The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-12-22
An Appeal to Congress In Behalf OF the South

An Appeal to Congress In Behalf OF the South
Editor of Eirginian
Sr,-Senator Daniel, ! am told, before ms
death, said that he had caused an estimate TO De
made well could be done. OF the amount
collected by the Federal government through
tariffs internal revenue. etc, from the southern
States. and the amount expended by the gov
ernment in the Southern States. and that the
latter less than twenty per cent. OF the
former. This did not include postoice affairs
The Northern people determined. as General
Butler said. to make the South pay the war
debt. and they have kept the South depleted of
her currency. They held the United States bonds
which the interest and the larger part of the
principal is paid which Is right Then the pen
sion matter more than ninety per cent.Vof which
they retain, and tho great naval expenses ex-
cept pittance. expended at Newport News. all
go North. In erecting Federal buildings in
Northern cities they have voted fabulous sums.
even into the millions. while for such buildings
III the South they have, expended small sums;
that believe that statistics Will show that
Less than ten per cent of the money expended for
such purposes. has been expended in the South.
The South Is working hard under great dis
advantages, making immense exports Of cotton,
tobacco. sugar. naval stores, lumber oil. etc, and
still our banks, especially in the far South, are
borrowing from the North and paying Interest on
millions of dollars to meet our great need Of
currency. What Is the result? Money is the
life OF all business. The Federal treasury is
made the conduit to drain nearly all that we
can make into the North. giving them thou
sand millionaires. while are too poor build
one hundred miles OF railroad. or to erect fac
tories. operate our own mines. They have
bought all OF railroads. nearly all our street
railway stock, all our coal and iron properties,
a large majority of our cotton mill stocks. and
every thing of great value they find in the South
except our lands. and that have made
all these sales to them we will be cut off from.
the income thus derived
In addition what is said above they are
drawing from exorhtant prices our coal
and nearly all the profits coal opera
lions, iron works, railroads. street railways, most
of our cotton mills. etc
During the war all in the factories in the
South except possibly three four dozen cotton
and woolen mills went down. and since the war
she has been deprived Of her currency that
she has not been able to erect factories or shops
except few erected as a rule by Northern cap
tnl while North they have with their immense
wealth. established thousands OF factories and
shops. the largest and finest the world has ever
known and the reult Is. that the South Is forced
TO purchase from the North about all Of her
hardware. clothing, dress goods. shoes. hats,
jewelry watches. furniture. carpets, machinery.
farming implements railroad rolling stock and
equipments, carriages sewing machines. and
tomobiles, and not the South by far tho
greatest country earth In her resources we
would today be poor the masses In China
The North. to carry this drainage further.
planned corporation tax. and some Of the
Southern States have actually voted for thai.
They urged the corporation tax on the ground