribution OF arge sums Of government
funds, instead Of being couHed 10 and engrossed, al
by one place AZ they now se, would be distributed
fairly over tho country. Mt only so--but marclant
could 40 the same amount # business with less CAPT
tall consequently, competition would be greater, ant
| the consumer, the million, would buy cheaper
And in this Oay would he buy cheaper Your tailor
when he went on 10 buy tn, cloth Of which your
is made, found that il hal been imported, say 81,
months before, that the importing merchant had pail
the manufacturer "a peryard for it; and when
arrived in New York he lad paid another 81 pc
yard to the custom house. The importer therefor
| said, you must pay me SO iih profits upon So pc
yard; whereas, under the warehousing system h
would have said, pay me pI offs upon 81 per yar'
and you Yourself pay the other "a 10 the Custom
House nay, the importer might well say. here ar
two yards, pay me exactly the same profits for .h
| two yards without the duties, that you used TO pa
Inc upon yard with the duties. Thus competition
in the importing business would become more active
for the importer could employ his whole capital il
active trade, instead Of keeping ], or as in som
cases he now does, lying idle in the Custom Hous
| for duties.
Upon this one view Of the question alone, If yo
will present il to your renders. am willing to res
| the whole warehouring system.
Respectfully. yours, etc.
HARRY BLUFF.