Copiah signal. (Hazlehurst, Miss.) 1888-1899, 1889-06-20


ION prodnners are able % protect
their own interests from the trusts.
that threaten, or not. Al a time
when they n-esied the ln0ney very,
badly, the bagging trast taxed
them millions Of dollars. They
have always been taxed too heavily
by the Insurance trust bat AZ thi.
time we only proposa To reEF 10 the
resistance they are making 10 the
bagging trust.
Tie Alliance, wheci aud Uaion,
IL wdl Ice remeRitered, recently
assembled la birmingham an |
resolved to cover cottoa with cot-
ten hagging. At the same tune
they passed resolutions asking the
cotton exchanges 10 Tescind their
rules discriminating against eotton
covered With cotton. Ia addition
% this they recommended 10 cot, oa
prodaoers aot % sell 70 parties.
who vould not make the taTr
correspond 20 the covering, that u,
90 parties who insist on discrimi
mating against cotton bagging.
On the publication uf these
Q, solutions, the eottoa exchanges
took them up, discussed them aud
pn,misrd fairly al,out them. The
New Orleans and New Iotk ex-
changes seemed particularly anx.
lOns 20 do the fair thing but
pointed out the dlniculiles, and
waited 90 hear from Liverpool 80
lar Liverpool has done nothing
except return the tafiy she IeeeiYed
from this side Of the ocean. In fact
the matter stands just where u did
before the agricultural orders
acted on n. The cotton exchange
y no ciaim that Il - chisi object %
thcir liie 10 foster the great cotton
interest, have accomplished Just
nothing AZ al, aud cotton seut Ia
ootton baggng will bo sulJrst 20
the same tare as that sent "a iute
hagging. Ia ether words, the bus
rXacts considerably mOfe THAI a
usi tare, aud will not agree 10 a
tare according % the weight Of the
covering. Then the resolution 81
the agricultural orders not to sell
20 those exacting uniaSt tarr,
comes into prominence Wall they
stand by ~
We say, most emphatically, that
they ATE Only asking shat l. Just,
aud they Ought not 10 submit %
injustice. N their agents, the
factors aud exchanges, are willing
10 submit Ia a great wrong, imply
because V does not Cume out al
their pockets. thcy are not true to
the cotton intercst a. they claim e.
he.
The exchanges anil factors eau.
not claim thry have not had time
and have not bern frankly aud
explicitly warned. The matter has
not been suddealy sprung upon
them. They called their exchanges
together weeks ago, bat a. Yet
they have not been able 90 d. the
simple act VI iasiice, 81 agreeing
that the tare GA cotton shall CORES
p0ud to the weight Of ths coyeIiag
They should do that, aud tnpu
after careful investigation, tx a
standard for cotton hsgging, nj
that ootlsh planters viii not hc
Fubl,c,l when the new CtOp, beglns
20 be slapped, All not he sabivcle,i
10 q loss for trying "a oIen a new
market Tor the great Sonihrul
staple, and viii not ~ PLACED II !
disadyautage 81 40 called ialenslN.
IA their hmht wIih tue late haggiag
trust. a. II > nmw, u lookA more
like the eotton factors and s.x-
changes ATE agents of the infr
bagging trg~t, than agents anil
friends ~ the oottpn producers
w state What cannot b. denied,
hen we assert the American
cotton exchanges hase no husiness
70 Wal; on LIveIpoOl "a this matter
The cotton Co he covered hy cotton
hagging Is American cotton, aud
American producers, handlers, fac
tors, exchanges and capitalists,
should zee that u gets FAIR play iu
the market oi the world II Llvef
poul seud- an order Dor American
cotton, u should he sent 90 her In
cotton lagging aud only = Just tare
permitted. but la all eVent-, u the
factors and cotton exchanges are
not true enough To ths cotton
producers 20 demand simply jus
;Icr, the cotton producers should
be true 10 themselves. The sh0ul
carry cut their resolution TO the
letter, and refuse 10 sell 10 buyers
not willing 20 make the tare eoIrrs
pond with the covering Weeks
barg Herald.