The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1894-12-14
FARMERS DEPARTMENT
MOTTO:
He that ploweth, should plow in hope

en- the mind OF his readers, and to Tins
end we would call the attention OF oul
despOndent eotton-growers 10 u o1e
subject, frought with lar reaching
but material lntereststo them, and thai
is the Nicaragua canal, connecting the
Atlantic and racine oceans Tor SHIPS
to pass through. rms would open uE
To us the markets OF emma, japan, In
dla, and other Asiat1c countries tot
our raw cotton and manufactured
goods, WhlchSgare now supplied by
England as y middle man from oar
raw material to. SOo,O0O, 600 customers.
The Japanese are skllled artisans
and manufacture goods equal II not
superior to ours. One city alone,
Osaka, has fortyrslx cotton mills with
100000 splpdles, and within a, year
will probably be increased 70 l,o0o,0 600
She purchases Sl4,u0o, 900 worth OF cot
ton year. They buy our cotton In
Liverpool and ship by the Suez Canal.
We purchase Sl7, O00, 900 worth OF &C DDS
annually from Japan and send her 49,
100000. The Chlnese trade amounts
4sto .S300, U00,O 900 year. South America
also offers Held OF 6o,0o0,ooO custom
ers, the bulk OF whose trade goes to
England. The Japanese army Is now
supplied by corn beef by an American
contractor, and the contract Tor IRON
pipes for tue water WORKS OF the clty ol
TOXIC We're awarded to an American
over English, Gerhan ana frfnch com
petitors. The pipes VIII DE made IN
Alabama and sent TO Tacoma Tor SNIP
tnent. The contractor receives $780,
900. The construction OF the canal
will give us such short route to the
ASiatic trade that England cannot
compete with us; and The day OF her
supremacy is over. She viii no longer
fix the price of our cotton, put instead
we will do SO and pocket the immense
profits She has been prontlng, from
getting our raw material at her own
price, manufacturing 1T and selling 1t
in d mOnopollzed market. III our great
trunk lines of railroads could be COM
PEELED to transport our cotton to Taco |
ma. San Francisco, or San Diego for
just rates, we could now enjoy tins
trade. This canal should be built by |
the United States government and for
ever controlled by it as an interna-
will be too long in doing SO, and could
iiupose vigorous eXactions Every
Southern state should petition Con-
greSs to undertake. this work at once.
1t would be the browning glory OF the
10th century TO us. Yet we have seen
prominent agricultural journals oppose
.hamently the government constitute
ton of this canal Our government
by special treaties made many years
ago has the privilege of constructing
this water way We don't belong to
that school of political economists who
look with fear upon strong govern
inent, and we are fast losing our for
mer ideas in regard TO paternalism ia
certain safe directions. Ii there was
a grand trunk line of railroad run, say
from Savannah. Georgia, to San Diego,
by the government, tapped
by state roads, it would put our cotton
in these Asiatic markets at cost THAT
would make cotton once more scept-
cred monarch. The entire cotton belt
would rise like Phoenix from the
ashes. Look at your map OF the world |
and see what clnch we wodld have
in the canal or such railroad on John
Bull.
There is cotton nov in many fields
that will not be picked. At present
prices it is claimed that it will not pay
FOR labor and cost of the work, and !
that there is more profit in blowing it
in with the Exchange.
Such articles as the above are calcu-
lated to do great injury not only as to
cotton producers, but TO the general !
public It dissatisties the farmer with
his calling and renders him hopeless {
aud Respondent, and creates "A gloomy {
of future hardsbips aud in :
,erest in the people at large. There is
40 question but what cotton can be
.aised profitably at present prices If {
M. douhts this lot than aSly ap,