The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-30

Hollands dykes, I've cheese and
butler makers fight American dairies.
The hen cackles around the world.
California cha'leuges vine-cladFrance.
The Dark Continent is disclosed
through meshes Of light. There is
competition everywhere. The hus>
handman driven from his market
balances price against starvation :,
and uadercuts his rival. This con
fict often runs 10 paoic, aud profit
yaniehes. The Iowa farmer burning
his corn for fael is not an unusual
type. OF all the American farmers
the cotton grower is tie one who Is
not driven almost to despair by COM
petition. The mortgag e>lBden farms
cftha Wet. the deserted farms of
New Englaud-thesc tell the story
Of foreign competition. Even in
our own land the occupation Of new
areas Increases constantly the wheat
and corn and grass acreage. 1t is
estimated that tie Powell survey Of
irrigahlc land makes an area eight
times as large as Indiana. Add this
to the wheat ana Corn-producing
lands, and at the same time with
draw the Southern States, now rails
ing their own grain, from the list Of
purchasers, and what is the prospect
ahead of the American grain grower7
But it may be urged ttat the cot
ton grower in the South has com.
petition in Egypt, India, Brazil and
Russia. Let the record answer. In
1872 the American supply of cotton
was 3,24l, 900 bsles. The foreign
supply. 3.O36,000 bales. At thst
time the world had been for twelve
years seeking substitute forAmeric-
an cotton. For five Years the South
ern ports had been shut by war. and
all that ingenuity could do had been
done to promote cotton culture in
foreign countries. The result was
that America made hardly 100000
bales in excess of her foreign rivals.
That was in 1872. In the year 1888
the American supply Tas 100000
bales the foreign supply, 2,1O0O.000
bales; both expressed in English
bales. SO that, in spite Of new areas
opened elsewhere. Of fuller expert
ence, Of spreading civilization OF
better transportation, of unlimited
money spent in experiment, the
foreign supply Of cotton has decTeaS-
ed since 1872 nearly 100000 bales,
while the Southern supply has in
creased nearly 5000 900 bales. That
shows that the monopoly of the
South is not only fixed, but deepen~
ing. Cotton is yearly becoming
more popular. Since 1872 the popu-
lation ia Europe has increased Is
per cent. cotton consumption in Eu-
rope has Increased 80 per cent. Cot
ton is steadily driving out wool and
flax. Since 1880 cotton consump>
/ tion IN Europe has increased % per
cent, the consumption Of wool only
1 per cent, while the consumption
of flax has decreased IL ker cent. A
| for new areas, the uttermOst mission
ary wooS the aeathen with a cottor
shirt in one hand and the Bible II
the other, and no savage | believe
has eyer been converted to one with
out having first put on the other
Not only is the Southern monopol,
IN cotton fixed, but it broadening
In the past three years the crop ha
increased 100000 bales, aud ye
tie fixed supply of cotton has grow
less each year. The present year
crop of 100000 nales will be take
and consumed, and 100000 bale
viii! be needed next year. With
five years the South Will sell 10000
900 bales of cotton IN a single crop
and will receive from lint and see
not less than 5000. 100000. Thi
stupend0us income is not doled Ou
to each farmer at starvation price
to meet driving competition else
where, but it is paid to farmers wh
, control a monopoly. and who, pl "a
| ticaIly. fix their own prices. Thi
J enormous stream Of money flown.
into the South every year-the II
, suit of monopoly that can netthe
: be DESTROYED nor diminished-mus
: in the near future make the Sout
, exceedingly rich.
SOUTHERN AGRICULTURE
: BROADENING.
/ An excursion Of Georgia farmer
went to Ohio this fall on q specil
) tram, to study the diaries and II
.Loo.o f,oto-i,e of tbcf Sfot~ Tho