Polynesian. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu], Hawaii) 1844-1864, 1850-06-29

: HE CO-PARTNERsHIP OF NATIoNs.-The
, commerce of nations is nothing else than the
co-PartnershIp Of nations, in carrying on the
same trade; and what is peculiar to these in
ternationai connections, they are not limited
I partnerships, they are not optional partner
shlps, neither can they be dissolved Indi-
vidual firms may dissolve their connections
/. by mutual consent, and to their mutual ad-
vantage; but the great commercial firm OF
nations cannot do the same. Let us glance
at the commerce or cO-partnership between
England and the United States, and see If it
could be dissolved without dissolving into air
the means whereby millions of each coun-
try live r+na .i
i During the year 1914, the whole exports
OF the produce and manufactures of the Uni
ted States were valued at f23, I6S, ,676.-
Now mark this important fact-the exports to
Great Britain, its colonies and dependencies.
amounted to fI2, ,S3S ,O95, or more than half
OF the entire exports Of the nation The en-
/ tire imports for the same year amounted TO
t22, 500, ,632; of which f9, Ais, ,9I2, or more
than hree-eights, were from the British EN-
pre. Thus half Of the land. labor, skill and
capital, which the United States employ in
foreign trade, is invested in the business car
ried on under the firm of .Messrs. John Bull
and Jonathan. The whole amount of this bu-
siness in 1874, was f22, 257 900; the profits
of which they divided equitably between
! them
! Now can this partnership be dissolved, like
a business connection between two private
! firms established in two different countries;
There are hundreds of commercial houses i'm
| England which have branches in the United
States, and they can dissolve their connec-
ton any day, by mutual consent, and per-
| haps to their mutual advantage. But two
nations cannet do the same Their cO-part-
nershIp is indissoluble and inevitable 1t is
founded in mutual necessity which all the
swords that are hired to slaughter men can
not overcome. The business connection be-
tween them is vital connection. 1t is not a
cotton web Of commercial interests which can
be severed at pleasure or in malice. 1t is a
! vital life-lgament between communities divi-
| ded by the Atlantic, which would bleed the
two nations to weakness, if severed by the
sword.
Suppose this connection should be entirely
suspended for three years, what would be the
result TO each people, but such disaster and
wretchedness as they never experienced be-
stance. The entire cotton crop of the Uni
ted States in 1915, was estimated at 2, ,493
5O4 bales OF this amount, England took
,439, ,3O6 bales, or nearly fre-eights of the
whole crop, and nearly four times as much
as the United States themselves. Thus fee
eighfs of all the land, capital and labor, en-
pioyed in the cultivation of cotton in the Uni
ted States, are employed in growing it for
1 IL tol
this important article in 1885, was estimated
at fI66, ,666, 700. OF this amount, flOl, :
l66 ,665 were invested in supplying the Brit
ish market.
Ihree-fourihs of all the cotton manulaciu-
red in Great Britain is imported from the
United States. Nearly half of the entire ex-
ports of the United Kingdom consists OF goods
manufactured Of cotton. Thus one product
of the United States furnishes the raw mate
rial for hree-eights of all the exports of Great
Britain 1t is estimated that about ,300,-
900 persons in Great Britain derive their sub
sistence from the manufacture of cotton; and
consequently nearly 900, 900 from the man
ufacture Of American cotton Now suppose
the Z" army-worm, or that bloody reptile,
the 's army-sword," should cut off the entire
cotton crop in the United States for three
years, what w"@i1 become of that million of
human beings IN England who now live upon
its manufactured What would become Of the
factories, machinery, labor and skill it en-
ploys in England, or the land, labor and ca
ital employed in the United States in sup
plying those factories'
But if the article of cotton alone is such a
vital bond of connection between the two
countries, what may we not predicate upon
the supply of cheap food which has recently
begun to flow into England from the United
Statesi A new and mighty interest in the
wants of the millions of Britain has sprung up
in the vast and fertile regions of the Western
World This very year, every furrow that
broke for the first time the surface of the
boundless prairie, was turned to meet the
prospective necessities of England. The
rude farmer of Iowa or Wisconsin has frat
ternized with the operative of the Lancaster
factory, and formed a sympathetic co-part-
ship with him; and ploughed and sown, and
hopes to reap for him.-F,lihu Burritt.
sDP Miss Julia Long, of Indiana, went
recently before the Squire to get married.
He is rather an absent minded man, and 60
,b bo bo caid.