New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-07-16
NO Trust IN COTrON BAGGING.
MANUFACTURERS PLAIN DENIAL.
MAKERS FORCED BY MR.. MrLLs's TAEIFFTlNk
n.nrNc 10 n1,En.nsn TIIEMSELXES


Eg1NG TO DEFEND THEMSELVES.
\ prominent cotton bagcing manufacturer. who had
read the local article in Wednesdays Tribune about
tlc formation of a trust" IN cotton baGGng. met a
Tribune reporter Yesterday. and objected to the use
Of tic word trust
aft Is no trust or pool or combine that has been
entered into by the cot;on.baggng manufacturers
said hc but a simple agreement as TO policy Eeedcd
to save them from RUM
Ruin ~ echoed tho reporter.
eyes ruin. The tariff discussion has dcmoralzod
our makers and postponed the manufacture Of cotton
baccInG The South alone uses IT. The demand for
II is limited by the cotton crop. At six yards rcr
ba,c tho average annual consumption IS 3ODOo'ooo
wards Our mills make the cloth I'm winter. spring
and fall and give employment nine months In the year
to hundreds Now. Roger @. NILS lives at Corsi-
cana Tex in the centre of large cotton section.
His constituents want cheap bacC!ns Consequently
he put hi, article the free list In his bill The
tariff ra:c present Is adjusted TO protect manniact-
rcrs. and IS l IL cents per pound. Iut thiS duy IS
not added 10 our price for competition among home
mills reduced tho price last season TO Ia cents Fcr
yard for two pound cloth. Foreign cloth from Inda
has sold as high 80 cents per yard before we began
the manufacture
Mn Millss action has therefore. produced panic
among American makers. Nearly all OF them stopped
work some permanently, ard one larG, concern dumped
its surplus carried over from last scason-somc five
million yarts-at bare cost 10 manufacture. All oil
them waited for adverse tariff action and this waiting
carried them rcaIor the actual demand from cotton
growers which usually begins in July. With change
in the tariff The plant of the manufacturers would nos
be worth % cents on the dollar; So under the belief
that with such change this IS practically tie Ia''
year in the business the manufacturers who have nor
closed their works decided to limit their produciion
sell It for all IT would bring and let the scottish mS
supply the balance needed And that IS how matters
stand There Is trust and no prospect OF one"
no you not think that with The political situation
a, II IS they ought take more hopeful view Of the
futurc?'
well. however that may bc and however things
may turn oui-and pray God that Harrison AMI Morton
and protection may save us-ihc present condition oi
affairs with the cOtOn-bacgng manuia 'irris IS coca
instance OF thc general effect of Ignorant ana VICIOUS
tariff tinkcring It's results a'c manufacturers par
ayzoi al trade conditions disturbed. regular supple
dcplcted ami consumers compelled finally 10 pay
hanTcn to know by the way. that Mr. Mili> IrNan
constituents arc doing all swearing Just about
this time the effect Of his work hogns 10 manifest
itself in Their cOttCn-haggng invoices!
Just u give you some examples near home thclc
are three large mills IN Brooklyn engaged IN ths
business Two arc closed and their numerous en-
ploycs thrown out Of work II mt subject to Joke
about ! can assure you. Hu; | confess there Is q
tlacc OF humor in the consideration OF the iac mat
the people most largely interested are welkno"h
.lfC-tmc Democrats