The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1914-10-27
ENGLISH VIEW OF
COTTON SITUATION
HOPED THERE THAT COTTON
GROWERS WILL GET THROUGH
WITHOUT SERIOUS RoUELE.
Hint That a Much Larger Price viii
Have to be Paid Next Year for the
Cotton Marketed in English Mills.

London, October 24-Discussing the
plight of American cotton growers,
the Cotton Factory Times, a promin-
ent English trade paper, says: 1T is
to be hoped that for their sakes, as
well as ours, the planters win get
through without serious loss. The
call for cotton will come in due time,
and it is essential in tie general in
terest that it should then be forth
coming in sufficient quantities, which
could hardly be the case if the grow
ers We're quined or very severely hit
at the present time"
The World Record has prepared a
table, based on figures of the Inter
national Cotton Federation which
show that about one half of the COS
ton produced in America for the year
ended September 1, 1913, was used
by the countries now at war. Great
Britain, Germany, France, Austria,
Russia, Belgium and Japan are repre-.
scented as consuming 7,534,934 bales
out of a total of 14,o03, 757 bales.
Italy, Spain, Portugal. Holland. Swe-
den, Denmark and Norway. which
took l,l93,SS7 bales Of cotton in 1918,
are also more or less seriously al-
fected by the war.
Cotton spinners at Manchester were
much disgruntled by the action OF the
Federation of Master Cotton Spinners
Associations in running short time
For a time serious labor troubles
We're threatened. But conditions in
the cotton market have now become
so bad that complete suspension Of
cotton manufacturing plants seems
imminent unless the government
finds some way to offer relief.
Spinners are indignant over the
continued closure of the Liverpool
cotton market and have inspired er-
forts to effect direct business rela-
tions between the growers and con
sumers Of cotton. thus eliminating the
Liverpool cotton dealers. The Man
chester Guardian and other prominent
papers located in cotton manufactur-
| ing centers, while admitting that such
plan might be desirable, say 1t
would require a long time to handle
cotton direct because of the great
amount of machinery required to take
care of it properly and the necessity
for the careful grading which Liver.
pool dealers have afforded
Speaking of the proposed elimina.
ton of Liverpool interests from the
cotton trade, the Cotton Factory
Times says: Cotton planters in
America have already considered the
necessity of protecting themselves
against the Liverpool interests, and il
is reported that they have decided
that no cotton shan be planted next
year This is of course meant as a
warning that if their stocks of ma
terials are not taken off their hands
now a greatly enhanced price will be
charged for it later on
Opinions may differ as to whether
some OF the present dislocation Of
trade could not be avoided, but it is
daily becoming more clear that there
are too many conflicting interests at
work in the business, which makes it
very difficult for trade to move. and
those interests seem bent on blaming
each other for some portion Of the
present unsatisfactory situation"
Thomas Temperly, of Bolton, in a
letter on the plight of the cotton
trade, charges that Liverpool cotton
lords" are supported by English banks
in keeping the Liverpool cotton mar
lset closed and preventing mills from
getting the supply Of raw cotton they
need This is much the same posi-
tion taken by George Harvey. a mem.
Der of Parliament, who charged that
Liverpool interests maintain an anti
fetal cotton market and even when
the Liverpool market is open do not
permit trading unless prices are in
their favor.
Direct importation of cotton to Man
chester by the manufacturers who re-
quire it is urged by Mr. Temperly.