Excerpt from King Cotton: Or Common Sense Thoughts on the Following Subjects, Viz Since I began the agitation of this question (in over four hundred shoe manufacturers have adopted the system of seaming shoe uppers, set forth in the following pages, and the glove manufacturers of this country may be sur prised to learn that the French are now supplying this market with gloves the seams of which are too elastic to be broken, and stitched with cotton thread which has proven to be at least six times more durable than silk or linen. 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.