Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1850-07-11

teno curing tnat peIlOo Will nlSu prices IN
separable from short supply, simultane-
ously with high prices of food and conse.
quent disturbance Of currency and credit
That the cotton trade of this country has
attained a magnitude and importance which
render it highly dangerous TO rest content
with our existing means Of supply, for how
ever firm reliance may be placed upon the
continuance of that good understanding
which reciprocal interests have fosasred be-
tween this country and the United States,
the experience of the two years has shown
that either from an increase of consump-
ton in their own manufactures, the failure
Of the crops, or preference for the cult
walton Of other products, the United States
have not yielded 10 Great Britain supply
of cotton sufficient to secure the regular
employment of our people.
That in rejecting upon the subject, your
Memorialists attach little importance to the
cause of the deficient supply; they have
experienced the effect of the past, and in
taking prospective glance they see more
to arouse fear than to confer confidence
Granting that friendship may continue, as
they fervently pray it may for many years
between the two countries, and that no 9TH
er cause of disturbance should intervene,
your Memorialists do not think it wise to
suffer the well-being of our africans and the
complicated interests of British commerce
to hang upon so slender thread as the
failure Of crop in single country, or TO
neglect timely provision against the evils
which will ever arise from a short supply,
be the cause what it may.
That during the past year, the attention
Of your memorialists has been drawn to the
capability to produce good cotton in por-
ton of New South Wales, between the lat
titudes 30 and 100 south, the authority
being the Rev. DR.. Lang, who had person
ally Inspected considerable portion of the
district, and whose confidence in good
result was confirmed by specimen Of cot
ton grown there, the quality Of which was
excellent.
That within few weeks, specimens oil
cotton grown in Port Natal have been pro-
duced TO your Momoriaists, the quality Of
some of whichleaves nothing to be desired
The description of the soil and climate
given in the first instance by Mr.. Blaine,
who has rust returned thence after few
years residence, and subsequently confirmed
by Mr.. Bergtheil partner in the commercial
firm of p. Jung s, Co. at Natal, and who
returned to that colony last week, would
justify every facility which the Government
could grant for the introduction and foster.
ing of cotton cultivation.
That, not doubling that her Majesty'i
Government is most anxious that cotton o.
a quality fit for use in this country should
be produced within both these dependen
cies, and not having official knowledge
of the rules and regulations adopted in ref
agement of immigration into those colo
MES, your Memorialists beg to lay before
! your Lordships the extreme interest which
they feel in the question and their ferven
hope that, if those rules and regulations b.
susceptible of being made more likely thar
now to encourage the cultivation of cottor
in either or both dependencies, the best yea
of their Lordships may be directed towards
obtaining a revision thereof, OF towards pro
curing such new facilities by the department
to which it belongs as may tend to produc,
result SO important to the general Interests
of the State as new sources of supply o.
good raw cotton.
BY order, and on behalf of the Director.
Of the Chamber of Commerce aud Manu-
features at Manchester,
[Sigued] THOs. BAGLEY,
President.
Manchester, 9 March, 1913.
| To theRight Honorable Board of Trade
The Memorial of the undersigned Cottor
manufacturers of the City Of Glasgow an,
its vicinity:
Respectfully showeth,
That the Cotton trade of thi
country is mainly dependent for the requi
site supply Of the raw material on the Uni
ted States of America, the proportion O
American cotton consumed in the manufac
lures Of this country being no, less thai
nine-tenths Of the entire consumption.
That the cotton crop of the United State
is subject to various casualties from frost
from drought, from blight, and from th,
rayages Of insects; and that when sucl
casualties occur as was the case during thu
past year, the crop is greatly diminished
and the price proportionably enhanced te
the British consumer. the necessary resul
of which is, that the cotton trade of thi
county, is deranged. the mills are eithe
stopped or put upon short time, and thous
ands Of industrious operatives are throw
out Of employment.
That it is therefore Of incalculable i'm
portance to the manufacturing interests o
Great Britain to have other resources o
supply for the raw material of her manu-
features opened up, and, if possible, within
the limits Of her own colonial empire.
That your MemoriaIists have learne,
with sincere pleasure that cotton can b
raised to a conceivable extent in the north
ern settlements Of the colony Of New Soull
Wales in Australia, and that specimen Q
Australian cotton recently exhibited in at
testation Of this important fact, by the Rev
DR.. Lang of that colony, has been pronoun
ced BY competent judges in this city 81
very valuable kind, which at present woul'
sell at from lid, 10 Is. per pound"
That your MemoriaIists have been givel
to understand that in the peculiarly saIubri
Gus climate Of New South Wales cotton o
this quality could be cultivated BY means Q
European free labor to any extent, and wit