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J . - ' " fe' - i i i J jr' Our aim is to inake THIS PAPER IS ENDORSED . , . i ;BY THE FARMERS ALLIANCE " . OF ; Mecklenburg County. c J" the Times a first-clasS General Kewspaper, suitable for those who live in cities as well as those who live in the "country. mtnm YOL. II CHARLOTTE, -N. CJFRIDAY. JANUARY 251889. NO. 6. 1 LKAMNt - Onp'i-Ue .1EWELERS AND OPTICIANS. nt ral Hotel, -CHARLOTTE, X. C. , AS A SPECIAL INDUCEMENT We offer to any member of the FARMERS' ALLIANCE" A STEM WIND GENUINE AMERICAN MOVEMENT . SOLID SILVER WATCH roit $io.oo G U A U ANTEED A CORRECT TIME PIECE. . THIS OFFER - " " ' (..! FuR 30 DAYS ONLY FROM DATE. JANUARY 1st, 18S9. D rgFo. w. graham, lIIAKL"TTE, X. C. '"" Fraetice Limited to .the EYE. EAR AND jTHROAT. . DR. II. M. WILDER, i PHYSICIAN ANI SURGEON. Oifice ov'erBurwell & Dunn's drug store. L - ' . - - A GALLANT FIGHT FOR OUR SOUTHERN MANUFACTURERS. j leading i to the Northwestern country j for special rates, putting it upon the i ground that unless they could ge some advantage of the Southern man ufacturers by special freight rates they would be driven out of the mar ket. ' Not only have the Southern mills pretty well taken the market of this country for that trade of goods, but large numbers and values of them are exported to foreign countries, as I shall show in a moment. I ask per mission to read here a letter from one of the most intelligent gentleman in my State, who is well acquainaed with the- condition of the mills m that Facts About Cottou that will Enter tain Every Manufacturer and Every Planter. Mr. Vance Mr. President, if there is any one branch of human industry in which America ought not only to uC ui w compete mm tne worm oui and whosc oxposition of their to take the lead of the world, it i :n n e would seem to me to be this ofcpltort7,,;ils ? tha Sn,,t1, ,t. .o k : i. r n ii : o 1.1 MIC ULlUBt llULIUliaUL Ul Ull lUU industries that pertain to this country, unless it be iron and its manufactures. It is growing in importance and the consumption of the manufactures of cotton is increasing in quantity every day. - - I have collated a few statistics with reference to the production and the growth of cotton which I wish to impart to the Senate, For the last fiscal year the consumption of the en tire worM was 10,911,000 bales of cotton, bale being estimated at 450 pounds. " Of this sum the Southern States of the United States of Amer ica furnished 7,017,707 bales.. Very nearly seven-tenths of all the cotton that is produce1 or consumed in the I proceed to answer' your queries. First. The mills of North Carolina are relatively numerous, but they are small, and they do not make a fine grade of yarn. ("The number of a yarn" is the number of hanks of that yarn it takes to make a pound) Our mills mostly make from 14's to 20's; the great bulk is 14's and the average is 25's. The numbers, hovever run from 8's to 22's. A few mills even finer numbers. At Wilmington they make 36s. Second. The cloth made in this State is almost entirely either "brown sheetings" (unbleached plain white goods) or "plaids." - Brown sheeting is mostly yards wide and 3 yards to the pound. . l.l a q : k ! '" cr "tt 1,1 luc: j Pkids are mostly 24 to 27 inches Mates. 1 here was spun and woven1 , , M , , . ,i . . . . , -w-y . i o i ! wide, 4, 4 J, and o yards to the pound, into fabrics in-the United States in the ! rn, -, t i ; i ;j , ,r. i i mi 1 he yarn almost exclusively used in same year 2,zo0,4y-4 bales. Ihe re- I i .1 c .u j v 1 i vr . . ' , , . , f both of these goods is iNo. 14. JNo. ui-.ua - -p,u au Buxa 14 yarn makc8 44 threads to the inch, or, counting both ways, 88. JJR. E. C. REGISTER. OFFICE IN BELMONT HOTEL, TRADE STREET. Calls promptly attended to. HERIOT CLlRKSON. CHARLES II. DULS. CLARKSON & DULS,, ATTORNEYS AT-LAW, .OFFiqE IX LAW BUILDIXO- Promjit attention to all business in trusted. Claims collected. Practice in -.State and Federal Courts. foreign countries To show the importance and the rapid growth of the cotton production in this countryi I find by examination that there were produced in the year 1837-'38, fifty years ago, 1,804,797 j bales, against 7,017,707 bales, as 1 1 have stated, produced last year. So j the production of cotton itself in fifty ! years has increased 350 per cent, in ! the United States, and rapid as our ; population has grown the increase in production has- more than kept pace ; with it; it has ;n fact largely exceeded ' it. J In all the civilized world the con-. : sumption of cotton has increased in the same proportion. In Great Britain in : No. 14 yarn, running 44 threads to the inch, 25 inches wide, mikes a cloth weighing about 5 yards . 0 the pound. But if it can be "beat" thicker - so that the cloth will be heavier, and will take only 4 yards to make a pound; the width also varies. to 27 inches. I inclose samples of cloth made from No. 14 yarn, weighing 4, 4i,' and 5 yards to the pound, sent by Mr. "Willard. I also inclose a sample of a finer yarn, possibly. No. 22, run ning over G yards to the pound. You will perceive the difference in texture between that and the others, and can feel the difference in thickness from ing a difference f only 8 cents in the ajrjrrecatc earning of the two. Tha1 week is 1,270 yards, whilst the output of the English weaver is 90 yards. Mr. President, if these figures arc true,-1 should like to ask what this protection is fur '.' It cannot be fen the benefit of the operative-, "because, althuugh his earnings are somewhat larger in this country than they arc in England, they are nut due to i'h4' f-nviH' 1 nliir i rii imav.-. mnnpv lit reason of hi-. I'-i:gf r hcurc jf labor, Lis superior trie ill. and his more mde- uid the grt'iiter were reduced, tne price ot our cotton goods would rule much lower here, and we could export successfully and largely increase our milling interests. Since that letter was received I have received others, giving mere in formation m regard to the exportation of these Southern-made goods. I have a letter from the same gentleman in which he states that on subsequent inquiry he Las found that the Pied mont Manufacturing Company, of Greenville, S. C., and another mill under the same management, export their goods abroad ; and the Clifton mills, at Clifton, S. C; the Oranite ville mills, at Granite villa, S. C; the Pacolet, and the Langley, and the King mills, and the Sibley mill'.:, at Augusta, Ga., and many others. They are passed through the custom- fatiabl house for export under flie name of rc&ult.s "domestics," and by -observing tho i ployrr. reports of the exportafions you v. ill ! Now, tir, why see that very large quantities of do- : great continent niQStic go to China, to India, to Synth j to the production America, to Mexico, and all parti of j by a people wlius the world, the bulk of - which are no to its productiun. doubt from the Southern mills. i ments of mauul"; The activity, of British .manufac-n are to be found in a superior degree turers of cotton goods, maintained' to thtnfc of any other country weaver would attend 4 looms. In , securing a profit in the manufacture America the average earning per loom , of these gofods, but they must actual- per week of the operative is ijjo. 08; in ' ly contribute out of the public Ireas- England the average earning per loom per week of the operative is 0; show- ury to thq carrying of those gbods to market. The illustration given the other day by the Senator from New York, whom le niuusuv ,!. 1 He rives, to L is em- 1 cyj-n 7 ? t il i.i r;rA 1000- u mere was consumea betweeQ all - maJe 000 bales, whereas in 188- there 1 were frQm Xo n coasumed m Great Britain 3,8bl,000 , Goods weighing 5 yards- to the bales, an increase of over o0 per cent. ud sell wholesale at 5 cents a yatd; in the consumption of that one coun- . n Js t) the nd at 53 cents try alone in twenty years. and 4 yards to the. pounds at G On the continent of Europe the in- i cents crease was still greater . in isuu- ui H UGH W. HARRIS, - ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Practice in the Slate and Federal Courts. office: First Door West of Court House. j" E. -BROWN, . ATTORNE Y-AT-Ji A W , of Tn sDinnins- there is a waste-of one- on the continent the consumption was fif h A t spimiers say qq puUT1ds l,uo,uo-r oaies, wueu in .c:,- coil 0f cotton me S3 pounds "A AAA " 1 -.I-' 1 was A, l iu.uuu, an increase aargei yarn. Sari 1-5 1 11 1 iwi.i: 'II, over ivu per eeui. ,j.u ui mills of the Southern States of this Union consumed only 70,000 bales of cotton. In 1887 they consumed 500, 000 bale of cotton,, whereas the mills of the Northern portion of the Union consumed in lSuG-"G7, 740,000 bah s, and last year they consumed 2,030, 000 bales, showing an increase in the consumption of the Northern mills of upon under very adverse circumstances, the face of the earth ; and having, as should be a -sufficient example to "a ! you may say, a monopoly' of the raw protective tariff. They have not oujy ; material for the rest of the world is maintained tneir trade in the face of ; dependent upon us why should we the increased production by the mills ; hamper our statue Looks with these of the United States, and the conti- i restrictive laws, which can only have nent of Europe, and all the rest .of the effect of hampering and crippling the world, but they have at the same j trade, and cannot put -any money into time maintained their rate of wages, j the pockets of the beloved working For the past year, ending October. men V y 1, their trade in cotton -goods, cloth Mr. President, the best evidence and yarn, reduced to pounds for con-! that we can compete without protcc venience sake, was 1,200,000,000 tion is that we do compete under all pounds, as against 1,145,450,000 ' the disadvantages of protection. If a pounds in 1880 '87, and 1,110.840,-.! man 'could travel 20 miles a day and 000 pounds in 1S85'8G, showing a , carry a heavy load, is it not reasonable constant and steady increase; and the to 'argue that he could travel much to th'eir output of the American weaver pe j I do not see in Lis seat, of the wisdom of Germany in producing cheap sugar, simply meant that the German peo ple were taxed to give cheap sugar to foreigncrs outside of the German Em pire; that is all it meant, and that proposition is to be made here. There is a great desire on the part of the protectionists to have a market for the surplus, and that surplus must be sold at whatever reduction of cost. It is more profitable for the producer to sell it at half pice than to let it lie upon his hands, and if the surplus were once1 a year thrown on tne Amer ican market it would disturb the values of the home market, and that must be avoided. Therefore it has to be sent abroad to be sold cheaply, at half price or anything it will bring, to these miserable foreigners whom we profess to dislike so much. That must be one of the exigences of trade. A man must get rid of his surplus in some way, but in heaven's name let him get rid of it at his own expense. In the name of common sense andcommon honesty if he wants to furnish foreign paupers with cheap goods for which the Americans have already been taxed, let him bear the expense of taking them to market and selling them at the best he can, and not call upon an overtaxed people for further contributions. The total increase of this cotton sbcdulc, as they make it, over Uie existing law would amount to 0233, 000, which sum would have to be increased by the very large amount on which the duty is raised, on cotton, velvets, tdushes. fine goods, etc., 'X V GENTLEMEN : THIS WILL BE A GREAT BARGAIN WEEK AT W. KAUFMAN & CO.'S CORNER CENTRAL HOTEL. The warm weather in the Fall has left us like the United States Treasury, with a Large Surplus, but in our case it is Clothing. A BOLD SACRIFICE. WE WILL SACRIFICE OVER $ 40,000 WORTH OF MEN'S, BOYS' AND CHILDREN'S, CLOTHING. THIS IS THE THIRD DAY OF OUR SACRIFICE SALE. hould we, with this o admirably fitted of cottuu,- occupied 1 genius is directed where- all the ele cturing successfully the further in- load ''. in If. carried no consumption of the goods of the further in the day if he with all this enormous I amounting to the sum or io uuu.uuu; creased sales, particularly upon the protective tariff taxation upon the j arid the amount of the increase of continent of Europe, but chiefly their plant, upon everything with which duties upon those can not be corn sales have been increased and their i wo operate except alone the raw ma- j puted for want of data, and therefore 1 " 1 1 1 1 T. 1 ' ' . .,1 11 11 lVAn4-tmn4-rl business nas oeen auvauceu in xnuia tena.i,- nauuieappeu uy uigner 'wages n can uuiy ue cenuiaicu. and in China, in the face of the cheap- ; n -this country than they pay in Eu est labor in the. world, by mills pay-! rope if we can successfully compete in one item of cotton manufacture, why can not we successfully compete in them all if thu restrictions upon 1 .11 .1 .11 ing tne dearest laDor in tue worui, except the United States, showing conclusively that - England has not acquired and maintined her supremacy in - the manufacture of these cotton cheapness of the raw material, for we get the raw material as cheap as she gets it herself"; or oheapor, by freights. insurance, commissions, etc., incident to transportation ; but she has ac quired it by the cheapness of the ma terial of which her plant is composed. pounds of cotton j by the cheapness ot tue interest on tne mane a pound ot yarn. uu conon 1 cupiun m-u v.i.j-.v. ..... at 10 cents, 12 cents of cottou is 1 j cheapness of her fuel and all that runs ,.r.,.l ,r t-.,rr, fottfin la now nhmi t. i her oneratious: and. I might add, by I should say, judging by the in creases on those goods, the data for which have been furnished to tbe Treasury Department and where the if thu restrictions udou calculations have been maae 1 snouiu our progress were removed '? ! say that the increase in the Dalance 01 To show the injustice and useless-; the schedule would amount to tuny as jroods bv the cheapness of her labor, ness of this duty, especially upon the much more, or, say, 000,000 increase for she pays more than anybody' else : cheap grades of cotton cloth, I cite i in the-duty on cotton, and that' under in the world except the manufacturers the fact which is disclosed, by the re of the United States, nor by the liEAD OUR PRICES. MEN'S SACK SUITS at $3.75, worth $6.00!; a Sacrifice of $2.25 MEN'S SACK SUITS at $5.00, worth $8.50; a Sacrifice of $:J.50 MEN'S BLACK WORSTED SUITS at $0.75, worth $10.00; a Sacrifice of $3.25 MEN'S BLACK CUTAWAY SUITS at $7.00, worth S10.50; a Sacrifice of $3.50 MEN'S PRINCE ALBERT SUITS, DOUBLE BREASTED at $15.00. worth $20.00; a Sacrifice of $5.00 - - BOYS' AND CHILDREN'S SUITS. BOYS' SUITS, SIZES 13 to 18 at $4.00, worth $G.50; a Sacrifice of $2.50 BOYS' BLACK DIAGONAL SUITS at $0.50. worth S8,50: a Sacrifice of $3.00 CHILDREN'S SUITS, KNEE PANTS at $2.50, worth $4.00; a Sacrifice of $1.50 I OVERCOATS. ArRVS OVTVROO ATS at S53.no. worth S5.50: a Sacrifice of $2.00 MEN'S ULSTER OVERCOATS, LARGE COLLARS at $3.50, worth $G.00; a Sacri fice of $2.50 MEN'S CHINCHILLA OVERSACKS at $4.50, worth $7.00: a Sacrifice of $2.50 MEN'S BEAVER OVERCOATS at $5.50, worth $9.00; a Sacrifice of $3.50 MEN'S CHINCHILLA OVERCOATS at $5.00, worth $8.50; a Sacrifice of S3.50 j BOYS' AND CHILDREN'S OVERCOATS. CHILDREN'S OVERCOATS at $1.35, worth $2.75; a Sacrifice of $1.-10 BOYS' OVERCOATS at $3.50, worth $5.00; a Sacrifice of $1.50 BOYS' OVERCOATS WITH CAPES at $4.00, worth $0.50; a Sacrifice of $2.50 large CHILDREN'S KNEE PANTS. We have 500 pair, which must be sold, we start them at. 25 cents per pair. line of liats ami taps, lioys Mcamer l aps at, cents. WE ARE CLOSING OUT $5,000 WORTH OF BOOTS -AND SHOES. To all Members of the Farmers' Alliance, we give a special discount oyer all purchasers AV. KAUFMAN & CO. Leading' Clothiers, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Great Bargains ! both colored and uncolured, which we receive from i'or-ign countries; are 27.'O.lOU .-Muare yards. The total 'J cents, and No. 8 (2 ply) yarn is ijuoted at about 12 cents. The cost of spinning is seen to be almost noth ing, relatively. But in some cases finer numbers are used, say, then, from 14'stoliO's, The creat bulk, however, is as above. nearly 300 per cent, and an hicrease ' Wilmington the mill makes Nos, piIARLOTTE, N. C. in-the Stfite and Federal Courts. office: No. 6 Law .Building. E f T. CANSLER, ATTORNEY -AT-LAW , CHARLOTTE, N. C. Prompt and careful attention to all busi ness. Practice in the State and " Federal Courts. office : - Opposite Central Hotel. - CLEMEJfT DOWD." WILLIS'B. DOWD. C. DOWD & SON, Atr .iinev's and Counsellors at Law. ' Office: 17 East Trade Streety. - ' - CHARLOTTE, N C. Z'l to :50 varns- which it makes into i refer to the same statement. I tams 04 bv 04 threads. This is the a personal acquaintance with that g ... , T , , ' V . tienian. I Know nitn to dc a man high character and vcry in the consumption of the Southern 6- mills of over 000 per cent. The latter result, the extraordinary ratio of increase in the consumption of the Southern mill, is not only aston ishing, but to me is particularly grat ifying, for it may be truthfully said that every particle of progress that has been made in the cotton manufac ture in the-South'ern mills has been done without the benefit "of a single dollar of protection, not only in oppo sition and in competition with, tue i miUs increased and the supply mills of old England, but w;ith the ! more thaQ Southern demand. mills of New England, which were ; surPlus uas found a market at the established with an amount of capital j -orthwcst, and in a less degree at the and skill that made them quite as ! North. formidable as the mills of the old Before the war our mills made the country. A statement I have here 1 yarns wniCn were shipped to Philadel of tbe extent and distribution of the pbia, where there were a large number cotton mills of the Southern States of 00ms employed merely in making will be found very interesting, and I j Vpiai(iSt" . which were sold at the ask the Secretary to read it for the ; outh. The Southern mills have information of the Senate. ! largely broken up those looms, al- The President pro tem. The doc- though some are yet run in Philadel ument forwarded by the Senator from j rm;a At tne -North our Southern TkT .1 r-i i -li i i isortn Carolina win oe reau. The chief clerk read as follows: the Wisdom and the enlightenment cf her commercial policy. ' The Senator from Arkan.-as Mr. Jonesl gave us yesterday some inter- ni- Eu- ctioeiiiiiit s in'uiries while he was consul at Tunstall. I beg also to avc . - c .1. . - .1 csting comparisons oi me co.-i ui .-p ning cotton in this countr- and investigations and the mrenmstances which 1 have ex- turns of the treasury department ot the j plained. upon an ariieie uer tuo enpnuous exportatious of these cheap ! raw material is free, where machinery cloths. 1 f is most perfect and the labor is most Ttie t.iJ.-.I imi-rts of nation cloth, I skillful, and where all the' conditions of manufacture are the most lavoraDie here of any country upon the face of of the earth, instead of going back in the direction of freer trade, in the direction of a liberal policy for the purpose of pushing our point of ad vantage until we wrest from Great Britain and all the continent of Europe the control of and domination of .this great trade, we are going backward in the direction of the dark ages and increasing the duties on the cotton schedule to the extent of at least half "a million dollars. exports of e from the.- I 0-7 t'juare i . o ; nit! jard much nf the hii on. h ': .-loth to 1 States v. , being. We COtli' eott ) the i lit l ii ot States. -ttaes of ' -i"r:' '' txi-or l manuiac alter of 1 ti; tra standard "print cloth," on which cal- j ico is "printed.") The products of our North Carolina I mills, as far as I have information, are not exported. . j The brown sheetings are sold here I at home chiefly. The plaids were ! formerly for local consumption, but the business proving profitable the was The 'ii-of .1,. Cloth s.jnal- I.ilt t t!lv in Chi an' w it jiii llext-door. cotton i t 1 a0 or 11 the world : re 204,002,- ; -even times ame kind oS cloth as ; - total export of all : tin-, exclusive of raw t i. only m edgings, embroi ling '. at.d fancy grade f .siniaL-iuie. that the bait k- i-' .-.'.::i:t the Lllite J all :!ie o'dinary maimfac n -' are to-u.ty heavy T'.:. country t ','vhich we 1 i.'-i-.-t nui.'Uiit of cotton . w ho -tak'-.- 7,Ul0.170 ii'i-.kr tin- cumpet ii ion , Jjiuain but with li-'igiioor, India, where by the A FTNE LINE OF PANT GOODS AT LOWER PRICES THAN EVER BEFORE. BROWN SHIRTING, YARD WIDE, BEST GOODS MADE AT 0 CENTS A YARD. The very best Alamance that is made and full width, extra heavy at 5 cents a yard. A NEW LOT OF GINGHAMS AT 8J CENTS, ALSO A NEW LOT OF CALICOES. A nice line of Sateens at 10 cents. FTVE I.rXE OP WORSTED DRESU GOODS AT 12i AND 15 CENTS. The best Ladies Shoe for $1.50 to be found in the city. BED TICKING AT 10 CENTS A YARD If. you want good goods for little money, you should call on us. It you do, you will find that it is to vour advantage. ' jan 18 T. L; SEIG-LE & CO, ig'uhor, India, ina:;ufaetui-cd in the world. cneapes The next- larget cutomcr of our cotton cloths is tlie Rviiublie of Mexi co which ability in the investigation of financial ! her and commercial 'questions, and I have the every reason sto believe that what he has stated iu his official report cannot be successfully contradicted, and that if it could be successfully contradicted it would have been done long ago. In his statement he says that in Eogland the waste by the spinner of cotton is much smaller than it is in the United States ; that in' England 125 yards of cloth requires 14 pounds ! Columbia of cotton, whilst in America 125 yards, am yards of the same kind .of cloth re- ; takes 4,250,000 square yards, quires 18- pounds of cotton. The ' Great Britain herself takes t the English manutacturer talcos over- l.UOO.OOO i n t -i - i square yard., i nen comes enezueia, which takes 1 H.Ut.lU.Ol M.I square yards. Next comes the colored Republic of Ilayti, which takes over 7,000,000 square yards. The United States of take ,,0UO,O0U STATE NEWS. There will be more contested cases this year, in both branches of the Legislature, than for a number of vcars. Raleigh Christian Advocate. Not a death recorded for the month of December within the. corporate limits of Salisbury, among either the white or colored population. Carolina Watchman. North -Carolina has 600,000 children of school age, and spent nearly 700, 000 for their -education last year a little more than a dollar per head. 1 ill !?iT3 .r , ,. i !1.T AAA nffl ln4. j iMassacnusetts speui ,vuy,vvu imu square , ,it- r u i,;i1ron' -, i i.i ii -i ' r i year lor iuu cuutauuu v "v;i "ii ? 12o yards, and the lslanu ot f-an Domingo : , , nn , Wio( . . .P tnrnntir Hnllnrs npr head. What a whilst 1 v,,-"v i I nfrQct Tbo ITomfi rPittsborol . firnntr. vvuv.v . v , VH II AVE A LARUE STOCK OF GENTS' BOYS' MISSES' AND CHILDREN'S FINE SHO-ES, AND ALL KINDS OF HEAVY BOOTS AND SHOES. We call Special Attention to our Men's Warranted $3.00 ind $3.50 Calf Skin Shoes. THESE' AR THE VERY BEST SHOES THAT ARE MANUFACTURED FOR TOE MONEY. ' . Call and see us. Satisfaction Guarantectl. 19 EAST TRADE STREET, CHARLOTTE, N. C. PHOTOGRAPHS OF ALL SIZES AND -STYLES AT RKDUCED PRICES FOR CASH. FLXF CKAYON PICTURES "V AT WONDERFUL LOW PRICE. (''-l ami inspect the work. J. If. VAX NESS, 21 North Trvon Street. AX- "N li 1 i'se. irs! Pr.-ii.yxerian Church.)' - - ,;,I LODGINGS, XI J:- ''-i:an' kooms and beds. TABLE M I'I'LlHi) WITII THE BEST IN THE .MARKET. ' , liATES VERY LOW. ( a: -.ii Hi.- when you come to Charlotte, cSoisoSsrsJc j ; oi O s 5 X O Ca Or O CC 3C Numbcf of; in ills. 3 & o soa Hto i o cc & tc - o p c o - J1 - Tt V . c '3 c Average No. Yarn. l a M Si CI Ob . u - i.1 G" O O T. t o x s x ; a c B x C J. C. BOYTE, f"VDEX Il'orsE, CentrrilLSed in ahsl)iiry, North Carolina. i"aganent and Better Fare than ''J- l iee Hack and Samnle Rooms. ir Attention yiven to Commernial cut :cc-- sis V- wi (C r o - 90 H?Mr. Vancei Almost all, you may say. 95 percent., of the gbods manu factured in the Southern mills are of a quality . less than 100 threads to the square inch, and therefore can hot be affected beneficially or otherwise by protection. Those goods not only supply the local demand of all the South and Southwest, but to a very great extent are usurping the . North west, so much so that but a few years since I saw the statement in the finan cial and commercial papers of the country that the spinners of similar coarse goods in the Northern mills had applied to the great trunk-lines plaids are not used much. - They have other -colored'-' goods, but the women do not wear this class of goods there for dresses, as at the South. Print cloih is made into calico only at the larare printing mills at the Northeas't. The number of mills in North Car olina is stated, as follows: Eighty-one mills, 240,081 spindles, 5,850 looms, consuming 80,485 bales of cotton, weighing 35,008,479 pounds, the average yarn being No. 15. Although no foreign shipments are made of North Carolina products (as far as I know), yet shipments are made from pother Southern points. One mill in South Carolina I have heard (perhaps at Greenville) has sold all of its products for some years in China. - The foreign trade in cotton goods has nothraried largely for some years, excepting in 1886 and 1887, when our shipments to China were very heavy. This increased shipment to China has not in 1888 been main tained. As far as the tariff is- concerned, it is inoperative as protection . to our Southern makes of yarns or goods the cost, of labor in the goods not be ing considerable.' The tariff is pro tective as to the finer grade of goods,, where the cost, of Ubor is a larger item. The. tariff on goods like South ern goods does not permit an increased price, because prices are determined as to them by adequate competition here locally. But the cost of pro duction (which regulates the limit which competition can legitimately reach) is increased by the tariff on machinery and articles entering, into the pro duct. The cost of the plant profit to consists principally in sizing and the starch and other materials to give it sufficient weight. The cost of spin ning in England, per pound, he puts at 3.506 cents, or, as we would say in round numbers, 3h cents per ponnd. The cost of spinning in America is 3.51 cents, showing that it is posi tively costlier to spin a pound of cot ton in England than it is to spin a pound of cotton in the United States, whilst in North Carolina, according to the testimony of the most intelligent and reliable manufacturers to whom I have aplied, the cost of spinning a odd million square yards in her own territory proper, besides the amount that I have given as being sent to her possessions, when we receive from her only 17,000,000 square yards all told. If we could8 do tltat, why can we need still to cover our. statute-books with these, prospective laws restric tive laws, as they should be called? It seems to me that the . spirit of protection is very hnrd to satisfy, very hard indeed. Now that it is shown by the amount of our exportation ,-that wc are able to send cotton cloths and yarns to the kingdom of Great Britian pouma of cotton, for the making of I and into all of her possessions and to such7 cloth as 1 have described, is l; cepts from 1J to 3 cents, according to'the quality of the cloth. The very highest, quality of yarn spun in North Carolina costs the same or little less thanthe same quality of cloth costs to spin in England, whilst the cheapest quality of cloth costs 50 percent, less to spin in North Carolina than it does in Massachusetts. The net waste of cotton, resulting from spinning in Lowell, is stated by Mr. Schoenhof, by the authority of the manufacturers whom he consulted, to be 14 per cent., whilst the highest average net waste in spinning the same yarn in Lancashire is 8.1 per cent. The cost of weaving per pound in Lowell is stated at 4. 736 cents; the cost of. weaving in England is 4.802 cents; whilst the cost of weaving, by the same authority, of the coarse goods which I have described as made in the Southern mills in North Caro lina is 1J cents per pound, or one-balf cent per- yard where the goods run three yards to the pound. The cost of weaving per "cut" of 50 yards in Lancashire is 25J cents, whils tthe cost of weaving a "cut" of 50 yards in Lowell is 20 cents. In England one meet her upon all the neutral markets of theworld and actually and success fully compete with her, what is hin der us from doing LtY Having be come accustomed to leaning upon the Government and to jlcpentling upon taxation, we hare got to believe; that there is no human endeavor that can be successful unless it is supported by public taxation ; and consequently we hear every session as we have heard this session and as we shall hear again that there must be subsidized lines of steam-ships to bear our pro ducts to market. We have become so accustomed to ask governmental aid in every thing we do to supplmcnt our own incompetency or our own greed, whichevei it may be, and I believe it is generally both, that' al though wc make the cheapest goods in the world, although wc have the raw material cheaper than any other people have" in the world for the man ufacture of these cotton goods, and the labor co.-t in the manufacture, of tnem is less tuan that which enters m into the composition of any other piece goods of a similar character in the world, yet the Go.vcrnmt must be once more called upon to bear the The first General Assembly of North Carolina, independent of the crown, was held at Halifax in 1776. The annual session continued until 1876, iust 100 years, the session of 1876-'7 beinc the last. The biennial sessions began with the Assembly of 1879; there having been live biennial ses sions : the present session is the 106th. News and Observer. Mr. M. O. Sherrill, cashier of Col lector Craige's office, has become a very fine expert in the detection of counterfeit money. During tnemontn of December he took in over $50,000 and did not have a cent of counterfeit passed on him. Good authorities say this is a fine record. Newton Enter prise. Twice has the farmer's candidate, S. B. Alexander, gone to the wall Last June his name was presented be fore the State Convention for the Governor's nomination. Contrary to the expressed desire of the far mars he was defeated and a larger given the nomination. Now, in sffght in which he openly declared himself a candi date, and in which both he and his friends put in hard work, he is again defeated , by a still larger majority than for Governor. hat is the mat ter ? Concord Times. spinner attends 576 spindles, whilst j expense of taking these goods to mar- in America a spinner attends 960 spin- j set. lhat is what a subsidized line In America one weaver attends., means, .xut ouiy must me -vmericau dies 6 looms, whilst in England the same people pay taxes for the purpose of Religion is a life, not a garment to be put on or off. It must be inter woven with the very fibers of the soul, and must be developed as the muscles of the body are developed bv exercise. It must flow out to - j other lives in order to bless our own and the child-heart should be taught the' beauty of such a life. This should be the atmosphere through which all else should be viewed. Al else should be subservient to its high demands. Subscribe for Tue Mecklenburg Times. 150 per year. G-KAy & col DEALERS EXCLUSIVELY IN BOOTS am S HOES A. C. HUTCHISON & CO. (Next door to Wadsworth's Stables,) CHARLOTTE, N. C. Wholesale and Retail dealers in CARRIAGES, BUGGIES. SPRUNG WAGONS, GROCERS AND MILK WAGONS, &c. Sole Agents Columbus Buggy Co., Cortland Wagon Co., and Tyson & Jones, and other good makes. Prices and quality to suit everybody. ' Work made to order. Call and examine our immense Stock, or write for catalogue and prices. We have the best Carriage and Wagon 3hop in- the city, and Shoe horses in first-class style. Yours truly, A. C. HUTCHISON & CO. Jl: THE NEW CHINA STORE, 11 East Trade Street, You will' find a full and complete line of China, Earthenware, Glassware, Lamps, Tinware,-WToodenfrare, Rogers' Bros. 1847 Plated Ware, Cutlery, House Furnishing Goods. ' We keep only the! most reliable -the Lowest Prices. The best English Ironstone Chir., o-a-anteednot to Craze or Crack, will be sold ks low as inferior goods can be bought. V . 1 QILREATH & CO., (Successor to Pegram & Co.) " Dealers in BOOTS, SHOES AND RUBBERS, TRUNKS AND VALISES, SAMPLE CASES, &c. The largest stock to select from, the low- est prices, and the BEST CLASS OF GOODS THAT ARE MADE. We make a specialty of shoes suitable for FARMERS, 'METERS, MECHANICS AND RAILROAD MEN, BOYS' AND GIRLS' SHOES FOR HOME AND SCHOOL WARE. Make no mistake in the place, i " 16 South Tryon Street, Call and investigate before making your purchases. " Ot.- S. READ & CO. N EW FIRM. jan 18 Charlotte, N. C. Under the firm name of Hales & Tolar, we shall carry on the jewelry business Nat the stand lately occupied by the New Yorlr , Jewelry Store, where we shall keep on hand a full and well selected stock of WATCHES, CLOCKS JEWELRY, SIL VER AND SILVER-PLATED WARE. SPECTACLES, EVE GLASSES, &c. We solicit a literal share of the public patronage. Special attention given' to . FINE WATCH REPAIRING and all-work warranted. IIALES & TOLAR, jan 18 0 Charlotte, N. C -i J. R. KEEN, Proprietor. - - --..' ; -..-'.
The Charlotte Democrat (Charlotte, N.C.)
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