The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1881-11-19

ton and cotton seed.
You have deprecated every
crop of cotton you have made at
least lOper cent. by want of care
and attentions in ginning, baleing,
pressing and caring for the cotton
between the field and factory.
YOu can save hals yo;;- labor and
add l0per cent. to the value of
your crop if you will use new tools
and machines here on exhibition
and heed the words which | now
speak.
I have not yet seen a smaller
press for oil, but there is not a farm
or plantation in the South that is
too far from an oil mill not to make
it profitable to send the kernel of
the seed, after the hull is removed
to the mill and to hate the megl
sent back for feed; the oil win
more than pay the cost. If we
could mature cotton in the North
we would make it for seed alone,
even if we could not sell or use
the fiber.
/ Now let me call your attention
to the fundamental principle on
which your success in spinning and
weaving cotton must stand or fall.
1t is not IA question of wages
no wages can be measused in less
money than the earnings of these
Indian women, or nhese Chinese
labores. Goods are made at the
lowest cost by the highest wages,
wherever modern machinery is APP
piled to their fabrication. The
wages in your Southern factories
are much lower than ours at the
North, but you employ thirty more
hands than we do to a thousand
spindles; with proper complement
of looms.
In some of your best mills you
work as economically as we do,
but isolated mills, scattered at far
distances, are at a disadvantage
anywhere. SO far as you under
take cotton manufacturing with a
view to anything more than a local
demand, concentrate your mills
and let all the appliances and snb.
sidiary employment grow up
around them Ihave never taken
the ground that there were any
climatic difficulties in many parts
of the South. The real difficulty
: is that the margin of profit is very
small on very large capital, ant
unless you can work in the lonl
run, on n very small margin. yol
cannot succeed. These times arr
no criterion; it is "hard tines
that test ability and relative con
ditions. Let this be borne in mind
The yarn of which the coars,
standard sheeting or drill is made
No. 13 weighs three quarters OF |
grain to the yard. Those are sub
stantially the limits of the usefl
cotton manufacture. All wOrl
above sos is fancy work. On
range therefore is within the limi
of half grain to the yard of yarn
of which cloth is woven. A varia
tion of a fraction makes the prof
or the loss. We must use ever,
! precaution and save at every poin
or else we fail. May / say that tn,
true preparation in cotton manu-
featuring must be in knowing how
to save the fraction of a cent. w
must do this in New England Oi
starye. We have no alternative
You cannot spin cotton when yol
do not know the difference be
tween a cent and a nickle.
| say to you once more, as
have said before, you have a felt
for profit in which we cannot share
+ in the preparation of cotton fot
the spinner, which offers bet
ter opportunity for profit on small
investments of capital than an,
other branch of cotton manufact
uring that you and ! can engag,
in.
| have often tried to account foI
the attraction which is presented
, by cotton growing and cotton spin
ming. The dairy products of th'
country are greater in value anC
: far more important to the welfar,
of the people than the cotton crol
Our shoe factories in Massachu
sets employ more persons at high
er wages than our cotton factories
The general conditions of life ar,
better in towns where there are NJ
great, factories than in towns tina
are filed with them. a small cap
, ital can be used every day to bet
ter advantage in making clothing
than in making cloth. What thei
is the secret 7 | think it is this
good cotton and good cloth are n,