The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-08-09
The Tobacco-Enspection Laws.

Editors of The Dispatch: will you alIo"
= paiu farmer, and one w no feels deep per.
sonal interest in the tobacco trade of Rich
mond and other markets in the State, few
words in YOUR paper, which is claSSed (errone.
ously, I think,) as opposed to the planters
interests in the question Of tobacco inspec'
ton. | have never seen in the Dispatch
land have been constant reader of il for
a good while) anything which could be con-
s,rued as opposed to the interest Of the pco-
ole of the trhole STATE notwithstanding mauy
discontinued spirits have labored 10 persuade
the people that there is an "irrepressihle
conflict" between the prosperity of Rich
mond city and the town and country inter-
ests Of the Stale. This state of things is
espccialIy noticeable since the late tobacco
seizure on the bark rarpcian.
The recent meeting of the Tobacco En-
chunge OF your city TO consider this subject
aud the strong language spoken there would
seem 10 indicate that the lines have been dis
:iuctly drawn between the "friends' and
"euemicS? Of inspection, and that they are
armng Tor The final fray before tue tribunal
OF the next Legislature. No one can doubt
that these Old laws call for review and spe-
cite definition by the Legislature, but why
there should be necessarily and in advance
any division Of opinion on the subject seems
to me little unusual.
It must be fresh in the minds OF all that the
Governor, in bis annual message last winter.
thought it necessary TO call The attention OF
the Legislature TO the laws regulating theto-
bacco trade in Richmond, and as happened
to be 10 the city then, well remember the
denunciatiens of the Governor for his pre-
sumption as pronounced by some OF the
members OF the tobacco trade in Richmond,
who thought the Governor had sold out to
the grangers. The planters at that time, or
ut least those who presumed to represent
them, desired change of some sort, |
do not remember what, in the Jaws
regulating the tobacco trade, while the
trade opposed it. Finally, however,
things so worked around that the members
OF the trade became more clamorouS Tor
change than the planters had been. This
threw the grangers or planters on the de-
fensive, who claimed TO have come off the
rictorS, because no change was made in the
law. Now, with such a change OF ground
all around, ask if all concerned cannot con
sent to leave the whole matter to the Legis.
lature, without any blasting Influences, 10 be
decided as the members 10 their wisdom
may think best for the tobacco interest o.
the whole State and if the Legislature must
wage war let it be about something else thar
| sthe weed"
am sure the tobacco growers Of the State
eau have no objection whatever to the very
fair resolutions adopted by the late meeting
of the Tobacco Exchange of Richmond, ano
sincerely hope that the "Tarpeiau se'zlre
will lead to more definite construction o.
the tobacco-inspection laws. see no reason
whatever for the wholesale denunciaton @
the officers who, according to their construc
ton of the law, felt it their duty to max
the seizure. General Grant once said tina
the best way to get rid of bad law is to en-
force it and if The present inspection law
are really bad lave no doubt the late seiz
ure will he the death Of them. FARMER.
South Boston, Halifax county, Va, Au
gust 3, 1875. 1--