The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1897-10-13
HECYLlN0RicAL SALE SCARE.
s5me Very sens:bls Comments on II by the
CcZarIhis State.
TIE NV Orleans Times Democrat

TIE N9w Orleans Times.Denccrat
cf recent date says.
The cylindrical bale OF cotton was
or exhibition again al day yesterday
il TIE office CT Mr.. Parker, on PerdiGo
Street. The bale vas examined by a
great many people n the city. It got
She marb?e Heart. There we're co.ton
factors, merchants. Steamship men,
c3tton press lnea. c05s0n mill men,
sccewmer, stevedores and mary otn-
ers interested IN cotton who went II
there to Inspect it, aud Of the 500 pee
pie, at least, whom Mr. Parker says
saw the cotton, net one OF them in his
presence gave It q favorable opinion.
TIE suggestion Of this kind OF cotton
! bale taking the place OF the square has,
Of course, crsated great deal OF il
tereS5 among local cotton people. #
il ever becomes tie style IL this sec.
ton ct the coGn:rg, as one OF tae cot
ton men said yss.erdag, It viii not
only DO aTay win local cotton facto-
ries, local buyers, local compcesses
and scre Wmsn, pat will c.ose up ali
the country congresses, cby.ate the
necessity of having country buyers
il fact, reyoiutioniZ3 the whola cotton
business and parajyzs those branches
indicated above. 1t is proposed that
i the hackers aGd promoters OF the
round bale buy taeir cotton direct
from the consumer in the field; thus
doing away with all middlemen. The
cotton men here say that the system
would result eventually il the trust
people dictating terms to tae producers
OF Gotten. They might give probably
q better price than any one elsa Tor q
year or TWO, bat as soon as they go.
control CT the staple they would dc
t2.e price and terms to the farmer.
Mr. Vincent of The drul 0; Vincent s
Hayne, wno w2s pIesen&, said t1at the
adoption CT ma; kl1a OF cotton Daliug
would thro1 ca. o. business all tbs
300 compresses O. the south, and
would maan revoi1tion-Iot only 3
revolution ia g business sense, bl. one
ia which the people OF the c0Un.ry
would rise Up ii arms againSs tae
closing upoi q business that nov gives
employment 10 50 many working peo-
pie. The bste IS not Wail pcessea-
nothing Ike the square bale. Il
adopted, il would do away VITA .ae
com press, the cotton factors, scre@men,
esc. Tne cotton men have not made
: any plans yet for a concerted action
against the lnyader Of the Soush's grea.
est, interest bat will do So. There
is plenty o. tine, they say, bi; some
thing must and shall be done to avert
tbs threatened ruin to Southern plauE-
ers and the people whose Interests are
identical with tnem.
I'VE do not kaow," says the Co.
lum5ia State, ''.hat there would ps
much ;ameasatioa by the producers Of
cotton If ths middlsnen generally
were done away with. The staple nas
has been made to support q grea!
many more peopis than it o1gat TO
nave supp0rted. Il ms been
sampled, aad weighed, and bought,
and sold, and ressmpled, and
resold, ana rssampled, and ex-
ported, and resan2ied, aad reoougaE
and finally manufactured. Too May
people have bean Masking living out
Of cotton, and ths producer has had to
pay taem a!l. Ifhe could sell dicec!
Ito lhe consumer without deduction,
actual or conventional, ne would oe
more likely to get the real value OF his
product. Large interests have grown
iup aoou. the handling OF cotton. and
it would be unpleasaot-and doubtless
iir.j lrious to many reople-to have the
Succession OF HludIemen done away
WIN; but, after al, that IS Lhe way VI
sne world. Where process IS too eX-
| cansive, invention gets to work to re-
sduce the cost, and the cylindrical balls
mechiaery Is as natural a sequence OF
iexoensiye and wasteful methods as the
itypeset:ing machine is. Six cents cot
ton cannoE pay the tolls that II cents
cotton paid. Something must give way,
somebody must go 10 the wau-the
farmer or middlsman. II the farmer
!does, there IS no crop; so &c Is a neces-
sity, he must stay. Inc logic OF cir.
icumstances forces the middIemaa out.
1.-The cotton factor has already gone,
lin this part OF the country at Ieas5.
jO.her middlemen between the gro
land the manufacturer must go, as the
bringing OF the mills 10 the cotton tes,
titles. The foreign consumer mus:.roll
ali his middlemen into one II order to
meet on fairly equal terms the manu-
facturer on tue-soot. Ghe American
Cotton company, with us cyiln1rlcAl
bale, constitutes the middleman-rolled-
Into one. It is necessary develop,
ment of the times. The only question
| is whether this company. wita lis su.
perior methods OF packing, and It's
readiness to ply higher prices than
the ordinary oayer offers, IS likely to
lmonopol:ze the cotton purchasing bus.
mess and thereby control the price OF
the staple to the GeEriment Of the pro-
|ducer. So far as Sou.h Carolina IS
Econcerned, this is impossible. Half
the cotton crop Of the State is bought
| og State mills. This cotton does not
need to De lacked IN any special way.
| It is manufactured in the same neigh
borhood in wh;ca il is grown and p1r-
:chased. There can be nc such monop,
|c1y as would enable any one company,
however great, 10 dictate the price
here. Should the American Cotton
Icompany be the only outside buyer it
would have in the purchasing field
Eagainst it some Is South Carol!na
mills. Whatever many be the case
lin Texas aud louisiana, We il South
ECar2lina are secure from oppression.
ISo far from GepGesSirc tee price
Eof co.toa The establishment Of
the sgancie Ct Amer.cAn Cot
ton company would probably raise
lit in tais STATE As 10 CHI :
States less favorabIy situated this may
| be said: They can secure competition
land competitive prices by iavent;ng
machinery which Will rival that OF
Ithe American Cotton company. We
do no! kuoT what tie patents are on