Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1896-06-13
MENACE Is DECLARED
CHEAP PRODUCTS FROM THE ORR
ENTAIL COZ NTRIE>.
chairman Dinsle, Makes an Elahor
ate Address to Congress
the Subject.


lev of the ways and means committee
rna,ie Il request on the menace TO Amer
lean manufacturers by the threatened IN
vasion of cheap products Oh Oriental Ia
bor. and upon the effects OF the differ
enc. OF exchange between gold stand
ard and silver standard countries upon
United States manufacturing and aSli-
culture. these questions having been IN
NesIigated by the committee. The report
SAYS the sudden awakening Of Japan
from the Oriental slumher of centuries
is being followed by IN equally rapid
west"rnizing of her methods Of industry:
that while the Japanese do not have the
inventive faculty of Americans or even
of Europeans. their initiative faculties
are wonderful. Their standard OF l3Nln&
would be regarded as practical StdrNl-
ton by the workingmen of the United
States and their hours of labor average
y Il day. Such workmen rs blucksmith'.
carpenters. masons. composltots. talloHs
and pllsterprs receive in Japanese cities
only from % to % cents, and factory on
eratNes from TO % cents per day IN oHG
money. and nearly double those sums
in Japanese silver money, while farm
hands receive $l.H per month,
Europeans and Americans, says nv.
Dingiey. recognizes the protit%hle field al
forGed for investments and factories,
:
controlled ostensbly by Japanese COM
panies. but promoted by Europeans. AMI
several small silk factories are in oper1-
tom with something over half a miiiioh
sp:nales Japan is making most OF the
cotton goods required TO supply the mar
row wants Of her own people ana IS h'-
ginning to export cheap SILK fabflcs ANA
hanikerchefs. While your committee
have. not found that any articles OF I'M
Inv; I1t4
japan outside Of cheap silks. haIidkef-
chiefs. muttings rugs. etc. haE" as yea
invaded the market of the nited States
it is probable the rapid Introduction OIL
machinery into Japan Will within a leN
wears make Japanese factory pfodHttS.
and probably fine cottons, silks ANA oih"'
articles in which the labor cost h"f" lS
an important element IN pfpaurloh Il
more serious competitor in our markets
than the products Of Great Btltalh
France and Germany have been. SIM
ply for the reason the JapHnese wages
are lower than European wages am"
Japanese labor likely soon TO become @S
effective with machinery as European
labor.
The committee reports that ii knows
no remedy outside Of the ahS0lut" pro H.
bition enforced against convict LABOR
goods. except the imposition OF duties on
connecting goods equivalent 10 the differ
ence of cost and distribution. An arg l.
nent for this policy is made, ii helhS
said to accomplish Il double purpose tH"
60 lection of revenue to support the gov
frnrl1ent and the placing OF ronpeuitoi
in our markets on the BASIS OIL !llSh''l
wages As to whether th" fact that one
dollar of THIS country or the silver p'lF-
chased by this dollar will exchange Tor
nearly two Japanese yen tdoliarS', CIV =
the manufacturer of cotton. for eN,mpl"
i'm Tapan an advantage additional 10
that caused by the conditions ahttiN
discussed in the markets of TINS rouh-
try. Mr.. Dngley says:
..I"patlv the manufacturer in Japan lS
in this respect at a disadvantage, Tor hl7
cotton comes largely from the h1if"
states and lie must pay not only l2e
fraiubI b,1t additional charge, risks of
| the Huctuaton of exchange fcSullihS
| from the fact that Japan does not nav,
| monetary standard of the conmtfcl.} u
word He. obtains no advantage ny iiN
sale of his goods in the terms oil hlVi'
| valuable currency. but. ON the eohtfaFN'
| loses, something by this brokerage. ! II"
| only way in which he can Obtain any }"-
| vantage must he through tE" f@il"fe Oh
| the wages of labor in Japan to rise as
n,ncl, as the ven has deprecated in its
| relative value to gold since lS'3: Whlle
| van4s in the United States since lHH
have doubled as estimated in SILVER ithd
| have risen l. per cent as "Sllliidltd ="
| cold Manufacturing wages in the mt
| pd States are q per cent higher III l't'
| chasing power than quarter Oh Il cf'I :
| ury ago in consequence OF Whlch w
| labor cost OF production IN Japan -
| l,rariv diminished, while the labor cost
| of I,rofuction in the United States has
| been increased. except as roultefa".a+'
NV g., larger use of 1sbor-saNing devices.
II X claimed that. however, notWlia-
| standing the wages OF Japanese ianof
| cps; have not risen as the silver yen pl
| .Iap4n has been deprecated as compare,
| with gold vet that his wages VIII sun
| buy as many Japanese pfo'1H.j7 ~ 1"'N
| would 25 years ago
| The report continues: SllNef-Sl"HV@.
eonn+rins like japan and Mexico, IN
| which. as it is claimed, the prices OF DO
| pesti{ products estimated in Sl1Ntf !f
main the same as in 1S13, are put TO 2
| disadvantage in their trad" with 10.
aie,n countries on d gold standard in tht'
the latter countries are able to use Stl-
Yer which costs nearly % per cent leSS
than it did in 1913 in payment TOT tA'
,rall,rfs of silver standard countries
| practically paying only nan a. fl0s'
IN their money for products OF SHY
standard countries as they pald IN iNf"
while the silver standard countries pay
or a1 least paid in 1892, y per cent NOR
! in silver and L. per cent less IN gold l2
he products of gold STANDARD couhtFl"i
| than they did in lsi'
Tie advantages in forrisn trade OF ~
} Identical monetary STANDARD are shown
and considering the probabilities Of en
listing the manufacturing countries @
Europe in an international agreement 70
: fixed coinage ratio between gold an
silver. it is said the leading 1ufohe' q
countries. especially Great f'ftalh. mus
he HE first to feel the competition o
I,,,., and other Oriental countries
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