A 1901 political and economic essay by Senator John Lowndes McLaurin arguing for a 'Commercial Democracy' in the South built on industrial development, reciprocity treaties and protective tariffs. It surveys Southern cotton manufacturing (especially South Carolina mills and exports to China), iron, lumber and rice, and urges a three-cent duty on imported raw cotton to counter Egyptian competition. It also discusses cottonseed by-products and integrated ginning, oil and yarn mills. There is no technical weaving content.

A short 1880s magazine article arguing that President Cleveland's tariff-reform message would harm the American linen industry. It argues that flax, hemp and jute spinning relies on the same British-made machinery worldwide, so low foreign wages give foreign mills an advantage. It includes a table of average weekly spinner and carder wages in 1886 for the United States, Great Britain, France, Germany, Russia and India.

A review essay from the North American Review (October 1852) on the Great Exhibition of 1851 in London, based on the Official Catalogue, the Lectures of the Society of Arts and John Timbs's Year-Book. The author argues that the Exhibition showed few real novelties, worked more as a giant shop-window than as a scientific collection, and drew fewer foreign visitors than expected. He disputes the lecturers' claim that science drove industrial progress, citing the steam engine, ironmaking, the power loom and cotton machinery as the work of practical workmen. He also compares Indian and Turkish textiles favorably with European manufactures, and ends with digressions on juggling and mesmerism.

A short letter to the editor of the North American Review answering an earlier inquiry about sheep in the United States. It cites the 1810 official returns, which counted full-blooded Merino, mixed-blood, broad-tailed and common sheep, and notes that the returns came from only six states and were incomplete. It also gives Mr. Coxe's estimate of the wool sheared in the United States in 1812.

A 1904 article by J. Arthur Hutton, vice-chairman of the Association's executive council, describing the aims and early work of the British Cotton-Growing Association. It covers the world cotton shortage, speculation in the American market, and the Association's founding in Lancashire in 1901-1902. It surveys efforts to expand cotton cultivation in India, the West Indies, Egypt and the Sudan, East Africa and West Africa. The focus is on raw cotton supply and the economics of the industry, not on weaving or textile techniques.