Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1858-02-02
NUMBER 81.

o the inspection $vsen hav4 singled ont This n
iul and excellent officer inr their victim. Whea !. -
rec'!ecei that ts official sy become the terror -
'v'I doers, by the inheIib.e naln.- in Wits. 3 I..
'i'chafged the duties OF III. oii,i--ani .ha a. cas-
!=!nned nearly thirty elk thnl.sni barrels Of Gol ~
ro';' i've years, aad caused their 10 be nod
vi: NE amount o: :!.ar Gnes paid into tn L.'r-.;y
rund The reason for this hostility may b. WEI! urisr
TODD.
.'ot GaTin: TO n5al.,9 word asain-: ,he ~.
'na integrity ot this "!ic.r knowiny his repIts~1a
hf'aSh"n' tha state To- ability AM fidelity, ,thay hsvs
pct IN circulation Tie most aa.url tales about the pro
:isouS einoiIi!nents oi bis o:a- Gentlemen o. a Gre
iuous turn OF mind have ha-n ed 10 believe tha, tia
fn:e Is worth from ei.! - .an housand dollars nett
Indeed by uncommon power OF exagceration /; hs-
been pat "a high fifteen or twenty thousand doars
But when these idle ruGlors have been endured into
and lfe! ~ moro :han committee Of Agrcultur.
and Commerce. it has been satisfactorily shown ,hs,
tho ret, rocseds of the office nothing like so large
ss those o the inspectors o.. tobacco in this city H.
deed il has been prove! by tabular statements the:
the otii does not average more than three thousand
dollars per anEun, ate. the necessary expenses hsvr
been deducted.
The arguments and charges Of the enemies Of n,
inspection laws are like Chinese batteries. construc
ed of ing@nously painted paste5oard, formidable L
| the eye but very easily overthrown.
All ofthe attempts of the enemies Of inspection
to reduce the valus of ;ha oii,,. and hns re7i-
its unworthy OF the acceptance Of conpstan, men.-
Hence the desire to deprive the Inspector Of the dra
-four, and the objection 70 the present system ot II
spectng b; twice inserting the trver
inspectors successful the inspectors in the
towns and counties of tha State would Ia f,rc-l :.
seek some other means OF support Ninetenths
the inspectors, under the existing system al:hoggi
| retaining The d-si: -four. and using the present Ia
sirunent cf inspec;ion, have bare support.
Even the pr-sen; rates Of compensation 10. o..
fcient 10 the small oSus. In secure the servc.,
inspectors competent ns in the large to~ns wherr
the compensation is better. Hence the standard 1t
inspection in such towns il lower than in the large,
towns and cities.
| The present sys'em OF Inspection !. ~hGt tn
Amendment proposes to perpe.ua,e. The .egsa,i-l
is merely asked 10 !egaizs custom, and in NJ IT,
spect whatever to change, in the lsss' psr'i'...
what has ieen the custom of inspection in thi-
or half century or more.
Ii the opponents of the inspection laws, who hsv,
been often defeated in thi. State, succeed by h3
RAISING litigation, in driving the present able In'p
tore from their Offices il they succeed In redd...
the compensation so low as to enable incomp ps.eui
men to hold them, becnuse they can do no better Oh
value of the system will be destroyed. The lna..
pendence well a. the ability Of every officer.
depend upon the oics which he holds, in its coTpsG.
| sation aud cnolum-na a."rdIng him a fair an rr.
| sc1abl- compensation i": hs services.