The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-09-26

cloth have been sent to some of the
planters in the country, IN each case
enough to cover one bale, and it is Ike
ly that in day or two some cotton viii
arrive dressed in the new bagging. One
of the beauties of the cloth that itE
makers are proud Of is the fact that after
being used it is as useful as when new,
Arrived in England it is already in the
form Of cord, and as such may be ap.
piled to many uses. 1t is good when
secondhand for sacks Of various kinds,
and its utility becomes more apparent
every day."
As has been before said in the News
and Courier, these substitutes, even il
they are accepted by the powers that
dictate the requirements of merchant
able cotton, can hardly be available for
this years crop. There is but one
power that can help the farmer now,
and that is the Congress of the United
States. If resolution or bill could be
passed at once admitting jute bagging
free, the Trust would probably go to
pieces. Like all other combines, it is
an iniquitous and oppressive Trust, just
one of those trusts which, according to
the PIumed knave from Maine, are pri-
vate enterprises, and not subject to Gov
ernment control. Strange to say, too, a
Democratic Congress seems to take the
same view Of ehe case.
1t is not probable that any relief can
be had from any substitute bagging this
year, at least, and hence the cotton
merchants, factors and buyers who have
at heart the interests of the farmers as
well as their own, which interests every
thinking man will admit to be identical,
are advising their correspondents TO pay
the tribute to the Trust, and send their
cotton to market now when the prices are
higher than they probably will be two
or three months hence.
Said cotton man yesterday: 81 have
no hesitation in advising my CORE
srondents to submit to the squeeze, as
outrageous as it is, and to buy jute bag
ging and ship their cotton to market.
Sentiment is very good thing, but
farmers don't plant cotton for senti-
ment. They plant it to get the best re-
turns they can for hard and honest
labor; they get the best they can ont Of
the soil they cultivate. The people with
whom 1 deal know that I have no inter
est in the Jute Bagging Trust, that their
interests are mine, and that am telling
them the truth when tell them to pay
the tribute 10 these estimable gentlemen
who now lord it over King Cotton, and
send their cotton to the ports. The
yellow fever in Florida and the rains
and the floods seem to be special dis
pensation to help the farmers ont of
their troubles. Cotton is going up every
day and will continue to go up, IN my
Judgment, for q month or more TO come.
In my opinion it is better for man to
submit to this extortion and market his
cotton now, when the market is on the
food tide, than to hold back for sub
stitnte which, in tho ordinary course OF
events, cannot possibly be available this
year. We have learned lesson and, Of
course, we have to pay for it, but 1t will
be oil the better for its cost. Next year,
please God, we hope to be independent
of the jute combine, with or without the
aid OF Congress. %
(From the News and Courier, Sept. 30
Another test was made at the Cotton
Exchange here yesterday Of the pine
straw bagging sent from Wilmington,
with results that were considerably more
favorable than those attained at the first
trial several days ago and published in
the News and Courier at the time.
The first experiment, it will be re-
membered, was made with square foot
of pine straw and square foot of jute
bagging. The first held the fire and
the last threw it off. On that occasion
o piece of jute bagging was cut from
bale of cotton lying on the wharf. 1t
was perfectly new bagging.
Yesterday several of the members OF
the Exchange repeated the test, taking
a piece of the pine straw fibre and
piece OF jute cut hap-hazard from one OF
the bales on the wharf. Fire was ap-,
Piled to both pieces and they were
placed on the counter and watched.
Both pieces retained the fire for some
time. The conclusion was reached that
so far as the infsmmability of the two
was concerned, the difference,
if any, was too infnitesimal to take into
consideration.
But, as has been said, there can be no
fair test except such as was tried IN New
Orleans with the osnaburgs, and an ac-
count OF which is given above. This
test will be made to-day, at least so far
Us the cotton compress and cotton hook
are concerned. The roll OF pine straw
bagging will be taken to the Hydraulic
Press, on Church street, and a bale OF
cotton will be covered with it aad then
"handled." This will show whether the
new covering will stand the compress
and the hooks, and after that the under
writer's will be asked to apply the fire
test.
The factors and buyers of Charleston
are anxious to aid the farmers in their
just fight against the jute bag combine,
and should the pine straw fibre stand
the test viii do their share in recon-
mending it to the powers that have the
regulation of cotton baling in their
keeping.
a Little Woman Did 1t.
When Edison, genius and inventor as
he is, had given two weeks Of his valuble