Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1886-10-01

thatit will require little time before it,
salutary influence upon the trade will b,
manifested through an improved market
There are some who contend that the .
mendments of the last session should bavs
included such modification of the com.
pulsory feature Of the law as would per
NIT the free shipment by all Maryland
growers of their tobacco outside of the
State to the markets of other States, with.
out any inspection at all. It is said tina,
the rule requiring the shipment of all
Maryland tobacco through Baltimore
places too great restriction upon the
Maryland grower and gives the Baltimore
buyers and commission merchants too
much of monopoly. Much comment is
made among the planters, upon the fact
that nearly all transactions in Maryland
tobacco in the Baltimore market during
the present year have been made through
single firm of kuyers.
The TINES for years past has advocated
such modification of the compulsory
clause of the law. We believe that as
wide market as possible should be given
TO Maryland tobacco. 1t has always been
difficult of understanding to us why the
demand for Maryland tobacco should be
30 exclusively foreign, and why it did NOT
enter more extensively into domestic man
ufacture and consumption. The Maryland
product is said to be essentially a pipe
smoking tobacco and not we'll adapted to
domestic segars. Yet it is q well known
TACT that nearly all brands of domestic
pipe-smoking tobaccos, manufactured at
Lynchburg and elsewhere, retail at from
IS cents to 81 pound. It is difficult to
see why our Maryland tobacco should not
go to supply some of those domestic fac
tories and thus bring better remuneration
TO the producer. 1t is probable tina. if
Maryland tobacco were sent more freely
into the markets of other States, that such
might be the result.
In this connection it is important to
note that the compulsory clause of the in
sNection law cannot be construed to ex-
clude Maryland tobacco from the markets
OF other States as fally as it has been gen.
orally understood to do. The compulsory
clause now in force is section 535 of chap
ter 346 of the Acts of 1854 and reads as
follows:
535. After the passage Of this act, it shall
not be lawful to carry out of this state, in hogs
heads, any tobacco raised in this state, except
in hogsheads which shall have been inspected
passed, and marked, agreeabiy to the previs.
ions Of this act, unless such tobacco shall have
been inspected and passed before this act goes
into operation, and any persons violating the
provisions Of this section, shall forfeit and pay
the sum Of three hundred dollars, which may
and which shall 60 to the credit Of the tobacco
fund.
From this it will be seen that the pro-
hibition merely extends to tobacco ship
ped in hogsseads, and that Maryland grow
ers are now entirely at liberty to pack
their tobacco in any other shape and send
it anywhere they think proper. We heard
some years ago of farmer in the county
who sent portion of his crop of tobacco.
packed in boxes, to New York city and
realized very m uch better price for it
than was attaiaable in Baltimore at the
time. He was under the impression, how
ever, that be was violating the law, and
consequently he kept the transaction very
quiet. Il is clear, however, that this is
40 violation Of law and we hope to see I