Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-11-18
ESTABLISHED 1850.
What Is the Future Of Cotton, and
How Will Prices Rule?

Editor Morning Nesos: Any answer to this
question ordinarily would be the merest
guess, but, fortified as we are now, with
every argument in its favor, it requires no
prophet nor son of a prophet to see in the
near future phenomenal advance in cotton
and its fabrics. The weight Of testimony is
now too strong and unanswerable to admit
of doubt, and the suborned evidence of a
few unlucky "besrs' cannot change the
popular verdict. Cotton is. bound to go up.
The usual amount of statistical nonsense
has been scattered broadcast over
the land by professional circular
writers, who talked fippantly about the
Indications of a seven million bale crop of
cotton, as II It were a foregone conclusion
and they knew all about it.
Does it occur to those wiseacres that their
predictions In the past have generally
missed the real outturn about a million of
bales Still ''Fools walk boldly in where
angels fear to tread" and you can find
in "Valambrosia," men who never saw a
stalk of cotton, but who can tell you all
about it, except the truth.
Divest the subject of the "ways that are
dark and tricks that are vain" Of these New
York planters, and you have the irresistible
statement from the men who grow the
cotton, that the crop is short, certainly
a million of bales from last year. Add to
this the facts that trade is good everywhere,
better than 1t has been for years; Russia
coming money from her spindles; the con-
sumption of England largely increased, and
in some instances the product of her mills
contracted for until 1885, the Continent and
Spain, with their usual prudent wisdom and
forethought, Stocking up" with the first
selection from the American crop, not wait
ing fer the deluge of cotton at the ports
predicted by the above mentioned Circular
WRITER'S" This "deluge" is postponed on
account of the weather, and the English
spinners will soon find history repeated, and
wake up to the unpleasant fact that the
cream Of the crop has been absorbed by their
mole astute neighbors, while for them is
left the tail of the seasons business, and at
prices that will cause the heart of every
"bull' to rejoice with a great and exceed
ing Joy. No one thinks the New England
spinners a set of fools. They have been
stocking up for nearly two months, both by
sea and overland-the overland movement
largely in excess of last year, which was
unusually large-while by the steamers from
Savannah and Charleston for weeks to-
shipped was for Eastern mills. What does
this mean? Evidently they don't take any
stock in the predictions Of the "circular
writers" but with their usual sagacity and
foresighted wisdom, having the evidence
from their well informed agents that the
crop is short-very short-have provided
themselves with supply of the raw ma
terial, that their nimble spindles may un-
interruptedlY continue their busy song and
add their quota to the fOreshadowed great
American boom Of prosperity.
Ask them who are daily buying all the
cotton at the ports, until in their anxiety it
becomes almost a scramble-what do your
friends abroad think of cotton They an
swer: they are "bears" and "me too"
What of the size of the cropt My friends
in Spitzbergen, who have heretofore been
marvelously correct, say from seven millions
up. What are you buying for now, then!
Excuse me, just remember promised to
meet a man. Too transparent. gentlemen.
Though the people are credulous and like
to be humbugged, as Barnum says, they are
not bowling idiots, but know "hawk from
a hand saw" and turning deaf ear to the
Munchausenism of "circular writers' and
Hanover square prophets, they will be gov
erned by the plain logic of sturdy, home
facts, from those who are their associates
and neighbors, and whose interests are
identical. "Cotton is bound to go up"
SPINDLE.