Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1907-10-03
COTTON KING
SuHy, OF New York, Talks About
the Staple
AND ABOUT THE SOUTH

In Interview He Says the Consump-
tion of Cotton by the World VIII
Reach Fourteen Million Bales tb.
coming fear-Prediction of 1908
Close to FuIflIment-WuI s,;,
Our Own Cotton.
In an interview concerning cotton
Daniel ]. Sully, said in New York an
Thursday
l recall that my prediction I'm
lsoS that within five years fifteen
mliiion bales of cotton would be used
was considered very optimistic.
III venture right here to make
some other predictions.
within twenty-five years tbs
southern states will spin fifty per-
cent. OF their own cotton, whereas
now they export sixty per cent. of If
| Within twenty-five years fifty ner-
cent. of the spinning industry of Eng
land will be situated in the southern.
states of America.
|
close to fulfillment, and | predict that,
'nis coming year, the consumption Of
cotton Dy the world will reach four
Teen million bales Gf it can be OBJ
ta1ned) at better prices than ever he
fore.
ana this will bring back into this
country enormous quantities of gold
instead of our exporting big ouanti-
Ties OF 1t, to such an extent that from,
october, 1907, to July, 1908. the re-
celpt or gold into the United States
VIII exceed by fifty per cent. anv inn
port OF gold ever known by the Amer
lean people.
Does that look as If there is any,
thlnS the matter with American fl
nance! Does that look as if WaIU
olreet OF Egos, or hysterian phan-
tom chaserS can ruin this countrv%,
Does that look as If we were in dan
ger OF war? Does that look as IN
! 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 a dream,
or his exaggerated Ego, and to think
wealth and brains in the ITnited,
states VIII be commanded to throw
on their clean linen and adopt his
patched habiliments.
There will never come the dav
when the man with the patch on his
pants will rule America, because
nave shown in the foregoing il is an
inevitable certainty that the laborine-
man of the United States will ba
more proud than ever that he is
abundantly provided with all he
wants, can maintain his family as he
desires, and can save up his surplus
for surplus he will have) 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
anee of trite epigram, devoid of SUBJ
stance.
L cannot leave the topic of cotton
anymore than the American people
can leave it If they would, or should
If they could, because 1t is insepera-
which this nation is to make, an ad-
vancement entirely beyond the power
OF any man TO portray in words
For Years that tufty growth that
fiecked the southern belt was neglect
ed, half-scorned and abused specimen
of vegetation began to hear tn civiliz-
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
TO appreciate that it bore for us al
Significance that was to be written
in the future in such revenues that
no man dared measure their volume.E
And we don't begin to measure the
import of what cotton actually means
to the United States yeti
I'VE haven't any conception of the
millions of acres that are today SEEM
ingly sterile which in few years will
luxuriate in snowy tufts of that pre-
cous product directly responsible to-
the demands of the world OF course,
we are people wondrously energetic
:. as it is. but we haven't our energies
even yet stimulated as they will be-
come.
Civilization cannot advance
out the help of American cd
They must have it, And it rests
us if they must not also use
wheat. America is depopulating Eu-
rope by taking it's brain and mus
Gle, and the day is almost above tho
horizon when the best human capa-
city the world contains, and by far
the best material wealth the earth
knows anywhere, will make the Unit
ed States sway the globe"