Omaha daily bee., 1895-06-02
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with japan. Does it give the Americans
many more advantages than they now haye?'
"Yes, indeed" replied the minister BY
it citizens of the United States can go TO any
part of Japan and engage in business. lhey
can establish manufactures and trade dl-
rectly with the people. Heretofore they have
been confined to the open ports, and the
most of their business had to be done
through the Japanese government They can
now lease property, and from now on Japan
will be open to American manufactures.
AMERICAN CAPITAL IN JAPAN.
"Is Japan good field for the investment
of American capital?"
I'm some respects, think, yes. Factories
could be built by foreigners in Japan to use
Japanese labor to make articles for export 10
America. The japanese buy great deal OF
machinery, and more American machinery
should be shipped to Japan. what the
United States needs to do business with us is
lower freight rates. AS it is, we use millions
of dollars worth Of your cotton every year
Our cotton mills are rapidly increasing, ana
our consumption of American cotton Will in
crease as it is of a special kind, and we
need it to mix with the cheaper cottons
which we get from China and India. AT
present. however, it comes to us via Liver
pool. If the Pacific lines would make special
rates it could be shipped by San Francisco:
If the Nicaragua canal is opened the United
States will probably ship direct through It.
| am surprised that Americans do not study
the Japanese market. The people here are
so rich and they have such vast trade
among themselves that they have not yet
begun to consider the trade outside of their
own boundaries In order to do business
with. the Japanese your merchants and fac
! tories must study the Japanese people and
| their wants, and when they do that they viii
probably supply them with many other thlngs
| than machinery
THE JAPANESE AS MACHINISTS.
Is
well with the people of the United States"
YES" was the reply. "The Japanese are
a nation of mechanics They take naturally
| to machinery and use it gladly. All ovel
Japan foreign labor-saving inventions are
| creeping in. Silk is now reeled and wover
| by machinery. We make our own railroad
| cars, and we have made some locomotives
| Nearly all the arms and munitions of wal
which were used during the recent cam
paigns with China were made in Japan, anC
| we are almost doubling our cotton machin
cry every year"
ASIATIC LABOR.
What do you think of the future OF thu
| Asiatic labor market in competition will
ours? Can we successfully compete will
you?" ANN.
"on our eS,A ground perhaps not" wa
the reply. nut see nothing to alarm th
American laborer in the possibilities Of tn
| future You haze been competing here 70
years with the cheapest labor of Europe
You have had the Belgians and the Ger
mans to fight, and you have conquere'
| again and again. The Americans are peo
/ Pile of wonderful inventive brains. No mat
ter how cheap the labor of the rest OF tn
| world in any line OF work, the American
gets up machine which will do it cheaper
and you have such vast aggregations o
capital that you can organize undertaking
on scale which is practically beyond com
petition. Take your great iron works. TAX
the Carnegie works for instance. They bu
in such vast quantities that they can Gu
all expenses outside those of labor I
the minimum. l believe the Americans vii
always hold their own. They cannot wor
so cheaply nor live so eheaply as we do bu
they can turn out a greater product. An
other thing is that there is bound TO be
great demand from Asia for American ray
materials. Cotton is one of these and lum
ber is another. AS to machinery, / douh
whether we will ever be a great machine
making nation. We have plenty OF Goa
and we ship vast quantities OF It TO Chin
and India. We have not yet, however, dis
covered large enough deposits OF iron
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