Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1895-12-06
THE TRADE.

The San Francisco papers are sound
ing a note Of warming against the in
tiuX Of japanese goods to this coast
by way of San Francisco. Already
mass meetings are being called and
that solemn body, the San Fra9cisco
Chamber Of Commerce.. threatens to
convene and fnemorialize Congress to
close the port Of San Francisco against
all commercial Oveltures from Japan
The real thing FIR California /" do is
to take advantage OF the SITUATION and
throw her doors wide open to all the
goods that Japan can ship t. her
wharves, for if she declines TO do if
Portland, Tacoma or some Canadian
port will only be glad to receive such
a trade.
Call1ornla does not manufacture
many OF the goods which Japan pro-
poses to sell. They are manufactured
in the East, enormous TRANSPORTATION
charges tackled or and delivered to the
Pacific Coast consumer at four or five
times their original cost. Thus the
Pacific Coast consumer is asked to
put his dollars in the pockets of for
elgn wOrkmen in thu East, who ship
them to Europe as fast as they can
save them up.
For instance, We pay 800 for q bi-
cycle made in New York. Most Of The
workmen engaged in the making Of
tho hjayNlA a ~. g,, ns "
amount paid for labor in tile East 1T
least so goes to Europe. California
pays Els for a bicycle, and ~instaai Of
paying gold for it, can trade the
products Of the Pacific Coast to tie
Japan manufacturer,
II We send the fruit. wines and grain
raised on the Pacific Coast to japan
We get in return ell kinds OF manu-
featured articles, piled into California
to be sold to the Eastern consumer.
California is trying to manufacture
a few 'rticles to sell to Eastern con-
sumers let her swap her products to
the Japs for manufactured articles
and make the Coast the great emp0-
rum Of manufactured goods for the
United States. II San Francisco fails
TO grasp the situation Canada will.
In writing of the Japanese trade Col.
John z. Irish says:
The United States broke through
the lOng-sustained seclusion Of japan.
and opened that country to the world.
Its people have always been more
friendly to US than to any other West
ern power. There is profit in the
Japanese trade, and we should trv to
control it. The trade Of the Orient en-
richad Venice, Genoa, Wisbv, and
Holland in turn. No city or country
OF the Western world eve avoided the
commerce Of the East for fear Of its
ruinous effects. They rather sought
it, and fought each other for its con-
troll. 1t gilded both sides of the Cal
ADRIAN peninsula, and stimulated
Dutch ambition until its profits lifted
the major part Of Holland from the
bottom Of the sea.
California faces the best part of the
Orient, and the deep waters of a calm
ocean rolled between. What has be-
come Of that stout American enter
prise which once sent proud fleets
from Boston into the Indian Ocean
and brought them home to the Indian
wharf which has now rotted down?
To control the trade of Asia was the
master motive Of our statesmen in &C
quiring this Pacific Coast and open
ing Japan. When Benton demon
strated the feasibility Of a Pacific
railroad, and pointing West uttered
that inspired sentence, "It is the
East. 1t is India! !" be voiced the fear
less American spirit which asked no
odds of the world. What a decay Of
Independence and Of energy is it
when we whimper ovcr a mixed cargo
from Japan, and SILVER in a panic |
because trade from the East seeks our |
seaports. |
Let ON merchants seek Japanese
markets, and increase our exports. to |
the end that our balances with that
country may be settled in merchan-
disc, and not by London bills drawn |
against our exports to the English
markets. !