The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-03-23
OUR EXPORT TRADE IN COTTON
GOODS.

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cutting wares 50 per cent. In the cotton mills ami
allied Industries. Are you prepared to accept thi,
the logical result Of your own line Of reasoning
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for you 10 cease eItolling an Impossible and un
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Our makers Of cotton are entirely com
petent to effect a vast increase in our cotton
exports II they will devote to that enter
prise sufficient time and attention. Our view
Of the matter is fairly expressed In bulletin
n. issued by the Census Bureau under date
Of June 20. 1907. which says In part:
Indeed. the export trade lof cotton goods. tina,
with China as we'll as with other countries, ma,
J be described as an accident rather than a bust
! ness. Up 10 . certain point II grew rather than
was created, To a large extent II has consisted
OF merchandise ordered from abroad and to a very
ANAL degree onIv Of eHborta upon orders soIIrIted
hv mAnufnotureu or BY selling arsnts. The avs
tsm upon which the English trade IL Organized
greatly facilitates the ,rafHc: that which has prs
vailed in this country until within a recent period
discouraged rather than encouraged enterprise In
the direction Of q foreign trade.
There are in the United States over a thou.
sand cotton mills. They have more than 800.
900 employees and nearly q, 200, 900 produc.
ing spindles. They produce more than 1--WE
billion square yards Of woven goods annually.
Possibly Mr.. Dale can furnish a list OF the
/ mills which directly or indirectly make any
effort whatever to market goods abroad
Perhaps he can tell how many Of these mills
have soliciting agents in the foreign field
and how many make any effort 10 meet the
special requirements OF the foreign market
He asserts that our greater labor cost, as
compared with that Of our competitors, leaves
Us no trade opportunity abroad except a lin
tied Geld for certain low grade Foods on which
labor Is a comparatively small item" Is he
prepared to show that the principal demand
Of Asia. Africa and South America IL for
fine goods and that there is only q limited
demand for the coarser fa6rics2 For the
year 1909 Englsnd's exports and the aver
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