The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-07

federacy, has an hiss >ric quality which gives to 1t peculiar interes.. A Ns- ttor here recognizes Ht once that ne IS in center of inhuenee-that froEa here streams or thought and of pow CT go out in every direction, like nght and heat from the sun.
 "As l came fhrough the Southern country on my way to Alabama l saw on every side, as the train sped quick- .l1 along, the evidences of tfe cotton manufacture ot the South. The Scotch have a saying It's far cry to Loch Awe and 1t is far cry from the south titatswas content only to raise cotton, to the South that is steadiiy wrestling the manufacture Dt cotton, year by year, from New England. l suppose it to be true that certain grades of cotton can no longer be proi- itably manufactured in this country outside of the South. This reminds me that thirty odd years ago. when was engaged in business with China, tried 10 get New England mill to make some cheap cotton goods for that market There has heen. as you know, a large trade with China in peppAsei drills and sheetings for the better pai of a century. but up to the time T speak of the brands exported 10 me East could have been coupted on Your nll- gers. Enc mill owners very frankly told me that they would fill. on, conl- mission. any order that We mlRtlt give. but that they would not manufacture for market so remote when they naa a market so much better at home;l es- peciaily they would not agree to pacA inc goods, OF to make them except up- on commission. in any form thai Would render them unavailable for the mar ket here. In the interval, my uhuer- standing is that very large trade has grown up with China in cotton goods manufactured in the South. l suppose that in the first instance, when the South was searching for market, the market abroad was as good as mar ket at home
 Expansion of Trade.
 "The first result of that old exper- fence was to make me understand that if in America we want to command Il foreign market for anything. we must study the needs Of that market and conform to them as far as possible . Ourt trade with the Orient, both in cot ton and in cotton goods. ought 10 De very large. and the South ought 10 have a constantly increasing share or the trade in the manufactured artlcle- When the Panama Canal is opened the South will be still more advantageouS- Iy situated, and 1t only remains Tor the United States to see that the dooI for commerce is not shut, elther o! others or by ourselves. American oi- pIomaey has, fortunately, been able so maintain the open door for trade as an international ! olicy In the Tar Las. but just at the moment when our ol" pIomatic triumph was most marked we have found ourselves called upon to face Chinese boycott againsL American goods. If the situation is to be wisely dealt with, it is important to realize just what it signifies, and what can be, and what ought to De done
 The boycott undoubtedly has arisen as an expression Of the irritation or the Chinese on account of the treatment accorded to their countrymen under the law of Congress regulating the en- fry of Chinese into the Unlted States. The law as present is so worded as to admit no Chinese except certain classes that are named-like merchants, stu- dents and others. The result Is nat ural feeling of irritation on the part or the Chinese that the whole nation is discriminated against except certain few. President Roosevelt has pro- posed to meet the difficulty by exactly reversing the legislation; that Is to say. by providing that all Chinese may come as other people, except the ccolle class. which is the class 1t is intended to shut out. There is, so far as know, no particular desire on the part Of Chl- na that the coolies shall be admitted. Here in the United States the question hinges mainly on the attitude of labor towards the Chinese. Every 7 mt Ic an who appreciates the standard of living which has been realized after hard struggles by. the American laborer, can perfectly well unuerstdnu why ehe American laborey Is unwilling to enter into competition with the Chinese COO lies For one, not only understand 1t, but I sympathize with it, That is not a good reason, however, why the Unfted states should take an attitude towards an entire nation which is al once ungracious and unwise,
 The position taken by the Presl- dent as to the amendment of this itw seems, to be thoroughly stat ssmaniike Al. Il, q nfFlar the interest of the country and in its own interest than to throw its sniiu- ence in favor Of such m amendment Ci the Chinese Exclusion Act. under stand why the labor element IS oppos- cd to any modification of the law; il fears that any change will lead to gen, eral evasion; but | also Helieve that when the matter is thoroughly talked out, labor itself will perceive that the change proposed by the President Is in the public interest, including Its own
 Progress of Cotton.
 \ reflected again as passed the cot ton fields of the South, that it is a tar cry from the South that used tht cotton fibre only to the south that finds a uss not only for the fibre, but also for the seed and for the 5tnIk. Really what has been accomplished with cot 1 ton, in making use of what used to bt thrown away, is only a conspicuous H. Iustration Of one of the most ma keC 1 characteristics of our time. MT. Car negie once told me that he made Stce ! for two years out of the waste heIpi 1 of his neighbors' factories, because h' | was the first in his line of bushes tC | employ professional chemists, Si1 | William Fl. Perkin was young mar 1 not twenty years old when ne discJv cred mauVe and laid the tounhGtinn c the great color industry in anijn' dyes In one of his eXnerim ants inc gU a dark, ugly residum that many would l have thrown away: but he eNa'nlned i carefully and out of this promising substance made the first Df the anilin' 1 .,olors This sr.4ius to me an allegory l fnll of instruction for every thought l ful .man and for every wise people NJ community can afford tc neg.ect ever the most unpromising clement Of It population, for jt never :tn tell wha advantage to the general veal may come out of the most unpronisiing ma tarial.
 A few years ago I spoke at an eXpor convention in Philadelphia. with tht late William II. Parsons. who was q that time the head of the Paper Trust , MT. Parsons made ne statement tha the United States could export papeI tu England. although we ray tifrct times the wages; that w could eypor