Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1881-01-27

coulu una as samples IN sell ueIence.
Another great cause of embarrass-
ment to the inspectors and Of complaints
from Europe, is that many OF the small
tobacco growers OF Maryland, people
who do no. make more than one hogs
head, from necessity, pack II, bright
and dull, long and short, seconds AID
tail-euds, all in one hogshead. Nov
neither public inspector, nor private
inspector, nor Gov. Hamilton or any
other living man can sample such a
hogshead with certainty. All that aa
inspector can do is to guess at it.
he guesses too low and uadcr-sarnples
the buyer pockets his gains and says
nothing about it. ii he guesses too
high and oyer-samples, the buyer comes
back 90 him with reclamation. lfhe
under-sampss nine hogsheads to the
extent of twenty dollars each, and over
samples one hogshead TO the extent Of
ten dollars, the buyer may demand o
him the ten dollars and say nothing about
the other nine hogsheads.
The only remedy that can see for
this state Of things is (not to confscate
the tobacco as was proposed some year.
ago butt to require the inspector TO
stay all hogsheads so mIred that he can
not sample them with certainty. Let
| the tobacco be shaken out and careful
~ assorted the number Of pounds OF
each kind OF quality Of tobacco ascer-
tanned and noted--then let it all be re-
! packed back into the cask The buyer
would then know exactly wha, he was
buying aud the Inspector would be re-
lieyed OF the task OF doing an npossibll-
| ily. As the owner would, | believe,
| always get more for his hogshead when
its contents was certainly known, no
would be a gamer and not a loser BY
| the opperation. But have dwclt upon
this branch Of the subject IN previous
| letters
think the advantage accruing to the
| planters from our present system Of
inspection and storage is not generally
understood in other sections Of the
State. BY way OF illustration | will
cite a case: Some three years ago
packed six hog~beads OF very inferior
| tobacco--tobacco not worth at the time
more than 50 per hundred. ordered
il 10 be stored away and held for rise
ia tho market; held il for three years.
! Last August my agent sold il Tor So
and 81 per hundred. Now If had held
| TINS tobacco IN New ork, ugdef sifcif
system, ! should have paid 40 cents
month storage on each bogshead. II
| had held ( 10 Cincinnati, should have
paid 80 cts per month lin Louisville,
81 cts. per month IT IN New Orleans,
twenty-five cents per month. But in
/ the public warehouses N Baltimore,
| belonging 10 the planters, ! cculd hold
Vt at but little cost Can you wonder
that we are not willing 10 iorego these
advantages and 10 have the New York
or Cincinnati system forced upon US 3?
The people interested IN the private
! warehouses at Locust Point andCanton
are moving heaven and earth to break
up the State system OF inspection, and
to have the public warehouses sold,
/ WhyI Because so long as the State
warehouses store tobacco gratis, they
are forced TO store it gratis also. Old
/ Shytock saidth Antonio the Merchant,
offending out money gratis, had hinder
ed him (Shylock) from making half
million, and he hated him.
The owners OF The private warehouses
at Locust Point and Canton can say, as
we'll that the State warehouses by stor-
ing tobacco gratis, have hindered them
from making halt million also; and
they hate it. If our present system of
inspection and storage is maintained,
these people will never make any
money ii il is broken up, they will
make their hall million, and it will
come out Of the pockets of the planters.
10 show you how muoh cheaper to-
bacco is handled in Baltimore than in
any Of the other great tobacco marts, |
I have bat further TO quote from papers
before me. In New York the cost of
inspection <what we would call the
outage) is SO per hogshead, The
| charge for storage is, as ! have said,
forty cents per month, except the first
month which is free. We thus find
that the cost ofinspectng and storinga
! hogshcad OF tobacco in New York for
one year is S740, while in Baltimore
it is just $500.
The cost Of inspecting a hogshead Of
tobacco in Cincinnati varies from So
to So. The charge for storage is fifty
cents per month three months being
allowed free to the lanters, bat to buy
only seven days. We thus find the
cost Of inspecting and storing hogs
head OF tobaccoin Cincinnati for one
year is SO to $12, while in Baltimore
it is only So.
take these figures fromrcports made
TO a committee OF the Maryland Grange,
appointed to investigate the working of
the system of free inspection in other
States. They have been published
before, but never successfully contra
dicted. e
When tobocco inspection brings the
State into debt, the other sections Of
the State have right to complain.
This is very true. Butt doubt it eUeR
then Western Maryland should COM
plain We have bcen taxed for forty
/ years for building works OF internal
improvements develop her resources.
4 No! Western MARYLAND, lorvery shame,