Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1900-01-11
No Limit 10 Cotton Mills.


Charleston News and Courier some
information which is of special inter-
est to not a few communities in the
South in which the idea obtains,
more or less definitely, that this Sec
ton may be OVERRIDING the business
of building cotton mills, and that
they probably had better not add to
tho number.
After stating that the cotton ma
chincry manufacturers in the United
States can make only 2,500,000 spin
dies a year, and that about 100000
will probably bo added yearly for the
next ten years to tho number now in
operation, Mr.: Tompkins added:
"Ncw England has 100000 spin
dies of which 100000 arc located
in Massachusetts. There arc now
100000 spindlcs in the South. At
tho end of 1900 the South will have
100000 spindles and New England
will still hn j 100000. In Mas
sachusctts new spindles are being
put in on fine stuffs only, while the
old ones are being discontinued on
coarse stuff.
"Old England has 4G,000,00O spin
dies the South 100000; The
United States, including tho hliddlc
States, 20,000,000. At the rate of
1000, 900 new spindlcs year, the
present rate of Increase, ten years
from now the United States would
have about the same number of
spindlcs AS England OF these, New
England and the Middle States
would probably have 20,000,O00, all
on fine goods, and the South 25,000,-
00C. In other words, the United
States in 1910 will have as many
spindles rs England, and the South
will have more spindlcs than New
England and the Middle States COM
bincd."
In other words again, (says the
News and Couricr) even if New
England holds its present number Of
spindlcs, SO that the South vii, not
I have to replace great part of them,
there are still 20,000,O00 new spin
dies to be set in operation in this
section within the next decade, with
out "crowding" the cotton manufac-
turing business in this country or
elsewhere, as there is not the slight
est fear Of ovcr-producton if we
properly develop our markets, and
we arc developing them with all our
might, military, diplomatic, CONNER
cial and otherwise.
The 20,000,000 will be established
somewhere in the South, 10 doubt.
The part Of wisdom for every town
and city in South Carolina, would
appear to be to capture as many of
| ln:lL nllln)rr as IL can.
Senator Is. Il. Iillman will con-
tinur his fight against the armor
plate people and iavors the govern
mcnt owning its own armor plate.
"Thc government" he says, "has
been robbed Of more than enough
money to build such a factory by the
excessive high prices charged by the
armor plate trust. do not see why
the government should he made to
pay such prices when it is amply able
to have a factory of it's own and it
would br good business for it to have
one"
Several amendments TO the con-
Stitution have been offered in the
present session OF Congress. The
most important are rs follows: TO
prohibit poIygamy and polygamous
cohabitation and to render inclgi-
Die to "iiIrc any one practlcIng the
same; to prevent the use OF public
funds for scctarian institutions to
give Congress the power to lay and
collect taxes on all incomes and to
fix a graduated inheritance tax to
prevent and suppress combinations
and transactions i'm restraint Of trade
and production to limit the hours
of daily labor to fixed time
throughout the entire country; to
limit the term OF Il President to six
years, with no reelection.