The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1861-02-13
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From the New York Independent.
COTTON MUST iDDlCiTE.

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ltatIon. Exclusive privileges, when Sc
cured by charter, generally contain the
date ut which they are TO expire. All
lee al monopoles, even copyrights, the
longest lived of any, terminate in TIM.
1t is the same with all monopolies in
commerce, manufactures, agriculture and
the arts Naples undertook to make the
world tributary to her for sulphur, but
chemistry not only destroyed her mo-
nopoIy, but raised up 'haIs by whose
agency her sulphur works have been re-
duced to the minimum Of profit. The
Rothschilds undertook to grasp the whole
supply of quicksilver, and, while they
held it taxed CONSUMERS to eXtortion.-
But California stumbled on discoveries
which defeated all their calculations. The
Peruvians sought to subsdize the agrcul-
tural world by enormous prices for
guano. But new repositories have been
sought for and discovered, while chemis-
try, coming again to the rescue, has by
ANALYSIS and combination gIutted the mar
ket with ncw aud cheaper fertilizers
Peru must shortly reduce her prices or
retire from the market.
The cotton monopoly Of the United
States is the most overshadowing the
commercial world has ever seen. 1t
las grown to be so vast an interest that
America is already convuIscd by its pow
er, while England and France are devils
ing means to prevent the Same convul-
sion from overtaking them. But over
shadowing as this monopoly now is, it
must in turn obey the universal law, by
whose operation all suc1 exceptional
creations fall This law has been silent
" performing its office while cotton, cot
ton lands, and cotton slaves were annu-
ally rising in value, and the thriftless
Shareholder was Boosting that the whole
world was, and must continue to be, trib-
utarv to him. What this law of conn
teraction has already accomplished, we
now propose to show The results Of
this effort to break down American sIa
very in lis last remaining stronghold, have
not been brought prominently before The
public.
Every annual Board Of Trade return
shows that the world is not only con
suming more cotton, but that t appears
to be consuming all that can be pro
dured. England Is the greatest cotton
purchaser IN 1859 she imported 669,-
$4,000 pounds, and in 1857 10 less
than 69,3l8, 5000 pounds. an Increase,
in round numbers, of 300, 100000 i'll
seven years. Now where did this in
crease come from? 1t was furnished by
the following countries:
United States. 6I.604906 lbs.
Egypt. ... 5,9l0,730 "
West Indies. {. I,l84,667 "
East Indies. ;. .l3l 465, 400 9
Africa and others. (. $685. 1852 "
A dissection of these figures discIoses
remarkable results touching the capacity
of these cotton growing countries to keep
pace with the worlds demand for cotton.
Africa and other miner regions increas
ed their production within a friction Of
! 800 per cent. in seven years; the East
Indies IL per cent; the West Indies
over 600 per cent; Egypt nearly 81
per cent and the United States only
341 per cent.-showing that in ability
to increase the cotton product, the free
labor countries have far ontstripped the
the slaveholding regions. The low rate
of increase made BY Egypt in these sew
en- years is altogether exceptional, be
cause in the fourteen years preceding
1857, her increased production was lao
per cent, proving that in the latter year
some unusual local reason must have ex-
listed for her diminished crop. Then
take Brazil, which in the same seven
years fell off from 80 299, 9S2 pounds in
1850, to 29.9lO,s32 pounds in 1857.
But during the fourteen years preceding
1857, her shipments to England were
100000 pounds an increase OF 81 per
cent, showing also that, like all the 9th
er cotton regions, Brazil is outstripping
the United States in ability to increase
the supply.
But let us take the full torn Of four
teen years from l843 to 1857. Within
! that period the cotton countries increased
their shipments to England rs follows;
United States. Isl per cent.
| Epvpt. l40
Brazil, 81
East Indies. 2S8
Africa and others. 800 "
If, then, one term of fourteen years
has gwen birth to SO formidable a COM
petition with American cotton, where
will the latter be at the end Of another
like period? Taking the import Of Eng
land in 1857 SIS the basis, and assuming
the increase of the succeeding fourteen
wears to be in the same ratio rs during
the last, the production in 1871 will be
as follows:
East Indies 12O,9I3,853 lbs.
West Indies $50, l49,8OO
Africa anil others 23,758,48O
| United states 1872, ,f34
Brazil 45,464. AGA -"
Egypt Si'2lo'049
This rate of increase may be fairly as
sumed in those VAT regions where the
growth of cotton is now stimulated by
Prit;sb esnital and enterprise. II is