The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-07-23
COTTON MANUFACTURERS.

correspondent of one of our daily papers
writes an interesting aud instructive article
on this subject, from which we make the fol.
lowing extracts:
The United States consumption of cotton in
1875 was SIG, 742 753 pounds. OF this Northern
81, 733 140 pounds.
The total number of spindles in the Union
YVES 9539, 1854. Northern mills operated 9, O57,
543 spindles Southern, 4sl, 1921 spindles.
The average consumption North was for the
year 56t pound per spindle; South, 1403 pounds
per spindle.
The South manufactured one bale for every
seven and half bales consumed at the North
one bale for every eight and q half bales con-
sumed in the entire Union and about one bale
in twenty-seven of the crop of 1S74,5. -
Connecticut alone manufactured 81 409, 40
pounds nearly as much as all the Southern
States combined.
Massachusetts,, Connecticut and Rhode Island
together manufactured 3l5 796, 1856 pounds,
more than half the consumption of the entire
Union; more than four and half times the ca
tire Southern consumption.
Compare, now, some statistics of population
The population of the United States was 49,
55S.371 fifteen Southern States, 10 572 600 ;
Massach usstts, Connecticut and Rhode Island,
1922, 1853.
The true wealth was as follows, as estimated
from the census: For the Southern States, 1896
for each inhabitant; United States, $779; Mas
saohusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island,
S1,44S.
See what manufacturing does to increase
State wealth.
The manufacture of the feecy product of our
fields greatly aided to make New England rich
and Old England rich. It will make us rich, If
we detsrmine to enter upon it to any degree
commensurate with its Importance, with its en-
The crop now being marketed will probably
reach, If 1t does not exceed, four and half
million bales, fully two Thousand millions of
pounds. IL may bring into the hands of cotton
growers two hundred millions of dollars. If ell
manufactured at home in the South, it would
bring into the hands of growers and manufao-
turers six hundred million! Such an industry,
in ten years. would give the Southern States an
increase of wealth fully equal to all the aocu-
mutations of its past existence to 1870.
The year 1900 will give to the Union q pcpu-
people to do for a liviDgl The soil is already
cultivated to such an extent that cord, wheat
and cotton growers all complain that agricul-
ture doesn't pay, as the phrase goes. Let Ms
not forget that cotton in 1865 was worth forty
cents per pound. Now, it will scarcely net the
grower ten cents, owing to its large production.
liberalization of industries and universal
employment are the only remedies. See what
they have done for New England. We can emu
late their many industries without imbibing the
political notions Of that part of the Union.
Cotton utaos4re, after cotton growth, is |
destined to be the great industry |
of the South. The recent stoppages of North |
ern mills should encourage Southern invest |
ments in this direction, for the competition of |
the South, small rs it 49, is one cause of these |
stoppages &C the North.
The journals almost daily give notices of |
cessation of operations in the North and East |
The Southern mills have every spindle and |
every loom In constant operation.
We have already so many yarn mills that our |
yarns go North for sale. or conrse we can spin |
more cheaply than our Down. East conn etiEorp |
The heavy brown goods of the Union are |
already largely made in the Southern mills
The authority first quoted makes the Northern
Varns No. 283. too fine for heavy goods.
Our climate is admirably adapted to the
work. We have streams now running idly to
the sea and gulf that will afford q Thousand
million horse-power if utilized. We have the
'otton fields ALI Sround us, and hundreds of
of young women, boys and girls,
without employment, to whom the
of the cotton manufacture on a
grand scale would be most benefcent charity.
We have already in operation lines of trans
oortation reaching every portion of the Union
md extending to the gulf and to the ocean
The natural eastern terminus of all the trans
continental lines lies within our Allan tic coast
inc.
We have the whole commercial world open
% We ought, we can, and We will in time
export large quantity of yarns and cloths.
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