Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-09-30
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If we turn aside for a moment
from the paradox and irony spinners Lancashire
St Gall or Chemnitz 5000 miles and from a cotton
field turning out finished cotton garments for many
peoples including of the Americans who grew the
material, admire value of cotton goods
massed in the great world movements of trade. From
the factories of Europe and Japan countless ships
carry increasing of fabrics every civil
lized port. Goods of this staple constitute
proportion of the merchandise hauled by all
continents and where transportation
primitive and picturesque carriers up the
den OF the worlds cotton output and tTudge with
goods customers along the frontiers
Cotton cloth the for Christianity unges
of the Dark Continents the Congo cotton
cloth than ivory or gold Under the mid
night arctic dogs drag sleds cotton goods
The condor and the eagle look down wonderingly upon
pack trains carrying the product of European mills
the Andes. The yak burdened with cotton
goods into Tibet GodoWns along Chinese streams
stored with cotton goods awaiting shipment and to the
upper o. the Yangtse and Hoang-ho native
Chinese trader on junk cotton cloths and gar
interior tribes Burros with goods
from England and Germany pick their way the
mountains of Mexico. The elephants India and the
camcs of the Levant Egypt carry cotton goods
And the unique and almost unbelievable fact that
this incredible volume of traffic in cotton is engi
neered by countries that do and
supply. The energy and ambition Europe Japan
pledged transporting goods the
door but America which furnishes 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 is for trade and
cotton in form is the chief commodity carried AS
before in history, the ships that
the ARE weaving the warp and the wool of the
worlds civilization" The ships western Europe go
forth laden with cotton goods England leads in the
mighty world traffic That kingdom has had the far
seeing wisdom provide cheap transportation between
of England and the consuming countries
Germanys wonderful rise rivalry is to the
clear vision that the future of its empire the
The of Japan founded upon the
multiplying exports from its cotton mills The Sunrise
Kingdom is actually selling abroad cotton goods
than silk and hitherto silk has been commercially SUI
in tho In fact cOttO tntp
the most important factor in the commerce of every
great country except America.
(There portent of great revolutionary changes
in the worlds trade in goods. 1t is inconceivabe
that other nations the of America,
winning trade triumphs with commodity which they
do naturally possess. which they obtain in
sufficient quantities outside of the United States and
which they could manufacture profit but for the
fact that sell the product and, at times
below the of raising it, There is logical
why the United States should sell Europe only $4000000
worth of finished cotton goods while that part
of the world exports than $50000000 worth
And there is no logical why it should continue
be possible and profitable for little harozen
the roof of Europe reach out to America,
chase hundreds of thousands of bales of cotton and,
after carrying them the Atlantic ship them back
the United States in finished form and in quantities
amounting in value to $15,OOO,0OO in a year
We have been unjustifably jubilant regarding
foreign trade We do sell abroad enormous quantities
of goods materials, but in respect cotton it is
largely the product which there is little profit.
Alone of all the industrial nations the United States is
important factor in the sale of cotton goods to
mankind. For instance the international demand for
cotton yarns supply less than onehird OF one per
cent.
Here is the record up the of writing, dsclos
ing Americas unsuccess international trader in
cotton goods:
IMPORTS AND EXPORTS OF COTTON GOODS FOR
THE TEN MONTHS ENDING OCTOBER 1908.
Imports Cotton Cloths Dyed UnbIeached Painted,
From
England S., 705, 453