The Southern farm gazette., 1908-08-08

English city. II is of most interest TO South
erners because of It's relation to cotton indus
try, and It fitting therefore that OF all places
in 1t We should first visit the Cotton Exchange.
We found II upon the OCCASION of our visit some
what less tumultuous than we have found the
New York Cotton Exchange when we have visited
1t. but at times the English bidding grew quite ex
citing. January and February futures were scl-
ing fractions above Ave pence (ten centsl when
were In Liverpool and cables from New York
evidently had an important bearing upon prices
offered. II is OF interest TO record by the way.
that though at the Liverpool Exchange
we'll In the afternoon. II at that time 40
early in the day In New York that New York
cables Just beginning 10 come In while IL
still later in the afternoon that cahlegrams
from New Orleans. still further west. began to
make their appearance. One section OF the Liver
pool Exchange IL devoted 10 trading in Egyptian
cotton cablegrams from Alexandria. Egypt. keep.
ing English buyers Informed as 10 the course of
pi ices In the African market. OF course. this In.
tcrcst here. however. In only a side line. aa II
were TO the dominant in,rrca; In tho American
staple. and even rumor OF ''ho; winds In Texas.
such exciting the Liverpool EIchang" on
the day OF visit. has It's effect on the market,
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We also interested In seeing tho condition
In which American cotton arrives In Liverpool
and no one who once aeos tho plight In which the
Rrcat Southern farm product reaches the English
spinner can fall 10 agree s!th Edward A;s3naun
handled commercial product In tho world Sos
only do tho bales look ragged. dirty hoggarlske
and generally disrcpntahir. but tho actual loss
ard waste Ia handling IL nothing leaH than eaoTa
and "a srrtouw reaectloa UPON tho sound
and business ability of Southern planters
A glance at a wagon load OF American cotton ee.
tng hauled down English .irecs 10 enough 10
make any southctnes at advocate Of better haling
methods Cotton from Iuaia and Egypt arrives
In immeasuvahls better condition. and am told
that other things equal. manufacturers here pre-
fer the foreign cotton for this reason.
Liverpool ts also OF peculiar interest to South
srnerx because II waa ionE cenire OF tho slave"
trading industry. England did mol finally pro
hibi, the niavc trade until 1907 tho year before
America In 1899 had aacd m tho 'imo when ,h"
nefarioum traiac should end with as and even In
1907 the Liverpool merchants protested hardly
icsm vigorously than they had done n generation
before against this Interference with their com
mercial rights" II was England. as John Rich
ard Green points out. that introduced slavery in'
the West Indies and America fandora'n box
OF unnumbercd evils from which even Hope i;a"l.
10 have been excluded Let II also bo
mentioned In this connection that when England
came TO the abolition Of slavery In her West In
dia colonies In the 3o's. nhc paid the owners for
their loss. Would God that North and South In
America had been wise enough las Lincoln wish
ed TO settle their slavery trouble In the same
way
Some hat larger than Liverpool Is Glasgow.
Scotland. where No nrst landed. but OF which
! have said but little until now. Glasgow a n
fine illustration OF the fact that tho prosperity OF
IA town depends not much upon It's natural re-
upon the progrensivenens OF It's pco-
pie. Fifty years ago the Clyde River at Glasgow
only / so feet wide and three feet deep. ny
spending $35. 900 in deepening and broaden
ing II ~ is now 500 feet wide) Glasgow has put
itself In the forefront of European aeaporta and
has made itself the greatest British city except
London. Our Southern folk would do well 10
take the example OF Glasgow To heart and re-