The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1891-06-25
WHERE THE MONEY GOES.

the country tor several reasons, tor
some of which the Southern people
are themselves responsible and others
which are the result of laws enacted
by the Congress of the United
States, chief among which are the
tariff, pensions and the internal
revenue, says the Wilmington Star.
The tariff takes annually millions
of dollars from cur people which
goes North to find it's way into the
Golfers CT Northern manufacturers
or into the Treasury at Washington.
The pensions take millions of dol
lars annually, and not one-tenth Of
the portion paid by the Southern
people ever comes back to the South.
Not only what the North, East and
West pay, but what the South pays
too goes into the Treasury at Wash
ington to be distributed among the
pensioners on the other side of the
line. Thus about S125, 100000 will
go this year, Of which the South
pays her proportionate part but of
which not one tenth returns to her.
Millions of dollars are collected
from the South in internal revenue,
every dollar of which goes to the
Treasury at Washington, and not
one dollar of which comes back save
what comes to pay the Government
officers employed in the collection of
the revenue. All the South gets
out of the Government system of
taxation for all the millions taken
from her is the small sums that are
expended in the erection of a few
Government buildings, the appro-
priations for river and harbor im>
prove1nents, (much of which goes to
Northern contractors what is paid
for carrying the star route mails,
and what is paid in salaries to per-
sons holding Office under the Gov
eminent.
Is it any wonder that there is
scarcity of circulating medium in
the South while this system of alb
sorption goes on, and has been go.
ing on for twenty-five years?
Is it any wonder that after raising
and selling since the war about 49,
100000 worth Of cotton, the cotton
planters of the South have very little
to show for it?
Is it any wonder that the tobacco
planters who have raised millions of
dollars worth of tobacco are but Its
tie if any better off than they were
ten or twenty years ago?
Is it any wonder that the toiling
millions who live by their daily la
Dor have but little or nothing to
show for all their years of toll?
And yet in spite of all this the
South has progressed in material
development as no other section of
the country, has, because of her
and varied natural re-
sources, aud her marvellous recuper-
alive energy. No other section of
the country could have stood such
continuous and exhaustive drain
without becoming utterly bankrupt.
And while all this has been going
ON, while the South has been drain
ed ofmany millions annually through
Governmental agencies, by tariff,
pension and internal revenue exac-
tons, the Southern people have
been paying millions more annually
to Northern fire insurance compan-
les to insure their property against
loss by fire, and to Northern life in
surance companies, the larger part,
if not all, OF which could and should
have been ~kept at home by the es>
adjustment of fire and life insurance
companies in the South. There is
no way of telling how much the
Southern people pay annually to
these Northern insurance compan-
les, but they pay enough to establish
first-class companies in every South
ern State, with ample capital to
meet all the requirements, and keep
the money that goes to be distribu-