Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-12-24
For the journal.
The Tobacco Tax.
DUCK CREEK n. @.
December 16 1879

December 10, 1875
Messrs Editors--My people Of this
t(Cnsiow) coanty-in some parts of the
county wish to try the experiment OF
cuitiEating tobacco for market-bui
are deferred and upset by the radical
Revenue Collector Jasper Ethridh e.
OF the county. Who contends that
the producer is liable to a special
tux before he can dispose of the tobac-
co in any shape whatever-that he
cannot give neighbor pound, with
out being liable. I do not so unde. =
stand the case-and you will confer a
special favor on a large portion of our
cltiz Ems, who are readers of the jour
NAL if you will through that medium
exE lain TO us the Revenue law in re-
gard to leaf tobacco. What tax if any
and i'll what shape they will be al
lowed to sell to the manufacturer, and
under what liability.
Yours truly,
| In reply to the above communication
of our correspondent, we are enabled
to state that the producers Of tobacco
Can sell his product to licensed manu-
facturers and to them only, while the
tured state. To these he can sell,
without paying any taxation what ever.
The manufactures are mostly assem-
b ed In the great tobacco markets, a,
cons titute the buyers of the product
after its arrival. and inspection, the
sale generally being made at auction
The producer is not allowed to sell or
even give it away to friend, unless it
be to manufacturer, without laying
himself liable.
This is one of the iron rules which
the Radical party has bound the South
With, but nevertheless it is the law,
and until its repeal it must be obeyed.
We have seen no reference to farm
ing in the public prints, which has
given us so much qualification as that |
contained in the above communication |
We believe that there are thousands /
upon thousands of acres, not only in
Onsiow county, but throughout this
whole Section of the State, which. are /
most admirably adapted to the culti-
walton of tobacco The tobacco raised
on these lands would be of different
quality, and fitted for entirely differ
ent uses, from that raised ON the
North Carolina belt, which borders on
Yirginia, ard extends back to the
North & roiina Ra,lr.ad. Tobacco
raised on these lands are used for
chewing purposes: for the manufacture
of snuff, ami for exportat on to the !
German markets, where it is first
soaked and thereby deprived of most
of it's strength, and then manu- ictur-
auor which il obtained in this soaking,
is used to a great extent for dying
purposes The tobacco grown in
Person. and Caswell, which
ties in the State, aud su oerior 20 any
in Virginia, is utterly unfit for the
Of cigars, such as are
used in this state. being too full of
gum and saltpetre, until these constl-
tuents are taken out by the German
process of soaking. Wher. az the to-
bacco that Can be grown in this sec
ton is of totally different nature.
being almost destitute of gum and salt
petre, the absence of (which qualities
makes it Ino st desirable for the Manu-
facture of cigars. We have seen some
of this tobacco raised in Holly Shelter
by Mr.. Thomas Lee, which we thought
equal to the best Havana.
Prof. Henry James Anderson. who
died at Lahore, in the East Indies, on
the 10Th of last October, was one of
the most distinguished of American