Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1862-09-20
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The news received in England from Bonn
bay, Of the shipment there. in singis week.
Of ll6.ooo bales Of cotton. equal in quantity
to about 77.0o0 American bales, has created
very naturally profound impression.
The total shipments Of cotton from India to
Great Britain during the year 1861, amounted
to 100000 bales. They were Less this year
down to certain date, but by the end Of the
year win be much greater.
There is NO doubt 1t eli. and never was any,
ofthe capacity Of England to supply the def
cheney to be caused by even tho total aban-
donment Of the cotton cultivation In the South
ern States. The cotton predicting coil and
climates Of India are indefinitely great. So
also is the supply Of Indian labor. There 10
nothing in the case but question Of price.
The reason why the United States, rather
than India. has heretofore supplied the bulk
Of the English demand for cotton. Il simply
that the American article has heretofore been
the cheapest. taking quality into account. In
dia could produce all tho cotton that was
needed. but could not compete with the Amer
lean planter in prices. But If cotton rises
high enough, by the overthrow, total or par
tial. Of the American cultivation. India will
step in and supply all that is wanted.
That India has not moved more rapidly
in augmenting it's. export Of cotton. is chiefly
attributable to tho uncertainty Of American
affairs. 1t has been impossible to foresee
when tho cotton ports Of America might bs
opened, and the cotton supplies 60 forward a.
formerly. But just 90 fast a. the cultivators
and merchants of Indca become satisfied that
the present high prices Of cotton are likely to
continue for considerable period. will they
acquire confidence In producing it and sending
it forward to Liverpool.
The total consumption Of cotton in Great
Britain, in ordinary times, is computed At one
thousand millions Of pounds. The ordinary
production in India, for home consumption asd
rithoxt reference to exports. is estimated At
twenty-one hundred and sixty millions Of
pounds. In addition, India has raised upon
an average three hundred millions Of pounds
for export to Europe and China. England
ordinarily receives from America seven hum
dred millions Of pounds. .
1t is thus true that an increase in the ordin-
ary cotton cultivation Of India Of less than
thirty per cent, would make up to Great
Britain for the loss of the entire receipt from
America.
Some persons in this country, aud indeed
many persons at tho South, have SUPPOSED
that England regretted deeply the loss Of
American cotton, and would recognise the
Southern confsdemcy, and even go to war in
aid Of the Southern confsderacy, for the sake
Of American cotton. Ideas of this kind find
no countenance, either in the declarations Of
British Statesmen or in the probabilities Of
the case. British manufacturers, looking
merely to present profit. undoubtedly prefer
red the old and accustomed order Of things.
But the men who control pablo affairs IN Eng.
land have desired nothing 20 ardently for
twenty years a. the transfer Of the cotton cul-
tivation from America to India, and would to-
day be profoundly grati6sdi if they could have
assurance that not another pound would ever
be raised in the United States.
What Great Britain loses pecuniarily by
the temporary high prices which attend the
present revolution in the cotton cultivation. u
very much overreted. She only loses to the
extent that her people arc the consumers Il
cotton cloths. So far - she isa manufacturer
for the world, she IL not greatly interested In
the price Of tho raw material. II cotton h
high. she puts . higher price upon cotton
cloths. And whatever Great Britain Loses In
this way, is, to some extent. compensated by
the increased profits Of hsr trade with India.
under tho new prosperity Of that country. to
arise out Of tho expansion ef it, cotton salti-
walton.
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