The republic., 1851-03-14

II would probably be difficult to find elsewhere in
the world 30 remarkablea degree ofreguarity in the
growth OF any crop, az in the first thirteen years Of
this table. ending with the crop raised in 1895
The march was onward in every case but two, and
in one of tkem the deficiency was trivial.
In the following year the growth of production
was small; but in the succeeding one, the new
lands having come into operation, It large. and
thereafter we have succession Of extraordinary
changes, scarcely to be paraleled in any country,
and the result now is that with all the increase Of
population and all the wonderful increase of terri
tory appropriated to the growth of cotton the
age crop of the past two years but little exceeds
that of the year 1887, showing most extraordina-
ry decrease in the productiveness of labor applied
to the culture OF this staple. The reader who de-
sires to understand the cause Of the extraordinary
variations from year to year, may find il in the fact
OF the dispersion of its cutvaors over so vast sur
lace. The labor OF the man who works alone is al
ways unproductive, and the amount of returns liza
BILE to excessive variations. The savage is at one
time enabled TO gorge himself TO repletion, and at
the next he is starving; whereas the civilized mar,
working in combination with his fellow -rnen, is
enabled to provide against accidents that destroy
the crops OF those who work alone II population be
abundant, the planter can have aid in harvest, and
can pick all the cotton his hands raise; whereas
the solitary occupant OF new land s out of the reach
of his fellow men, and cannot pick half the
crop that could be raised. The man who works in
combination with his fellow men can provide
against droughts or frcshcts, but he who works
alone must take them as they come, and the result
is not unfrequently the destruction of half his
crop. OF all the evidences Of the barbarzing effect
oil the system of flying from each other to engage
prematurely in the preparation Of new lands,
which hrst commenced in 1894. there IL none
stronger than that which may be found in the
gambling character of the cotton trade. consequent
upon tho variability Of the quantity produced, and
Oh the prices which result tberefrom.
The effect Of increased domestic consumption
bad begun to show itself in the advanced prices OF
the crops OF 1882 and 1883, under the operation OF
the tariff OF 1928. Soon after the pas.aU Ue of the
Compromise act commenced the rapid einiorntion
from the older States TO the more soutbeTp and
western ones; and it was the diversion of labor
from the raising of commodities on old planta tiops
to the work Of creating new that caused the
great diminution in the subsequent ratio of In
crease, and the consequent advance of price
From 1929 to 1884 the whole increase of produc,
was rather lcss than 250,000 bales, while the in
in the home demand about 100 OOO
bales, leaving bat about 10000 additional to gc
abroad the consequence OF which was, that tho
price in lS345 but little short of double what
it had been in 1S30-3l Had either Of these couss,
been tconfng, that Advance could NOT haze taken place
Had there been less emigration there would have
been more production. Had there been less pro
lection there would have been less consumption
In either case there would have been more 10 ex.