The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1909-09-30
CAMEL CARAVAN LOADED WITH IN
COTTOM GOODS ENROOTE FOR NBET TX

L requires no salesman or advertising to make cot
on popular in all industrial centers from Manchester
o Milan, and eastward to Japan. If We did not have
plank anoat could sell cotton to the world
America is not serious competitor for trade oversee
In all the annals Of national pride and dcusOn there
has been greater folly than the present popular be
lief in the United States that have engineered
commercial invasion abroad The trading nations must
nave our cotton and while upward Of 100 tarin walls
fence them off in their rivalry they all fear America
and carefully put cotton the free list
There has been notable increase in the bulk of
foreign commerce, but have merely kept pace
with the whole worlds advance. In fact it is the prog
in purchasing power Of foreign nations that has
made possible our heavy exports of raw materials We
have been Boosting of outborne cargoes that enriched
rivals far more than they did America. When we
cite the totals of foreign trade without exam
lining the nature OF that traffic blind ourselves
the magnificent field awaiting American enterprise
abroad
The rivalry for foreign markets. the improvements
in the facilities for reaching them and cottons marvel
contribution to merchandise have revoutionize'
the worlds trade that the commerce of former cen.
turtles is insignificant in comparison. The foreign traf
fc of any of the leading Industrial nations to-day ex
ceeds in volume and value the total foreign trade of all
countries combined a hundred years ago. The annual
external trade of dimnutive a country as the
Netherlands exceeds the billion-dollar mark And this
astounding increase in the trade of nations creating
tuay new earth, is due in large measure to the vol
of cotton manufacture and the worldwide sale of
cotton goods We fail to keep in mind that in that
world traffic America does not share. We have been
sending to Industrial Europe the supply without
which it could not compete with America for year.
Gladstone estimated that the wealth accumulated by
the nations during the first 80 OF the nineteenth
century eGuaed all that had been stored by mankind
the preceding 1900 years and that their multiplying
fortunes between 1850 and 1870 duplicated the record
of the foregoing fifty So that In those 20 years the In
of the worlds wealth exceeded by 100 per cent
the pedup treasures of all lands In all the preceding
centuries since the birth of Christ. And the accumula
lions since 1870 are literally beyond compute.
Such a world with its consuming power is the market
that cononts America the country that alone possesses
the commodity indispensable to the nations. Thus far
we have neglected stewardship. During the last
fiscal year we sold TO the old world only little
"a 900 worth of finished cotton goods Our best
toner in that part of the world the United King
DOM which bought from 81 S5S9S4 worth But while
we growing foolishly proud that. England
selling s2S165,392 worth of cotton goods of
material The itSmized columns placed side by side.
a reproach TO resourcefu America Here is the record
preserved by our bureau of statistics: