Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-10-17
for twelve years ending 1879:

Total. .S3O3, ,073, ,58t S252, $50, ,79I
The Japanese i'm ports for 1877 and 1873
amounted to 1855, 900, 600, of which sum
$4,000 was from San Francisco.
Of oil the Japanese trade, the United
States bought 40 per cent, and
SOLD ONLY TEN PER GENT.
While We are only fifteen or twenty days
distant from Japan, we sell her only 10 per
cent, and England, forty days distant, sells
them Sc per cent. and only buys Is per cent.
While We have opened the Empire to the
civilized world, the European nations have
stepped in and taken their trade. All that
they have bought from US has turned out
we'll; that sold to them by the Europeans
principally the English) have not proven
satisfactory, and it is that makes American
business prospects in Japan promising and
dattering. The extra territorial clause in
the treaties, rendering English and Ameri-
cans, and other foreigners, only amenable to
their own laws and consuls. and not to the
local laws, is unjust and discriminat-
ing and works to the injury of
all classes. Uojust as is this clause, it is in
variablY taken advantage of and stringently
enforced by the foreign representatives. AS
an instance, smallpox vessel which had
been ordered, by the Japanese authorities,
into quarantine, was protected by tho Ger
man minister, and at his order, conveyed by
q German war vessel, with loaded guns, to
| an anchorage in the harbor. am proud to
say that Judge Bingham, our minister, is an
honorable exception, and in the case referred
| to, he did what he could to protect the JAP
anese, even threatening to imprlson any
| American captain who violated the laws.
Can Japan increase her
| ABILITY TO BUY PROM Us?
! To this l answer there is no limit to the tea
| she can raise, or to the silk she can raise.
| She has the people and the land. What she
needs is market. If we were shut in from
| the outside world and could not dispose of
our immense yield of grain, would we raise
it as we do2 They are just beginning to re-
alize that the outside world needs their
produce. I think can safely say that was
| not in a single town of 500 inhabitants in
Japan where l did not see store with q
small stock of American goods. We can
sell them everything. There sre thirty-five
millions of people, who want everything that
we can send them, and they are taking them
| just as fast as We send them.
ALI over Japan I found Ameri.
can sewing machine. Twenty years
ago European boots aud shoes were unknown
there; now there are twenty thousand who
can not get along without them. Sc witt
the grain; they need all we can send them
The president of the Toxic cham Der ot
commerce said to me; 81 see San Francis
CO has four hundred thousand bushels o.
grain TO export. Where does she send i
all to Z
WHY NOT SEND 6oMa oP TT TO US?
he also said: "If were in San Francisco
would be one of q party, perhaps alone, t.
send -four to Japan, into the interior, witt
men to bake it before the natives'' Send .
supply of any commodity among the
japanese and the supply will create a
demand. l am not now speaking for The
future, I am speaking for to-day ant
for ourselves. A hundred years hence, pos
terity will take care of themselves. The
doors are now open, and We will be welcome
if We go to them. will not presume TO tel
you how to do Jour business, but 1 will tel
you it can be done. The sum of $500 will
/, launch any one of you into an American
business III Japan, in your particular line
!, The fruits in Japan have no flavor and ths
flowers have no fragrance. Therefore, foI
fruits, one of our greatest products, there i:
wonderful opening. Away in the interior
where a foreigner seldom reaches, I fount
American canned goods.
The following will give you some idea 81
the canned goods pnt up by the Japanes,
government in 1879: Salmon q pouns
cansl, 4VO,0J1 CANS nasn (sp1ins sailnonj