Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1895-12-24
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 24TH, 1895,
THE JAPS ARE COMING.

The most important piece of
news for this country, though not
yet generally known. is the active
Inauguration of Japanese com
mercial campaign in this country.
The Japanese are a wonderful
people. In mechanical ingenuity
and handicraft they excelanything
on the face of the earth. Like
wise in logged patience and in
dustrious application. They are
in short more like intelligent ma
chimes for universal mechanical
manipulation than anything else
on the globe. Frugal and econom-
ical in habit by nature and with
climate so mild that they can al
most exist without clothing, food
and shelter. and equipped with
the best of modern machinery
and with plenty OF raw material.
they have begun manufacturing
and commercial campaign that is
destined to revolutionize the
world. It is the beginning of a
new phase in civilization. 1t is
the beginning of Asiatic rejuven-
alton and resurrection from the
sleep of thousands of years. In
d short time we shall see millions
of Asiatics contesting with the
Europeans for the possession Of
the globe.
But what more Immediately
concerns US as q nation is that
that the Japs are already on our
shores and threaten to wipe out
our manufacturing industries at
once.
Senator Stewart in the "Silver
Knight" says:
TO THE MANUFACTURERS OF THE
UNITED STATES:
Your turn has come. You laughed
when the farmers and planters cried
out against Asiatic competition. 1t
took longer to establish manufactures
in the Orient than to open farms. but
the manufactures are now running on
sound silver basis. The difference
of exchange made European and Am
erican goods so high they could not
buy them. Your yold-bug policy
which enhanced the silver price OF
your manufactures in the East. made
it necessary for a thousand millions
of Asiatics to wake up and do for them
face with nearly a thousand millions OF
a race who can do the same amount
of labor which our people can on one
fourth the amount Of food and one
tenth the wages now paid to the labor
ers of the United States.
Read the following and see how you
like the picture It is your crack of
doom:
San Francisco. Nov. 24.-.Under the
caption "a Japanese Invasion" the
Daily Report last evening published a
story calculated to startle American
manufacturers.
So II,
States with the agents Of her factories
whose ability to produce articles Of
necessity more cheaply than the resi-
Japan at Last recognized it's power. it's
ambition has been aroused and it is
now inauguratiug an irresistible com
mercial campaign.
This new and aggressive invasion
commenced few weeks ago when the
agent of a powerful manufacturing and
commission house whose headquarters
are in Kobe and Hiogo. arrived in this
city and offered such inducements tC
San Francisco merchants that they
were compelled to place large orders
with the new commercial giant.
A canvass of the San francisco
mercantile trade reveals the fact tina
an unprecedented cut in almost every
line of staple goods has been made by
the Oriental bidder: Buttons by thu
great gross are delivered duty free a
fraction less then the actual cost pe1
gross of the American article.
Bicycles, guaranteed equal to thu
best high grade, are listed at $l2. Jap
anese matches are to be laid down at
price which is destined to close ever,
match factory in the United States
Sashes, doors, blinds and all kinds o
wooden ware can be delivered duty
paid, at 30 to so per cent. less thar
the wholesale prices of local manufact
,urers.
After placing huge orders in this cit,
the agent left for the East; where agen
cies will be established in New York
Chicago, St,Louis and elsewhere, fol
the purpose of underseIling American
and European manufacturers as fas
as possible.
The leading papers are already
discussing this startling occur
ence and looking for remedies.
The most natural mode of re
lief set forth is Of course pro
lection at the custom house
There is no doubt that a protect