Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-21
Secretary Wilson Says the
Gamblers Are Responsible
For Close Of Factories
HAVE FORCED FICTITIOUS PRICES
Foreign Nations Are Paying Attention
to Cultivation Of Cotton in Their Col
ones With View of Becoming lnde-
pendent of the American Gamblers,
Who Corner the Raw Cotton.

agriculture Wilson yesterday discusseu
at some length the present conditions
III the cotton market and their possible
influence on the cotton manufacturing
interests of the country.
The gamblers have cosmered the cot
ton market" said the secretary, and
put UP the price so high that manufac-
turers can not use raw cotton. AT the
existing prices there IS no profit to
them. The price OF manufactured goods
can not be manipulated as can be the
price OF raw cotton.
The manufacturer found 1t more
profitable to sell his cotton to the gam
b!ers. Mills were closed down because
OF there being no raw material letL ana
il some instances cotton when was
sold to European manufacturers mas
been brought back TO this country ana
used in the gambling operations.
Infinite mischief is being done to the
manufacturing industry and the cotton
growing industry of the United States
by this gambling movement. Most bu-
ropean nations which manufacture cot
ton and also own lun0s in outlying
provinces where cotton might be grown
are anxious 10 become independent OF
our gamblers, and so are organizing
and holding out inducements for the
DEVELOPMENT of the cotton-raising III
dustry.
The British. the Frerch. the Ger
mans. the Belgians and others own
lands in Africa, and they have been
for some time organizing TO produce
cotton.
They know that we are training SCI
entists here to study the coVeoh piah''
and they have been anxious to get our
hi Oh class men over there TO organize
for them The United States sent ss'-
100000 to Egypt last year TO pay lor
long staple Egyptian cotton. Inc oe-
rartment of agriculture Is trying 20
grow as good a staple at nome ps
hybridizing and creating new Varielies'
The secretary of agriculture for Egypt
Maid me a visit not long ago, ana salu
that with the irrigation oil eniafseu
areas along the Nile valley. growing
out of the completion Of the great DAM
the production of Egypt wouid De
greatly increased. They pay 10 cents q
day for labor there. There is a preeu
at cattle which does all the work. ana
stands the heat better than inu!es.
Those European nations owning terri
tory in Africa have been coming 10 our
southern states and engaging expert
,,agro i, hor 10 go over there and organ
ize the natives.
..1,we,ve-cent cotton in the uniten
states is a great encouragement 10 ~
those pepple to increase their output
The nations in Asia are doing every
hing 10 increase the cotton production
TO become independent OF us.
I'VE have not been increasing our
ou,nut for several years. The an
NAL Weld has been around looooooo
bales for number of years past. Texas
nromised for while great things II
the way of increasing the supply, ou'
the Mexican cotton boil WeeNll ma
done great damage. The department.
has been studying the subject ana con-
sress has given money to estabilsh oo-
iect-lesson stations to see IL coteoi
can be grown, Notwithstanding tne aP
naarance Of the Weevil. 1t is estimated
that the Texas crop was one nan mn :
hon bales short last year on account
OF the rayages of the weevil. Louisiana
has stamped out the plague. If 1t eX-
tends to the eastern cotton growing
states the effect will be disastrous
..E,very effort is being made by the
department of agriculture TO heip IN"
cotton growers of the southern states
to a better system OF agriculture, thrh
which "a larger YIELD of cotton can be
had. but increased output necessarily
Will come slowly
The department can not tell, neither
can any one else what the coming crop
will be. We make a monthly state
ment of condition, the last of which
was issued Aug. g. 1t showed that the
average condition of cotton on July 20
was 1871. as compared with III on
June %. and S1.9 on July 25,1902; H.
on July %, 1901, and ten-year aver
age of S43. The condition on July
% was, therefore, below the ten-yeaI
average.
."rhe prospect of the present crop has
nothing whatever to do with the oper-
ations Of the gamblers. The short
age of raw cotton to the manufacturer
is not due to shortage in the crop. but
to the fact that the corner in cotton
has put the price of the raw material
to point where the manufacturer
can not profitably use 1t.
The producer has not profited by the
present high prices. as the product Is
practically all out of his hands.
Il see no prospect Of relief for the
workingmen thrown out OF work by
the closing OF the mills until the corner
in cotton gets down. The new crop
of cotton will soon begin to come in
The corner can continue, of course, if
the gamblers have enough money t.
buy in the new crop
HITCHCOCK UNDER FIRE.