King Cotton

Excerpt from King Cotton: Or Common Sense Thoughts on the Following Subjects, Viz For the past ten years I have been intending to publish my views on the great value of cotton over silk and linen as a sewing thread. In 1877, I contributed several articles to the "Shoe and Leather Reporter" under the title of Cotton vs. Silk, and should have continued them at greater length but for my determination to publish a book on this and kindred subjects. I have made several beginnings during the past five years in the midst of the daily routine of business cares, but finding it difficulty to get ten consecutive minutes in which to write, the matter was deferred until May, 1882, when I yielded to the opportunities of the editor of "The Shoe and Leather Manufacturer" of New York, to furnish some articles for his paper. These were copied by foreign journals, notably the "Boot and Shoe Trades Journal," of London, which raised a formidable opposition in England resulting in a controversy from which I found it impossible to recede. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.