The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-03-06
What COTTON MEANS
The Importance of the Staple to
the United States
And to the World May Be Seen From
the Article Which We Publish

! ana TO the World May Be Seen From
the Article Which We Publisl
/ Below.
Some idea OF what the cotton n
dustry means may be gathered fro1
a report BY the National Bureau 0,
Manufactures recently issued. 1t tells
US that cotton and its products
brought practically FIVE hundred NIL.
lions Of dollars into the United States
from foreign countries last year.
The value Of cotton, raw and man
| ufactures, and its products in var
ious forms exported during the year
aggregated 435 million dollars and
thus formed more than one-fourth
Of the total exports Of the country
in the year OF its greatest export
record.
Figures just compiled by the ou-
reau Of statistics Of the department
OF commerce and labor show that
the total value OF raw cotton export
ed in the calendar year 1906 was
s413.000.000. this being the -rst cal
endar year in which the EXPORT fig
u-es Of raw cotton touched OF cross
ed the S400,000.000 line.
Manufactures OF cotton aggregat-
ed practically s43,00o.0o0, or more
than in any earlier year except 1905,
when they amounted to about $685.
100000. Cotton seed OF! exported
added another s14,00o.0o0 70 the
total. and cotton seed OIL cake and
meal still another s14.o0J,000.
Added to this IS quarter Of
million dollars worth of cotton seed,
while presumably a large proportion
of the nearly five million dollars
worth Of lard compounds and sub
stitutes exported under the name Of
cottolene, lardine, etc., vas COM
posed largely Of cotton seed oil,
thus bringing the aggregate expor-
tation Of the cotton fields Of the Tn
tied States up to about s490,000,-,
900. or % per cent Of sl.733,o0o.-
900 worth Of domestic products ex-
ported in the year.
IN addition to this the value OF
cotton manufactures sent to Porto
Rico. Hawaii. and Alaska. and not
included IN the figures Of exports to
foreign countries. was over S4,oo0,-
900.
{ Europe sent the bulk Of this
$500, 100000 received as the pur-
chase price Of the years exporta-
ton Of cotton and its products
Of the S413. 100000 worth Of raw
cotton exported, sl73,00o.o00 worth
vent to the United Kingdom, si0s.-
100000 to Germany, s45,000,O00 to
France. s31,,vU.U00 to Italy, nearly
s7,o00.0Oo to Belgium. s5,000,o00
direct to Russia and $1,000,0O0 70
the Netherlands; while to Japan the
exports for the year were valued at
over 81, 100000, and to Canada sew
en- and one-third millions.
Even this large figure Of s103.-
0oo, 900 worth of cotton sent to the
United Kingdom falls slightly below
shat Of 1905, when the total value
of raw cotton exported to that coun-
try amounted to s177.000.000; but
the increased movements to Germany
more than Offset the reduction IN
those to the United Kinsdom, the eX-
ports of cotton to Germany IN 1906
being S19,000,444 in excess to these
of 1905, and 100000 in excess
to those Of 1904.
The actual quantity Of cotton
from the United States reaching
Russia during the year was doubt
less much greater than that 1nGlca'-
ed by the figures Of direct exports 70
that country, since much Of the cot
ION from the United States which
enters Russia is sold originally to
the markets of the United Kingdom
and Germany and thence resold and
transhipped to Russia:
These figures are startling. Their
magnitude is so vast that we scarce
ly grasp their meaning. But they
prove the value of cotton and demon
strate the importance OF the Soutn.
A half billion dollars Trung from
the rest Of the world simply because
nature has made the South the only
place where cotton can be success
fully and largely grown.
The lesson to be learned is PLAIN:
The South should get more out OF
his total than it does. Most OF the
manufacturing should be done here
and instead Of exporting the ra" COT
-oc We should be sending out almost
all We grow in finished goods. ms
will be done some day and that Gay
is not as far distant as some imagine
Yearly the disparity between tos
,ottoo grown and manufactured
yithio the confines OF the cotton
.tates is less. With the development
# our wonderful reources taxing
,Iace every day the growth otcoteon
manufacturing interests keeps pace:
:ome day we will grow almost al
70 cotton the world needs and We
III manufacture al! except SINAI
ortion.
II seems to Us that the farmers o.
ea South. who creates all tbs wealth
70 entitled to more Of it than the,
ct out of 1t as it passes throogl-
,nr hands. Cotton enTiches nearly
arvAody who has ANYTHING 70 &C
IN i, except the man who PROD Hc'"
This is somewhat ooee::. but !;
rue. Now Why is tAiso Are 40,
% farmers TO blame the:ase:Ses
S,,e thew h2ve practically 3 nonor
" IN the production OF cotton, toeH
- ro,,ne,led to take what they are
Tared for it. and have no hand ln
S;,e the price at which It IS SOLD
wv farmers could easily corree'
his if they would st!cA 'osne. ,s, ra.
,ut some how or otaer lneS wa NV