The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-11-11
~ HERALD SUNDAY SIXTEEN PAGES

replied Governor Hubbar. Japan
buys where she can buy the cheapest
and her purchases from Great Britain,
China, the East Indies aud Siam, are
greater than those of the United States.
Great Britain, which buys from japan
one-seventh as much as we do, or
So coo 600 worth of goods to our $21,-
600 600, sells to her in round numbers,
$l8 900 0G0 worth of her goods. or six
times as much as the Unised States.
France buying$2 900 GOO sells $40 900 co.,
and sells four times as much as she
buys. The United States, Japan's best
customer, Is prOportionately her small
est creditor, and our sales to the Japa-
nese last year amounted to little over
s. 600 ,OC0. use in these estimates the
Japanese dollars, which is about equal
| to IS nts. 1t is a mistake that it Is
so, and We will sell more when the
American factors have studied the
market, and have adapted themselves
to it."
What are the chief articles of tx
port from the United States to Japan? :"
[ asked.
kerosene oil leads the list" was the
reply. Half OF the Japanese nation
lights its houses with our coal oil
lamps, and We sold in 1885, over 50 OCO,-
0G0 worth OF coal oil to Japan. There
has been falling off this year in this,
but the export is still large. Then the
American clock is popular in Japan,
and you may see thousands of them in
Toxic. The common Office clock, which
hangs upon the wall, is very popular.
and one sale of clocks here amounts to
$160 600 Japanese money ayear. Many
a Japanese baby is brought up on
American condensed milk and $55 COO
worth was sold last year. We sell sole
leather, books, machinery and pro-
visions, and Japan bought 1914 COO
worth Of our -four last year. Their
figures are small. but American foreign
tr de is In its infancy, and it has
world yet to conquer. Here in the east
there are 600, OO0,OL0 of people who re-
quire more or less of some kinds of
goods which American brains push.
and capital can furnish at profit, and
in Japan there are 80 600 900 of people
who are ready to take from America
what she has to sell that fits their
needs. whenever they can buy it as
cheaply of her as OF other nations. We
sell to North China $4,000. 600 worth of
cotton sheeting year. and this in the
teeth OF the manufacturing nations of
Europe. japan is much more accessa-
BILE to Us. Why should We not sell to
herr"
"How much do We sell ?" asked.
None" replied Governor Hubbard.
1.-The American cotton do not enter |
the Japanese markets. We do not
make the cheap and light article of
cotton required by the Japanese. A |
slight change in the factories, however,
would adapt them to this class of goods,
and there is no doubt but that our |
mills can get limited mar
ket here, when they are forced to look |
abroad for foreign trade. They Will !
then have to sell their goods in close
competition with England. We are
Japsn's nearest neighbor. We have
the cotton at our doors, and our fac
tories are in operation. Japan raises
some cotton, but it is of an inferior
G uality. 1t seems to me that foreign
trade offers the solution of many of the
labor and capital troubles of the United
States. When the home markets are
glutted and the factories closed for
want of demand. this foreign trade
could eat up some of the surplus, and
keep the mills from resting.