Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1896-01-03
GREAT MILLS OF THE ORIENT
China and Japan Likely Soon to Compete
With iha lInltsa Stnfaa

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China and Japan Likely Soon to Compete
With tho United states.
Wharton Barker, prominent in Phil
adelphia mercantile life, who has been
Identified with several movements foi
The development of the resources oil
China, lately returned from trip 10
the celestial empire ana Japan. lie
spoke Of the industrial activity and
progressive spirit of the people ol
Japan, and the perseverance of the
Chinese.
ut was great sight," he said, ito |
witness the immense cotton mills OF
osat, city of 100000 inhabitants,
near Kobe, the seat OF the cotton
manufacturing industry of Japan, as
we'll as the wooden mills, spindies
and looms running day and night, to
supply not only the wants Of Japan,
but of Europe and other countries as
well. Their chief product at present
consists of kind of cotton fabric
which is used by us in rough shirtings
and dresses for women. They expect
not only to increase their export to
Europe, but also to America, and the
manufacturers, foreign and domestic,
are elated over the prospects OF great
profits, which they fully hope to real
izo within the next few years, They
also manufacture a speciality OF rugs
after the order of those manufactured
in this city, which they originally took
for pattern. Surgical instruments
are being made there at about one.
tenth of the cost Of similar instruments
In Europe. They have arrived at such
degree OF perfection in the manufac.
ture OF these that it is impossible to
distinguish the Japanese product from
the European.
China, as we'll as Japan, is awaken.
ing to the position OF her cheap labor,
her productive soil, her mineral
wealth, give her. And the Chinese have
also erected number OF cotton mills
for the purpose of supplying their own
people with tho cotton clothes which
heretofore were brought from America
and Europe. They are contemplating
the erection Of wooden mills In which
to manufacture carpets and rugs for
American and European markets.
They now know thnt about eighty per
cont OF the carpet woods used in those
countries are obtained from China,
and they expect soon to ship that wool
manufactured into carpets instead OF
the raw material. They must, though,
In the beginning, have superintend'
ents familiar with such machinery as
is used in America and Europe
They will have great difficulty in
finding men whom they are willing &c
trust, as they are of an exceedingly
suspicious nature. The government Of
China is of course very weak. But
whether the present dynasty contin.
ues. or whether some Chinese revolu
ton succeeds in changing the person
mel OF the government, or whether the
European powers agree upon the par
tition OF China, industrially and com.
mercially, China will remain one neat.
compact mass. The European and
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cept the conditions that exist and pro
tect themselves from Asiatic competi,
ton, or sink in time, and not long
time at that, to the Asiatic level. In
my Judgment, the course of America it
plain. We should recognize the guam.
tity theory of money, re-cstablish b.
metallism Immediately, and enact tar
i'll laws that will protect American la.
bor philadelphia Times.
The theory of scientists that gold
could not be found except under Ger.
tain geological conditions received q
severe blow in the Witwatersandt dis.
trict of South Africa, where the min.
srnl was found contrary to all geologi
.al rules. So successful has been ge
MUS Of late in contriving machinery
for extracting almost the last atom Of
gold from ore and quartz that it seem,
rs II it would ray TO again work owe,
some of the old California and Austria
la mines.
KARL BEccA, of st. Louis, who is anx
ious to obtain musical education, has
reached New York, having walked all
The way from St. Louis. Bccca started
September 20 with the intention o,
covering the distance in ffty-two days
The journey occupied just that length
If time.
ANDREE, who is going to try to reach
The north pole in a balloon, after exper-
menting with various stuffs, has found
/ material that will enable him to use
balloon containing only 1850 cubic
metres of gas instead of the 5000 Gu bic
metres thought necessary at first =
O. b. Corr. hotelkeeper of Ian
.aster, Pa, has brought suit againA
he estate of A. G. Brenner for dam.
lges alleged to have been sustained
because Bremen committed suicide in
lis hotel. The plaintiff says that the
let injured hia business
AN organ is to be erected in St Paul's
Ichool, London, to the memory of the
ate Prof. Jewett, who was boy at St
Paufs in 1895. More than 1000 ha,
llready been raised for this object.
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