Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-27
IN the following:
THE JUTE TRUST.
FIGHTING THE BAGGING
TRUST.

TRUST.
qaers Ggaigest the Com Alabama alliance Re
biRs. SotUsd to Use Onty Cot
Special Dispatch to the ton Begging
Globe Democrat, July From the Dallas News
"a, of July 26,
MONTGOMERY, ALA. MONTGOMERY, ALA. 8,
July 23.-The fight be- July "a Special. =
tween the Farmers al The fight between the
lance and the Jute Bag Farmers alliance and
ging trust is rapidly the Jute baggng trust IS
suming warlike proper rapidly assuming war
tons in the cotton like proportions in the
growing states. The cotton growing states.
alliance men have re- The alliance men have
solved to use no juteresolved to use no jute
bagging for wrapping bagging for wrapping
the present crop, but to the present crop, but to
use cotton bagging in use cotton bagging in
stead. 1t is argued on stead. It is argued on
the one side that thethe side that the
farmers can't hold out farmers cannot hold out
in the fight; that the in the fight, that the
cotton wrapped in cot cotton wrapped in cot
ton bagging viii not be ton bagging will not be
received at the COM received at the COM
presses and by cotton presses and by foreign
buyers, and as the cot buyers, and as the cot
abroad, the farmers viii abroad the farmers viii
be forced to give in in be forced to give in IN
order to get their cotton order to get the cotton
on the market in mer- on the M met IN mer-
charitable shape. Also chantable shape; also
that many farmers who JhaL many farmers VINO
have given mortgages have given mortgages on
on their crops to ad- their crops to advancing
vaneing merchants can merchants cannot hold
not hold their cotton their cotton back but
back, but will be forced viii be forced to put it
to put it on the market on the market in mer-
in understandable shape chantaDle shape and sell
and sell to nav theirto pay their debts
debts On the other On the other hand,
hand, the alliance men the alliance men are de-
are determined to fight termined TO fight the
the trust for all they are trust to the end IT is
worth It is war to the war to the knife. They
knife, the knife to the are resolved to beat the
hift, the hilt to the trust, if they have to
death. They have re- hold the entire cotton
solved to down the trustcrop from the market
if they have to hold the until the combine is
entire cotton crop from broken. They propose
the market until thetO work in unison and
combine is bursted. present a solid front
They propose to work against the trust 1t is
in unison and present generally understood
sOhd front against theIaIio that other farmer
trust. It is generally organizations of the
understood, also, tn 1t country are ready to
the other different far tight hand in hand with
mer organizations of the alliance men, The
the country are readyialhanCe is So, 600 strong
to fight hand and hand, in Alabama, and VIII
shoulder to shoulder, get heavy receipts from
with the Alliance men, the wheel and grangers.
The Alliance is So ,O08 At the meeting of the
strong in Alabama, and National alliance held
they viii get heavy re- in Birmingham, Ala,
CTults from the Wheel recently 1t was resolved
and the Rangers. At to use cotton bagging
the meeting of the ma exclusively and give
tonal Alliance held in jute the go by, and the
Birmingham recently, it farmers seem deter
was resolved to use cot mined to carry it out
ton bagging exclusively that line if il takes all
and give iute the gO-by, summer and fall. The
and the farmers seem farmers alliance Of
determined to carry it Alabama has just pur-
out on that line If it chased q site for cot
takes all the summer ton bagging factory at
and fall, The Farmers Florence, and propose
Alliance of Alabama has to be making 800 ards
just purchased a site for of cotton bagGing per
a cotton bagging factory day by September l.
at Florence, and propose The threatened war will
to be making 500 yards be made even more in
of cotton bagging per teresting by the fact
day by the lst OF Sep that the cotton crop
TENDER. The threatened promises to be the
war viii be made even heaviest yield in ten or
more interesting by the fifteen years.
fact that the cotton crop
promises the heaviest,
in ten or fifteen years.
THE GAZETTE s esteemed contemporary
no doubt appreciated the interest felt in
the farmers war against the jute trust,
and tried its level best to get the news;
but inadequate telegraph facilities in
Texas enabled the Globe Democrat TO
scoop the Dallas paper and send its issues
containing the special to Dallas on the
same day that the sloW-going telegraph
carried the special to the News. While
the people see in this illustration some
thing of the obstacles to newspaper work
IN Texas, they may also observe some
thing Of the whims that govern telegraph
editors in making "head lines, for it
will be noted that while the matter in the
above specials is identically the same,
the head lines are not,