The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-10-02
COTTON KING
Sully, Of New York, Talks About
the Staple
and ABOUT THE SOUTH

In Interview He Says the Consump-
ton Of Cotton by the World VIII
Reach Fourteen Million Bales the
Coming Year-Prediction of 1868
Close to Fulhllment-Wiu Spin
Our Own Cotton.
In an interview concerning cotton,
Daniel J. Su!ly, said in New York on
Thursday
81 recall that my prediction in
1903 that within FIVE years fifteen
million bales Of cotton would be used,
was considered very optimistic
"I'll venture right here to make
some other predictions.
within twenty-five years the
southern states will spin fifty per
cent. of their own cotton, whereas
now they export sixty per cent. Of it.
Within twenty-five years fifty per
cent. Of the spinning industry OF Eng
land will be situated in the southern
states Of America.
my prediction of 1903 is very
close to fulf1lment, and predict that
this coming year, the consumption OF
cotton by the world Will reach four
teen million bales (if it can be OBJ
tained) at better prices than ever be-
fore.
"And this will bring back into this
country enormous quantities Of gold
instead Of our exporting big quanti-
ties of it, to such an extent that from
October, 1907, to July, 1908, the re-
eeipt Of gold into the United States
will exceed by fifty per cent any i'm
port Of gold ever known by the Amer
ican people.
"Does that look as il there is any
thing the matter with American f.
nance? Does that look as If Wall
Street Of Egos, or hysterian phan-
tom chasers can ruin this country?
Does that look as If we were in dam
ger. Of war? Does that look as II
there is any reason why this is the
day for the man with the patch on
his pants?
| "What hobo dream? And every
hobo at once began to have dream
of his exaggerated Ego, and to think
the time had arrived when all the
wealth and brains in the United
States will be commanded to throw
off their clean linen and adopt his
patched habiliments.
There will never come the day
when the man with the patch on MS
pants will rule America, because 1
have shown in the foregoing it is an
inevitable certainty that the labor1ns
man OF the United States will be
more proud than ever that ne IS
abundantly provided with all ne
wants. can maintain his family as ne
desires. and can save up his surplus
for surplus he will havel from the
progress of this nation which nothing
can stay!
"The world outside the United
States would be delightful. to see the
day when the man with the patch on
his pants swayed America; but the
conception is as absurd as the utter
ance of trite epigram, devoid Of sub
stance.
"I cannot leave the topic Of cotton
ANYMORE than the American people
can leave it if they would, or should
if they could, because It is insepera-
bly identified with the advancement
which this nation is to make, an ad-
: yancement entirely beyond the power
! of any man to portray in words.
"For years that fluffy growth that
aecked the southern belt was neglect
ed. half-scorned and abused specimen
of vegetation began to hear tn civ1f1z-
< ed world shout across the Atlantic
and Pacific oceans, "Send US cotton:
Send us cotton!"
"Then we began to take some no
> tice of that scrawny plant, and began
I to appreciate that it bore Tor us
d sienidcance that was to be writer
: in the future in such revenues ina
r no man dared measure their volume
S And we don't begin to measure tne
import of what cotton actually means
l. to the United States yet! -,
le eve haven't any conception o. 49,. -
y millions of acres that are today seem,
ID inelv sterile which in few years WIZ
20 luxuriate in snowy tufts OF taas s,a ~. :,
cons nroduct directly respons1ole ~
at eoa1 .uo aemsnds of the world. OF course
er we we are people wondrously ene1gea.. ags'as
IS ~ "e IL T is. but we haven't our eneTs.es sa
to even e vet stimulated as they WIZ o'
le come. ,o+ advance with.
ne ne =. o+tsa +ne help of American cotton,
ne out , tnn INST have it! And it rests VIII VIII
They II + 4nss taey must not also use g,1
er 'ssoat US - Al America is depopulatlng Gu. Gu
WIZ VIZ hv taking it's BRAN aho nus: tn
rope W The day is almost above tns
horizon n,,r when the best human as NV vepa Fs,
no, 1.r iD the world contains: and 10Y La
or ess ests hest material wealth the esE.t
,~nows tIS anywhere, will make the onle
~ 49, states sway the globe.