New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-01-09

The nrcsrnt indications are that the United
States, during the next year or two. VIII IN
great measure supCIsrdc Great Hritaln III Inc
tr .de with China. Opium Is the principal Eng
lSh export into China, and the authorizes IN
Pckin seem now tO have definitely II solved to
pat stop 10 lis imrOrta;lon ~ any cost ten
c1Al T>o-Isrng. the cOmman rI chief. . man
who from all accounts has the force and biGOlry
Of Cromwell, and also his control Of the popular
mind has Ic.uutciy sci his face caIn>t the use
or importation of opmm and the war party
sustain him. Tie reported introduction Of the
clause prohihi,n. liz impptltion into the late
cnmmcrca treaty with the United state, is
REGARDED only rs warning note =" EnPlanh.
We have no opium 20 send INTO China; Int i
thr promise To send none brochures ~ these adj
vantascs III tIadc denied to- England It /, at
once threat and u covert blow ON China to
Great Britain. worthy of Mong0llan policy.
The leading Eu-llah papers Just received call
attentiolfto this significant clause, and nydl-
atlv dcpicca'c the harh.Ity thnNn bJ the
Christian Government of Englaud IN forcing -
long upon helpless heather nltlon against itS
ui,trstS a dru. winch has prov od muId rouS 10
both soul and body; but add lLIi II would now
be- impossible to Iut IA stop to the trade without
n sta ,gcrinc blow to tie prosperity Oi India
and a rcdncilon hv onc-half Of receipts from
that colony-n sufficient reason to override all
questions Of morality. one or two of the more
honest Journals call attention 10 tie fact that
the British colony OF Bunnlh l. falling into
deere uitlIdc and imbrc!lIiy as rapidly ~ China
from the same CAlIsc The burmese, states
he Rccnrd, ut FIST regarded II r rn'r"duc'lon
"or OPIUM with such horror that Individual
"o,um farmers gave M the ,nolr ~ hopeless.
!,ut the Gov rnmcnt opium farm has p0pu-
"la.iz,d the dug. and the trade thriycs.
Scores and hundreds OF villages are ruined by
its use. The ArIc .nc.c pcttionrd that the
Brush Government, If not willing to yield the
srcycnuc, ehonid prohibit the importation and
"makc up the amount lost by captaiIon tax
which thcy offered to pays but 1t was all to no
"purpoSc.'
English papcrs OF the same date, hY q 81 milf
cant though uninlcutional coincidence, contain
extracts from their Chinese consular reports just
published for the last year, which show that the
Americans are fast gaining entire control of
the Chinese markets with Their cotton goods
We rallied attention 10 this TACT in 1878, tut the
progIess Of our manufacturers has been much
more rapid since then. AT Chcnklang,' re-
ports the English Consul, the import of Eng
a." hsh drills decreased bctwt en- 1873 ana 1879
" from G3,G2J pieces Ia 9,G2O, while the I'M
"port of American drills increased from 9,73J to
"24 ,28j pieces At Shanghai the American i'll
crease of importation surpassed that Of the
English and Dutch together 10y 9j,lj9 pieces
In sheetings our progress at the same port wRs
still more marked. In 1875 we imported
800, 900 pieces !; in 1879 nearly double CO.. 773;
while the English increase was only 13.jGj At
Titntsin the increase in American imports of
drills during that year was equal to the whole
of the English importation for the same time
In shcctings, of which we imported none in
1876, we sent last year 4O9, 442 pieces, while
the English importation was rapidly going
down, having reached 3G,l1 And so Oh
through all the ports Of entry.
The English Consuls urge the fact npon Man
chester manufacturers that this decline OF their
roods in the market is wholly OWING to their
practice OF adultcration, heavy sizing. etc, etc.
while the American goods are honestly made
AS the English hold upon the importing trade
of China depends at the present time upon these
adulteIated cotton goods on one hand, and the
poisonous opium drug on the other, it is, and it
deserves to be, exceedingly insecure. Nothing
more than u STEADY adherence to an honest
policy is needed ON the part of Americans to
gain control of that important market.
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