The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-10-17
NEW ENGLAND COTTON MEN.
siIty-ninth semi-AnnuaI Meetsag Of
the Association.


The New England Cotton Manusaetur-
ers' Association held the Arst session of
its siEty-ninth semi annual meeting last
night at the Arlington Hotel. About $50
members Of the association among whom
were number of ladies'. were present,
and followed attentiveiy the various ad-
dresses which were delivered during the
evening. The president of the associa-
ton, d. NJ. Thompson. OF Providence, r.
l., occupied the chair. and beside him on
the platform were seated Secretaries Gage
and Long. and Carroll d. Wright. United
States Commissioner Of Labor.
After the meeting had been called to
order Secretary Gage delivered a short
address of welcome. in which he alluded
to prosperity and the approach Of the
Presidential election. He was followed by
Secretary Long. who extended to the
visiting members hearty welcome to tho
nations Capital. and spoke of the APP
proDriateness Of holding the meeting at
this time Of the year, and at the city Of
Washington.
Commissioner Wright read a lengthy
paper discussing the theme. The Factory
as an Element in Social Life" Conclud-
Ing his address. Mr.. Wright said:
You gentlemen are the managers Of
great missionary establishments. In your
conduct OF them as Industrial institutions
you must recognize economic laws and
conditions 1t would be suicidal to take
the purely ethical view at the expense of
the economic. but while recognizing the
economic conditions which compel certain
actions. believe there is no grea. diff
Guilty in recognizing also the ethical rela-
tons which ought to exist between en-
ployer and employe. These ethical rela-
lions are becoming more and more a force
in the conduct Of industry. Whether the
new developments OF concentrated indus
trial interests will lead to a still higher
recognition OF the ethical forces at work
Is question which cannot at present be
answered. My own belief Is that the flu
ture developments Of industry will be ON
this line. and that the relation of the en-
ployer and his employees will rest upon
sounder basis than heretofore.
THE social condition OF the working
man and his education. which we have in
sisted upon. have led him into the strike
method as a means Of asserting what DO
calls his rights. He has in this adopted
the worst examples set him by his en-
ployers in the past. Greater intelligence,
broader recognition Of the necessity of
higher social standards. will lead to a
recognition of other principles that will
enable him to avoid Industrial war and
his employer to recognize the intelligence
which is willing to avoid it,
d. ". Thompson. the president of the
association, followed with the reading Of
his address. which consisted Of eleven
printed pages, and contained no more nor
less than the presentation Of the Repub-
lican attitude in the present Presidential
campaign. Mr.. Thompson had selected
such themes as duty CT the hour '.ths
national honor the right CT Individual
opinion" vital conditions" imperial
ism." unfortunate errors,'' Cheerful
prospects, Republican policy and.
last but not least, appeals to reason
and exploited them fully. After Mr..
Thompson had finished the meeting ad-
journed until this afternoon at 30
O'Clock, when the following programme
will be presented:
THE Cotton Plant paper by Walter
H. Evans. Department Of Agriculture:
"American-grown Egyptian Cotton By
Lyster H. Dewey. Department Of Asricul-
ture; Americas Textile Industry "A
Southern View r. H. Edmonds. Balti-
more, Md; 1.-The Possibility Of Gotten
Manufacturing in the United States and
Especially in the South by r. NJ. Miller,
of Charlotte N c. AT this evenings ses-
sion the following papers will be Fad:
The Use of Stationary Cells IN Place Of
Rotating Cylinders in the Drying CT Tex
tile Fabrics" by Charles II. Fish, Dover,
NJ H; Uses of Cotton Waste. by Ed
ward ". Thomas. Lowell. Mass; tPut-
ting Up of Yarns for Use and for Mar
ket.' by F. H. Bishop. Boston. Mass;
Yarn Testing and Tes ing Machn So by
George r. Smith, Ossett, near L5eds.
England.