The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1895-02-23
FACTORIES AND IMMIGRATION.
Trimss-Democrst.l

:. in,enus 10 Dc little particu-
lAr ID what 1t gets, and does not care
% nave all the cid secondhand New
England machinery and Western pan
pers anlosded sn it.
A dhsPath from Boston a few davs
ago stated, among other things:
"Nsgocistions are now pendino I.
uan Inis city looking to the shipment Of
zVV car loads Of (cotten) mill maeLiu-
cry TO tue South, most of which has
oeen In use in one of lhe largest cation
iac'ories In New Hampshire. This
consignment, il is believed, will be fol
loWed by others when the Southern
mills now under way are completed,
To some this may seem A great
!riumph-the New England mills CON-
ing south with all their psrapserna-
lls, machinery, etc; but we are not pre-
pared to rejoice over the news, and do
not believe that the Southers cotton
INDUSTRY will gain anything by using
ihis secondhand machinery but, on
tne contrary, will suffer IL IL tries II.
Inc success OF the industry here has
osen largely due 10 the fact that nearly
oil the machinery in use in the South
Is new; the mills arc all now. and
their machine y. therefore, ia of the
ia'est make, tn overv nossible i'm
pfosement msds In recent years. On
tne other hand, the cotton industry
eelng much older in New England
than IL Is here, many eff the mills there
are old-fasbioned, aud are overloaded
with old DschInery, which increases
'ne cost OF manufacturing. They are
anxious to retit themselves, and are
trying to unload their old stuff on the
south. II the Boston dispatch means
anything II means that some New
Hampshire esta blisbmcnt has succeed
cd or expects ~ succeed in this.
The Chattanooga Tradesman called
attention to this more than year ago.
and warned the South against taking
any old and WORKOUT machinery from
plsyed-ont New England factories.
The Charleston News and Courier
Joins III the protest to-day, and says:
"lf the owners or managers of any
OF the new Southern mills are con-
templating buying secondhand ma
chinery from New Hampshire mill,
we venture to suggest to them that
they had better go slew in closing the
contract. 1t is very much more to the
interest OF the Northern mills 10 sell
such machinery than to the interest OF
Southern mills to buy 1t. Noprogres
sive Southern mill can afford to buy Il
at any price. II would be an expen-
slve acquisition as a free gift with
freight charges paid. 1t isvery safe to
say that no New Hampshire, or other
New England or Northern mill, will
sell flrst-class machinery at any great
sacrifice. And the Southern mills
should purchase no other kind. The
machinery made ten or twelve years
ago does not compare in efficiency and
In prcft-makiag qualities with that
which Is being made to-day. The big
Northern mills which are coming
South will be equipped with spIndles
and looms, etc., Of the newest aud best
design. The Southern cotton mill COM
pany which buys their discarded plants
TO compete with them and other South.
ern mills likewise equipped simply in
vites bankruptcy"
This is sound common sense. If the
South proposes to compete for the con-
troll of the cotton industry 1t must be
on terms Of perfect equality as far as
machinery Is concerned, and mast not
try that competition with secondhand
and antiquated Mills.
And now az to immigration. An
other recent dispatch informs US that
one hundred heads of families In Chi
cago, who are cut sf work and out of
money, have asked the county authori-
ties to pay the fare Of themselves and
their families, amounting in oil to 500,
to Alabama, where they wish to es-
tsblish colony. Such immigration Is
to be feared and avoided rather than
welcomed. II may be that great
many of these applicants are deserving
but unfortunate persons, willing to
work, but unable to get anything to
do; but il will be sn unfortunate thing
If tho principle 10 established Of colo
nlzlug all the unemployed or idle per-
sous or paupers from the rest of the
country in the South, and especially If
they are to be brought here by State
aid and dumped on US without cent
in their pockets Let us admit that all
these Chicago immigrants who ask the
county authorities to ship them to Ala
bama are deserving, will not this mode
Of getting rid Of its idle pauper-tramp
population recommend itself to the
county authorities there, who will pro-
ceed to relieve Chicago of all Its unde-
sirable population by shipping 1t
South2 State aided immigration ia
seldom desirable; only few years
ago we had au opportunity of seeing
: how Objectionable It was when the
local authorities In England, Germany
and Switzerland began relieving them
selves of the trouble and expense OF
. supporting their paupers by shipping
them to America. The South objects
to this class of immigrants as earnestly
to-day as the Uui!ed States did then.
We invite all deserving comers, willing
aud able 10 work. We DO not expect
the rich to cone here; but, at the same
time. we do not want paupers, Those
who setlle among US should have
enough TO pay their fare here, enough
IN make a start without asking for as