The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1891-02-12

Legislature to regulate warehouse
charges. Such a bill would destroy
the tobacco interest of this section, and
should be consigned to the waste
basket. We have already had too much
legislation by Congress which has been
the means of keeping the trade unset
tied and caused tobacco to drop in
price. Now, just as prices are starting
up little, and the farmers begin to
wear smiling faces, up bob few
cranks in the Legislature and ask that
the warehouse charges be reduced to
such low figure that if it should be-
come a law would force the closing Of
some of the warehouses. Down with
the measure. Our farmers do not
want it.
The Oxford Day advises the advo-
Gates of reduction in price to go slow
lest they bring harm to the farmer. 1t
says:
GO SLOW, FRIENDS.
Some Farmers Alliancemen in the
State Legislature are in favor of enact
ing law to regulate the charges of
tobacco sales warehouses. The AL
lance warehouses charge less than
warehouses run by men outside of the
order, and they want to compel the
outsider to come down to the Alliance
figures.
Our farmer friends should 60 slow in
this matter. They should fully inform
themselves before voting for such a
measure. There is danger of working
serious injury to the tobacco trade,
and thereby hurting themselves most
previously.
Let them ask themselves, How
many prOprietors of warehouses in
North Carolina have grown rich?
You can count them on the fingers of
one hand. There is heavy expense at
tached to the business, and the profits
are not nearly so great as are popularity
supposed.
The Alliance Warehouse at Oxford
is conducted by shrewd, economical
and experienced men, and is as success
ful-probably more successful-than
any other in the State. Last year it
cleared three thousand dollars. We
that that sum was made by buying to-
bacco and selling at an advance, and
that money was actually lost in the
warehouse business proper.
Low charges obtain at this ware
house. 1t is operated at a minimum
expense. It does not have to employ
drummers, as the outsiders are forced
to do. 1t sold last year more tobacco
than any of it's competitors in the city.
If, with low charges, it could not
pull through without loss, how can
others be expected to make both ends
meet?
Go slow, friends. You owe much to
the enterprise of the warehousemen.
Since the above was put in type the
committee has reported 'unfavorably on
the bill. So the matter stands I'M
changed.
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