The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-08-27
BRITISH IND AMERICAN COTTON MIN.
UF4CTURES.
WHAT THE SOUTH CAN DO.

| ~ IN. p. Sun, August I91
Hi other manufacturing nations sh all be or
an equal footing with Great Britain in marine.
IN manufactures, in capital, and many other
pe9Gniiar advantages which sbe possesses, it
adopt the principles of free trade. Under this
system, which is admirable for her, Great Bri.
tsln seeks to get monopoly of all the markets
vent other peoples from becoming great man
ufacturiug nations. The policy Of France and
the United States, pursued alike under all par
! Tics and different administrations has been to
| encourage native manufactures.
This policy of ours has been founded on the
OeNet that II we here in America should freely
| admit British goods, we would speedily be re-.
duced to the rank of merely agricultural ma.
tlon, and therefore q poor nation, as all must
| be that depend exclusively upon aRriculture
| In bad times, English mauufacturers often vo-
unfairly incur immense losses to destroy for
eigu competition, and to gain and keep possss.
sion of foreign markets. The large capitals of
Great Britain are powerful weapons aDainst
the competing capitals of foreign Countries |
lhey form the most essential instruments now |
rem naming by which highlands man facturipR |
supremacy can be maintained; the other ee. |
iuents-oheaP labor, abundance of raw mater
iSs, means Of communication, and skilled To-
bor-beiog rapidly in process of general equal
iZstion.
No other people possesses in 40 eminent a
degree az these United States all the elements
necessary to constitute, establish and main |
IAN great manufacturing nation and our
dochriDe has been that it. is a positive duty on
the part of those who make our laws that they
should so act as to favor the taking possession
of all the branches of industry, whose acduis
ILion Is author zed by the nature of things.
This policy has been 80 far successful that the
time is evidently not for distant when Ameri-
can manufactures of cotton goods will sue
cesstully compete with British fabrics in the
markets of the world. We furnish Great Br!-
tain with sixty per cent. in weight and more
nan sixty per cen t. in value of all the cotton
she Imports Daring the year 1875 the con-
sumption OF cotton was as follows:
c.... MI, Pounds. |
%oo1i nrt,a "a 27I OUcO
The United $500 600
we leave out other unimportant consumers |
The total consumption by the factories of the
world as roughly estimated amounts to SOL
JOV OOO POUNDS. II will thus be seen thai the Il
United States ranks next to Great Britain as A q
cotton manufacturing nation, consuming nearly =
1ne-half the amount of cotton consnIned in I
British factories, and considerably more than I
'ne-baif OF the quantity consumed by CONT =
rental Europe, while the United kingdom l
"lth present population of 80 coo coo, retains ,
II late years about sixteen per cent, of her ]
otal production of cotton goods and warns for a
lome consumption. The AZ 0UUUCO Of peonle U
Who dwell in these United States consume al II
most our whole production of cotton CLOTH re- {
Iresenting $40. 100000 pounds Of raw material u
10 much for bringing producers and consumers =
o9ether. AS market for cotton goods the 1t
United States is virtually gore from England. I"
he total exports of British cotton goods and u
arms ia lsz amounted to So SIS 3i5 gold u
which only Sc sec. loo goid were sent to this b,
ouhtry. Other countries received as follows: u
ndia and Cey CSC $50 $50 Is
ointment CT Europe .........-.--..-.. N ga ISG @
binA, hopE Kong and Japan 4I7I0I7G r
uIkey and Egypt. Jc,6G6 SIS "
shsr countries, exclusive Of the United "''iO OS' d
302l6 as
These markets are open to the world. It will IN
aus be seen what vast field IL offered to the ca