✍ Scribed by Louis Joseph Mátos
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
IN addressing you this evening upon the subject of Dyestuffs, I am not unmindful of the wide extent of the subject and also of the very great amount of information and data, both general and technically special, that has been given to the public from various sources, since August, 1914 . During this intervening period, and particularly during its first twelve months, when there was manifested so much concern regarding the probable supplies of coal-tar colors for our several dye-consuming industries, the wildest rumors regarding the possibility of dye production in this country were current, and there was hardly a day but some new and far-reaching discovery was announced, in the columns of fhe daily papers, that would unlock the tightly-closed secrets of the German dye makers, and unlimited quantities of much-desired anilines would flow forth .
\ire know now that much of this wild publicity was the result of a total misconception of what dye production is, and the very great majority of those who were to relieve the serious dye situation are now at labor in other fields .
The dye industry, like many other fields of activity, has been developed by gradual stages through the years, and from the most modest beginnings . It has grown and increased in importance from the time when the artistic ideas of peoples were in a very crude state .
From the very earliest times of which we have record, there is evidence that certain coloring matters of organic origin were in use, the two most important being indigo and madder, and it is interesting to note that these two items have come down to us continuously to the present .
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