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It is true that it is not of so great a value. because the manufactures are not of goods of as fine quality. but I believe the statistics will show that about half the cotton manufactures in the United States is produced in the Southern States. and mostly in three StatesNorth Carolina. South Carolina. and Georgia. I presume it is a fact that not 1 per cent or onetenth of 1 per cent of the operatives in those factories are foreign born. They are made up exclusively of nativeborn operatives. Therefore. in taking the percentage of foreign born who are employed in. the manufacturing enterprises of the Atlantic States the figures are scarcely accurate when you embrace the entire Atlantic States in the estimate. because there are different conditions in different parts. The result must be that in the Northern States. where all the foreignborn operatives are found. the percentage is very much higher than it is in the Atlantic States at large. when you take the Southern Atlantic States into the computation. as they have none of it whatever.