Show I Is said that the great Hoboken i fire started from a bale of cotton lying on one of the piers This it seems has caused renewed agitation in the South In favor of improving the baling of 1 cotton and especially the new round bale method The Atlanta Constitution Constitu-tion tells of some of Us advantages as follows I la I said In behalf of the roun lap bale that I resists lire that a match thrown on It makes no moro Impression than It would if thrown on u stump ThIs Is because be-cause tho air has beD pressed out of tho fiber and tho flame of 0 match has nothing noth-ing to toko hold of Cotton thus baled Is worth half ie cent more a pound than cotton cot-ton marketed In tho old way Why should tills bo so Simply because tho properly baled cotton savei freight lire Insurance and practically abpllshes tho pickers at I lrnctcalY1 tho mills I also saves wasto In no long tlmo tho present wasteful system of sampling sam-pling will 0 abolished Tho exports will bo found at the baling machines They will do tholr grading thero and ploco their marks on each bale so that tho cotton will not bo disturbed until It reaches tho consumer The advantages of the round bale are apparent enough and then there Is another feature It Is a trust I will not do to state that much outside that I region where the Democracy have full control but It seems that the inventors of the round bile arc just as mercenary as even Carnegie himself We have not heard from a single Democratic newspaper news-paper a protest against the round cotton cot-ton bale which Is driving tho old square bale out of existence and reducing reduc-ing the number of laborers required which Is in fact one of those octopus concerns that gathers to itself all the profit of baling cotton making tile men who own the cotton pay a royalty besides be-sides Tho reason probably Is that the men thus thrown out of employment are mostly colored men and on election elec-tion day if they vote at all they will vote with the understanding that the vote will not be counted Hence there Is no use of exhausting any sympathy on them |