Port Royal commercial and Beaufort County Republican. [volume] (Port Royal, S.C.) 1873-1874, 1873-12-25
Total production. n.............................
Showing sales of 5,65l bags more than
nrod nrtipu

Showing sales Off, ,65l bags more than
production.
With this important fact before us.
and ihe additional one that there has
heerkqpm ratively no such decline or
fluctaxtions in the yarns or goods into
which these cottons are manufactured,
the question naturally suggests i'self,
what is it that has operated to make
so ruinous decline in the staple itself !?
and this too in the face Of one OF the
smallest crops that has probably been
made the last thirty years.
Is it not reasonable, therefore, to
suppose that compulsory sales and
combinations have bad far more in
huence in causing the present decline
than excess of production of suosti
tutcs Since the war cur factors are,
MS general thing, so ciIcums rised IN
their means as 10 be incapable OF hold
ing consignments, and consequently
subjects this interest TO foreign com
binatious, which my act in concert
and with perfect knowledge OF the
need Of both planter and factor, to
meet their obligations, and by being
forced to cell have to submit u cnnr.
nous sacrifice, and thus This important
interest ofhusbandty is brought into
jeopardy.
| also doubt their cnrrC ctness whru
they state that the &c tllene Egyp,ion
has largely supplanted common and
medium sea islands" With spinuerS.
1t is not forgotten that during the
blockade almost fabulous prices vert
paid in Liverpool fpr 0ur staple;
peilher can it b" disputed tlat after
the war prices we're cXtra'ag inily
high. II is only lhe last two years
that the prices have Hcen so terribly
dcpr sscd AMI The pla"tint ot THE
staple uuremunerativa, a."h this MT
own. t. any serious dcCiiuo \ q SIM
Gle article Of fabric which tliey con.
pose. The spiuneis had lhen ali the
'sub,tituits' thy Dow hav'. Ny
doubt is also CONFIRMED hy tue iJi."w-
ing extract frOm a distinguish d spin
ner OF Manchester. He says: Fine
and course sr;l islands are nearly as
disLingt in Their vdlll and different In
the puipO.G hey serve. as six aud
cotton. CIars: cIttOa. however ahnn
dant and chap, caa Dc'r b" n m.%H
iu'c fDr tine, aud hence The value ct!
ihe latter Is in great mcasur" in
dependent of the rormcr. ~ \ r From
the superior strength Of yarn IL pro-
duces, savings will bc made in every
stage of the manufacture
From this presentation Of 'acts !
cannot but think that there are undue
influences. beyond the fair and natural
inhucuce os supply and demand, which
operate to depress The price o! this
staple, or how Else is 10 be accounted
The fact that the "s~LS'Wica," such as
Tahiti Of fmeclirm grucic' and "q'''ic ont
0f tpror," are selling in Livcrpool al
20 to Bic, aud FIJI, without pro
porlionatc strength. and cons idcrah!e
prejudice against the Gotten, which
has not beeu overcome,' are quoted
as s.lling from 36 10 4tc., gold. l
would, thrrfpr2, respectfully suggest
that the true question for the conveu
lion is not what '.sUbs,ilute" is most
likely to suit our genial soil, but what
arrangements could be formed by
which the producers would be pro-
lcctcd when their interests are sent
to market, from the effects of combin-
ed speculation
A PLANTER.