The Commoner.
OCTOBER 2, 1903.
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High Silver. High Cotton.
Within the last few weeks the price
of silver has gone up rapidly. This
advance has caused renewed activity
in the mining industry, and a number
of mining companies have already de
cided to increase their dividends. This
advance in the price of the second of
the precious metals has a far-reaching
effect, however, outside of the indus
try devoted to the production of the
metal itself.
If silver holds its present price, as
there is every reason for believing
that it will, the cotton goods manu
facturer is going to bo greatly ben
efited, and the benefit will extend back
. to the cotton producer. Tho old ax
iom of "high silver, high cotton," is
true in the main, although to make it
entirely correct it must be modified
and circumscribed by a great many
ifs and buts.
The countries which are still on a
silver basis are the great markets for
cotton goods of the coarser weaves.
The Importance of China as a cotton
goods market, great as it is today, is
growing rapidly. Every year sees
China a; heavier purchaser, and each
year sees the United States in posses
sion of a larger per cent of this busi
ness. -
No other foreign cotton goods mar
ket is to be compared with China, and
the, recent advance in the price of sil
ver adds about one-fifth to the pur
chasing power of the Chinaman's mon
ey. If he could have purchased 1,000
yards of cotton goods before, he now
can and will buy 1,200 yards; and if
as some- believe, the price of silver
goes still higher, so will the markets
of the Orient become of more import
ance to the American manufacturer.
Tho southern mills, which make the
coarse grades of cotton goods, wi'l
feel tho effect of the advance in the
price of silver very soon. rlney have
not been backward in reaching out for
foreign trade from which, to a very
great extent, indeed, they must live
and the season before them should be
the best they have ever known.
"Let the south make the coarser
grades, and New England the high-tl
class cotton goods," is a suggestion
often heard in the trade.
Any time, however, that the south
ern mill owners flna that there is not
a market for their heavy drills and
sheetjng3, they are bound to turn their
attention to tho manufacture of goods
of higher grade, even if they have to
pass by tho cotton grown at their
doors and import Egyptian cotton.
With a big business in. China, India
and the Red Sea countriesall silver
countries there will be less hurtful
competition between the mills of the
north and those of the south, and gen
eral prosperity all around.
The pessimists who have been say
ing that high-priced cotton must be
followed by a period of dullness iri
cotton manufacturing circles have
overlooked the fact that, if his silver
is high, the Oriental will not object to
paying a little moro for his goods,
while goods of the higher class will
always stand an advance in price
when necessity requires it.
Tho cotton mills of the United
States which have been closed are
starting their spindles just as rapidly
as they can get cotton for them, and
they are not going to close down as
long as they can get hold of a bale of
cotton. There Is no cotton goods in
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