The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1905-04-07

cotton gouds is In Europe.
The construction OF ths Isthmian
canal is going to remedy this to some
extent.
THE IsTHMIAN CANAL.
When God fashioned this country.
ne run Its great rivers and mountain
ranges North aud south and placed its
natural gate ways on the South At
lantic and Gulf coast. When man
COOK a, a,hand In the development of the
continent, he attemo oted to change
this aud the greatest monopoly on
earth Is our traus continental railroad
system. 1t has for years been forcing
freight east and west. Tue products
from our mills going to China, Instead
OF going the nearest route to deep
water, travel up the continent near.
ly thousand miles to one Of these
trans-continental lines and then aor, So
the continent 5000 more before they
reach ship. You may be sure that
the man who grew that cotton pays
his share Of the added freight.
This powerful monopoly has alway s
defeated every project looking to the
building Of merchant maine that
would develop South Atlantic and
Gulf ports, just as it postponed for a
third Of CENTURY the construction of
an Isthmian canal. do not believe
that Congress has ever passed any
measure of as great industrial impor-
lance to the south as the canal bill
and do not believe that it could have
been passed lad It not been for the
Spanish war.
When that great war ship. the 0 re.
gon, went ploughing down the->~oast
on her ten thousand mile voyage
around the cape, 1T de onstrated to
the whole country the absolute nee
essity OF the canal as a war nnaas,I,i nnaa,,,re- lire,
and this will be worth t5o>t 20 the south 20
times the cost 9. tine war. With the
canal imports and exports will move
no[1n and south. not east and wes.,
(aud Charleston, Mobile, Galveston and
New Ofleans will be the gr,a, di,tri.
buting points for the food and cloth
supply Of the world
CHINA TRADE.
What we need in our section before
that time comes Is to manufactu, ,e
N IRE OF our cotton at hone au1 seni
the finished arli,le abroad. So far
our best D1arkets have b zen in China
| and 1t IS there we must Look Just now,
for a market for the surplus we should
be satisfied With nothing less, but the
VIII lie w rid is our field. Considering
that there are four hundred million
people In China who would Undertake u
to put limit to the amou1t Of cotton
go01s wh:cl China alone Can consume
One difficulty lies in the linn
tied information which we hay4
of China. Th' country Is 50 vast and
the interior So lutte tx xolored thai
even no y travellers return aud tell u
Of great cities doing an enormous in.
ternal business, that are not even
town on the MP. Since 1 was In
New Orleans | have been receiving
letters from various p rsS of the
world telling Of the great oppor'unl
Ties that are open to the American
manufacturer. | was particularly
struck with communication ftom d
hrm doing business in the P,rsia1
Cult region telling me of the grea
demand that existed in that region
for cotton clot /. and saying that his
firm was absolutely unable to get The
goods Tnat it was not 50 much d
question OF price. as to know how and
where tn obtain the class and style OF
pooAs d mand' d by the people OF that
region How cal there be overpro
duc1i n wnen tnere are millions TN
orlng for cotton 20 ds ready to pa,
for them and yet unable 10 oo.air
them.
say that we are confronted with
under distribution, Ut ever produc-
tion.
Or all the rulers Of the world, not
one Is showing Il ore Sagf CITY In help
Ing his people than the Emperor VIII
liam. He recosniz,S tIat the gr, at
contest in this wOr d is among the
ma ions for c,mme'c al supre macy.
he is fostering and enc ,ura ging a
graf German merchant narine ana
a ding and developing the export
trade in every way that he can.
The present trade in the Orient was
opened up at first by the Lyons and
Blackburn commission, one French,
the other English.
Our government has never helped
us In the Orient, but now The n Nsw
ORLEANS convention has requested
Congress to create com mission for
that purpose. The President has
given me his personal assurance that
he will recommend such action to the
next congress, and assist the cotton
| interests OF the south in every way
that he can.
THE PROMISED LAND.
There Is no decadence In my fore.
cast OF the future Of the south. God
placed his time lock on these shores
Of ours, but it Is opened now, and our
development, great as 1T is, has
scarcely begun. Ours is the prom
ised land" the country favored by
God and nature, with monopoly OF
the only great agricultural product
which Is used by civilized man every
where. 1t is Inevitable, as inexorahle
as the laws OF life and death, the
mills must come to the cotton. There
are those In the sound OF my voice,
| who will live to see the time when
the south will enjoy as complete a
monopoly in the manuf Acture as she
now does In the production or raw
cotton.
When instead Of ten cents we will
draw from the balance Of the world
20, 80 and 40 cents per pound for the
finished article, making the south
rich beyond our Widest dreams.
When life's fierce battle is done,
| / hot