Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1895-05-20

work OF getting such CONCESSIONS viii pe
% esners 50" wi be / yIis allowed pt to build railroads
Il they should be permitted to do SO; The the
Toaa badinr and and siGn viii take
dSs ndustris Moi World i"rn UPSIDE the down. don't be-
ys bey lhs csp sosS S % viii ihs come ns
trouble In raising the money. TO. pay Japan,
and there Is no telling what may ,,nes
time, Think OF cities ef 10000, 10000 and
200 within few miles of each other
States and containing about eight times
as many people with no railroads what what
well fitted for railroads without eradlng,
of China to-day. It is country which has
1000 walled cities and countless VILLAGES. \
where the people squeeze money harder
than they do anywhere else in the world.
There Is no land on the globe where RE- ehpeap paI,
yestor Il the fence Of Chinese conserya-
Take Peking, with its million and a half OF
npe,opia 1t has not q line of street cars.
centers. Of the empire, Those who, ride, so
Of mon, ana ali goods are ca carted ted around on
wheelbarrows. ,Tlen Tsn supplies Pekln
tween them. 1t is the same all over China
Chinese Cottons.
The Chinese are beginning to make their
own cotton. They have n number of large
bHS Srs pnd II II Hss bsa nnnf hs gs poiefS to
machinery. a great part of the cotton used
is made by hand, not more than one-nf-
are more popular than the English or the
native cotions, but they cost too much and
ton to China. The market, however, is
enormous one Of the consuls made an es-
innate of IT not long ago. He said that the
There are at leas io0.o 600 of them, and
they use about twenty, Yards apiece
smpcn sHnrg near Of ss TSpd yara make ysar son
means. Eight billion yards is 2i,ooo.ooo,Ooo
the mile this would be more than 100000
around the world. one hundred and, sixty
feet makes q very wide city street. If you
could have three such streets running clear
ton used by the Chinese into one vast
crazy quilt, it would be more than enough
more than 1900. .Ooo, 900 yards - are made
by the Chinese. being woven by the
won women on hand looms. If we could get
supply large part of these cottons. The
Chinese want good cotton, and they. need
heavy, strong and closely woven goods for
winter: In the future they will probably
make. the greater part of their own goods
put the enormous market which might be
created for our raw cotton is almost in
estimable: There would be no limit to pro-
duction II we had it, and with the opening
Of the Niearasuan canal the great part OF
tons used by the Chinese are generally blue
in color. They. use large amount OF drills
ana the sails FOR their vessels are made of
this cloth.
Our Lumber and Wheat.
The Chinese are now using quite lot of
American lumber. The lumber comes from
far North as Peking. saw an American
pine In the lumber yards of Japan and
into Eastern Siberia. During my stay in
Naldivostock an American ship loaded
with California wheat was lying at the
wharves. and quite. good deal of our -four
Is now used In China. Strange as it may
seem to many rice Is an expensive form
people are too poor to eat 1t. There no
big Touring mills in China. and even in
the city of Canton, ot6 which, you know.
grinding -four by dragging one stone about
on the top of another
Chinese Labor.
When the Chinese appreciate that, they
iater 10 some one out of Chinese cheap
labor. Remember, their labor is as good
as ours. ] saw locomotive which they
built at the gun works near Shanghai,
which looked as well as any turned out in
our shops. and a Chinese engineer was OPP
Grating it. He got about % cents a day.
l saw men making everything under tie
sun for wages about one-tenth of what
the same class of labor receives in the
United States, and the EnElishman in
charge told me that 1t required only Il few
months to make a good mechanic out OF
When the Chinese appreciate that they
can manufacture for the world The
coolies and the men who are now working
tories and the people will become a nation
of mechanics and manufacturers. At pres
day for wages which would hardly sup
port a dog in this country. | have before
me a list of wages, given by Dr. Bedloe
of them: BARRIERS get 50 a month; boatmen,
81 brsiifkayers S5 W2,asoons 9, g $6 iqunarEy,
is glad to receive s6,25 month in China.
a month; telegraph operators, $2i MONTH
ordinary laborers 81 month, and cigar
same all over the empire, and the wages
may be divided in half, as they are paid in
silver, which is worth only half the value
of our money.
Money Making in Corea.
I could M a page of this newspaper with
the possibilities and the curious features
of labor in China and Japan. and the same
has been until now so little security for
the, fruits Of labor that the people have
bring new light into the hermit nation.
and many of the old and harbarous GUS
toms toms VIII VIII, now pass away; For some time
lative turns outside of the wonderful re-
sources of the country. one will be when
any member of the royal family dies. At
this. time the whole nation is supposed to
go into mourning. Every man in the
has to put on white straw hat
as big as an umbrella, and new gown of
yellow grasscloth. The man who has u
corner on grasscloth at such times is sure
to have at least 100000 mep hoTlng for
it. He can charge his own prices and
can do almost as well as Colonel Sellers
hoped TO do with his eyewater for the
millions of cross-eyed Cinnamon. ] have
already written at length concerning the
gold mines, the coal mines and the prob
abilities of there being large deposits OF
petroleum in Corea. The country will now
be developed and there are good chances
in II for American capitalists.
FRANK G. CARPENTER.