Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-07-16

JOSEPH UHL. for Circuit Court Clerk.
B. ]. KDdBRoUGH, for AHy-GenI Bartlett Court
7. B. CREHsHAw. for Clerk Of the Bartlett Court
PACKED COTTON.
The season is approaching when cetton-
growers will be making up their bales and,
in view of the heavy complaints made by
the English spinners during the present
season. and especially in view of the ssser-
ton, which we have not seen brought into
question: that East Indian cotton is packed,
as a rule, in a cleaner condition than Ameri-
can cotton is-they should be prepared 10
take steps to deprive the foreign spinner of
any grounds of complaint. We are not adj
hitting the general justice of those COM
plants, for we are aware how often they are
without substantial basis and unreasonable,
mere excuses for grumbling, but also
aware that owing to want Of due care in
packing cotton, there is enough of tact to
give an air of plsusibility to allegations that
will not stand the test of fair examination.
What good policy and correct business
principle require Of the cotton-packer is that
he should take due to have his cotton
baled in the best possible order, so that the
fault-6nder shall have no plausible grounds
for his offensive statements. Seeing the
sort OF people we have, in part, to deal with,
let US deprive them by our prudent proceed
ings Of the material which they seek to
trade. Every producer or manufacturer
ought to put his merchandise on the market
in the best order possible. Every trader who
understands his business will have his COM
modities as good as he can for the money they
bring, and will make them look and handle
their best when examined by the buyer; in
this way he will get their worth in the mar
ket. This judicious policy is very COM
monty neglected by the cotton-packer. A
slovenly man who sends his apples to mar
ket mingled with leaves and broken twigs,
and dirt and straws, will get less for them
than II they are clean, presenting their best
appearance 10 the eye. So it Ii with cotton,
and every seller of cotton knows how much
he is influenced in making his own pur-
chases by neat, tidy bright look about
H.. what is offered him. The honest man will
- mack his cotton fairly; let him also pack it
onisv NJ ,Gtiveiy, that when examined and
celia brapchd it shall look its very best. But
cry great expee men who not honest, who think
'efoIe conPle'asy is not the bsst policy, and are
nd nessaJ ibro,Ry fraud and falsehood they can
fr. Huntington pushShan by honesty. These are
'eake and Ohio he best stones broken dog-irons
outh and the yves. iSh T.h sand into their bales.
he road running from Eissg TO say; their rss-
'aducah, and he also, after sonfaDd their rewards
btsined possession OF the uncot there is another
innng souih from Ian go to the length
tiles He then offered tfng his bales, out VINO |
cecilia branch of the Lootton is wet dusty, to |
lille Company. He fper or the dust the price of |
eo ona iesse, pay of good cotton. They will |
one he roads betwgn substances fraudulenty into /
his were consog, neither will they exercise dill
nder the nam keep them out. Where there is
outnwes'ern. IN the complaints that are made,
ron N staneeSnen who will NOT violate right prin-
az II p4s- directly, but who Will palter with
Mt principle and let what they know to be
wrong pass Observation-Disclosures men are
the parties who give the Manchester
spinner the capital which he trades
when traducing the character OF the
American eotton-grower. Such Indifference
10 business reotitude, such shutting the eyes
to violations of just dealing does not pay"
If the reputation of American cotton goes
down in the market the price of it suffers; it
is profitable as well as agreeable to have q
good reputation. We know that in wet and
windy seasons cotton will become dusty. Be-
fore that cotton is spun the dirt has to be
taken out of it. But why should we send
that dirt to Europe? Why should we our
selves not take it out here, and so gain in the
price what it costs in Europe to do what we
can do as we'll ourselves, besides in this way
- Tightening the repntatinn of The markham
dise we deal in? Looking at the matter out
side of its moral attitude, and regarding it
in the merest business point of view, the man
who sends his cotton to market inferior, !
faulty, and Objectionable in its manner of
Al.
his living by; he is a bird guilty of fouling
his own nest. When mixed cotton is !
put into a bale, on detection only the !,
price OF the lowest quality in the whole !,
il what the market will pay for 7
1t. When sandy cotton is put up, if the :,
buyer exercises due care its condition is :,
discovered, and its price is reduced accord
ingIy. But the man who will not cheat by T
direct act of putting of stone or
brick, or a few shovels full of sand into his ;.
bale, but only quietly lets go the dirt or .
rash, or wet that from weather or careless
handling has got into the cotton, hopes the !
buyer will not be careful, and that he shall !;
get the full price of good, clean Gotten. We !.
can assure such half-hearted honest people,
however, that the practice of putting their r
bales on the market in inferior condition :,
arouses the buyer to vigilance so that he ex-
amines, and bores, and scrutinizes diligently, !;
and detects want of care readily as direct 6
fraud. But in proportion this vigilance :
and scrutiny is found to be necessary, the ;,
--<sputation of American cotton sinks, and :,
WIN y. the price. Every cotton-grower y
knows IN what estim stion he holds a store :.
when ne finds it necessary to taste, or smell, T
or test in some way every package he receives
H. Al l. i
here we come toa point TO which
we especially call the cottop-packers'
attention-the English spinners who have e
so strongly assailed the character of p
American baled cotton, know that if the tr
reputation OF that cotton is injured, they te
Shall get 1t for less money than they will if "
1t stand high in public estimation. This is il
why they so industriously pursue their work re
OIL detrsction, and every fraudulent, and p
every slovenly and careless packer is aiding W
their cunning enemy by his evil re
work; he is furnishing him with II
material for complaints; he is sup in
plying Manchester with instances that Ii
give plausibility and some appearance of B
justice to loud and insolent denunciations of ih
American packed cotton. This is how the "
Smart cotton-grower, who hopes his bales m
will escape strict examination, is injuring his re
own business by playing into the hands of tr
the cunning and the craIty,wnv y a
their inferior bales the means of reducing re
COTTON nricss- SI.Ak ggs-===saessi is the shall m
lowest foolishness. We have pointed out the ! &c
rock that lies ahead of the cotton growers; ev
they can Judge for themselves what measures hi
are bsstto- take "a. battle the guile of those CO
who, for their own profit, are striving TO he
destroy the reputation Of American-Packed la
cotton. be
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