The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1896-06-10
FROM INDIA
AND CEYLON
Interesting Facts Picked Up by a
Prominent rhlladelphian In
World Tour.
JAPs MANUFACTURE COTTON
Initiate Americas Goods. ba, NJ. Brown Says
the Tariff LaN Mill Protect us--les-
sou on Silver 10 Singa-
pore. ladia.

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The officers OF the White Collar Line
with Mr s. H. Brown Jr. OF boston, and
Mr.. W. d. King. capitalist. OF Portland,
arrived down the river yesterday having
with them AZ their guest Mr. Alexander
=. Brown. OF Philadelphia. Mr. Brown
has just returned from India. via Hong
kong ana San Francisco having made a
tour OF tho world. He has visited Eng
land, France, Germany. Italy. Greece,
Egypt India. ceylon. China and Japan
After crossing the Pacific ocean he spent
week or two in California, and ~ now
on his way 20 Alaska, from where he will
return TO Philadelphia via the yellow.
stone Park while In California he Wis.,
tied the Yosemite Valley and took a look
at the big trees. This visitor was yester-
day taken on trip TO Tongue Point
and the railroad work above there, ana
also to wnrrsnton and Flavei In the
afternoon a visit was made to the
Young's BAY bridge. when asked about
his impressions OF Astoria and the Pacific
coast, Mr. Brown told an Astorlan re-
porter that he was moro than pleased
with everything he had seen about this
port
II have Travelled over 22.Ooo miles by
sea since leaving homo, and more than
iaooo miles by land. and In all my Jour
neylngs have not visited better sea-
port than you have here. Bombay ana
Hongkong are nne harbors but no bet
ter than the one az the mouth OF the Col
umbla, have been on the Pacific coast
before. but no further north than califor-
MIA, and l can truly say that am sur
prised and wen pleased by what 7 have
seen In Oregon. The future OF your city
from all that can learn. and from what
have seen here today and from what
my Portland friends tell me, Is destined
TO be a bright one Your water advantages
alone. or In other words your magnificent
harbor, is bound 10 propel this country
forward TO success never dreamed OF.
The Saxon race will vet have It's greatest
empire on the Northwest Pacific Coast
When get back to Philadelphia shall
certainly tell my friends OF the wonderful
resources OF oregon and the great sea-
port at Astoria,
About my trip? Well can only mem
tion n few things, At ceylon, an island
OF ?S.eo square miles, inhabited by 3000,0oO
people. think found the richest ana
most beautiful land In all the world It's
fruits and vegetation are beyond descrip-
ton In their maEnihcence The island will
always remain In my memory vivid
picture OF perfect country In India
the people are still stepped In the same
dense Ignorance which prevailed 1--WE
thousand years ago, There are 2aO. ,00O
OF people held in check by 1900 British
troops. and who are subservient to the
crown OF England Were Il not for the
peculiar caste system In vogue In India,
England could not begin 10 rule these
people, At Singapore there are i0,000. .O01
OF rupees worth about twenty-eight cents
now. formerly worth fifty cents each,
stacked up In valuts. When England
wants silver she can go there and get Il
without purchasing from the United
States, That was good object lesson
TO me on the silver question. The white
metal degraded itself The mints OF India
are closed, The lesson TO those people
was a severe one. The wages OF working
people or the lahorlng man in India. is
hve cents per day, Domestics and house
servants get two cents per day. II is
the surplus OF silver that brought about
this state OF affairs, and the same rule
think the India mints will ever be opened
again for the coinage Of silver 1t is
labor that gives value to silver. or GOLD
or anything else, Gold, for centuries, has
had an International value, and its pro-
duction has not abnormally increased.
With silver II has been otherwise, ana
the silver men know II fun we'll Why
do not Senator Jones and some OF our
other leading silver senator's accept their
salaries from the government in silver
and collect the debts due them In silver
but that they do not Is n well known fact
They take their salaries from Uncle Sam
In gold, and they make all debts due
them payable In gold, They prefer that
the other fellow shall take the depreciat-
ed currency.
In India are two OF the grandest sights
In the world. One work of nature, the
other work OF art The Himalaya Noun
talns, with its dozens OF peaks towering
high above the line OF vegetation, their
SUBMITS covered forever with a thick
coating OF snow. are never to be forgot
ten, Some of the peaks are six miles
high, or twice as high as the highest
mountain on this continent. In the north
of India is that most wonderful produc-
tlon ever made by the hands of man.
Words are inadequate to describe the
beauties OF the tomb of Agra. Twenty
thousand men worked seventeen years TO
construct this fomous burial place.
I'm China, as in Japan, l was surprised
to find how great progress is being made
In the manufacture of cotton goods. They
win soon be our great rivals In this line
of manufactures. In Japan particularly,
where the race is one OF imitators, their
productions are truly marvellous. The
raw material Is drawn from India and the
United States, and every year, the guam
tlty manufactured is largely increased,
Strange to say these people do not con-
sumo what they manufacture themselves,
and no nation can become truly great fol-
lowing such policy. So long as we
keep up our protective tariff system we
have nothing to fear from the Orient as
competitors with our manufacturers. In
the harbor OF Hopgkong were anchored
800 vessels of all kinds sizes and belong
ing to every nation under the sun. When
Astoria shall see the day that sdch a
fleet is anchored off the city front, other
harbors and other countries viii have to
take In sail.
II shnll hope TO return TO visit Astoria