The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-08-15

by taking tare equal to the heaviest
weight. There is an actual loss from
this cause from the tare, when jute is
used, of about eight pounds per bale.
Now, to say nothing of the other ad-
vantage of cotton, if its introduction
secures the custom Of taking actual
tare it would save this loss of eight
pounds per bale which now attaches
to jute. This is loss that must attend
any covering that is subject to great
variations in weight. am in possession
of 4 letter from the Bremen Cotton
Exchange, sent to the New Orleans
Cotton Exchange, in which they re-
cognize and commit themselves to a
just allowance for tare by advocating
the doctrine that actual tare should be
taken when lighter and uniform
covering is used. There is no use debat-
ing the question whether Liverpool
will at once yield to the demand for an
actual tare, as it is only question of
time when she must do it, because it is
right and just. Her only excuse for
taking tare CT sixteen pounds is that
jute frequently weighs that, but when
it becomes a known and established
fact of commerce that practically all
cotton is wrapped in cotton bagging,
which always weighs five and quarter
pounds per bale, no country would
contend for an arbitrary tare of sixteen
pounds.
WHY ENGLAND IS INTERESTED.
"What then does the action of the
Liverpool Exchange meanw
'"The action Of the Liverpool Ex-
change in trying to stop the intro
duction of cotton as wrapping is prob
ably brought about by the English
brokers and factors in compliance with
the wishes of their clients, the English
spinners, who no doubt are alarmed at
the prospect of the consumption Of cot
ton by the cotton mills of the South
being at once augmented from about
100000 to over 100000 bales, as the
spinning capacity for bagging will call
for that increase. This extra consump-
ton of cotton by the Southern mills
being Of the lowest grades of cotton, is
practically all taken from grades that
they should object, and make their
complaint in:tbe British market, but it
by no means follows that the Liver
pool Exchange will be willing to en-
gage in a conflict with the American
planter, without being able to show
any element of justice backing their
cause. While in New Orleans I was
shown samples of cotton bagging from
Liverpool, taken from bales of Egyp-
tian cotton. It was handmade, and
was very similar to the cotton bagg,ng
s nsed Z: m this .lzeounsE sss So ans.
form This shows that the English
markets are already accustomed to
cotton as cotton bagging, and
that the change demanded by Alliance
is not so much of an innovation. There
is no doubt that it is the determination
of the American planter to establish
cotton.
AS A PERMANENT COVERING.
1t is very much less inhammable
than jute, making it safer from fire. 1t
possesses greater utility after having
been used. This has been demonstrated
by the fact that the cotton mills that
bought cotton wrapped in cotton last
year. have sold the secondhand bag
ging at eight cents per pound. I saw
it thus sold at New Orleans. No one
ever heard" said the doctor smiling,
"of secondhand jute bagging bringing
anything. The cotton bagging can be
manufactured much cheaper. A simple
loom turns out three hundred yards
per day easily and it is perfectly safe
to say that it can be manufactured for
less than one cent yard. Alliance
men
WILL NOT BELIEVE NEWSPAPER RE-
PORTS
ofa short supply and other rumors CAL
culated to discourage them in their de-
termination to stick to cotton. There
IS absolutely no use of piling up bag
ging before it is needed, and there will
be no trouble in securing cotton bag
ging with which to wrap tho crop as
fast as it is gathered"
This closed the authorized statement
made exclusively to the Constitution
by the President of the National Alli-
ance, and it will bring cheer and hope
to the fireside of every farmer in the
South to learn that cool heads and
steady hands have already moved them
into the haven Of success. But four
weeks more and the cotton fields of the
South will be white. At that supreme
moment the trial of strength will be
made. The tramp of determined men
is already heard, and when the face of
nature IS cotton-white in September
.se farmers will stand upas the victors
ause both righteous and patriotic.
slogan which shall lead them
- 3 viii be the resolution passed
" W say bv tiSsAlabama Alliance, thus:
Co n,LSastle members of the