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April 12th,
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Town Talk Flour
County Cotton Mills
BY JOHN C. EDGAR.
There is no problem In political
economy that worries our lawmaker*
anti administrator* more than what Is
the best way to employ our tynnly
and state convicts. As the 'death
penalty by "due course or law" Is fast
becoming a mere tradition, at about
(he some rate imprisonment penal
ties are on the Increase. Few will
contend that convicts should be al
lowed to eat the bread of Idleness
when physically lit to work. Most
healthy prisoners would prefer mod
erate work to Idleness, and It U a
humane act to give them work and
compel them to do good work to ihe
limit of their ability. The strict dis
cipline enforced In prison is good for
Ihe mental and moral, as well as the
physical condition of the prisoner
Tills being granted, the question is
what labor Is beSt suited for convicts.
There Is no difficulty about finding
plenty of work they can do and that
efficiently, but, as each class of em
ployment Is mentioned some one
jumps up and cries, "I object, It It
not fair to use convict labor in com
petition with free.” This Is the point
vhere the difficulty begins and re
fuses 'to be removed.
Those charged with the safekeeping
ind economical employment of con
victs recognize the force of the con
vict vs. free labor argumen’, but as
every possible kind of employment
>s performed by free labor It 1* Im
possible to employ convicts In sny
work that would not. In some mess-
ire, bring them In competition with
free labor.
As no solution of the problem Is
possible that will be satisfactory to
the champions of free labor, the best
thing that can be done Is to use con
vict labor In work not done by free
men In the county or state, or if done.
In such a limited way that few would
be Injured by the competition.
In this state, convicts were for
many years, leased to railroads and
cotton planters, but the system sav
ored too much of old time slavery
methods for the new generation and j
It grew Into disfavor. The slate hav-1
Ing valuable Iron deposits close to the '
penitentiary decided to mine the ore I
and manufacture It with convict la- ^
bor. There being no other Iron
works In the state then, or since, it
seemed as If this was a happy solu
tion of the competition trouble. It
has until recently been understood
that the iron works were being run
os neai a profit as state Institutions
usually are, and without any objec
tion from outsiders. Now it is pro
posed to lease the works to be run by
free labor. But what of the con
victs now handling iron? Under tho
Old lease system most of the con
victs were controlled by cotton plant-
era so that they came Into very di
rect competition with the farmer and
formed a very important factor in the
price of the stato crop. This was
seen to be unjust and It was decided
to use the leased convicts on state
sugar farms, there being few of them
in the state, and a wide and profit
able field for the product. It Is now
before our legislature to purchase an
other plantation- to give employment
to those relieved from the lror.
works.
Convicts in Cotton Mill*.
These two state enterprises seetn
to have come near being a success
without infringing on the rights ol
free men, and have suggested a
further trial in a new field. There
Is now a bill before our legislature
having for its object the building of
cotton mills by the state, to be
operated by ronvkts In the manufac
ture of coarse cotton cloths not now-
made In the state.
This seem* to me a wise and lime
ly proposal, there being no mills In
operation and vast quantities of low-
grade cotton now almost unsalable
With home factories such cotton
could be used profitably to the grow
er and the mill operator. The grade
of cotton suitable for cottonbale bag
ging, picking backs, sail cloths and
endless other heavy fabrics, if used
for such purposes, would so reduce
tho stock of cotton "In sight" as to
greatly advance the price of real co*-
ton. The low grades of cotton are
only fit for sncfi fabrics as described
above, but In the dally reports of
stock on hand are counted as mid
dllng.
If two or three million bab-s of low
grade cotton were manufactured In
the States In which they were pro
duced, the number of hales of real
commercial cotton would read so
small that foreigners wood soon be
tumbling over each other to buy th t
small stock of splnnahle cotton; and
Insteud of planters being urged to
reduce their acreage, they would be
left to please themselves by one set
of friends and plant more by others.
The elimination of low grade cotton
from the market would do more to
Increase the price of higher grade
than any resolutions fixing Impossible
minimum*.
We don't now raise more cotton
than the people of the wourld could
use If all the purposes It can be ap
plied to were exploited. In a few
years cotton will be used for endless
purposes not now thought of, and It
should be the duty of our Agricultural
Department to help tho discovery
and development of new uses for the
staple.
Daniel Bully’s Article.
Daniel Sully, In a recent magazine,
has an Interesting and Instructive ar
ticle on cotton and its possibilities to
the people of the South. He points
out the power now in the hands of
the underpaid cotton grower, who
does not know that he possesses It.
j He states the fact that our*-cotton-
growing States have a monopoly of
I cotton production and should manu-
| facture all the cotton we grow where
It Is grown and ship the manufactur
ed article to the needy people of less
favored nations.
We are traveling that road now, but
slowly. A few years ago there was
hardly a cotton mill In the South.
The mill owners of the East came
down and bought our cotton, paid for
Its hauling to their mills, raanufactur-
ed It and sent It back to be sold to
the people that grew It. Such a!i ar
rangement suited the railroads and
steamships, and did not hurt the man
ufacturer, as he got back all expenses
from tho consumer. Hut It was seen
by some clearer-headed Yankee spin
ner that a mill In the cotton field
would have an advantage over one
?,000 miles away, and he came down
and experimented so sucoessfulfy that
his example Is being followed at a
rate that may well alarm the people
of the East, who thought they had tba
cotton cloth trade grabbed.
Mr. Sully says he has a plan where
by the cotton grower of the South can
control the whole world In cotton pro
ducts. I am afraid his plan will turn
out to be more theoretical than prac
tical. I can see If the actual pro
ducers of all the cotton In the South
were combined to manufacture the
raw material and sell the finished ar
ticle, that they would have something
very near a monopoly of the world's
cotton trade, and be able, like Stand
ard Oil to fix the price of their pro
ducts, but such a combination of cot
ton growers ts but a dream.
We may have enough factories to
do the manufacturing but they will
be controlled by capitalists and high
make the consumer pay big Interest
on, not only on their money invested,
but on oceans of water in fictitious
Btock. Unless the cotton grower Is
one of the "high financiers” and
shares In the plunder, he Is not ltkefy
to do any better with his crop than
at present.
I am not one who thinks that com
binations or trusts krre. In every case
evil things, but while I think them
the natural outcome of our keen com
mercial competition, I would rathet
encourage Independent competition,
than monopolies which are generally
cruel and oppressive. The more com
petition between our manufacturers
1 and thoee of other nations, the better
I chance for the cotton grower.
A cotton mill In every county in
the big growing States would bo
worth striving for.
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