Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1898-09-09

Friday, September 8, = 1895 |
Tobacco Inspection and The Ware
Houses
Our aiieHtion ha, been called to 40
article in the Baltimore Herald Of the
Oh inst on the Tobacco Warehouses,
aud as the subject Of Tobacco and the
Tobacco Warehouses are always topics |
Of interest to our farmers, we give tbe
same below The writer appears glib
with the pen and is an attempt to an
sver the charge made by Inspector
Ford to the effect tia, there is concerted
action on the part Of many persons to
this County and St Mary's to prevent
the farmers from having their tobacco
opened in the State warehouses. We do
not know what is going on IN S, Mary
county in that line. but ue do know
that such is the ease here, and II We had
our way not a hozshcad should 20 to
The STATE v.rsbouso, mill r.i;,;.s
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A'Vssu ''Vsu 'nsN Niau eo'ehv' " ~
a pAiable Governor 10 advance bis politi-
cal ambitions. under ,he spesious plea of
reform turns ont efficient Tpsneetors n
nal. room s,- III. ,,l;e,oal han,.b,.o..
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"nen Tue appointment Oh Two inspectors
Is crowded into one county 20 satisfy
partizan ends, then, as Inspector Ford
saws "nol;,;c. < hail 10 ,bo ...l.I
No., go
'"'Hs "a'io" ~ e'--lV''en, oo-
grading politics. here as what Tobacco
Planter" has to say;
..In the issue Of the Sun Of August
81 last | find extracts from the renoT, of
Frank Ford chief tobacco Tpsnec,sr
the Ge1erpor Of the State which reno-f
is also being uublished by thu rnr,i
press through Southern Maryland which
d calculated 10 create very erroneous
Impressions if allowed 10 90 uncontrs-
dicted. In this repor Mr. Ford cb,rgss
that. especially Of Charles and 81
Mary's counties there bss been con.
certed action bv some nersons "a nravan.
the farmers from having their tobacco
opened Cinspected) at he State ware
houses Politics. he saws I. is ssid ia
back of the whole thing rs the S,s.s
warehouses are now bsing RIM an Dns;-
ness PRINCIPLES. rather than for ire mo-
litieai advantages Of certain persons
Now. 80 far as apy concerted action
BY anyone in Charles county to divert
the insnootion Of tobeoco IA main M.
pie Of Southern MARYLAND. frou, the
State warehouses 20 the I,o,nst Point
warehouse for ipspeetion I am not nra-
pared to affirm or denv Buttbat many
tobacco planters have had their tobacco
sent to the Locust Point warebonso for
inspection is n fact and for ono an
glad to see that the chief tobacco In
spector feels called upoD to repors this
fact to the Governor But there a,,nears
to be a wall in that renort tbas * cal.
culated to mislead the unwary for The
chief tobacco inspector saws further on.
While the State will lose the reveuna
which il should derive from tobacco tbst
has been diverted from is proper chan
mel, the Ioss will eventually fall mpeh
harder upon the farmers should the
State decide to close down the ware
houses, for then the farmer would be
absolutely at the mercy Of some private
corporation. and would also lose lie "a
yansages Of free storage and other con-
eessions made % the producer by the
State.
This last quotation from tbs renort
Of the chief tobacco inspector is ipteud-
ed not so much for the Governor as for
the tobacco planters. It il an attenpt to
frishten them by q loss OF free storage
and other concessions, whatever that
means, in the event that the State ware
hoasss are closed. The hottest tobacco
planter has no right to EXPECT or ask for
anv concessions on the part of an in.
spsetor In The State warehouses which
are the property Of tbe State. paid for
wiA money resulting from revenues of
i the warehouses, which has. in tho main
j been a direct tax upon the tobacco of tha
4 nlanters of Southern MARYLAND thev
should he guaranteed frse sioraes Of
their product 50 long as tse same 4 nm
4 sold Free storage Is all the planters
4 have any right to ask for. or expeet at
the hands Of a State inspeesor and the
other concessions referred "a n tb;s
report are. perhaps tho notent cause
of MARYLAND State tobaees inspection
/ being rated so low. not alone in fba RaI-
\ timere market. but in thu markers rs ~
4 world where am credible ;nsor,ool
4 thew are used ouly a. basis far a.,
count the insnections having no value
4 in themselves. Free storage ~ are an
4 titled 70 and ought to nave bit n have