| Show I 1 BY OF COTTON I 1 only fallout about forty years aso ago an honest fanatic from his place on the floor of 0 congress with much emphasis declared that cotton was waa king lie he was sincere too he believed it ile he merely talked under such lights as shone upon him he did not know that a icing was slumbering under tile the serge robes of 0 that region realon which at the time ha spoke L was waa knonk only as the great american desert a king too loo before which mille it ov even otton cotton would mould bow as aa to a superior hut his conception of the greatness of 0 cotton cotlon was founded on a know ado that it n was as possible to cultivate jt sell it buy back whatever might be raced anted cd ad and have lave no contact with mith humming mills greasy creasy machinery and skilled laborers who are prone to have minds of their own lie he would have been scandalized dali zed probably Is had some astrologer told him what was to bo be in the next forty orty years namely that by science and machinery that part cart of the cotton crop which in its his day was but waste was to be made to yield so much that men would mould begin to doubt whether that which lie lia made reference to as the sovereign would not eventually become a mere byproduct by product now it ft is computed compute that an all average cotton crop lit in the united states slates yields out of what was waste thirty years ago pounds ot of oil and tons of meat meal of a value so EO great that it has displaced hog products lard and fat at represented presented by bushels of corn the product of acres ot of land all this allows how the world loans leans on oil science and invention and that no man has ht a a right to say iliavi Ili ave tot I 1 a sure I 1 thing hing it I 1 |
