The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-12-05
AN. AMERICAN ON JAPAN.
Says Cheap Labor There Win Hurt the
Workman in This Country.


a very distinguished looking gentle
man. along with the many other Southern
Pacific passengers in yesterday morning
from San Francisco, when approached
by Picayune representative, was found
to be the famous DR.. L. N. Taylor, who
as a traveller is generally known all over
the country. Besides being great
traveller, DIR. Taylor is one of the most
distinguished Masons in the United
States, being one of the few who have
attained to that high position known as
the thirty-third degree. y,,j ,4
Dr. Taylor is just from the Pacific
coast, whittier he went several years ago
for the purpose of sailing for the
Sandwich islands, but having here con-
tracted severe cold, he is now en-
route for Pensacola, where he hopes,
under the benign influence of warmer
and more congenial chimes, to succeed in
graduating the trouble.
DIR. Taylor has been for the past six
years an mveterate traveller. There is
not country upon which the sunshines,
where other people have been, that he
has not visited, with the exception of
Armenia, where, he says, he will go next
year, or just as soon as mans life is
bulG luGIG.
DR.. Taylor served in the Confederate
army as surgeon, and after the war was
over returned to his home ut Washington,
where for fifteen years he practiced med
icine, and where he gained the reputa-
lion of being one of the best surgeons
in the city. He has accumulated large
fortune and every year spends eight
months of his time travelling.
DIR. Taylor has been back from Japan
and China only few weeks, and tells
some interesting facts regarding these
countries, He was there during the war,
and besides having many narrow escapes,
managed to gather great deal of in
formation regarding the countries and
THE Japanese are the best fighters in
the world" he said to a Picayune repre-
sentative, "and, mark my prediction, you
will see that plucky nation some day ex-
erting a much greater influence in the
world of military prowess than she has
yet ever done. While in Japan had
occasion to see the great interests taken
by the people in the arts of war. They
are peaceful people, but they know
sion for it. But that Japan will adopt
any aggressive measures with regard to
Russia doubt. Russia must not, how
ever, tread on Japan's toes, for as sure
as she does there will be retaliation, and
one of the stubbornest fights in the record
Of nations. The Japanese soldier is Il
cool, deliberate man. There is no ma,ig-
nifty in his disposition, no avaricious SEN
timent, but one of the highest senses of
love of country and devotion to. race
that, believe, any nation on earth pos
sesses. n.E
"The Jap is fast growing in an intellec-
final nnlnf Of VinU Tim hnnhpoAo Af
young men who have returned to that
country after receiving military educa-
ton in the United States has had the
effect of producing great desire for
more knowledge, not only of military
character, but in every other avenue of
information. The every idea of the Jap
IS now for progress and Improvement
There will be large increase in the
number of young men from that country
in the colleges and institutions of learn
ing. in this country from this time on,
and in Japan arrangements are being
made for the building up Of great col
leges of learning, where native teachers
will preside, and In this manner. Japan
is coming to the front in very remark.
able manner for q country which has sc
long remained behind the walls of super.
stition and old beliefs.
but there is a side to this question
which think will be of more vital inter
est to the United States. This is the
rapid Announcements being made in China
in all the manufacturing enterprises OF
this country. The capitalists of Japan
and there are many of them, have sud
denly aroused to sense of the great ad
vantages they possess in cheap labor, raw
material, ETC., and the next twelve month.
will see great cotton factories springinl
up all over the country. These factories
| will induce vast tracts of country now
being cultivated in less important crops
! to be planted in cotton, and there is M
finer countries in the world than Japar
and China for cotton culture. The result
| will be that China will spring into tn,
market with cotton manufactures tina
will simply drive the cotton industry o.
all other countries to the very lowest ebb
! With labor at 8 to 10 cents per day
how can the United States compete will
Japan in the production Of cotton, ant
the manufacture Of cotton goods Europ,
i will feel this competition, too. But il
| the manufacture of other things, Japan Il
also destined TO take Il leading part
| Already they are constructing watch fac
| tories, manufacturing machinery Of al
kinds, and agricultural implements.
when in Japan visited d watch fac
tory which had just started up, and wha
! was MY burprlbe WHeIl lney lOlu me ina
the expert local watchmakers and ma
chinists received, as the highest salar,
paid any of the employees, the small sun
of 30 cents per day for their work; an,
yet this to the Jap was a handsome
salary. The wages of the less skille,
! operatives in the factories will be mucl
lower, and thus, with their remarkable
cheap labor, Japan will before long com
into the great markets of the world witt
all kinds of manufactured articles, an,
defy the competition of all other coun
tries. This will enrich Japan, viii bull
up the nation and give the 40000,0O
or 50,000,0O0 people there lucrative EN-
ployment which will in turn prove al
incentive to the spread of education, nm,
ms result the nation will spring into tn
front ranks Of national importance"
DIR. Taylor says that while Japan i
ready to welcome Americans to its shores
yet there is feeling among the peopl
that all enterprises must have hom
backing-must be the Investment of Jap
anese capital. Many Americans. howev
er, as well as Europeans, are investing
money there, and are assisting the enter
prising Japs to inaugurate the many new
manufacturing and other enterprises nov
in progress.
what this Southern country wants t.
do" said DIR. Taylor, sis to bestir itsel
and come upon closer relationship witt
the countries south of her. There ar
the great undeyeloped forests Of Contra
America and South America, with thei