The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1897-12-20
The Eastern SpiDners.

cotton mlllS, Tor instance, has brought
to the surface so much unconscious HUI
NOR that it is difficult to read what the
New England editors say about it with
a straight face.
Not all of them believe as Congress-
man Dingley does, but all of them give
reasons quite as silly. Mr.. Dingley. the
author of the famous tariff law. believes
that the mill troubles in New England
are due to the big cotton crop. If any
eDd-man at minstrel show ever got
off bigger joke than that, it has never
been reported. The mills are about to
go to ruin because cotton is cheap-he-
cause they can buy the raw material
for less than they ever paid for it; this
is the point of the Dingley Joke.
The reasons given by the editors are
almost as funny as Mr.. Dingleys joke.
We have referred 10 some of these eX-
plantations in former articles, and It is
not necessary to reproduce them here.
What is most curious, however. is the
suggestion 10 be found in more than one
New England paper to the effect that
in four years competition in the south
has grown to the extent of pushing the
Fall River mills to the wall. 1t is Gu
rious because no farther back than the
were declaring and ~ per cent div-
dends. Was this done to deceive the
people into believing that Mckinley
had restored prosperity, or was it
brought about by honest earnings?
The Boston Transcript hints that ono
cause OF the trouble is that "eX-siave
cheap labor" is abundant. Whether the
editor is Joking or not, we are unable
to say, but the remark is funny. Ne
gro labor is comparatively cheap and
abundant, but its cheapness and album
| dance are not utilized in the southern
mills. Mill labor at the south is cheap
er than mill labor in New England for
reasons obvious to all. But by the
time the eastern mills get through their
reductions, wages there will be less than
wages in the south, all things considered.
1t is queer that the mill managers
and the editors do not perceive that the
reduction Of wages will not help mat
ters. If the trouble is southern COM
petition, there is but one way to meet
it, and that is to transfer their plants to
this section and secure the advantages
to be found here, which are by no means
confined to cheap wages
But the main trouble with the eastern
mills is that they arc unable to market
their goods 1t is said of Fan River
that her product is such that it can be
produced everywhere, but this is only
another way Of saying that the output
of the Fall River mills belongs 10 the
class Of goods most in favor with con-
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rS.iI'il'' ,U ,'' -, 80
10 .'g 'i''li ~
WY -. .,S-o1,.a +},+
net IL ''i' WI ",'N 81 70 ,i =,
q"e9,!op az" p'oNN~" ~ 80, - 80
tllG ~ "lli "a f9IIn,, 4ho tn";rr,
- - Ic,riooI a,,5 VII Gnd +bo WOW,
;I3,,,,,iro4ad
,rhara :, chic foot - no oorsidorod-
49,. +o1-;,,o i,+, ,ol,,,,,+ ~, .I,,,+-do,yne
al'd no a2r,,+ bours ~ No INST fo,r
,,aore +ha nrod,Irtfon If oil tbn cotton
mills or tho country, counting the new
l,,i.,1Ia5 hoe ,,ot hoon r,atori9Ilg Iaroar
+5,a-, ~ ,,,,,,1Itia,, If +I,, f,,,,, ,oar, no
t,,.a,,, 1000 o,d tVoo <o,4ot,1,, not mo-
to,.,,ll, 1o,.,,a,. in ,,ro,,o,.tfon n tbo in
l,,,,.,, Of ,,.,,,,,1,tioi, ord tho nnooeei+ioe
- 10 ,,ll,Io M Ic,,h+ tbo rocnrds
oe ,,,,,,.+iI,, io,, },oo, 1,on4 hotb north
,.I ,,,l1 - ,r,a,,l1 I,a+ Iva o. ,,orv
,,,,tt 70 ol,t or,,,,,o,r,oto1,- ar
,lIt e,,,rl.,
Viii NO found v,bone7-o,. +ho com.
ro.ir,r 10 r,o1a +hot vbilo tho nrodrc-
TO-, 81 no Ias+ fo,r ,-oa,,s rras not ma
t tloi' 1aroor +ba, ~ nroradinr[ fon~
ca ,,,,'9 has nonn rodnrad more
+1,on ono-ha1f II is safe to assume
t tIlot' NO onanfitv Of cotton goods Iving
-, .''t .,,a ,,.a,,obansos iohhfnq rooms ano
i4oii ,+l,,n., ,,,so11 iS trroo times 1aroor
than - Voc in nocembor 1890 Now.
ti'aro ,,,rt NO como eorions reason vhy
,al,Io do NOT INV tbesa goods Their
.,,ad.-.+io, o,o i,,e+ &C o,,aat Whom nac.
~ ,o,11-, ,oolI on,,tbine, and fail IN
~. - - c,itn Of mo fao+ tbof tho nrice
- o,,7ornooII1- low tbnra can bo but one
,,aa,nn For thEfr raiIure Thnv e;+hor
l,a,-, 10 ,,,o,,o,, IN b,,,, tn goods or +hav
.,,1,l+ o,,a,,a fo,. mn nnrDosn tho lfttIn
ti'a,I
tr,or +bo,.o r,rs+ no como reason
.,.[,I ,,oa,,Io ,,,ho had q fail, r,fnnIv NJ
Xxx fl,,. ,.o,,,.. 400 bo,o nonn now
~ -y"' aina 1t21 nn tho enrfocA
no 4I,;, Ialo. oa,,,,,,,,,
money that tbev would fetch four years
age. Wheat is the exception but Wheal