The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-08-02
.xSrRAL PRESS REVIEW,


The Chicago Inter-ocean, discussing the
auction of cotton 10 the south, under
rs. and free labor, says that it is more sue-
.,.fally raised with tho latter than with
", ro,mer. and it gives census reports to
'.,.;n i,s position. 1t is an gorgeous blum
49, ~, ,bs, the Inter, Ocean makes. CoItoni' a
~. inland the only class of labor that can
~nh.,.nd the suns heat from the earliest
",,,iro hours till dark of each summer day,
o.n rroduce il to its fullest perfection. Cot
,on !. A product that requires labor from the
a., of Janusry to the first of January every
a, and unremitling labor Elk days in every
vek. aud it would be better to give it
,.ysn we're it not violation OF the divine
,.n ofprofsne law and of the law of ma
,n,s /, work seven days in week. The
alton planter must be able to control his
.h,rii he makes a full crop, and it is only
dave labor that can be fully Controlled. I'm
i,y the old regime of c.:lon planting the
,,Aorers we're in the G Id and al work by the
lima the daylight was abrosd, and they
v,,ked with only short intermifsiors for
h,sskfsst and dinner eaten in the field, until il
vu dark, and this was done the
,s,r around. The work was not heavy, but
ahsd TO be unceasipg 10 make a good yield
rs, acre. Now the cotton planters hired
hbOr get, into the field after sun up; III G
heat of the day is consumed in ,iestas in the
shade, ard work is knocked off at supdowD
Under slave LABOR all the land was prepared
and ready for seed by the middle or last OF
February, while under free labor the planter
can't get bis plows stsrted in his cotton land
before lhst time. The Consequence is that
cotton is always month 70 six weeks lsIel
with free labor than it was with slave labor
and when the worms come it 10 not Tar
enough advanced to witLgtand their ravages,
and We have, every since the war, reports Of
rsVsges by the worm, when before the wal
they we're vesy rare, indeed. Under slave
sbOr the land could be made to produce up
10 its full capacity per acre; under free labor
shout oIe>fourth TO one.thisd Of its capacity
per acre is all 80 IL done. 1t is true
that the crops are larger now than they were
under slave labor, but it is
because there is greater popula"
lion and vastly more acres are
cultivated. Compose the yield per acre IN
der slave and under free labor if you want
to FAD out the difference between the two,
As smother proof of Whist We soy we have
but TO look at the statistics for Missouri, q
western and not q southern state, state
outside of the hs bitat of cotton, and there
We see tina! the yield under free labor il
iiX.y'one hundredths Of a bale per acre, be-
ing greater than In any other state. The
climate is no, so hot in Missouri, free labor
that is white labor-csn work harder snC
longer in Missouri than under the hot Guns OF
the southern states, and cotton receiyet
nearer the cultivation il requires and !,
picked cut cleaner Whtn it opens. If tb,
negro rs fletmsn would work as he die
when 8. slave he could make as much cotton
for himself ss he did for his master; bul
nth rare exceptions they fail TO do it. Here
hd there you find a colortd man with lit
tie farm of his own raising crop Of cotton
that he and his family can cultivate and hc
invarisbIy makes bigger crop per acre thar
anybody in his section. Ho has no worms
when other farms are being rsvsged, he al
wys has the first blooms, the first squares
the first bolls and the first cotton in the gin
house. The white man can not stand the
hot sun and the negro, as rule, is ,oo tiff
ing to do it. These arc facts and the Inter
Ocean can rely on them as such. We dom
wish to be understood, in stating these facts
that we would like for lavery TO be re-es'
tablished, for such ia not the case. We would
rsshr never see another pound of cotton raised
than to see the curse of slavery fastened again
upon the south. The value OF free labor to
the south over that of slavery is inestimsble
and no people can or do estimate it more
mighty thsn the southern people. but that
Wus il of a different nature and kind from
increased field productions. The Inter-
Ocean says:
Now comes Special Agent EIilgard, who
has hsd charge of the cotton statistics, aud
informs Us that under the il hueuce of free
labor the cotton product Of the southern
siate' has increased nearly 80 per cent. IL
1870 the cotton product of the country was
SOll,S57 hales. The census shows ~ crop
Of 1879 to have been 5,79n res ~ increase Of
27O2 81 oales. Below 10 II carefully pre-
pared table, for which we Are indebted to
General Walker, superintendent of the CEN
sus, showing the cotton producing states as
arranged in accordance with the order OF
their rank according to the production OF
1879. The increase in bales, and the per
cent of increase in each cotton-produciDg
state during the last decennial, is shown in
The following interesting table:
COTTON PRODUCTION IN 1870 AND 1880.