The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-04-06
JAPAN LOOKING FOR MARKETS.
She Can Manufacture Clothing, Ma
chieery, nythiug.

Mexico Letter in Boston Herald
The japanese government speSiai
agent I'd investigate the conditions OF
I4attn-American countries which may oner
Inducements to immigrants nom that
country has made a very prolonged study
of this part of the world from Northern
Mexico down TO Brazil and UP the vest
coast OF South and Central America ~.
Sho Nemo;o is, ike most japanese, a
born diplomat, and he has succeeded in
leaving In each country visited the I'M
preston that Ii was, In his mind. the
most favored ore.
But 90 the japanese mediate sending
colonists TO this side OF the Pacific? One
may well doubt 1t. especially as IL Is not
improbable that they may now take the
splendid island of Formosa as part CT
the indemnity they intend exacting from
China The oriental is an astute person,
and we have learned that fact to our
cost in the United States My own opin-
ion Is that, under the guise OF an inses-
tigation pending the establishment Of
steamship lines and emigration On a
grand scale from the overcrowded realms
of the Mikado. the Japanese government
has been incidentally looking into the
feasibility of entering the markets of the
New World, as well as of the Orient, when
Japan shall, the war over, begin to go
In for manufacturing on her own account.
She has made a beginning. and already
gives considerable uneasiness 10 British
and German traders In Asia, from the
Chinese ports down to the Straits settle
ments.
Japanese wares. from cotton gins 20 an
dershirts. are making there way In that
part of the world. and now they an
n0unce that they intend building every
sort of machinery and dynamos. and lit
orally doing all of the trade of the far
East There is nothing 10 prevent par-
tial realization OF this programme. II Is
an ambitious one. but for years the Jap
anese have been maintaining technical
students In the United States and Eu-
rope and the progress they have made in
the art of war and In the administration
of hospitals Is only single indication Of
their imitativeness and ingenuity.
II begins to look as IL the trade of the
world might slowly pass over to those
facile nations with gift for doing what
other people have shown them how TO do.
and while cutting under them, live on
what the white race deems an INSULT
Client diet Here in Mexico the domestic
manufacturer, protected not only by the
tariff. but by the exchange. and having
cheap labor at its command. and long
hours of 1t, makes money, and were there
an abundance of cheap coal or great
number of water powers. he could possibly
win his way into tine United States Itself.
A blow will be struck at the civilization
OF the white race when the darker races.
capable of effective competition and dis
piaytng unlocked for ingenuity, begin
manufacturing textiles. clothing and ma
chinery. Japanese tailors turn out excel
lent European clothing. and If you give
them a little time there seems to be TO
limit to what they may do. They are GER
tain to give Europe stin competition
I'm Asia. and their ambition. which Is
men, is 10 win their way into the first
rank OF manufacturing and militant ra-
tons.
The Japanese government Is iutefli-
gently represented here. and close study
OF Mexican markets. lands and trade OPP
portunities has been made The rela-
lions between Mexico and Japan are
friendly, and | look for a more intimate
trade connection befora long,
II Is sail that ia pan means to get upon
a gold basis but YOU may be sure that
she will not throw away her advantages
as a nation OF low wages and that her sill
yer will be n lever for her in opening up
new markets. In some way she viii solve
the currency question In the interest of
Japan itself.
An obstacle 10 the advance OF this coun-
try is the lack of sufficient population
and that OF the right sort. The native
Indian Is too contented and unprogres-
sive and he makes up a large part OF
the population. Were he stimulated into
keener thinking by the establishment of
japanese industrial and agricultural coll
onies all over the country. IL would he
immensely beneficial to him. The Mexi-
can Indian. although slow OF thought. Is
capable OF being educated into quicker
ways. l am speaking. of coure. OF the
younger generation. who. once awak-
.s.1 ~txa 1T a14 . Tan IL.
the arts Of life. would turn out wide
awake citizens.
Probably. as intimated, the japanese
investigation OF Latin America has had
a double object, a quest for suitable lands
under proper laws. for colonization. and
also chances for trade. But to trade ex-
tensively here the japanese need 10 be on
on a cheap money basis. ana they need
only fear lest the American republie Is
forced 20 a silver standard. Then there
would be a chance for Yankee rivalry
with Japan In the oriental trade.