The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-06-06

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no case had we any claim We also SUR
! anteed the weight MOI to fall short al Tue
I min more than two pounds. and the ttre
not 10 exceed six pounds per bai", ana IN
I no case had we claim. The aHfcI' "
Z In unwinding has been entirely overcome In
she new iS-inch bale. and our mills are
/ we'll satisfied with them, What thuy now
+ ask for is, that this new psle snaa lie
offered IN quantity, go that they can make
Z arrangements to use Il extensively.
Yes, we have met with lois q; oppositior
! ana criticism. But knowing that our sys-
/ tenn meant economy and that We coulC
save money for everybody connected Win
the cotton business We have gone on re-
CARELESS, awaiting the time Whom we could
prove II. As said TO you before, We put
our own money into Il. aud did not ash
any outside aid. We perfected the ma
chinery which we guaranteed, we perfected
! the manner OF making aud the system OF
handling and we introduced the cotton
thoroughly into the mills and established
an active demand for It, and We = ok the
Same risk on II that was done Ia estab-
hshng The Post, or any other buslpncsi
enterprise. We could only do this by taxi
Ing the risk on the whole thing clear
through. We bought the seed cotton frcul
the farmer. and in accordance with our
savings we paid higher price for 1t. aud
we have made friends Of the farmers
wherever We have done business. and we
propose keeping that up. They know
when they are making money the same as
the rest OF us. and you can not fool man
with the absurd cry of monopoly when
ne Is making money every day selling his
cotton and knowing that the moment that
II is not to his interest To either sell his
seed cotton or have il put into round bales,
That he can immediately turn round and
have 1t put up ia the old way. for any
hal s..F= e,sErN
any one set of men Is going to put up all
the cotton that is raised or all the cotton
in any one locality, or that the old gins
VIII all be driven out Of business. But
even granting that IN the far distant
future such thing were possible, after
having made money by fHyoring the new
system for several years Immediately that
the farmers felt that they were being I'M
fairly treated, it world be matter of only
few days for some OF the old gins 10 be
put INTO operation or new ones established.
even II none were running al the time. In
other words all that talk about monopoly
is the Veriest nonsense. The young man
who used the word "impracticable" could
work Il in here to an n6vautage. OF course
we have bad all sorts of attacks made
upon US, and we have on The other hand
had many broad minded men two or three
Of whom i have quoted. who have stood up
for us.
Thus in an interview In the Manufacture
ers' Record Mr. Henry Hsut2 PRESIDENT OF
the New York cotton exchange calmly and
accurately cages the opposition 10 the new
process, and from an Independent stand
point, supported by practical experience.
he says at Is absolutely certain that cot
Ton packed in cylindrical bales under the
system adopted by this company viii bring
higher prices all the world over than that
packed in the prevailing style"
II seems to me thar all Obstacles in the
way Of revolutionary change in the di
rcction OF more civilized system OF bal
ing American cotton have now been over
come by the perfected mechanism OF the
round bale process and by the plan Of oper-
alton which understand has BEEN decided
upon by the directors Of the American
Cotton company" As 70 the sampling
question, he took the ground that in this
respect the new bale had decided advan-
iage over the old. in that 1t was suscep-
table of double samping. both by drawing
somples from the bat in process of rolling
up the bale. second by slicing out a sam
pie whenever new one Us necessary.
mo substantial improvement" he added
In the Interview, would probably ever oc-
cur In the manner of packing cotton except
by q thorough and revolutionary change
In the whole system"
There is no higher authority In the cotton
world than MIR. hentz, nor any whose de-
liberate, unprejgdseed judgment would bear
mere weight
From a Southern standpoint. equally veil
liable testimony WAS given by DR.. Chas
w. Dabney. Jr., former assistant secretary
of agriculture and occupying an important
position in that department now, who s
admirably qualified to give au absolutely
unbiased opinion as to the fairness OF the
plan criticised"
The cylindrical bale" said DR.. pahuey,
the approval Of all who have the South 3
material interests at heart, and any rlen
for introdueirg H. IN which the WORK ~
bunglers or ineXpert handlers could by any
possibility interfere with the desrablity
of the cotton from the spinners point of
view. either on account OF mixed lack
or otherwise, would operate as ,njnrousy
10 the growers as TO the company which
controls this invention.
Viewed from the growers standpoint
alone" he continued. the greatest care in
preventing the possibility of bad work Is
to be commended, for it is easy to imagine
how an indiscriminate use of the niechan-
ism for making tho cylindrical bales might
result in such bad packing as to prejudice
the spnners against the new system.
Therefore. as the company must stand
between the grower and the spinner. safe
guarding its own interests and theirs sim
ultaneously can nos see that there Is any
ground for criIcising policy the effect
Of which will DC to hold the planters and
Einners 10 strict responsibility as 10 the
character OF the packages and conten1s.
II should look upon anything which
might prejudice the spinners against the
new cylindrical balo or which might jeop-
ardlzo its acceptablity as a misfortune to
the cotton growers Of the South. Ana 80
any attempt to cast upon The only safe
course open TO the company the suspicion
that 1t Is solhsh or monopolistlc, is unfair