430 APPENDIX. 



I. THE COTTON INDUSTRY IN THE UNITED 

 STATES. 



A few years ago the cotton industry in the United 

 States attracted the attention of the Manchester 

 cotton manufacturers, and we have now two very 

 interesting works written by persons who went specially 

 to the States in order to study the rapid progress made 

 there in spinning and weaving.* 



These two inquiries fully confirm what has been 

 said in the text of this book about the rapid progress 

 made in the American industry altogether, and es- 

 pecially in the development of a very fine cotton- 

 weaving machinery. In his preface to Mr. Young's 

 book, Mr. Helm says : " The results of this inquiry 

 may not incorrectly be called a revelation for Lanca- 

 shire. It was, indeed, already known to a few on this 

 side of the ocean that there were wide differences 

 between the methods and organisation of American and 

 English cotton-mills. But it is only between the last 

 three or four years that suspicion has arisen amongst 

 us that our competitors in the United States have been 

 marching faster than we have in the path of economy 

 of production." 



The most important difference between the British 

 and American methods was, in Mr. Helm's opinion, 

 in " the extensive use of the automatic loom." Mr. 

 Young's investigation on the subject left no doubts 



* T. M. Young, The American Cotton Industry. Introduction 

 by Elijah Helm, secretary to the Manchester Chamber of Com- 

 merce, London 1902 ; and T. W. Uttley, Cotton Spinning and 

 Manufacturing in the United States : A report . . . of a tour 

 of the American cotton manufacturing centres made in 1903 and 

 1904- Publications of Manchester University, Economic Series, 

 No. II., Manchester, 1905. 



