The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-01-25

there is species Of handcra however poorlv remune
rated that can long with the labor OF machines
far greater obstacle 20 our trade with China Is the
snacity with which the Chinese and more or less AN
\ Eastern people cling TO their established customs and
useges There Is no such thing fashion in China il
being OF piety in ChnaaA TO eat drink dress rd
and walk like his ancestors Nothing In China grows ola
or out OF date and there is consequently scope for in
novaion. If Chinese artisan, buried thousand
years ago suddenly resuscitaed and placed In pos
session Of the tools with which he TO work
he could instantly apply himself again his trade and
md the same kind Of customers Still " remains be
whether in close contact with and with Europeans
they win be able TO eontnue these habits which with
them partake of the substance OF religion Change their
religion, rather their idolatry and you will change
their habits The Chinese have always been the most
civilized people of Asia, and overrun only by Tar
iars were the more disposed to adhere TO their old
rules Of life their customs and manners, their
Oerors themselves adopted them from OF
nanshp Bat the fact that Chinese change
Their fashions AS we do renders il more easy for
aacture for them by machinery American fabrics would
compete much successfully with European
that Paris and London the fashions and Euro
Pean manufacturer is thereby of being first market
When our machines has for instance been the case in
the article of ousseitne dc hsie ready enter into
competition with them, the fashion is changed the
manufacture OF the article no longer remunerave IT, in
regard to fashion, TO take little after the Chinese
Il would do our New England New York. Pennsy ylvana
and Georgia manufactures HARM and keep larger por
ton OF our California gold production at home
capital for enterprise.
IT. then, wish to manufacture for China we must not
expect to succeed with imitation of European articles
II will be long time before Cinnamon will be induced To
wear swaow-taied coats, tight pants paenteather
boots Hence we must study THERE tastes manners and
customs and adapt fabrics them This the way Eng
land does and this is the way the "Uniyersa Yankee
Nation win do whenever their love Of enterprise shall be
stimulated by reasonable prospect Of success have no
fear that the Chinese will manufacture by machinery
Their dexerity is wholly confined manual labor and al
most entirely excludes the idea of progress In country
SO theky settled that the people will not allow horses and
to do part of their physical labor it not likely
machines will be tolerated to compete with the wages Of
labor Besides have already remarked the Chinese
WI In
cation of principle They cannot generaze They
dnce nothing to system and being neither synthetic
anay reasoners lack the method by which discoveries
and inventions multiplied and rendered useful 10 man
In contact with reasoning Calculating ciphering
Yankees have fear but that they will be made feel
their inerory and IL usual in such cases. pay for it.
come now to the geographical advantages possessed by
the United States all other nations trading with
China These are manifold but shall content myself
here with those which result especially from position
We approach Japan and the of Asia from the
Pacific coast without doubling the capcs; soon there
fore direct line of communication shall be established
between Atlantic and Pacific seacoast will avoid
not only the casualties and dangers attending the crcun
navigation either Of Cape Horn the Cape Of Good Hope
but save time and expense and prevent the deterioration
OF such articles of freight likely TO be affected by
passage through the tropics II -four and provisions
to be shipped China il will only be from our Pa
chc coast, and not long voyage from Atlantic
seapors round the capes where their quality would be inn
paired in passing through the equatorial region And
to the capacity of Pacific possessions produce bread
snfs suffice 1t to say that the State of California alone has
this year not only produced wheat enough supply the
wants ~, Of her whole popnlnton but Is actually shipping ],
Tne ssz any Of large Atlantic ports to
China either round the Cape Of Good Hope or the Horn
is from eighteen twenty thousand miles by the Pana-
route the distance TO Shanghae via Aspnwall Pana-
ma and San Fmncisco is only about eleven thousand
miles saving, therefore of from to nine thousand
miles, fourteen eighteen thousand miles respective
M counting both the outward and the hoeward passages
BY the Nicaragua route this distance still further short
ened by the Tehuantepec route IL will be again con-
sderaby reduced II is believed that the trip from New
Orleans San Francisco by the Tehuantcc route can be
performed easily in fourteen days perhaps in twelve days
if required y and from twenty to twenty-five days would
suffice for the trip of of large steamers from San
Francisco Shanghae Add four and one-haf days for
the distance from New York New Orleans ( will soon
be performed in four days and half and shall have
the whole distance from New York to Canton performed in
ortyve days Adding further ten days for the passage
from New York Liverpool aud thence another day to
London shall have htysix days for the time letter
would be the way from Canton Hong Kong by the
American route, to tho capital of England
The overland mail from China TO London is generally
sxty-ve DAYS on the way that by the American steam
route which intended to establish rather complete
by the provisions of this BILL there would be saving from
a week to ten days the English overland route hom
Canton London But who does not know the value Of
enrly commercial intelligence TO doubt whether English
men would avail themselves OF American route TO
China were certain that by it they would be furnished
with the earliest news? As the stands
chants on the Atlantic obtain their information of
China from England. The British East India merchant
therefore is in possession Of all the required commercial
information from ten to twelve days sooner than our me
chants in New York; circumstance which will always
enable the British India merchant to avail himself OF
the first opportunities furnished by favorable market
When commercial information shall be forwarded over the
American route shall have the first news and our mer
chants viii be able improve the first favorable turn in
the market shall have from China to New York
in forty-ve days. while the English If persistng in the
overland route must be content have il in sixtyivc
days Who does that the quickness with which
commercial intelligence will be conveyed will serve TO
multiply commercial transactions and to diminish the
risks attending them
In this calculation have only considered the mail route
contemplated be established by this BILL and the routes
already established and in operation but what the pro-
jeced Pacific railroad be completed and the distance from
San Francisco to New York accomplished in six days
What il the subteraneons telegraph line bill for which
has already passed the other house. be completed and
messages from San Francisco to New York and from New
York or any other the Atlantic to San Francisco
be sent in two DAYS Commercial intelligence win then
be conveyed China New York in twenty-five days
and to London in hirty-two days, little less than haf
the time required by the overland mail from India.
The of the Chinese people the state Of their markets
the crops the demand for foreign goodsn short every
thing that affect commercial transactions with that dis
ant couutrywill be known In short PERIOD that no
will he lost in adapting trade and enterprise TO the
changes that have taken place and where or two
shipments made in the of under cir
cusances of ordinary risk three four viii thea be
made with comparative safety,
is therefore but reasonable say that the new line
OF mail steamships, proposed VIII find abundance oi
not only by merchants but those oI
Europe and that will the most important ana re-
connexion between the eastern shores OF ie
old continent and the western world In The absence OF
large and expensive fleets the regular VISITS OF our m
steamh;ps 10 the islands OF the Pacific and TO Japan as
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