People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1896-05-28


tor mills then in course of erection al
Shanghai and elsewhere in Central
Asia, had placed orders with an
European firm 10 TieutSin for cotton
mill machinery amounting To nearly
a million dollars .Mexican). Consul
Reed who gave this information. de-
sired that the attention Of American
manufacturers Of such machinery be
called to the fact that many mills
were Sprlnging up 10 various parts Of
China. This information was duly
published in the consular reports is
sued by our Government, and was re-
printed in one or two trade journals.
1t excited 10 comment, however. and
no doubt those under whose Obserya.
ton it came only looked upon the
item as something concerning the
manufacturing Of machinery. They
did not perceive its more important
bearing and that the temporary ad.
vantage which might be derived from
the sale OF some cotton machinery
would be followed by the loss of the
American cOttOn-gOGdS trade with
China. which aggregated 81. S5l, 957 10
1894, s., ~, 06j of which consisted of
uncOlored cloths, which may be east
ly made by beginners enjoying the
peculiar advantages which the appre-
citation Of gold and the state of the
labor market have given the Chinese.
what these advantages are NAV be
inferred from report ( the board Of
directors Of Boyd * Co. Qimited), a
ship repairing and machine mannfac.
turing company doing business in
Shanghai, made to stockholders On
the Goth Of April, 1894. The report.
after remarking that 1.-THE general
working for the past year shows a
favorable result, which has been
largely contributed by the local 10.
dustrieS which are springing up
around US" gees on to predict still
greater activity, providing certain
restrictions which the Chinese have
placed about manufacturers are re-
moved. Discussing this phase on the
subject the North China News SAYS;
"lf this Encouragement were only
withdrawn and private capitalists and
companies were allowed to undertake
the business, Shanghai 10 twOOr three
years would be a forest Of chimney
stacks, and the demand for machinery
would startle the manufacturers in
Lancashire. The cotton is to be had
on the spot, labor is inexhaustiole anC
very reliable; coal is cheap. Their,
are no embarrassing factory acts, 81
1t t the machinery could be rur
twenty-four hours a day and sever
days week and there is an unlimit
ed market at price for all that /
;. produced. Once withdraw the pre-
ent restrictions ana there will be
wonderful Outburst here Shanghai
Of industrial activity"
THAT these restrictions will be re
moved is now quite certain, for tn
Official class who hoped to enjoy
monopoly Of the profits arisiSg frou
the new dispensatiOn are beginning
TO realize that the course pursued b
Japan is by far tie one most calculat
ed to advantage them, and mandarin
who have hitherto opposed the crea
ton of joint stock companies are no,
favoring that SORT of enterprise.
"These facts have not escaped tn
observation Of workingmen ia Grea
Britain. The IspOr leaders ia tina
cOuntry long since recognized tina
they were injured by the new oompe
titiOn called into existence ty the ap
probation of god, and many Of then
have be come active bimetalliSts, an,
are doing much to promote a senti
ment in favor Of silver in England
These labor leaders have clearl
perceived that which pre- umablyacut
English statesmen have overlooked
namely, that political supremacy i.
dependant on commercial actiyity
and that the power of the Britisl
Empire must begin to wane if, ewin
} TO persistent adherence TO suieida
monetary polieg, nations that hav
! hitherto been dependent upon tn
Western World fer manufacturer
products, and which. under norma
conditions, would continue to be. ar
given such advantages that manufac
turerS operating 10 countries on
gold basis can cot compete will
them. To these workingmen tn,
predictions Of such men as 81
Thomas Sutherland are full of mean
ing When he declared that in thu
near future the steamers Of the Pen
insular and Oriental line, instead O
being built in the Clyde, would b,
turned out q the yards on tn,
Yangtze in China, they realized tina