The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1893-09-06
AOuERICA,S OPPORTUNITY,
Tho Situation suooinotly statod by a Citixon
of Moxico.

- ~'--N~>ASS'
Senor Don Alvarez, a gentleman
doing business in the city Of Mex
leo, called On us this week.
lie conducts large mercantile
business in that city and is visiting
America for the first time.
"You have grand country"
said he, 81 have been in New York,
Boston and other cities and visited
the Worlds Fair at Chicago. !
mover dreamed your country con-
tained such a progressive, invent
i've and pushing people. I wish +
could do business with your peo-
pie but can't. ! buy your cotton
goods through London and Liver
pool brokers and pay them in sill
yer bullion which they carry to
India to coin into rupees that pass
in India trade at par with gold.
BY this means they do by my
country az they are doing by this
beautiful nation Of yours, namely,
ruin our farming industries. BY
the way, | cut This article out Of
one Of your Denver paper this
morning and ] wish you would
read it,"
After looking ovor numerous
other newspaper clippings, lie ct
last found what he wanted us to
read. Tt read as follow
Now York, July ao--1he EUening Post
says:
The eifeot Of the proposed closing Of tho
largo Amoskoago cotton plant In Manches-
ter, New Hampshire, during the month Of
August It is asserted, has been generally
overestmated This, at all events, Ia the
Wow OF many Of the leading cotton nor.
chants of this oity. It is regarded as prob.
able that many other mills in New England
such as the Manchester mills, the Pembroke
Webster and China mills and York Manu-,
featuring company Of Snco, will shut down,
but, nevertheless, tho situation Ia not con-
sidercd an alarming one by the New York
merchants.
One who combines cotton with banking
liuuihS baifl tOuay 5Hs{s
Tho closing Of the Amoslteag mills will
undoubtedly be followed by tho closing Of
! other largo manufacturing concerts in, Now
England aud perhaps New York. Itswil)
be- dc.c es c i.:scss,ss.t measure u pros y
vent alarge accumulation Of goods nuring}
tho autumn. tEhore sal W d u. 8
cumulation Of ginghams which Will boi
f0rnad II,
tinues at represent rato. Alarge proportion
OF these goods are for tho spring trade In
view of the present financial disasters, it Is
hardly to be expected that the country
will have recovered from tho drain by
| spring, 80 that trade will then probably bo
anything but brisk. In yiow Of smaller
damand, therefore, it is bnt natural TINT
the mills should diminish their output 40,
oordingly. This is best dono by stopping
work altogether and thus saving tho henyy
| expense Of keeping up the power, besides
| whole months wages. months wages
for tho amounts to ns much as $22s, 900.
| This Amoskeag operatives, I understand .
is the best time Of year for such measute,
for many of the operatives wish to tako a
vacation during the summer or can at least
atnnd tho enforced idIoncss better than in
winter, whom thoir living expenses are so
much higher. If tho mills had not decided
to close now, thoy would probably have
had to 90 so in December when it would
have boon very serious matter for the op I
orativcs.
| After we had read it we handed
it back to him and remarked: "It's
sad, isn't it2'
eyes," said he, "but it is sadder
still when one contemplates how
utterly foolish it is to permit such
q condition"
GLOW would you remedy it P"
we asked.
"Easy enoughr' he exclaimed
as he lit cigarette and settled
himself down in our big arm chair.
"Now listen. | buy thousands upon
top Of thousands ofyards Of Amos
keag cotton in Europe every year,
as all Mexican merchants do. Now
suppose your manufacturers would
come to our Mexican merchants
and say 'Here, we have passed
q free coinage bill and can now al
low you $1.29 per ounce for'your
silver against 70 cents per ounce
allowed you by England How
long would your Amoslseag mills
be without orders under such q
condition? Why, in no time they
would be submerged with orders
and we would use Amoskeag and
other American made cotton to
the entire exclusion Of cotton grown
in India and manufactured in Eng
land In fact America would cap
turo our entire trade, not only in
cotton goods, but in every other
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