Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-05-31
LETTER FROM JAPAN.
later from Minister Hubbard to Z
, n,t,, IN of Fart worth Treating OF
Matters OF aensral Interest.
v,nax.,less Market In the Vast and
- ,,ous East for All Our GOODS Nos s
Needed at Home.
FORT woR-H, TEX, May .. 1888.

FORT WORTH, TEX, May ., 1888.
"a the Editor of the Gazette;
MAR Shiny apology for o6ering you
=. ,ublicstlon the enclosed copy of q
y, ,.,,er received uy me from Governor
,S s is that it treats Of matters OF
.rsr.l interest. and, especially calls At
sS.,ion to the importance Of building up
~ manufacturing interest Of Texas, SO
.s,t We may reap some OF the benefits Of
-. l,rge export trade to Japan.
with our four outlets to the Pacific
lat, chesp coal, and cur native ''grit"
"a npluck, :" predict that it will be but
zee wears until the name Of "rexae,"
90 made known to the Japsneselby our
%oT,hy representative, will be to them %
,..ni;isr as it is in Great Britain. Very
nu..nectfuily, THOMAS P. MARTIN.
LEGATION OF TRB UNITED STATES,
-. TOXIC, JAPAN, April u, 1888.
rsouas P. Martin. Esq.:
Nv DEAR FRIEND-Keeping always in
,,.,efal memory our intimate official, as
All As social friendly relations in the
ss.rs which have gone, and knowing, too,
1onr sincere interest In whatever con-
.srns our American intercourse with for
sion goyernments-politic and COM
mstcillly-ss kindly expressed In your
is..ers to me, have taken the liberty of
.ncosing herewith copies Of the addresses
Ssliyered st the United States legation on
me occasion (april l6) Of compliment
sy banquet gwen by me to the recently
.npointed Envoy Extraordinary and Min
ister Plenipotentinry from Japan to the
United States. What was said at thst
,,chsnge of diplomatic courtesies will
glye YOU pleasant understanding OF the
friendly and cordial relations existing be-
tween this remarkably progressive PEG.
ME OF the Orient and the great republic.
4 similar courtesy WAS ex ended to the
United States Minister and legation by
the Jss,nese Minister and representative
men Of the empire on the 18Th OF April
thereafter.
Being-it goes without saying-as 1
Suoy You to be, . thorough American,
| did mot doubt thst you would welcome
,uy Indication, in whatever form, OF our
growing American commercial power, IS
veil IS friendly political influence, in this
norton of the far east. Therefore have
tr,nsmitted the enclosures indicated.
The last annual customs returns Of the
foreign trade Of Japan show that the
aggregate export and import trade be-
tween the United States and that coun-
1y, for 1887, was in round numbers,
$4,000, 900, or $4,000 900 in excess Of
the trade Of Great Britain and all her
colonies with Japan; SIS, 100000 in ex-
cess of Germsny's trade with Japan and
$4,000, 900 more than that OF France
with this country. While this aggregate
trade with the United States export and
Import has increased since 1885 over
S. 600, 600 (6nnusl estimstes) the balance
Of the trade is, unfortunately, still
IN FAVOR OF ENGLAND.
This results, undoubtedly, from our
high American tariff, which has made our
American home market more remunera-
tive to producers and manufacturers than
tie foreign markets, under free trade and
cheaper labor. II has thus, hitherto,
acted IS an embargo against shipments Of
our American goods to the far east in
competition with the manufactures Of
European nations. IT. however. only
content with smaller profits than received
in the United States for our surplus pro-
ductions, our American manufacturers
need, hencefor.b, never complain Of over
production at home for even q century to
come; nor would there be, henceforth,
any real or fancied excuse for shutting
down the mills and factories to pre-
vent the, so-csiled, "over production" or
Surplus" exceeding the home demand,
etc., st the cruel cost OF the many thou
sands Of dependent and needy laborers
and operatives, who must be fed and
clothed by their daily toll. With the 49,
100000 of Japanese, (smong whom there
are fewer psupers than any people on the
hce OF the earth, as statistics prove) the
400, 900, 600 of Chinese, besides the mil
lions OF the other nations OF the esst, who
want and must seek the productions Of
The loom, the mine and the mill, either
tom America or Europe, such
IS for many years to come they
will not manufacture themselves, the
Western nations csn always find . mar
ket in Asia hereafter, for all that surplus
with which over production gluts the
American market and for what our own
consumers at home do not require, their
needs being already supplied. With deep
Wster on the Pacific coast, the nearest
neighbor to those ancient peoples; two
weeks only by ordinarily fast steamships
irom San Francisco to Yokohama and
thirty dsys only oy sailing vessels, and
The Pacific COST being only six days by
sil from the greatest Of American cotton
and wool. Producing states { rexss9, and
less than q weeks travel TO eli Of the
other cotton and wool-producing states
u the Union, aud with competing lines,
even now, Of steam and sail, between
Japan and China and the Pa-
cifc Slope, as well IS compel
Ing lines between sil parts Of
The union and the Pacific ocean, insuring
md giving cheap trsnsits 10 the products
81 our cotton, wooden and iron mills, and
Dur four and general merchandise. With
'aese premises considered and these I'M
Questioned facts admitted. why should |
not the United States-the south and
southwest, specialy-se,zs this golden |
Opportunity by the forelock, so to. speak,
y putting their money into msnrlsctur-
ng enterprises and building Lowells and |
dauchesters in all our southern ana |
southwestern states, and thus secure foxt
themselves rich partnership in the grcEf
ng trade with the eastp The cotton ul1lls |