The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-30
AN AID TO INDUSTRIES.
The National Association of Manu-
facturers ard ITS Plans.

factureFs and ats Plans.
Mr. Ralph H. Waggoner, general agent
of the Ma tional Association of Manufac-
turers, whose general Offices are in The
Bourse, Philadelphia, is at the De Soto.
He Is in Savannah 10 confer with its
manufacturers about the work the asso-
citation is doing
The association" said Mr.. Waggoner,
lis purely a mutual organization of over
LOO manufacturers in every kind of man
ufacture and in every part of the coun-
try, with a strong organization Of promi-
nent Southern manufacturers as vice pres
idents for the Southern states. For your
own state we have Mr. J. f. Hanson of
Macon; Mr.. Ellison \. Smyth of Pelzer
for South Carolina MIR. d. A. Tompkins
of Charlotte for North Carolina Mr.. A.
S. Benn of Mobile for Alabama; Mr.. F.
W. Young of, New Orleans for Louisiana;
Mr.. w. 7. Adams of Corinth for Missis-
sippi and c. D. Mitchell of Chattanooga
for Tennessee.
What, are the purposes of the asso-
ciation?' Mr. Waggoner was asked.
ITO aid in the conservation of that most
valuable of all trade, home trade; in
opening new foreign fields for American
manufactures and in bringing the infu-
ence of our 1,100 members to bear in a
united effort to bring to a successful is
sue some of the movements which have
strong bearing on the manufacturing
interests of our country South as well
as North"
'To what do you refer in speaking Of
old
Mr.. Waggoner was asked by d Morn ng
News Representative
Perhaps those most near to the heart
of business interests of your state and vi
cinity, may mention the strong effort now
in progress to give TO our country an
American merchant marine. Stop and
consider for a moment what that means to
Savannah? In the first place they viii be
iron and steel ships and that iron and that
steel from Southern mines and Southern
mills; the wood work in finishing, from
Southern forests and Southern mills, ana
this feature alone will give to Southern in
dustries such an impetus that you wi ! say
you have never known prosperity before
Then we seek 10 hasten the day when the
inter-oceanic canal viii be built uu er
American control For years we have
been working. with others, t. bring this
about and it now looks as though your
tireless Southern Senator Morgan, who
has given such efficient labor to that
cause, was to have his reward in seeing
his work crowned with success. To Savan-
nah these two movements merchant ma
rine and the canal-appeal with peculiar
force, for, with American merchant ma
rine and the canal your harbor would
TEEN with ships bound to all ports where
your Southern products have a market,
and especially to the Orient, west coast of
South America, Australia and Hawaii; 10
say nothing of the Pacific coast of the
states, Your railway systems would
have such an Increase Of tonnage as they
have never planned for, and beautiful Sa
vannah be also a great international
mart.
ITO what other public questions is the
association devoting itself?'
NOTABLY domestic parcels post by
which a Savannah manufacturer can
have the facilities which exist within
Great Britain, enabling one to send
package of say eleven pounds
to any one of the 1900 postoffices of this
country at cents per pound. We have
such a treaty in operation now between
| this country and Germany. which went
into effect last October, and we should
| have il for domestic uses as well.
Another movement that manufacturing
| and commercial interests are aiding is
the establishment in the national govern
ment of a department of commerce and
| industry with it's secretary, who would
| also be a member of the cabinet. Agricul-
! ture has bad such recognition foI gener-
| atoms, and it is time commerce and in
| dustry had similar recognition.
What special facilities has the asso-
| citation to aid in extending the foreign
trade of its members?'
I'VE are in touch with every CONNER
cial center the world over, and are send
| ing to our members enquiries which reach
us for such goods as they produce For
/ illustration, here is an enquiry from
| japanese trading company, that is open
! ing a department devoted solely to the
! handling of cotton goods and they want
us to put them in touch with American
mills who make goods suited to that mar
| ket. If any foreign merchant, whose en-
! quiry we refer to a member, should wish
! to buy direct, we are in position to fur
nish his credit rating and when ship
ments are made we have our own freight
| and transportation bureau for use Of
members only, whose goods go forward at
lower rates than can be secured by the
individual shippers.
The general officers of the association
are tt eodore c. Search, Philadelphia,
president; Charles \. Schieren. the leath-
er betting manufacturer of New York,
treasurer, and +. Z. Wilson, secretary.