New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-08-14

COZ SUMPTION has increased 20 per cent the import 81
foreign cotton 50 per cent ana the export of domesc
cotton 30 PER cent In the four years OF ne p.eSeai
.arlH therefore the consumption Of cotton goods has
increased tie United States probably 20 nearly as
great an extent as iron, OF which the Consumption Of
the home UanufaCtu article has lncrea>e1 per
maps, more than any other In the United >taies.the
freedom from internal restraints upon intercourse and
mOctef restrictions upon foreign trade IN the la>I
four yeaTs, have permitted the peope-the WORKER
to consume larger portion OF the products aad Il
Ha> hoped from tie revolution that France would
experience also a commercial. emancipation.
WhIch should, by permitting her people 70 consume
more, and capital ard hce-holderS less, confer
greater remuneration upon every branch OF industry
lat his VII De tie case-that France, under uni
versa. suffrage extended education. and commercial
ei4ancipation, VIII become an important customer
for JuIic- states proouce-ihere i every hope"
We are rejolced at last 70 find a single
journal that advocates British free trade.
furnishing a TEST by which TO measure i'm
provement IN the condition of the people.
We are here told that il is when people
consume more OF the produce # their own
labor that their prosperity Is greater. and
It IS gravely added. that the domestic con-
sumption of cotton has increased, under the
tariff Of 1916. no less than f'cenfy per cent.
Now. how stand the facts
The domestic consumption, which had been, n the
ia,r wear OF the Compromise only bales &c, $50
Had crown IN 1876 10 about T. 900
Ard N the following years, lsi,-s, aided by
high prices. resulting from the potato rot
and Brush railroad speculation. It reached
total. North and south. of..--...-------. 600 90
Thenceforwa-d the progress was arrested, for the
destructive tariff OF 1916 had become operative.
The total consumption. North and South, OF
l-is-9. : stated IN The Ner York Shipping 8 Com
ya.r-iai LIST, -6ls039
That OF ls49-50. 595 269
And that Of the year s5O-l, now about TO
close. may thus be- gwen. on the same au-
thorty
On hand IN Northern ports, sept, 1880. 1910
shipped 10 Northern ports -------.---- o39.'ll
Total .-----------------..---.--
Exports -3O33l5
On hand July 30 1851 ..-......-.-...-- is.62s
35al93
Northern consumption Tor IL months .363.36s
The present consumption per month
cannot be taken at more than ------- 2,.O"
Making the years North'n consumption. $780, 1903
That Is to say. almost precisely what 1t
was seven years since and less by one hun
dred and forty Hovsond bales than it was
three years since.
If We add for the Southern and Western consump-
tion.....-..-.--- -----.-.....-..--lOi5 500
We obtain grand total of-...-.-.- ---- lgs's53
or about fee per cent. more than the total
consumption of the year lSi6-7, from which
time the population has increased about
fifteen per cent Nevertheless. the COM
mercial correspondent of The UnIon gravely
assures his readers that under the tariff Of
1916 domestic consumption has grown ser
entV per- cent Ii requires certainly no
little hardlhood to make such statements.
In our next we shall examine the import
of cotton goods, with view to show how
far the cotton planters are being UNIDENTIFIED
for the dimlnution in the demand for domes-
tic manufactures of their great staple, by
the Increase in that for the products of for
e.gn looms.
The Southern and Western consumption OF lSiS i9 was
e,tim.ted by The Ne- York Shipping list at 900 bales
and that ot 1919 only l0 80 In the present
here must nave been further reduction bu' We have re-
aimed the quantity of the last year.