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BOMBAY MILL INDUSTRY,
countries of the world is a question which is very dificult to answer. The Lannehire AN UNSATISFACTORY POSITION.
industry is highly organised and developed, whilst foreign manufacturing countries have The Times of India says :—It was about the the advantage of Protection in their home and of April that a review was last attemptal markets. Japan han practically driven ont in those columns of the textile industry of Bombay yarn from har markets. In the Fombay. Since then things leave not improved 1877 Bombay sent her 142 balon of yarn. That from a profit-making point of view, as cotton trade in 1289 had increased to 62, 00 balez has risen materially in the interval, whilst garn
For the
Tear 1904 Japan received only three and cloth have barely responded. It was then hales, and last year she received none at all. reported that owing to heavy stocks of cloth, Bat that is not all. She is koon rival of which were estimated at about 1,75,000 bales, Bombay yarn in Chins itself, and it is now 8,000 looms out of 36,000 in Bombay bad ceased said that she is driving out from Manchurin to work. At present about 5,000 looms are idle. American and English cloth and yarn. What Cloth, after touching a low as Bjas, per pound protected countries, can do is here illustrated, for long doth has risen to 920s, por posad, Stocks and it further illustration is required also have diminished by about 50,000 bales and Germany tarnishes it. In 1895 she exported they nowstand at about 1,25,000. Further, temp the exported cotton goods worth 32 crores, and cotton goods to the extent of 12 crores, in 1907 ted by low rates and successful rains, dealers in local cloth have purchased about 40,000 bales Germany is a nation of 62,000,000 souls. forward, and things at present look more hope produced in 1895 machine-made cloth worth 3 What has Indis done i the meantime? We fal. It a anticipated that if the OMON IS EN favourable during the next six weeks na it has orores: last year we produced, for home con- been in the past prices will go up, whilst stocke sumption chiefly, machine-made cloth worth Will materially diminish. There is a good
10 drores, and this has been accomplished by demand for yarn for Chias, where the markets 300 million people who have cotton and Indian urs bare of stocks. No. 10s and 20s are in labour at their very doors. It is said that good demand at 57 and 63 respectively, but the Government is koonly alive to honest Swadesh- price of cotton is so high, particularly for 10.,, and as a proof the late resolution about that there is a loss of ja, per pound on bath the purchaw of atores is cited. Indis has a thesó counts.
settled and civilised Government there can be no doubt, but it in the only Government which proposes to sustain and create industries by resolutions. There is one way, and one only
which is fiscal freedom and tarille. Chamber of Commerce, as reported by the Hon. Mr. Yotke, the Chairman of the Madras
her last, said that he appreciate the efforts Times of India in the issue of 24th Decem of Governmmt to promote indigenous industry but there was one method only by which it could be efectually done and that was by moderate tariffs. Instead of that we have periodical portentous Government Resolations,
LOUSES AND DIETSESS THREATENED,
But that is not all. There are no stocks of colton at Colaba, while the mills are fast using up their new material. Things have come to
WHAT IS WHISKY?
such a pass that during September and October there will be short time and cessation of work all round. As it is, some mills, although very few, have shut down entirely, whilst fow are working only four days a week. Ent in the spinning industry there will be all round short time if not stoppage between September and October. Not only will this entail grant losses the manufacturers, but the workpeople will be thrown out of employment and there will be general distress amongst them. Every effort is being made by the mill agents, even at a great sacrifos, to keep their hands The public never had any real interest in the together and work their mills as much as trade quarrel which found expression in the Is- possible. It would pay asteral yarn, mille lington trials. It was simply a squabbie between better to shut down anthely, but on account of people who make whisky in old-fashioned pot the deterioration of machinery which a com- stilla and other people who make it in the more pluto stoppage would involve and the distress modern and efficient patent still. Pot-still hey etata as a
the nille going at a sacrifice. At Colaba highly flavoured as a rale than patent-still whisky. it is estimated that the stock of settor is not Since whisky became a popular beverage in Eng- mern than 25,000 bales, which is not a month's land, public taste has gone steadily in the direc consumption, and what little cotton remains is tion of mild whiskies, and the change is natural. not of the best-except in price. To give they nawelcome to those who have money invested reader an idea of the state of the cotton market in pot-stills, They tried to redress the balatos it might be stated that one son scarcely buy fine by getting it declared that the only thing en- Bengal new crop for October at 250, whilst the titled to the name of whisky is spirit made in Sam cotton is quoted for January at 216. At their stille from the masterisis that they use present the spinning industry is in a worse What the public wants is a wholesome spirit plight than the weaving industry, and though having the flavour it prefers, and it gets such a China is paying fair prices for 10s. and 20s., spirit from blenders who mix all sorts of pot still to the spinner there is a loss, as stated still and patent still whisky in order to above, of ja per pound.
maintain brands of uniform character. sorts of attemps were made to show that patent- still whisky cannot be wholesome, that the public ought not to like it, and ought not to be allowed to get it even if they are so misguided as to like it These attempts are all brushed aside by the Royal Commission, as they were by the Playfair Committee nearly thirty years ago. There is no essential wholesomeness about pot-still whisky, and no essential unwholesomeness about patent-still whisky. The only real difference is in the amount and the flavour of the secondary products which give to the neutral ethylic alcohol the character by which whisky is recognized. How much favour and what particular farcar whisky is to have sro questions of taste, and the blender who can appeal to the toate of the largest number will, other things being equal, have the largest business.
THE AMERICAN CROP. To add to the complication the American crop will be a small one, and the estimates to-day are betoon 11 and 12 million bales for next year, against the present American crop which has turned out to be 134 million bales, The tale told of Lancashiro cloth in this country for the official year ending March 31st last is far from cheerful. There has been a drop in English cotton goods of Rs. 10,00,00,000. There has beena larga increase in the number of spindles and loonas is the world, whilst the cotton crop has not inerased in the same proportion. In 1907 there were 114 million spindles in the whole world, in 1900 they had risen to 129 millions. In the United Kingdom in 1905 there were 46 million spindles and 652000 looms: in 1909. Lancashire had 59 million spindles and 740,000 looms. The machinery has increased, but the dividends have diminished. The dividends of 100 Lancashire mille came to 24 por cant. in 1907: in 1908 the divideris fell to 11 per cent. Dritish experts of cotten goods to all parts of the world have fallen by 14 per cent, or in money by 25 crores of rupees. Turning to the Indian side of the trade it is found that in 1904-5 Indis had a little over 51 lakhs of spindles [907 and shout 46,000 looms. In 1908-9 the spindles increased to about 59 lakhs and looms to about 73,000. The production of oloth also during these years has increased from 15 crores of pounds to 19 crores of pounds; whilst the arciso duty paid last year came about Rs. 35,00,000, It is also interesting to note that the average number of pounds per loom has fallen from 288lbs per month in 1904 to 2201hs, per month in 1909. This shows that the Indian mills are producing Ins per loom since they are weaving finer and lighter cloth. In spite of the Swade- shi enthusiasm, 25 per cent. of Bombay looms have been idle, and the sames might be said of another manufacturing centre, Ahmadabad Calentin, which at one time made a great demand for Bombay cloth and particularly for dhotion, has ceased to buy and there has been a fall in the production of dhoties by about 75 per meat. What little wearing there is in dhotics is from imported yarn, which is 40 and 60s, and as long as the taste of Bengal is confined to these "coanta it is feared that the chances of support to the local indus try from Swadeshi onthusiasm will be very smal indeed. It is impossible practically to manufacture 40s and 60s from the best local cotton, and unless the Bangali modifies hi taste and go in for coarser cloth there will be very little chance for the local manufacturer,
LANCASHIRE DHOTIZE.
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Another factor which has also affected the manufacture of dhoties is the keen competition of Langabita. The price of English dhotion have given way, and aven to-day they are 5 to 10 per cent, cheaper than local manufacture In the face of this it is impossible to expect the Bengali bayer to give preference to locally made goode
Egyptian cotton enitivated in Sind has bean
succese, and one or two local alle have bought this cotton and are successfully spinning dhetics made of 50s and 70s from it. The Government has done and is doing a great deal in this connection. Bombay will always offer for this kind of cotton a large market, and u large quantity of this cotton could easily be taken up by local mills. But at present the way this cotton is sold is very unsatisfactory The buyer is required to go to Sind la pur. chase in an auction instead of the material being brought down to Bombay, where there would be no end of buyers at high prices. Te www up, this year will be, from a profit-making point of view, a disappointing one, and it is anticipated that the profits will not be more thon about 90 lakhs, including commission, against one crore 31 lakh for the past year. It is also anticipated that China markets will be very responsive for yaru, whilst a good demand for the local cloth at high prices is fully anticipated. But cotton in the great damper it is feared that the prices for the raw material will rulo high The world requires an merican crop of over 13 million bales, and against that we are promised 12 millions and under. Of course the Indian cotton crop may still save the situation, and if all goes well with ne ye ar expected to have a crop of over 44 million baleš. or one million bales more than this year.
·PLEA VOR PROTECTION
How far India can successfully compete against· Isancashire and other manufacturing
All
and
observations.
There are all sorts of theories about the secondary products which give the flavour, but the Royal Commission does not find that any of them resta upon a soientific basla. They are morely expressions of persons! loose generalizations from par preference or of The quantity of secondary products in any whisky on the market is excessively small at the most, and even if they were deleterious, the difference in amount between one whisky, and another would not have any perceptible effect. If anybody finds himself the worse for whisky drinking, he had better face the plain truth that he is imbibing much athylio alcohol, and not try to excuse his excess by throwing the blame upon the secondary products. Some daring persons have oven drank the separated secondary products and declared them to be no more deleterious than an equal quantity of
pure
alcohol We do not recommend the experiment, but it serves to show that a good deal of nonsense is talked about mysterious ingredients when it is just
too
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