The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-28

the cotton Is re-exported in a manufac l tured state.
 The merchants are also encouraging cot ton planting. Some Of the prominent | firms of Moscow sent the seed to Asiati' l Russia. They established machinery
 there and taught the people how to ust | it and agreed to buy the crops and the | product.
 l Our cotton not only has to compete with
 the Asiatic, but also with the Egyptian l cotton. We ship lot via the Baltic to | St. Petersburg. Riga and Rival. It is l very poorly packed, and in some of that which I have seen the bales were almost bnrsting In the meantime the Russian | cotton manufactures are steadily increas- l ing. They have more than doubled in the last ten years. and Russia expects to Europe and Asia.
 How Russia Will Capture China. There is considerable excitement just now about the Russian possession of Man churia. The Czar has said that the ports
 there will be open to all. but there Is no doubt he expects to capture the trade all the same. Indeed, if Russia adopts the same methods as to other parts of Asia that she is now using in Persia. she will drive all other countries out of the market. She has now the monopoly of
 
 has gotten it by giving a bounty to her manufacturers. On every pound of Rus sian cotton goods sent to Persia the Mos COW importer gets an allowance of 8 cents from the Government One cent covers the freight, and he has cents a pound profit. besides the usual profit on the goods. The English or German man. ufacturer has to pay full freight with no rebate and he cannot compete. This same system will be applied to China, and the result will be that the Chinese Empire will be annexed to Moscow. After the trade has been captured the rebate may be discontinued and the prices will rise. American Factories in Russia. Such things will necessitate the estab- lishment of American factories here. The tariff and the bounties will make it more profitable to work the trade on the ground and already number of our companies have such establishments. The Westing- houses have big airbrake works in St. Petersburg. It is run with American foremen and it's supplies come from the United States. They have also electrical works in South Russia and are manu- featuring electrical machinery here as they are doing in England
 I am told the tobacco trust will extend it's operations to this country and that tho New York pneumatic tool company is putting up a factory at Moscow The Singer Sewing Machine Company will have million dollar establishment in St. Petersburg and it's goods are already sold all over Russia.
 They Want Our Flows. Our big agricultural implement facto- ries ought to establish branches at Mos. COW and in Southern Russia to introduce their goods and save the duties. The Russians are the greatest farming nation of the globe They have the largest un- developed country and they are the most backward of the civilized people They have about a hundred million farmers with one-sixth of the world to work and they are trying to do it with machinery such as was ip use before Amreica was discovered The bulk of the land is in small holdings and it is only on the large estates that modern machinery is used The average farmer has a blow made of wood with an iron shear bound on.
 Such blows as come from abroad are Ing too expensive. Some kinds of our ma- chinery have been admitted free, but this will not be so under the new tariff. We have the monopoly of harvesters. binders. mowers and reapers, for we make the best in the world but the American blow, drill, cultivator and other such things are not known here. Within the past year or so few threshing machines have come in, but at present the most of the agricultural machinery outside of reap CTS and mowers is of German make The Germans sell more than a hundred mil lion dollars worth of such machinery ev- cry year, the English more than sixty