The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-10-01

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S64,9o9 bales, against S,676,40 bales
last year and 6,S16525 bales in 1S96-'97:
and that the exports have been 1852
aSS bales, against Z ,532, 615 bales last
season and 5.96S, 422 bales the previous
season. Great Britain getting out of this
crop 3.4S2, POI bales. If now we add the
shipments from Tennessee arid elsewhere
direct to manufacturers, and Southern
consumption. we have the following as
the crop statement for the three ears:
Year ending
Sept. l. 1882. 1878 ls9s-s7.
Receipts at
ports. bales. s,'si,e5s s,s7s,4o7 s,sls,5s5
Shipments from
Tennessee etc..
direct to mills. 1.Hoass I,27s,sl4 s7s,ool
.Total..... -. s,sa5,a7 ss5s,02I 1859 $40
ann Q c tured
South, not IN
cluded above. 1,4f0G26 % .939 JOs4 4s2
Total cotton
crop for the
year, bales ll,2s5,as3 ll,lS0,sso s.7H,flI
The result of these figures is total
crop of II ,2355,3 1888 bales (weighng 5, 7G5,-
52O,339 pounds) for the year ending Au-
gust 81. 1899, against a crop of II, $780,
960 bales tweighimg 5,667,372, O51 pourds)
for the year ending August 81, 1898.
Northern and Southern sp;nners' TAX
ings in 1S9S-'99 have been as given be-
low:
Total crop Of the United
States, as before stated
bales. 1880. II ,22:335, 33S33
Stock on hand commencement of
year tSeptennber /, 1885,
AT Northern
ports ....61, 054
AT Southern
ports -. III, 952--176,0O6
AT Northern
int eriOr
markets 800 1926 1922
Total supply during the year
ending Srpt ], 1899. I'll. 421 $50
The total takings 10y spinmerls North
ard South during 1S9S-'99 have reached
36H.11S bales, of which the Northern
mills have taken 2.247. 092 bales and tie
Southern mills 1.400,O26 BALES.
WHITlE VS.. 0OIJORFlD LABOR.
We rednemberkw the war with the
South was at its height. and in the early
years after its dose. oolcred men frcGn
the South seemed allrre1t to sqstplarlt
white men for domestic service I'M the
North. THE tendency did not linger long
though, for instance, There were and are
some, efficient colored coathmes., TIE
body OF them proved 10 be lazy ana
shiftless and could net be Ina4le efficient
by training. We are inclined ito the
0piniGl-rhe teaching of events that one
good white mill hand Will always BIZ.
equal to at least rGle and a half of the
Southern colored latGrers. Not chat
there are no exceptions to this rule; such
claim would be far from the truth. for
there are numerous rhenOrnenal cases of
individuals rising far above the average,
but executions are not the rtlle. Best les
there is another development just now
at work which cannot fail to
affect the status and price Of
labor in the South. Such changes are
usually very gradual. and that may be 50
in this case. Yet it is inevitable that
the hostility between the white and black
population i'm the South. siich ccnspic-
nous feature of late rapidly growing in
intensity during the year, should tend to
lessen the supply of lafbcr and greatly to
increase the friction between the two
races when working together.
We see no reason why the South
should not always be a coed field for the
establishment of GOTTEN Mills What we
have written does not affect the aues-
ticn. But does it not indicate Il decided
probability of the narrowing CT fife most
important of the fayorrF'a difference,
that section has enjoyed? The facts Ger
tainly indicate an equalisfrl, tendency
in the matter of labor; % multiplying of
mills has of itself that effect; (2) I'M case
recourse be had as a chief reliance to
colored labor. in that case lack of effi-
cheney I'm the South world be an Offset
to the higher wages in the North; Is;
then. again. this deep and general anti
fpathy among the whites against tie
blacks fer moral reason, beading ~ Il
SUMMARY and indfscriminate infection Of
punishment and to the enactment Of poll
d;cal disabilities against the race must.
it would seem, operate i'm the chi to
shorten the labor supply open to the mill
manager. and thus raise ryrices; a. add
to all this the work OF trade uDl1Ts
which fer permanent success in the
North must i'm the erd act on the mil
band in the South as well as in thc
North (for it would not be success il
by the rules OF the Union the mill in
dustrv i'm the North was destroyed and
transferred TO the Son.h) and we have
a IrePsy clear prospect of n coming al
justment of wages in tine two sections.
I'm the meantime, or at least for the