New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-11-24
BOMBAY UNDULY ALARMED.
JAPANESE RIVALRY NOT LIKELY TO IN
lire ITS COTTON TRADE IN CHINA.

pERT-AMERfCAN COTTON GROVE nav
WATCH THE COMPETITION IN THE
ORIENT WITH INDIFFERENCE.
,. ,.,srents of THE Bombay Gazette" re-
,ord,rg the ambitious schemes OF the JAPANESE "
establish cotton mills in China have a,"ao a..
siderable attention In the cotton trade mere "'u VIZ
effect Of this new development OF Japahese pe
,non the future consumption or American 49,
and cotton goods, has been discussed Inc ~
oo,,op mill owners profess to be alarmed over ''
injury thew may suffer from this new industrial op
noston IN China Manufacturing supremacy' oa''
..The BOMBAY Gazette "is not an inaiehao'e p'op
ertv: II can be transferred from one country " ~
other We recently made reference 10 tne iho' .
ono Of the Chinese viceroys has erected not ohy ~
oraa, cotton mill covering six acres but IRON anu
s,ee works on an immense scale. what one Vce'
row has done on his own Initiative the 'apa"
propose to do systematically throughout Onna'
The Industrial exploitation Of China forms nAeu
principle in Japan's international programme lney
helIeve that they can command In CHINA cheaper
o,d moro DISCIPLINED labor than can be obtained
either In Europe or in India When the latest mall
left Bombay two Japanese missions OF inquiry iroh
the Cotton Splnners Association and the Nha'"oer
~ Commerce Of Toxic were at Shanghai, Win IN
strucons to travel inland and 20 report on ioca'es
for erecting cotton mills to be worked by Cninese
labor but under Japanese supervision ana win
Japanese capital. Meanwhile. Japan has determined
10 supply her wants. II Is stated mat ohiy
one-fourth OF her requirements are now Imported az
against 81 per cent six years ago. Since the date
now four wears ago" says THE Bombay Gazette,
"when the foreign mill managers all received notice
an ono dav that their services would no longer De
reouIred after the expiry OF the notice not single
man OF Western birth has been engaged IN 'he COZ
ton mills and the half-mllion-odd spindes at "o'h
are entirely under Indigenous direction There are
100 miles OF railway open and 400 miles more under
constructions but the only foreign assistance IN their
working is that Of solitary Scochman. whose ties
TO the country have been strengthened by MS marry
Ing a Japanese girl
The leading cotton in this city think there ~
no good reason for these alarmist views OF THE
Bombay Gazette" They say the india mill owners are
conjuring up spectre. THE Idea OF India MIL men
being hurt by Japanese competition is oil rot said
Alfred b. Shepperson the veteran cotton expert ana
the compiler OF Cotton Facts" Nor Will the tut
ure demand for American cotton be ahected' no
matter what happens in China. In recent years the
Japanese have been getting American cotton IN I'M
tied quantities for the purpose OF experimenting and
mixing with other cotton of poorer staple In the
season just ended about 1900 bales were shipped
direct from this country TO Japan, Of which about
1900 bales went out from San Francisco and Ia
coma
"If the Japanese should establish mills In China,
which regard as a very improbable thing for sew
eral reasons, result would probably be TO In
crease the cultivation OF cotton IN China to supply
these mills. But there would also probably be an
increase OF the consumption OF cotton goods in
China. Just happened in India, and this increase
would very likely fully absorb all OF the increased
cotton production. The mills OF Bombay have IN
taken their own market from the Lancashire spin
ners, but they have reached out and wrested from
the British manufacturer a goodly part OF the
China trade The result OF this mill development
has been that about "a per cent OF the India crop
,1,S vssrs as # mil
has kept India grown cotton from being serious serious
The Importance Of the much -talked-of Indian com
petition with American cotton can be seen IN the
1884, 900 bales in iSsssi to 1896 bales in 1884
bales in 1853 g. against only $500 in 1884 In
is7i-72 the exports reached 2.O2c0 bales being the
ports made in 1866 under the stimulus Of the ex-
trayasant prices The largest crop ever grown IN
large crop the exports were only IsS700O bales.
The general uncertainty in regard to the rainfall
serious drawbacks to any very considerable In
crease In the cultivation cr.,..
do think they viii establish cotton Sn M malls
son that what the Chinese themselves have been
unable TO do in this direction; 1t Is not likely tnae
a ahe ssbborny opposed the use OF MACHINERY
claiming that II took away work from the pe"RRie ,
elsewhere throughout the country the cotton Il
into cloths by tn on use
four additional open ports IN Ch,hg n'H 20 tbo
Country n as China Now II the Chinese have such
a
wby shoulIn't they oppose It under Japanese"
what amount OF cotton is grown in China
Mr. shepperson. 'and Ii is impossible to say with
accuracy wha, grown there. But from conclS-
slons based on the per capita consumption ana the
known Imports j should say the Chinese cotton crop
IS about 10000 bales of @ poTTS Ss cn,nass
cotton while It Is very clean and well handed , is
srene sfO' It IS no: to Be compared with American
cotton with the better grades OF ihuia ~
ton This Chinese cotton is all used at nome ana
ts
Nov. granted that the japanese did establish cot
t tS trade trade from Bombay which already has the
business whose brands are known 70 dne xnnnse
and whose labor about as cheap ana pro spng
Nor c hom1 an owners are Soaring them
selves AZ tor America she can view tk of our
raw cotton is inconsiderable. What this country
really ought to seek, is to increase rs s sa mann.
featured product is WORTH four times as much has as
the raw material Already good BUSHES MANN
fscturers who send out only the best and highest
priced brands An injury is done TO American s an eX
limitations Of well-known American brands and
palm them of genuine m g bt , Sn
Japanese and other Eastern peoples as vel. con,
,ui Waller PRISON IN to he State
while ne was consul in Madagascar as hurting
A%ssan trade , n MAT Mr Stephenson in
that Whatever the japanese do In Chna WI d hep
goods r than can be made out OF the harsh. coarse
Staple of China. they must buy the cotton n Aei
lea for nowhere else Ia It to be had the japanese
product being inferior in spinning qualities even 70
that of China Already the pubic press nave
noted movement on foot by the japanese cotton
SINNERS TO secure Increased supplies OF American
cotton via the Pacific routes As for japan IN
nortlne less than formerly stated, TO supply her
own require it does not matter TO America I
where her cotton is OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES IN jap
anese or British mills Many OF the japanese mus
are simply weaving mills, making INTO ciotns l H
nuantItIes OF warns sent them, formerly from Lam
cashlre but now from Bombay chiefly
/ DINNER FOR CONGRESSMAN WILSON,