The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1906-11-29

DldZluS luo way lOT u CdnIPdISA VI
! education in foreign countries, de-
monstrating the usefulness of cotton
goods and emphasizing the economy
of their adoption. The field is an in
viting one, and the result will be
watched with interest by all who owe
allegiance to our greatest crop. That
it will result in good if properly han
dlel none can doubt, and the begin
ming made is a source of qualification
to the friends of cotton. | believe that
it is the duty of this assemblage, COM
posed of gentlemen representing the
great cotton states Of the country, to
memorialize their representatives Ill
the National Congress to keep in close
touch with this situation and give lib
orally of their best efforts to see that
the good work begun under such IA
vorable auspices shall be kept up and
increased as results warrant.
An inviting field for increase Of con
sumption is right here at home. The
staple itself is wrapped in fibre that
isimported from foreign countries to
a large extent. Desultory efforts have
been made to manufacture wrapping
out Of linters and low grades, but not
with the determination Of purpose
that promised success. | am firm in
the belief that the legislative bodies
of our cotton producing states could
do their constituency no greater SER
vice than to appropriate money for
thoroughly testing the feasibility and
practicability of wrapping the staple
with goods made FROM low grades that
could thus be utilized to wrap crop
of twelve million bales would remove
fro mthe market an element that IS
used b ythe manipulators to hammer
the price below what it should be le-
Ultimately.
Then again, the fertilizer used by
considerable per cent. of the cotton
planters comes in bags not made OF
cotton, and that too when the cotton
wrapping could, with the use of spe-
cial machinery, be produced as cheap
ly as the other. If fertilizer bags
were made of cotton, even that part
sold to cotton planters, great many
bales would be utilized to supply the
demand thus created.
These are only two instances of
dozens that could be mentioned and
commented on at length, but they are
sufficient to show something of the
possibilities of campaign for extend
ing the market and consumption right
her eat home. Some man is ready to
say, that all the farmer would have
to do norder to force the manufac
turers into this, would be to refuse to
wrap with anything but cotton COW
erings or accept fertilizers with any
thing but cotton sacks. This is true
also if the farmer would do this, but
a long and persistent campaign would
be necessary to Greats an interest that
will bring about such a condition. The
dozens of uses to witch our cotton
should be put, cannot be brought into
successful operation in day but will
require time, perseverance, patience
and money. l am impressed with the
idea that some definite plan Of cam
paign should be mapped out by the
gentlemen here today, and that all
should work in unison for a common
cause, carrying the fight into their
respective states, to the people them
selves, and through them, to the legis-
lative bodies of both state and nation.
In this manner the end sought can be
accomplished and no other.
The proposition to broaden the for
eign field is a much larger one, and
it would require hours in which to
discuss it intelligently and take cog
nizance Of every phase of the situa-
ton. Through the enterprise and per-
sistency of the British manufacturer,
goods made of American cotton have
found strong market in the most i'm
portant nation Of the world, but there
are still countless millions of the
earth's inhabitants that could and
should use our cotton manufactured
goods that are entirely ignorant of
it and the uses to which it might be
applied. As beginning Of an educa-
tional campaign along this line, was
the appropriation by the last Con
gress made. The field is almost lin
itless one and will require years of
study and persistent effort to accom-
plish the result desired. Great Brit
ain has blazed the way for this cam
| paign and as result is today, reap
ing the lions share Of the results to
accrue. Fully eighty per cent. or
more, Of the cotton manufactured col
ored and white piece goods sold to
foreign countries made in England.
While England is using our cotton and
pushing the goods into foreign coun-
tries, how much better it would be
if our own manufacturers could reap
the benefit of this vast trade.
All other Asiatic countries are waste
places as far as our cotton goods are
concerned, although England sells
more or less goods made from our
cotton to all of them. Alden, Brit
ish possession, Of small consequence,
but the gateway to considerable