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Show THIS COUNTRY MUST HAVE DYE INDUSTRY. Vegetable dyes are once more being extensively used and the American Industries In-dustries traces the present prosperity of the Japanese cotton spinning in. dustry at Osaka, Japan, to the ob taining of vegetable dyes in large quantities. That magazine says: "There appears to be no difficulty in supplying the domestic demand in Japan with all that is called for In the lines of colored cotton goods, as well as meeting promptly the requirements re-quirements of Japanese exporters for goods to send their foreign markets, mainly, China, India. The Federated Malay, States, The Straits Settlements, Settle-ments, etc. The Japanese dealers in dyestuffs are said to have tried hard to keep up the fiction of a shortage in supplies of these essentials, but inasmuch in-asmuch as they were able to import from China considerable quantities of dyes, not only are they themselves reputed re-puted to have made large profits, but they have thus enabled the weavers and dyers to do very much the same thing. While it is admitted that the Japenese dealers were prompt in buying up practically all the stocks of European mineral dyes which had accumulated in China at the beginning begin-ning of the war, it is reasonably certain cer-tain that even these supplies would not have been sufficient to give the cotton goods industry of Japan the buoyancy and profit-earning capacity it is evincing. Therefore, it is perfectly per-fectly reasonable to infer that the revival re-vival of the manufacture of vegetable dyes in China has actually attained the large proportions which were previously pre-viously intimated; and that, furthermore, further-more, somewhat the same conditions as to this industry exist in Japan." The manufacture of dyes Is one of line of industry which must be developed de-veloped in the United States, regardless re-gardless of cost The war has shown that this country was dependent '-n Germany for dyes and that a great number of enterprises were built on manufacturing, which failed for the German dyes. To be independent of that source of supply evidently is an absolute necessity, if this counjLry Is not to be disturbed by every influence influ-ence that seriously disturbs Germany. oo |
