The British capitalists are exerting every effort to develop cotton grown in their own Egyptian colony (in out of hectares of land under cultivation, or more than one fourth, were devoted to cotton growing); the Russians are doing the same in their colony, Turkestan; and they are doing so because in this way they will be in a better position to defeat their foreign competitors, to monopolize the sources of raw materials and form a more economical and profitable textile trust in which all the processes of production will be 'combined' and concentrated in the hands of a single owner.