The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1911-12-20
BY p. II. MCGOWAN.

Washington, Dec. 17.-"The bust
ness men of the South should and can
demand, with anything like practi-
cal organization, a reasonable profit
on all the cotton America may grow"
said Senator Smith of South Carolina
today.
Last week 1 quoted extensively
from the ofiicial report of the seventh
international Cotton congress held in
Brussels. These quotations tended to
prove that the great concern of the
spinners and manufacturers was to
have an increased supply of cotton
and cheaper price. / shall quote
from the same organization in it's con-
SresS in Barcelona, Spain, held there
May, 1911, and | shall emphasize from
quotations from this congress the
same points, namely, that spindles
were increasing, that the raw material
mad fallen short of the demand of the
trade, and that soncequent high prices
Tor the raw material had resulted and
tAat the organization of spinners and
manufacturers should fight this con-
0itlon by reducing their running time.
discouraging the erection of any more
Spihdles and encouraging the i'm
creased production of cotton. n
NJ the congress held in MAY in
Barcelona. Spain, Sir Charles Macara,
ihe president of this congress, as he
was of the Brussels congress, said in
nd
gress:
Dependent on Farmers.
You are aware that we are en-
hrely dependent on the tillers of the
Soll for the raw material with which
to carry on our industry. One of the
objects of the International Cotton
federation is to develop the cultiva-
tlon of the raw material in any part
of the world where cotton can be
grown. Owing to the great develop
ment OF the cotton industry, the raw
material has fallen short of reoui,e-
ments.
Further on in the same speech, he
says in support of his argument for
short timc-that is, for reduction i'm
III" time that the spindles and looms
Sfauld rum
If we had had a sufficient supply
oil raw cotton at reasonable price
there would probably have been work
for all the spndles and all the looms
large though the additions to machin-
ely have been i'm recent years.
prospect of relief from the existing
state OF things, unless VT resort to the
plan which | advocated both before
and since the international federation
was established, and which adyu-
cate now more strongly than ever the
adoption of systematized short time
r.. Seyrig (France) said:
As to High Prices.
think we ought to remember
that at the present time we can pay
to the natives (having reference to
the European and English colonies
who are attempting to raise cotton)
very fair price for their cotton. But
ii is not very likely, let us hope, that
we shall pay high prices always
j. p. Tattersail (England) in
speaking of the necessity of an in
creased production to meet the re-
1GircmCnts OF the spndles and looms,
said
1t is important that we should do
what we can to emphasize the i'm
portance of growing more cotton upon
all the governments of the world that
own suitable land and that we should
not depend as much as we do upon
the climatic conditions OF one coun-
try.
-. w. Mcconnell, in speaking of the
possibilities of an increased supply,
said:
1t is also quite certain that the
combined efforts of all these colonial
cotton growing associations Will only
aCd by slow degrees to the cotton
crops available for the world, and
that there will not be any great ex-
pansion from this source during the
lifetime of anybody present
During the discussion of the ques-
ton Of supply of the raw material and
the seeming decentralization of the
trade in reference to the huctuation in
prices, and particularly in reference to
tie condition of the supply of manu-
facturcd goods, President Macara
said:
Markets Bare.
~ believe that the markets of the