The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-11-23
MARKET NEEDED FOR
AMERICAN G0TT0Hs
EXTRACTS FROM PAPER sY BRIT
Ish COMMERCIAL
AGENT.
America Is Rapidly Increasing its
Output Of Cotton Goods, But is
Creating No New Markets
Wrong Kind of Fabrics.
From a Stat Correspondent.

petition OF American cotton manufac-
turers in the markets Of the world is
attracting considerable attention now
among the great cotton manufactur-
ing countries of Europe, as is indicated
by the following extracts from a paper
recently read at meeting OF British
cotton manufacturers. by the British
Commercial Agent in the United
States. The paper itself was consid-
cred so important that portions of il
were forwarded to the Commercial In
telligence branch of the Board OF
Trade of London, and that body an
nounces that Ii may be examined By
those interested ANY day between the
hours of 10 a N. and D. m"
Extracts from this discussion OF
American cotton manufacturing have
been received by the Treasury Bureau
of Statistics, as follows:
Speaking broadly, the standard
makes OF American cotton fabrics may
be sold to a limited extent In most
foreign countries and in some few
markets they can be disposed of in
considerable enthusiastically China
and Mexico. How aver. it can be posi-
lively stated that in the greater num-
Der of foreign centers our goods are
too high in price. due principally to the
fact that they are pure sized" l. e..
they are only given such treatment in
the slashing process as will enable
them to be easily woven, no attention
being given to the addition of adulter-
ants as such. | am now speaking spe-
officially of brown goods, the aggregate
trade in this class of goods being very
large"
Having the data, which as manu-
facturers we should need in order to
produce the goods, one would natural
iy examine the particulars carefully
to discover if any radical changes
would have to be made in the ma
chinery or equipment OF the mill to
enable one to produce them
Having in mind many of our
Northern mills. and the large proper
ton of the factories of the Southern
States that are organized and equip
ped to manufacture coarse, heavy
fabrics, it can be said that with few
inexpensive additions to the apparatus
for mixing and storing the size, the
heavy and medium-sized gray goods. |
so largely purchased by non-manu-
featuring nations. can be made salts
factorily and probably and at COM
petitive cost.
Such fabrics contain a maximum |
OF raw materials cotton and size) |
and minimum of labor is required in |
their production. Present conditions |
in the Industrial centers of the South |
are more favorable for their remuner-
alive manufacture than in any other
manufacturing country in the world !
with which we shall have to compete |
Immediately We step outside our do
nestle markets TO dispose of the pro-
duct of our looms.
Exceptionally hard twisted warp
yarns are the rule in American mills. |
although every unnecessary turn of |
twist put into yarn means an unavoid- |
able expenditure and loss of produc- |
ton. 1t is also surely known to many |
of you that no small quota Of our mills
use much better grade of cotton /
than is really necessary to produce a
good. merchantable fabric. which will /
compare favorably with similar goods /
made by European competitors.
To one who has closely watched |
the development and progress of our
cotton manufacturing industry during
the past few years, it is so palpably /
obvious that we must very soon en-
large the present outlets for our
goods, or. with our rapidly expanding /
productive capacity. have our business
periodically suffer from disastrous ov-
reproduction and trade stagnation. |
and it must never be forgotten that
the vital interests of almost every |
member of this body are involved in
the prosperity of the cotton indus
try.
In paper on Latin Americana
Cotton Fabrics. which / receatly pre-
sented to you. the construction of the
standard English print cloth is given.
Comparison will show that it differs /
in the two very essential particulars
OF width and weight from the stand
ard American fabric: If our printers
had similar goods. their export trade
could be very considerably augment
ed. especially if their colors and de-
signs met the taste of the export
trade. The cotton trade OF
the world is as yet untouched by us. /
while we keep on building new mills !
and enlarging existing ones at great
rate, and meanwhile we are doing I
practically nothing at all TO enlarge
our market for the goods made by I
these additions to ur industry"