Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-07-27


AS usual at this season our mer-
chants are receiving large quantities
Of baeging jute bagging manuiac-
tured and sold by the bagging trust.
This Is so, because, If on ewished to
buy other bagging there is none on
the market. 1t is jute or no bag
ging so far. OF course merchants
must have on hand some wrapping
for cotton and if they desired, could
not take the risk of waiting for
cotton wrapping to be manufactured.
Planters are in the same situation.
OF the cotton bagging manufac-
tories of which so much was said
and expected now we hear nothing.
Has the project fallen through? If
not why are not cotton growers put
in a position in which they can safely
refuse to purchase jute bagging
without being liable to be forced to
pay double prices later in the season?
We advise our planters as we have
dore previously to purchase suffi-
cient bagging at once unless they
can rely upon being supplied later in
the season ST a reasonable price,
In common with most of our
readers we had hoped that position
might be secured this season from
which cotton planters could fight the
Trust with some show of success hut
this hope has not been realized.
We give the following for what il
is worth-we have heard something
like it before:
GALLANT FIGHT OF THE FARMERS ALI
ANcE AGAINST OPPRESSION.
New YORK, July PA special to
the Times from Birmingham, Ala,
says: The trouble between the
Farmers Alliance aud the Jute
Bagging Trust is rapidly assuming
warlike proportions in the cotton
growing States. The Alliance men
have resolved to use no jute bagging
for wrapping the present crop, but
to use cotton bagging instead. 1t is
urged on the one side that the
farmers cannot hold out in the fight:
that the cotton wrapped in cotton
bagging will not be received at the
congresses and by foreign buyers,
and, as the cotton crop is shipped
abroad, the farmers will be forced TO
give in in order to get their cotton
on the market in merchantable
shape; also, that many farmers who
have given mortgages on their
crops to advancing merchants, can
not hold their cotton back, but will
he forced to put on the market in a
merchantable shape and sell it to
pay their debts.
On the other hand the Alliance
men are determined to fight the trust
to the end 1t is war to the knife.
They have resolved to beat the trust |
if they have to hold the entire cotton |
crop from the market until the COM
bine is broken. They propose to
work in unIsion and present solid |
front against the trust. 1t is gener-
ally understood that the other farmer
organizations of the country are
ready to fight band-in-hand with the
Alliance men. The Alliance is 50,
900 strong in Alabama, and will get
heavy recruits from the Wheel and
Rangers.
At the meeting OF the National
Alliance, held in Birmingham re-
Gently, it was resolved to use cotton
bagging exclusively and give jute
the go-by, and the farmers seem
determined to carry it out on that
line If it takes all the summer and
fall. The Farmers Alliance of |
Alabama has just purchased site
for a cotton bagging factory at
Florence, and proposes making 800
yards of cotton baggigg per day by
September l. The threatened war
will be made even more interesting
by the fact that the cotton crop
promises to be the heaviest yielG in