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of this very reason as we are not able to produce certain kinds of yarn in our mills the cotton mills in India, it will be to the advantage to the United States if they only made arrangement for shipping cotton to India.
The most important things that we receive from the United States are in the manufactured line. For instance, so far as the manufacture of articles in India is concerned, there is to some extent going on, and has been going on for a certain numbers of years, a trade between India and America. We receive from this country hardware, cutlery, sewing machines, watermills, sugar-mills, oil-presses, and so on, but the share of America, when compared with the shares allotted to: the other countries of the civilized world, is very small. I will not go into the details as to these things, as I told you before, but I will only give you an idea, for instance, so far as water-mills, sugar.. mills, oil-presses, and such miscellaneous machines are concerned. We have imported into the United States, in the year 1897-98, about $40,004,000 worth, and the share of America was only $30,000 worth.
With the superior manufacturing skill and up-todate machine and machinery of the Americans, they ought to have a better share-I mean to Say they would have a better share, provided proper methods are adopted.
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