Show I t j This country raises most of the cotton i cot-ton that is absorbed In tho mills of the I Old World In the New England Stales the In Industry has been I UJtl been prosecuted so J lC that it would seem Impossible I for those manufacturers byythla tlnta to competewith all the world lThth1i In the quality of the goods and the prices But little Switzerland sent abroad last year moro than 26000000 worth of manufactured goods which was mom than 52000000 more than tho United States while the British exports ot cotton goods during tho samo time reached the great total of 325000000 or course there Is this to say about Great Britain She has paid 260000000 In subsidies to steamer in tho last thirty years Sho has her trade stations sta-tions fully established In all the important I im-portant ports of the world The men I in charge of those stations have learned the language and tho habits of the people where they live know their wants nnd further they are almost every ono In cablo connection With London GO that If I anything special is I desired it can bo ordered by cable and the people understand that the ships bringing goods will come with the perfect per-fect regularity Of the stars in their courses At the same lime It seems to us that in Japan and China and Central I Cen-tral America American goods ought to find ay ready a market ns European J I Mexico that formerly was a great market I mar-ket for cotton goods now has so many mills that II supplies Us own people nnd has some for export The trouble Is I our exporters and manufacturers have not taken the trouble to establish I houses and to keep them going oven at 0 loss for a few years and our I Government has opposed anything like I putting our ships on t even keel with tho ships of more prudent England I France and Germany |