The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-09-03

Great Bitain and every other nation put up to the present time we have practically left alone in the worlds biggest market.
 In the Bombay district the United states sells more goods than 1t pur- chases, but this condition of affairs is changed In all India, as our aggregate purchases are fully six times more than our sales, The reason for this is large ly due to causes within our own con- trol' We are not yet making what the foreign market demands. We pay heavy transportation charges to foreign ships. instead of furnishing our own vessels to carry our goods. Our lack of know ledge as to packing and shipping to iorelgn, markets, our ignorance of for eign customs regulations, the require- ments of trade and the nature and character of goods needed, our aver sion to extend credit accommodations, the absence of supply of trained American commercial representatives to cover, study and manage the foreign fleld--these are some of the hindrances 10 our success in the Indian market. That they will gradually disappear be- Tore well directed, intelligent effort and American push" is probably certain, but the day of their disappearance will be hastened If the American manufac- turer will devote his energies to sweep ing them away.
 NOt Y11apo LIa- ,No,. oo,,f American export of cotton in India is In manufactured form yet We grow three-fourths of the worlds supply of cotton and furnish our competitors with the raw material, thus losing the profits of the capital and the employ ment to labor which would result from such a vast world industry. As a mat ter of fact we can manufacturer bet ter cotton cloth, yard for yard and pound for pound. than any other indus trial nation, and, with our great facili- ties, homegrown cotton, our inventive genius and superior machinery, we can do it at less cost than it can be done elsewhere, excepting where higher wages interfere. The day should be welcomed when our competitors would t1ndH other sources of supply for their raw cotton and would cease buying in America. Then we should be obliged to manufacture our own crop and enter, as we have not yet done, into genuine competition for our proper share of the worlds markets
 The United States has made little, if any, real effort to secure a proper share of the cotton market In India, The few American cotton goods that are sent there, such as sheetings and drills, which are sought when good article is wanted, actually sell them selves. Foreign competitors cannot be expected to sell them for us. During recent years Great Britain has been quietly doing some empire building in India. She has constructed living wall of official influence that the protects the trade for the home coun- | try more effectively than system of tar. Tiff legislation could do.
 To contend against this Influence requires most Intelligent and persls. tent efforts, The American manufact' urer or exporter has succeeded best 1T India who has established branci house under the personal control ant management of an intelligent expert enced and we'll paid staff. The vast cot ton market of India is worthy of ser ious consideration and energetic effort and the United States should have sucf reasonable share of it as becomes 2 great producing and manufacturing people. It is for us to say whether w shall spin and weave wor the worlds market the cotton which we produce or shall continue to grow the fibre only and allow others to collect the profit of our toll.