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cotton crop of the world. Or to put it more 

 forcefully, we may quote the now famous remark 

 of Mr. Wu Ting Fang to Senator McLaurin of 

 South Carolina: "If my people wore cotton like 

 they do in America, and every Chinaman should 

 add one inch to his shirt it would consume the 

 entire cotton crop of the South. " 



And China is not the only country where there 

 are vast opportunities for increasing our cotton 

 trade. We should decrease our cotton supply, 

 when it becomes necessary, but a worthier task 

 is to try to increase the demand, and thereby help 

 civilize and uplift other nations as well as benefit 

 ourselves. 



