The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-08-04

pa.se miles The population Of Great
Ian Put fnso China woule average ,esx
see the direrence7
The population Of chsra mr.. ,r,. Ca.
GI,.ain would average s.E psgra5led
.uals TO the square grffe, Ar1 cut
.neo sns United States II would average
OF Its present density. n thA
lumber OF III TO the square nile. almost
e.. - as y the present population CO
sa.- waite Of New York
Inese figures alone show ~. svs,,
number % these skyr,,t artisan. ara 49,
ana cheap-iIving people that will be
-. iH,o competition with the white men
az. women workers OF civilized countries
me population OF Japan. according 30
a. eensus OF issz, was a. oss 80. ard it's
uehsity rs 10 the square mile. exactly ss
closely populated as is Nassache,s4tt.'
1'e-Eighths OF Our Commerce In
Danger.
me total exports OF the United States
=. 49,. according 20 the World almanac
weFe -. 1os,s3z. More than half Of thie.
OF. 70 De more accurate. rye-eirhths. ia
suojecs TO competition when China be-
con@s r'odernizet ard her inhabitants be-
come used 10 modern machinery and mod
efn methods OF manufacture and asricnl-
lure. Or course this may not be for years
perhaps twenty-five or thirty years but
u VIII begin as soon as the Japans.e-
chinese trade alliance goes into effect.
me closest Observers Of the drift OF
trade agree in predicting that America
and England viii soon feel the effects OF
Chinese cheap labor
Our total imports in 1873 were ssss. Ea-
and In iss4. bad year. they were
ssoS.sefsz2. In 1919 they are likely 20 be
Increased 900 by goods and staples
from China alone. Last year the United
states exported S5Sss. fSs worth OF goods TO
China OF which t2sS4.2eo was in cotton
goods and s.. SIS in petroleum We i'm
ported from China si7.f55 02s-s7. %. 2s3 in
tea. s5.ls3.s4s I'm silks ss17 g35 IN mating
and sbont 100000 worth of skins and
furs. Our exports 20 Japan were in 1884
valued at 3.ssi-z77. OF this s.. 20 24T was
In petroleum Our imports were sis. s9s. 81
over 100000 being In silks and Sc. go
In teas.
One OF the peculiar features OF the i'm
pending order Of things In China is the
fact that the market in China for
foreign goods win really never be much
greater than II now Is. The needs OF
the Chinese are few and OF the sort 20
which they are accustomed. The Use
Of Injuries In their everyday life Will
not become general perhaps for CEN
fury TO come. In view OF this fact there
VIII be no demand in China for foreign
goods TO offset the output OF goods which
VIII come into competition with the man
ufactures OF the rest OF the world.
Chinn's Resources.
All OF the nineteen provinces Of China
contain coal. and the country Is regard
ed by authorities as one OF the first coal
countries In the world. The coal mines
at kaiping. Northern Chihii. under for
eign supervision. have been wonderfully
productive. At Keeling. in Formosa.
which Japan now owns. and at Hankow
coal mines have also been worked, but
under native supervision. and therefore
very inadeQuately. The stores of iron
and copper in the country are stipend
Gus In extent. Notwithstanding they have
been worked for centuries. The crude
and unscientIlc manner in which mines
have been developed has not produced
a 1.-THE OF what modern methods and ma
chinery may be able to extract from
them. In Yunnan japanese mining en-
Rineers, educated at Yale and Harvard.
have for some time been instructing ma
tives I'm the modern treatment of cop
per ores. Copper mining is one of the
most antique industries OF that province.
China, too. is an agricultural country.
Wheat. barley. corn and millet are cult
waited in the north, where they grow in
great quantities. In the south most OF
the rice Is raised. and here cotton. wher-
ever the effort has been made. has shown
a marvellous liking for adaptability to the
soil and climate. Sugar in enormous
quantities can be raised In the south
provinces. where IL Is now extensively
cultivated. as well as in Formosa. The
tea provinces are Fuchien, Hupei. Human.
Chiangksi. Chehchiang. Anhui. Kwang-
tung (Cantonl. and Szechwan. in the
west and south. In these provinces, also.
the mulberry tree grows In great num-
hers. and from Kwaagtung, SZechwan
and Chehchiang particularly most of the
Chinese silk OF commerce comes.
The principal countries 10 which China
exported goods In 1898 and the value there
OF in taeis "a tael is silver measure OF
value. about sl.3O IS as follows:
Value In