The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-04-26
Solid Facts to be Considered by
the Cotton Planters.

and there ls every likelihood that II
always will be, therefore it is folly to
suggest reduction Of area while all
the testimony goes to prove annual
increase Of consumption. There is a
greater demand for seven millions
of bales of American cotton to day
than there WAS for four million bales
in 1865, and it is likely that demand
will keep pace with supply even
though the crop of 1882 shall be
doubled by the crop Of the year
1900.
The American cotton is rapidly
driving its eastern rivals ont OF The
market, but we must not forget that
this fact is not attributable. alone to
the excellence of our product
though its superiority is conceded
on all hands-but also to the fact
that we are demonstrating our abil-
ity to meet the world s ever increas
ing demand. During the years OF
the war Europe was brought face to
face with the possibility of an entire
withdrawal Of the American staple
from the maj kets Of the world, not
only temporarily but forever, aud
Europe with practical good sense
commenced putting her house in Or
der to meet the new condition OF
things. If the war, with its blockade
Of Southern ports had continued for
ten years, Europe would have been
none the poorer IN the matter OF
spin dies and looms, but she would
have adjusted all Of her machinery
to the use Of the staples of Egypt
and India, and when VS. again sought
her maikets-if we ever resumed
cotton planting-it would have been
to find her without machinery to
handle our product, and as unwilling
to revolutionize her methods and
plans to meet the demands of our
staple as she now is in order to hans
die the inferior product of other
lands. American cotton is absolute-
ly peerless and the manufacturers of
the whole world are ready enough to
concede its sovereignty and to fore.
swear allegiance to all other cottons,
but they expect to find in it a Con-
stitutional monarch that will be
mindful OF the demands and needs
of its subjects sovereign that will
see to the extension of its sway and
be careful that those who base their
hopes upon its good promises are
not betrayed.
There is an active and increasing
demand for American cottCns, and
this will be the case just SO long as
American planters show a wiling
ness and an ability to meet that de
mond, and no longer; and he who
supposes that the millers of the
world will permit themselves to be
made playthings Of by the cotton
planters, is an idiot.
This talk about reduction of cotton
area by concerted action or general
consent with a view to enhancing
the price by reducing the supply is
the veryist nonsense; any such move.
ment on the part of the planters
would be fully met by the millers,
who, to protect themselves would at
once reinstate a portion Of the ma
cbirery they used during the war,
and go to handling African and ASH
attic cottons again.
We have but one sensible thing to
do and that is the simplest and
pleasantest of all things-reduce the
cost of making cotton by increasing
the lone supply of everything es-
sential to its production, and we must
increase the cotton area steadily and
safely until able to supply the entire
demand Of the world with good cot>
tons, and thus drive all competitors
offering low grade cottons ont of the
market, remembering at all times
that we can only hold the market
and control it, by meeting it's full
demands and that any attempt on
our part to curtail or shorten the
supply, will be met by correspond
ing decrease of demand that may re-
suit in permanent disaster.