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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. 
