Show KING COTTON The Manufacturer of Georgia Want the Government Gov-ernment to Aid Them AUGUSTA Ga May IThe Southern Manufacturers association met here today to-day to consider the condition of cotton manufacturing in the South to discuss the advisability of permanent organization and whether cotton bagging could be substi uted for jute President Higginson made a very vigorous vigor-ous address on the trade in the course of which he said We should control the markets of South America and of Mexico and to accomplish this end we should invoke governments aid Our Ja should float over every halo of goods that leaves our port The British govern nect is taking advantage of the supposed trouble between China and the United States with the hope of prejudicing that country against our goods China has passed a law that every piece of goods manufactnred in this country and passing through England to China shall be branded as manufactured in the United States of America We would like to have our > goods reach China without passing through England and without the use of English bottoms Give us American ships let China see the American flag I otr government would lend a helping hand in placing our products in foreign lands it would not be long before you would see manufactured in the United States on goods mad in Manchester England Resolutions were adopted to memoralize Congress to grant subsidies t steamships to Central and Sout Aerc also pledging pledg-ing the southern manufacturers to pay 10 cent per hundred pounds more for cotton I baled > 1 cotton or other light bagging than jute bagging The impression seems to prevail that the baling of the cotton crop I 1 cotton bagging is not altogether practi able but the spirit ot the manufacturers is to do all in their power to aid the planters |