The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-01

time l was politely urged to remain as long as I desired and ask any thing wanted to know, about cotton.
 Mir. Hayne when asked who ulti- mately bore the hardship of high priced cotton, replied that there was no hardship any where. that the con sumer of the finished product is the only man that doesn't get more money out of his transaction than he put in it If the farmers, traders and manu- lecturers use sane business methods. The consumers burden was no great CT hardship than protection, policy which has made the Northen people ricn. High priced cotton has made the South rich. Here in New Orleans there is more money than we know what to do with In the way of invest | ment! The scarcity of trustworthy industrial labor is our great need. We have the money, we need muscle. The negro mechanic and manual laborer gets good wages, and can make enough in two days to subsist in riotous idle ness the balance of the week."
 What do you think about the theo- ry of seed deterioration" l asked in conclusion. Wild horses couldn't drag any Sully talk out of any of the professional cotton men in New Or ACciHss RCt0 dS a SHOII crop guarantee Is Mir. SulIy's stunt so MT. Hayne asked me an irrelevant question in reply The professional cotton men handle the subject ginger ly. The laity Is glib enough on Sully.
 "Snlly. well Sully has failed. He Is out of 1t. He is a dangerous, unset ting element in the market. 'de Is a plunger." In cotton parlance Sully is gin cut and good for nothing put q rope
 Next door up stairs Is the office of William Perry Brown. King of the Cotton Bulls. From some yellow jour nal heresy I was prepared to behold in this gentleman the twin brother of the poets hero The man that didn't give a damn On the contrary Rnoth- CT ideal was shattered for as soon as arrived In earshot. though still out of vision, 1 heard MT. Brown give one, vigorous, unmistakabie. masculine damn! l had heard the word before. (on the stage) and remembered that everybody laughed: Then I laughed and the cotton classer laughed. and the stenographer, the telegraph boy, the cable cipher expert. and the King of the Cotton Bulls himself Then the dreaded interview was as pleas ant as getting money from home. Several hundred bales of spot cotton had temporarily gotten lost in transit, and hence MT. Browns hlstrionic ex- pletive. Before I left they were re- ported found and the incident was closed. Mir Brown is a man of viz orous primary emotions. He was one of the bulls who came out whole in the famous Peter Labouisse campaign of 1896. which resulted in a general smash-up. He has helped to corner the market before this campaign. and I had already been told that no man living knows more about cotton than he.
 Tn 1896, when cotton was selling for five cents the manufacturers in- vented all sorts of new uses for it," he said when asked some questions.
 Wool and silk were adulterated with it and a thousand new ways of using the staple were devised. These avenues of utilization will not be closed. Those goods surreptitiously adulterated with five cent cotton can still be adulterated with fifteen cent cotton. with a paying margin in com petition with all wool or all silk goods which they simulate. The lnterna- tional commerce of the world has car ried cotton goods into new markets. and the hitherto literally naked tribes of the earth are learning that while the body may be more than raiment.