The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-11-14

made profitable? An empire OF 4OO,-
000,00 inhabitants within easy range
of the greatest manufacturing nation
CT earth ought really TO be an oOJect
OF serious interest. and We might very
properly express our surprise that be-
ing so near We are yet so far apart IN
all that represents in material way
the mutual benefits that would accrue
TO both of these great nations by a
more complete system of association
than is at present enjoyed between the
two countries. Distance is now meas
ured by time. and as facilities for
| communication and transportation i'm
prove. we find ourselves neighbors to
wonderful people. having great love
for home and ancestry and are gifted
With infinite perseverance. industry,
sobriety, patience and endurance al
most beyond comprehension, with a
history as ancient as the records of the
Ages. The leading minds of the En-
pire are outgrowing their earlier
teaching. and overcoming their former
prejudice against Improvements and
are more inclined TO accept modern
ideas and become part of the great
universe in which we live.
One of the great minds of the En-
pire favoring the advance movement, |
Mr.. Ii Hung Chang, who recently Wis |
tied our country and gathered clear |
information as to our system of life, |
social. industrial and political, our fac
ilities for transportation, our manufac-
turing establishments, our banking in
stitutions, our chambers of commerce |
and our great mercantile houses,
gained impressions and information
that will hereafter be of immense adj
vantage 10 both countries. China needs
quantities of our manufactured goods !
and her people are able to pay for them
They must see them and understand
he mechanism and become Impressed
with the benefits they will derive from
heir use before purchasing. II seems
strange to MS that during all these
years q great empire of 100 100000 Of
people should still cultivate their lands
with a spade or a wooden pillow, cut
their grain with a sickle travel long
distances by land. in the most prlmi-
i've Soy IL. MAINTAIN an tAlSltUtb d~ Il !
government without a mail service, in
fact still live as they did a thousand
years before the birth Of Christ.
The times are ripe for a now dis
Densation and an improved civilization
In Chipa. They are about to COM I ,
nence this new era by building rail
roads, providing facilities for more
association among them /,
selves. and following the construction
and operation Of railroads there will
De a demand for all kinds of improved
agricultural implements, all kinds of
hardware. iron, sheet iron, all kinds OF
wire. copper, brass, tin, lumber
watches, clocks. cotton cloth, wooden
10th, blue jeans. muslin. linen. knit
foods, underwear tools. telephone and =
telegraph material, railroad material q
md supplies, household supplies. ma .
,hlnery for handling water. such as !,
pumps and appliances for =
rrigating their lands. mining tools Il
nd machinery with which to devotion u
heir mines of mineral ores and coal.
With which the empire abounds. Saw e
Mills are needed. cotton factories are D
'anted. WOODEN mills will be construct IL
d, and the demand for iron in all G.
orms, structural and otherwise. must Il
e immense. We are their natural e.