The farmer and mechanic., 1915-09-14
URGES US. To MAKE
DYE MAT TER|AI. NOW
Cotton Men Told 1t viii Take
Ibis Country Years To CON-
pete With Germany

Groton, Conn, Sept. 1.-THE Ma
Nonal Association Of Cotton Manufac-
turers today at its closing session
heard a number of papers on trade
SUBJECTS, such as cotton fiber, dye-
stu1ts. mill supplies, starchos in the
textile industry, and prevention Of
accidents in cotton mills
According to an address by DR.. ]
V Stanley Stanislaus, of PhiladelDhia.
it will take the United States from
ten to twenty years to reach the point
that Germany has gained in the man
ufacture Of dye-stuffs, but he con-
tended that however long it took, the
beginning must be made and the
psychological moment for the begin
ming had arrived.
he said In pat.
In all this annoyance. loss. and
uncertainty, why do we not have an
American coal-tar chemical industry
capable Of meeting tho nations de-
mands. Self-cOntained and indepen-
| dent Of foreign control, utilizing our
native raw material?
"A careful analysis Of the situation
! shows that not only is the American
supply and the limited American pro
| ductOn Of cOal-tar dye-StutfS com
pletely dominated by the American in
| dustry. but that this is the case
| throughout the world. Even cOun-
tries such as Great Britain and
France, with ample supplies of crude
material and highly developed indus
| trial power, are in the same cOndi-
tions as the United States.
! "In 1913 the total CONSUMPTION OF
artificial dye-stuffs in the world had
attained q value of over S92, 100000
Germany furnished A per cent OF the
entire amount and over One-half OF
the materials needed to make the re
mainder. The only country, in addi-
ton to Germany, manufacturing dye
StuffS in any noteworthy manner fOl
the worlds markets is Switzerland
That country relies, however, for it,
crude and half-manufactured mate
rials chiefly upon German sources
The dominance of Germany in the
, dye-stuff production and commerce O
. the entire world is so marked, and in
, herently of such potential might, tha
. it does not hesitate to make itself fcl
whenever and wherever an effort i
made toward emancipation from it
control. The methods used are thOS
often associated with the working o
great industrial corporations in va
, riOuS lands and now effectively check
: ed by legal enactment in the Unite
:, States In the case Of the German
q coal-tar chemical industry, the field
a international and it's operations ar
unchecked by law. It's influence ha
o been felt at once in our own countr
: when efforts to manufacture interme
diate compounds or finished dye
threatened in any way the interest
of the German production and trade
1.-The industry has been chiefly dc
velOped by the inventive power
), German chemists, combined with
:, | wealth Of technical skill and kee
- business management, scarcely equa
. . ed in the history Of any other branc
- Of manufacture. The tWenty-O or
,. German companies engaged in til
:. chemical dye-stuffs manufacture hay
y a nominal capital Of over 1000
II 900 on which dividends average
:. per cent. Actual profits often reac
a so per cent. The great excesses hay
- been devoted to new construction.
- is the most remuneratite industry
" the Empire, the one most solidly ar
q formidably intrenched, the one
= which the nation is most proud
q showing the triumph Of science a
~ piled to industrial purposes, and tt
one illustrating most strikingly tt
- ability to win and maintain Intern
20 tiOnal supremacy in a given field.
- There seems to be cOnCenSuS
- opinion that any rapid davelopme
=. and evolution Of the dye-stuff brant
- in the United States on a scale cor
mensurate with the nations neeG
iS pI CSCilL clIiu ~ N>Aii W &
-, Sured only on the basis of an effeC
i've law preventing that action iowa
- control of our markets by forei;
q a. monopoly which is now prohibited
:, a domestic monopoly. Some OF I
~ largest manufacturers have persO
y ally informed the department OF COZ
=, = marce that what is needed IS not
~ tariff change but laws placing a fC
~ eign monopoly on the same basis
an American one.
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D. man. Here he had entertained Su
o. Americans as President Garfield Ch
to Justice Chase, Horace Greedy Gene1