New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-08-17
AMERICAN STAPLES.
Present and Future,

GENTLEMEN May | call your serou,
attention to the following, and that through Va.
columns you permit me to address all Amso....
OF the United States. DO not, GentIemes TO-
up your space, however, if YOU feel not thu, ~.
subject imperatiyely calls for attention. You ma,
be aware, and there are some may be fallv conn;
zant OF great many OF the facts hereinafter sa,.1
but the public of America are, with few e.c.o.
tons, wholly ignorant of them. foresee thar In.
trade OF this country is about TO undergo a p,,.
July embarrassing revolution, and that but f.,
years will pass over us when the exports Of Cot.
ton from America will br nj. Therefore ask IN,
thorough discussion Of this subject in the pr.u
generally Of the Union. The annual value of Won,
cotton crop is about $40 COO 900, and the cal,i,,.
| ton Of that cotton is about TO be carried s,.s.
where. Is this an important subject Does not
is consideration demand from every Americ aa ore.
cedence Of all political questions
| Your imports, it is stated, are some $5OyO000e
worth more than you export. Reduce your e..
ports to the current value of your cotton, and 10,
will you stand It will be difficult to rake IA.
people believe thing that is directly against their
| every WISH In nothing has there been 90 mucb
change and shifting as there has been in csmmerc.
in all time-and we may readily imagine that Al
everychange those countries whose interes; il M,
| to be ncredulous, CRIED as this country viii nor
| cry," IL cannot BE-" Nevertheless it has been A.
| and will again change, and change, notwithstand.
| ing. And now, to show the reason why there has
been gradually serious change, and will further
change, till neusht be eft.
The increase of the quantity of Cotton for the
| last ten years. over the former ten, has bees
So per cent. the whole increase of value has bsea
only ia per cent; therefore you impose on your.
selves IS per cent Of laborious efforts to keep your
place an the market in all this there is gss.
straining; but as showed before in another place
| your crops were from
1885 to 1910, more valuable than from 1910 10
lS45 100 1900
| And from 1885 to 1910, more valuable than fron
1915 to 1850 by. $25 324an
! The increase of the cotton crops Of 1910 to 1875
over those of 1885 to 1910, vas. .2il per cent.
| The increase of the cotton crops OF 1915 TO 1850
over those OF 1885 to 1910, was. ..ist per cent.
Here is a decline of great magnitude; in the
frst instance, an increase in quantity OF 2iI PER
cent, and decrease in actual value of 800 1890;
and in the second, an extraordinary increase Of
49, per cent, yet decline in actuai rai1 Of
$25,324,OOO! These changes have had their effects
already, and the people are driving from East to
West, seeking the aid of d rich soil for the pro.
duction Of greater quantity, in some measure u
remedy the deficiency in pnce.
But this rolling-s stone movement suihces not
and mortgage of property is the order Of the day.
Ask the mOneyed men if this be not So | need
not argue in this decline decay in the cotton
trade it is too painfully apparent. But yet |!
will be said we are not going to lose our trade IL
cotton the past season has been favorable. Yes
But recolect, man laboring under disease oftas
| heart never seems to be so well as at the momsat
when he falls back lifeless corpse. Andyour co.,
ton trade is diseased to its hearts core.
Now, you cannot, taking one year with another,
that is, of good and middling crops, produce your
Cotton under 81 cents per Id. ; but taking into
consideration total failures, you could not under
take to raise it year after year for 81 centsm
for cents per ID. Therefore, taking all yesns
gether, successful and unsuccessful, your CoHm
stands cents per h. 1t has sold, from lslO@
1850, for an average price OF 2-l5 cents PERU
N0r, rhere is yOur margin 10 enable y'ab
dure further riraishipt Even say put doW
the cost of production at one-half cent 700
much, say 1t should be only 6l cents Insead's
would give you marginal profit OF only wv
cents per h., or little more than cent and ahM
Therefore, the disease of low prices has left BAL
very thin filament to preserve. The lie sS"'
is leaking out and leaving your trade in C'N@
dead letter, and any little disturbing caus"
produce rupture.
Inquire if there may be any disturbing esas'
and whence it may come Let US look 70 ts'ps
Smyrna, Brazil, Cape Natal, sc. The Emperor
of Turkey is making every exertion, under eosT
sci and aid from England. Let us not, hose'e'
place much more stress on these places, altnoas'
vastly important, but turn to India. lndDa Priv
duces vastly more cotton than America. I@e
ports Of India is equal fully to than one wu'.
the whole crop Of America. And, say @V'v"P'
of people comsu ne pounds per head oil rave"
ton, it would give 400 100000 pounds Inc WV
sumption has been calculated at great dea""'
than this, and suppose it is, for each person
yond his clothing, has one or more pillows -
as their clothes in the cold weather, Stun''.
cotton, and their night covering called az
stuffed with cotton, and weighs in l''eH ~.
or pounds. And yet there is Only aPs
of the cotton grown in India collected, F"s
not more than one. half the other bal' Oe''s
to rot on the ground. The whole OF lni' .,,...
dous quantity of cotton receives little OF ~ "a
ton from the cultivator, it is Invariably SOW ~"
another crop and frequently with two Otns' ',s
at the same time, and the seed coliec.e0 Nv ,.s
cotton 90 sown is that used the ion'""s
and SO successfully from year to year. ''f ys.J,
m. mortal Ii is said but said very e"o. ,h
that the ches paess Of American cotton VA 'sy
Indian cotton from the English naf'e'' -.,,s
see to this. The average price oil A.n'"'' sou
from 1880 to 1910 was II. cents per poo"'
| Ieio IN le50 WAS 3 9. l5 cents per Pouhd'