The Wilmingtonian., 1886-07-03
How the World Moves.

who receives but very few cents in daily
wage.
The Congressional orator, OF course in,
tending to draw contrast between the great
er agricultural, commercial and business ad-
vantages in the United States compared to
those existing in other lands.
But these assertions are at length now be-
coming too oft repeated Things are chang
| ing. Even those far-off Asiatic lands are
undergoing metamorphosis, and most
startling one too.
Hindostan has already sailed by us and
snatched from our hands the whole of the
margin on European wheat export sales. II
Is puerile for our Legislators to assert that
the Indian ryot has not gained some little in
crement of advantage through the fact of Sc
curing regular daily wage when hitherto
he received almost an absolute nothing.
Where a great agricultural industry such as
wheat growing has become new and stable
industry of any land the peasantry of that
land are always imm enselyi bettered by it in
a general expansive sense.
But there is, perhaps, still more import
ant and significant fact to be told.
The Contemporary Reuie'c is authority for
the following -
"Though the old hand-manufa lures of H.
dia are dying out, they are being replaced by
the improved methods of European manufac-
turers. Bombay resembles Lancashire town
In the number of its smoky chimneys. 1t has
nearly seventy cotton mills, fitted with the
best machinery of Oldham, and paying much
better dividends than similar factories in
England. Tie ju:e manufacturing trade is
leaving Dundee for the Valley of the Gauges.
Labor is so immensely cheaper than in En-
gland and the natives are so quick at the
use of their fingers that it is only a question,
it is suspected, of time, to transfer much of
the trade of Lancashire to India. Already
the ombay mills have nearly deprived Ian
cashire of the trade with China in cotton
yarns, and there are symptoms Of much
greater changes in the future"
The above is an instance, and the author
ity may be accepted without question. of the
contemplate Hindoo exaoting from England
one Of her strongest staple industries.
Indian has taken toll from the United
States wheat industry and is robbiug En-
gland Of her cotton industry.
And SO the world moves
Riches, progress and civilization congre-
vis.,s-'--rocrer WIS; GER NJ 7envn-
totality, the greater number ofiadvantageous
circumstances or conditions.
India for instance will continue in this
line, marching forward, as long as she holds
that trump card cheap labor This is pos
itively true. The older civilizations of the
United States and England are pat TO their
wits end to combat these facts. And it
must be borne in mind when considering this
question, the almost interminable margin of
advantage India has in her native population
of 250, 100000 Our Omitted States) fattest
agricultural lands do not exceed in richness
the possibilities of the Ganges Valley with
its 416, 900 square miles of basin, or the Brah-
mapootra of 450 900 square miles of area of
basin And there is the district of the Pun
iaub And these are only the northern,
though the greatest, river-basins OF the rich
est peninsula of Asia ! In the south are pos
sibilties of intermnable cotton, sugar,
coffee, and tobacco fields. With cheap Hin
doc labor what is the inevitable logic of all
this?
Bombay With its seventy cotton mills
is in South. west Of India. And
at the North. east is Calcutta, at the mouth
of the rich Ganges Valley new city more
populous than Philadelphia and the modern
emporium of all the trade of Asia's nine
hundred million of inhabitants!
The world is not asleep outside of the
United States and Europe. 1t is rushing
along at accelerated pace.
Present conditions require the brightest
intellects among our merchant princes il
order that they hold in hand their share o
the worlds marketing and trade.
Even in our own country the trl6e ant
manufacturing interests OF New England ha'
received vital blow. Georgia and Alabami
are surely snatching its trade away.
A Birmingham (Alabama) correspondent
Of the New York World tells a most signifl
cant story of that place. The main value o
the narrative is that that locality is takinl
the wind out of the sails of Pennsylvani;
foundries, of iron and steel manufactures
A single quotation in regard to the nes
awakening in the South iwhither it seem
that supremacy in the iron and steel. indus
tries is slowly but surely veering will b
sufficient -
Birmingham has surrounding her loo
u square miles of bituminous coal, equallin
e in cooking and steaming qualities any
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