The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-07-11
TEXTILE SCHOOLS FOR TEXAS
Argument for Their Establish
ment by the State.
Dallas News, July 6.

Dallas News, July 6.
Waxahachie, Texas, July 5.-The
establishing and maintaining of a
high-class textile school in Texas
is, In my opinion, one Of the most
important subjects for the consid-
Grafton of our next Legislature. 1t
is of sufficient Importance, believe,
to be made one of the platform de-
mands at the approaching state con-
vention, and / should be much graf
ified If some of the readers of The
OF the platform would see 10 it that
this subject is made one of the
planks in that structure. There was
bin introduced at the last session
of the legislature to establish such a
school in Texas, but IL never got
further than the deadly committee
room. The question had not been
sufficiently agitated and the com
mittee which buried the bill evident
ly did not give 1t much thought, for
every man who will give the matter
little thought will certainly con-
clude that greater possibilities for
our state lie In the manufacture of
her raw cotton than in any other in
dustry. We have a few courageous
men In the state who are willing to
become the pioneers In the cotton
manufacturing industry, and, like
all other beginners, they have all
commenced TO make coarse goods.
They do this because they are ig-
norant of the business, and IL IL
much easier to learn to make coarse
goods. They are all now struggling
for existence, hoping that they will
be able to weather the storm until
something changes, somehow or
somewhere, for the better, or that
they may be able TO learn enough
about the business TO enable them
to keep the balance on the right side
Of the ledger.
II has been the boast Of the New
England states that the South could
never compete with them In fine
goods. But they "reckoned without
their host" The Carollnas, Geor-
gia and Mississippi have each es-
tabiished aud are maintaining tex
tile schools and the result is that
those states are now making quite a
lot of the finer fabrics, and are
equipplng numbers Of new mills for
the manufacture of various kinds of
fine goods, and many OF these mills
are managed and operated by ex-
perts who have been taught In these
schools. IL has been urged that the
atmosphere i'm the south is too dry
10 spin fine thread. but the objection
has been overcome by the systems
of humidifiers now in use In nearly
all Of the southern mills. 1t is also
urged that the water I'm the south is
not suitable for bleaching, dyeing;
etc, but when the operatives learn
how 10 do the work the water seems
TO be all right. The great need is to
know how to do the work, and in
those states that are educating their
people 10 become experts in all
kinds OF cotton manufacturing they
are beginning to compete success
fully with the New England mills.
But as long as the Texas mills are
compelled to import their skilled la
Dor they will never be able to com
pete either with the New England
or southeastern mills, for the rea-
son that the best superintendent
and overseers Will not come to Tex
as unless they are offered induce
ments in the way of better wages.
And II higher scale OF wages is es-
tablished In Texas than prevails in
other states 1t will put the Texas
mills at q serious disadvantage.
Then the remedy is to educate our
own people to become expert mana
gers, snperintendents and opera
tives.
l have given the subject of cotton
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