An Appeal to Southern Representatives in Congress And to the Friends of Free S
An Appeal to Southern Representatives in Congress And to the Friends of Free S
J L M Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry
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A rate of taxation, on present values "of~jpF6j)"erty, adequate to furnish free instruction to both white and black youth, would be nothing short of ruinous confiscation. The O so much vaunted prosperity of " the New South, " in so far as it exists, has not reached agriculture except partially and to a veryTiinited extent. *"" An examination of tables 9 and 10 of Section lot "Commerce and Navi- gation tor 1888, " shows the total value of exports of merchandise, domestic product and manufacture ...from the United States for the year ending June 30, 1888, to be 8683, 862, 104. A hasty calculation shows the expoits of Southern i products, not including- tobacco, sugar, and naval stores, to have been 8388, - I 494, 567, wBTcS" would leave as export* from the Northern States, giving them the benefit of the products not included, $297, 367, 536. In olden times it was held that exports were the basis of imports, and that a tax on imports was practically, in a large degree, a tax on exports. If that be true, even ap- proximately, then the South, not to mention the adverse effect of "govern- The only remedy for this deplorable condition of affairs is national aid.
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