St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-10-16
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If We turn aside for moment
Ga ne pal"ooA ana irony or spinners in Lancashire
81 Hah or Chemnz, 5000 miles and more from cotton
neld turning out finished cotton garments for man,
peoples including the Americans who grew the
. "'eiial' we can admire the value of cotton goods
assed III the great world movements of trade From
he factories of Europe and Japan countless shin,
carry increasing cargoes of cotton fabrics to every civil
Neu port GOODS woven of this staple constitute vast
proportion of the merchandise hauled by train across all
cohhehtS and where modern methods transportation
pause primitive and picturesque carriers take I'D the bur
ue o he WORLDS cotton output and trudge with these
Goous 10 eager customers along the frontiers
Cotton cloth paVes the Christianity in the unpo
OF the Dark Continent to the sayages of the Como COTTON
cloth is precious than ivory or gold Under tho mid
night sun arctic dogs drag sleds with cotton goods
The condor and the eagle look down wonderngv mon
pack trains carrying the product European cotton mills
across the Andes The yak goes burdened with cotton
goods into I#st. GOdOWns along Chinese streams ara
stored with coon goods awaiting shipment and to the
upper reaches of the Yangtse Hoangbo the native
Chinese trader his junk cotton cloths and gar
ments to interior tribes laden with cotton goods
from England and Germany pick their way across the
mountains OF Mexico The elephants of India and the
camcIs of the Levant and Egypt carry cotton goods
And the unique and almost unbelievable fact is that
this incredible volume of cotton goods is engi-
neered by countries that cannot raise the raw
supply. The energy and ambition of Europe and Japan
pledged transporting to the remotest
door, but America which the manufactured
product and makes possible the commercial invasion of
the world has little share in the profit from that conquest
The contest among the powers to-day for trade and
in form is the chief commodity carried AS
before history the ships that
the "are weaving the warp and the wool of the
worlds civilization. The ships of western Europe go
forth laden with cotton goods. England leads in the
mighty world traffic That kingdom has had the far
seeing wisdom to provide cheap transportation between
the factories of England and the consuming countries
And Germanys wonderful rise to rivalry is to the
clear vision that the future of its empire on the
sea. The of Japan founded upon the
multiplying exports from its cotton mills. The Sunrise
Kingdom actually selling abroad cotton goods
than silk, hitherto silk has been commercially SUI
i'm he n
the most important factor in the commerce of every
great country except America.
There portent of great and revolutionary changes
worlds trade in cotton goods 1t is nconcevabe
that other nations can go on at the of America,
winning triumphs with commodity which they
do not naturally possess which they cannot obtain in
sufficient quantities outside of the United States
which they could not manufacture at profit but for the
fact that we sell the product and at times even
below cost of raising it, There is logical
why the United States should sell Europe only 100000
worth of finished cotton goods while that part
of the world exports to than $5O00O000 worth
And there is no logical why it should continue
to be possible profitable for little haffozen
try on the Europe to reach out to America pur
chase hundreds of thousands of bales of cotton,
after CARRYING them the Atlantic ship them back
10 the United States in finished form and in quantities
amounting in value to $15,OOOOO0 in year.
We have been unjuSfably jubiant regarding our
foreign trade We do sell abroad quantities
nf goods and materials but in respect to cotton it is
largely the product which there is little profit
Alone all the industrial nations the United States is
NOT an important in the sale of cotton goods
mankind For of the international demand for
cotton yarns supply less than one-thi:d of
Here is the record up the date of writing dsclos
ing Americas unsuccess international trader i'll
cotton goods:
,,1poRrs AND EXPORTS OF COTTON GOODS FOR
TIE TEN MONTHS ENDING OCTOBER 1908.
,,ors of Cotton Cloths Dyed UnbIeached Painted Etc
From -
England 80, 0453
France odoO4o