Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-09-06
ROUND BALE JONES -

ROUND BALE JONES'"
from the Sioux City Journal: There
- q decided GOODNESS between Chair
una m X. Jones, Of the Democrat
~ national committee, and the Texas
democrats. 1t is on O of the
Alherlcan Cotton company, in which
MT Jones is a large stakeholder. The
company controls the patents on the
round bale" process OF COMPRISING
COTTON. Mr.. Jones says the
Is not a trust, but the antitrust Demo-
crats OF Texas cannot see it that way
me round bale process is understood
"a De heape and better than the old
one Ihose who are acquainted with
ils merits say that in time it is bound
10 urlve the old style compressors out
OF business. Mr.. Jones and his fellow
investors have protected their inven-
ton with the most ironclad patents
ana nave given every evidence of an
TO conserve to themselves all
the Dement'S of the invention, regardless
OF other interests. The chief objection
TO the business methods of the compa-
ny is made because it refuses to sell
the machinery and insists upon operat-
ing branches of the patent concern at
the various cotton centers. II the
merits of the process are as advant-
ageous as claimed it is easy to see that
eventually the new round bale COM
pany will drive all the other compress
ing concerns out of the cotton belt and
nnd itself In possession of an air tight
monopoly. Such a result would make
the American Cotton company the alb
solute dictator Of cotton prices, and
Just as much Of a monopoly as the
Standard Oil company in the petroleum
trade. Senator Jones may argue that
his monopoly would be a benefcent
one and would be operated for the ben
efit OF the public at large, instead OF
for the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Of it's stock
holders, but somehow the Texans are
not inclined to trust him. The matter
was dicussed in the Texas legislature
last winter. The result was that the
American Cotton company was brand
ed as the most Ubiquitous sort of a mo-
nopoly, and a special enactment was
included in the antitrust law forbid
ding this concern from doing business
In the state except under certain CON
ditions. These conditions have not
been met as yet, and the round bale"
Is on the blacklist in Texas. The Tex
as delegates to the Democratic national
convention had the matter in mind
when they opposed the reelection of
Senator Jones as chairman of the Dem
ocratic national committee. Their point
was that the party could not hope to
battle successfully against the trusts
when it's business manager was large
ly interested in n of the most bape-
full trusts of them all, so far as the
south is concerned. The northern de-
mocrats declined to follow the lead of
the Texans, however, and Round
Bale Jones' was continued in his capa-
city as a leader. Chairman Jones is
now preparing to inaugurate a vigorous
antitrust campaign in Texas, but the
Texas democrats find it difficult to CO.
operate with him with any degree of
enthusiasm. They find themselves
placed in just as awkward a position
as the antitrust democrats of New
York, who are expected to join in a
scorching antitrust campaign with Ice
Trust Van Wick and other Tammany
leaders s%tultifying their efforts.
THE GERMAN-AMERICAN VOTE.
A Washington correspondent has
been estimating or guessing at the
German-American votes in those states
west of the AIleghanies, where the
managers of the Democratic campaign
are going to endeavor to make gains of
electoral votes, without which Bryan
cannot be elected. The following Ia
BILE gives the assumed strength of the
German-American vote at this time in