Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1895-12-17
A QUESTION OF BUSINESS

All the hue and cry about calling
meetings Of manufacturers associa-
tons to stem the tide of japanese
manufactured goods now headingthis
way will not keep a single dollars
worth of goods away from the shores
Of California.
1t is a simple question Of business.
If Japan can make goods in Japan
and lay them down in San Francisco
25 per cent less than they are now sell
ing them, the importers will import
them and the public will buy them
just as fast as they are offered. Sup
pose tomorrow a hardware store in
this city was to offer Japanese bicy-
cles for $25, as coed as American
made machines at 500 at a store a
little further up the street. Does any
one suppose that a patriotic regard
for American industry would aus a
rush to purchase 800 machines. No
the $25 article would go off like hot
cakes.
California is now standing on the
threshold Of a great commercial OPP
portunity. It is a fact that we may as
we'll look squarely in the face, that
if Japan has decided that it shall be the
workshop Of the world, it certainly
will.
In Japan skilled labor can be Sc
cured for 80 cents a week and these
people turn out work equal to the
skilled mechanics CT America. This
is an existing fact that cannot be ig-
nored. Such a condition Of affairs
while presenting g most lamentable
outlook for the American workmen, is
nevertheless a condition. not a theory,
and it cannot be regulated by tariff
laws.
San Francisco is the nearest point
in the United States to Japan and can
be made Japan's storehouse for the
United States. For years past New
York has been the Port Of Entry for
Europe. and Americans pay millions
and millions of dollars forhigh-priG cd
articles of English. French and Ger
IudIi Ii III dCItlC anu ObC IICCiS no
howl about it.
WIZ should not the people of the
United States, who are so fond Of buy
ing articles of foreign make, spend
their money in Japan where they can
get four times as much fer if.
The Japs viii soon be able to dupli-
cate anything now made in Europe.
In that ever San Francisco will have
the national warehouse and half &
dozen competing lines will be crowded
to their utmost carrying capacity tax
ing the goods east.
Then the tables will be turned and
this Coast will get her goods at a
lower rate than any part Of the Union,
and sell them to the East. The Coast
will rea the profit and the East will
paw the transcOntinental freight. Let
the merchants of San Francisco com
bine, send agents to Japan and get
a bond on the output Of the japanese
factories for so years. If they do no.
do so, some enc else will. II Sar
Francisco could export all the raw
material that japan could use anC
import all the finished products anC
take the toll both ways, she would ir
a few years wrest from New York the
commercial supremacy it now enjoys
and this Coast being nearer japan
than any part of the Union, could sci
to Japan on more favorable terms
than anybody, and the strip west OF
the Sierra Nevada's would become al
Empire. Suppose it closed down al.
the factories on the Coast and FOL
every factory closed down, ten com
mission houses S up in its place
Business would be brisker and the
demand for labor increased Already
the flour mills of California are
pressed to supply Japan's demand fol
-four which in time bids fair to revive
the wheat raising industry Of the
Coast.