The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-10-02

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unsatisfactory state Of your trade, and the haz
ards attending your manufacturing interest:
than do. and indeed do the entire Southern
people. Many persons have found fault with
Lancashire for continually reipyeslpg her &C
cumulating capital in more brlcks and mortar
thereby increasing it's spinning capacity, and
they attribute the present state Oh afialrs to
not have been judicions. who is there, under
similar circumstances. that would not have
done the samep For did it not payf Was il
not safe? No. Lancashire cannot be held
responsible tor the present state OF
trade. Did it not see before 1t an un.
limited supply OF American cotton, and could
any human agency have foretod that q civil
would cut off that supply2 y would not help
you if you knew the class on whom
to fix the responsibility; such is the fact,
which Won must accept, and not look back.
but forward. While Lancashire may not be
responsible for it's present depressed trade. It
is now within its power "a, rectlty the evil.
You ask for remedy, and there sIe three
answer; but unless You apply one OF the three
you are doomed to witress daily failures, and
see YOUR friends around you sink from wealth
to ruip. The first is to take your surplus ma
chinery to the Southern States, where you
have abundance OF cotton to work it profita-
bly. II not this, send your capital to the
Southern States, buy land, and import chi
nese; this is profitable. and you can then send
American cotton back to Lancashire, British
grown il not grown under British rule; or bet
ter than either, organize company under the
superysion of your admirable association, and
IMPORT into the Southern States ESQ. 900 Ger
mans and Chinese. From this amount Of labor
might be expected 1,000. 600 additianal bales
to the average American crop within two years.
Is this not what you want? ls this not tempt
ing? This. indeed, would be your salvation,
Giving work to your mills, and once more
raising the standard of your goods, Which,
from continued adulteration with Surats, you
have allowed to be lowered,
You will ask why the South does not under
take this work. reply, because she has not
the money and the charges made by the I'M.
porters for bringing the haDds are 30 very great
leach expecting to make 0 fortune thereby
brouoht to the country; whereas, II company
be started which would be content to realize
the moderate profit OF fifteen to twenty per
cent, it would not only pay aS ON investment
In itself, but would gladden. lancashire heart
again with the sight OF as much American cot
ton as 1t could use. To accomplish this, how
aver ali prejudice against fostering the growth
of cotton outside of the British rule must be
done away with. 80
IF Won have enough American, and your mills
now only needs Surats. then it is OF course
proper YOU should eudeavor 20 increase the
Growth under British rule. But your mills
want more American than Indian cotton, be-
cause it works up go much better, and COM
mands so much greater price for your goods.
In TACT, have frequeDtly been told since my
arriysi here that if America could send enough
cotton the use of The Indian would be di5con-
tinued entirely.
In l797 the estimate of the amount OF cotton
exported to Great Britain from America was
8 $500 600 pounds; while in 1887 India exported
/ 979 $50 pounds, there hot being any account
OF exports from America until period OF
eighty years had elapsed from this date.
To well-lnf)rme persons these statistics are
not necessary; but give them to show the
casual observer the immense increase OF the
production of cotton in America over that OF
her so. called rival in India; and have not
taken into consideration at all the gigantic an.
nual outlays OF money, to say nothing OF The
great patronage aud fostering care, which the
English Government has bestowed upon the
great national pet enterprise.
May ask why. after your mo1e than human
efforts to rid yourselves OF dependeney on
America for cotton. aided by all natural and un.
natural means, By the fortuitous circumstances
of ciyl war in the latter conntry; whiSh cf95
the entire. cotton country exceeded in vastness
any ever previously known to history, uproot-
ing and entirely changing system OF labor
which had existed for centuries uDdistur bed.
swallowing the resources or great section OF
country, and crushing under the ruthless heel
Of war 5000, 900 people from wealth TO abJect
poverty, to say nothing Of the loss OF thousands
upon thousands OF her best citizens 10 actual
confict-why, I ask, have you not made India
subserve your wants2 Why have You not, with
your lavish millions in that direction, brought
forth the amount Of cotton you needed tor
home consumption? Why, when you have had
40 fair an opportunity did you not outstrip your
rival, and rid yourselves entirely and forever OF
q need for our surplus cottonsf You DO not
answer. Allow me to answer partially Tor you:
because, with all your exertions, you have still
staring YOU in the face It'd. per b. difference
between fair Surats and middle Upland Ameri-
can, showing, though years upon years have
been spent in endeavoring to improve the qual.
ity of the India cottops, you have Still this
notifying fackto acknowledge.
It was again thought by many that, though
YOU might not be able to produce as good
quality, you would at least, from, country
80 over-teeming With population, be able TO
obtain sufficient quantity virtually to nd
yourself OF American cotton, and put the price
within the manufacturers control. But, on
the contrary, time has proved that India's i'm :
mense population has first to be fed. America,
emer0ine from desolatiop and ruinwith chang
ed system of labor, under entirely new auspices,
raised 800. 600 bales of cotton, chips to your
shores upwards of 400 600 bales, and is greeted
with 12d. per pound by your mile, thus show
ing that YOU have been unable, with all these
advantages. to nuke India subserve your wants.
And while it is Impossible for me 10 state
what the increase may probably be, l can
safely saw that there will be in any contingency
very little. if any, diminution in American
production, and, as long as America is able to
export from 200, 900 to 1,5OO, 600 bales (taking
the past experience Of the aggregate amount
of the production OF cotton in all other coun.
tries that raise 1t as criterion,) she will
hold the balance OF power in the cotton
trade of the world. Will you not, with
these facts evident to you, turn your
attention in that direction, from which you
reasonably exoect to allay the depressing ef-
feet of the present high price OF cotton on your
manufact ctures 10 Lancashire and elsewhere
Allow me to ask you bow much cotton IL would
take TO accomplish this ends, 900, 600 bales,
in addition to what is already made through
ont the world II that is the amount needed,
and if people crushed, broken IN fortune,
and power-stricken, can, without any re-
.sources of money or credit. but simply nom
their own energy, contending against untold
obstacles, raise 2. 500, 900 bales, what an easy
matter to bring YOUR capital and enterprise to
our shores and shoulder to shoulder with
American industry Five years would scarce
ly ella pse before the needed amount would be
obtained, The boundess cotton fields OF the
South OILY need the skilful laborer'd touch to
bring forth golden fruits. Under my lmne'
diate observation planters, at twenty cents per