The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-07
JAPAN'S INDUSTRIES.
ROBERT p. PoRTER'S INTERESTING
REPORT.
The Little Men and Women Fully
Awake to the Needs of the Times
The Wages Paid.

SAN FRANCISCO, June 6.-Robert
P. Porter well known as United States
superintendent of the last census, re-
turned from Japan on the Peru yes
terday. He has been in Japan since
March, where he studied the industrial
and the manufacturing conditions Of
the empire. He returns with decided
ideas that the country is fully awake
to the needs of the times and that it
will prove a strong competitor of
western nations. Said he:
Il am satisfied. after looking over
the industrial situation, that Japan
has taken its position with the great
civilized nations of the earth and has
become an important factor in the
commerce of the world. During my
stay in Japan I think I visited more
than 200 mills, factories and shops, COW
erng every important industry. The
weaving of textiles constitutes the
most important industry. There are
fully a million weavers returned in
the census, $4,000 females. This ire
mendous force of weavers has enabled
Japan not only to supply nearly all
her own wants, but swell her exports
of textiles from S511,990 in 1885 to
$22,177, 626 in 1895, an increase of more
than forty fold.
I'm the investigate of the silk in
dustry I spent some time where
found the current wages for female
Weavers from to cents per day for
young girls and 10 to Is cents for eX-
pert weavers. / also paid particular
attention to cotton spinning and weav-
ing. l see no reason why the exports
of cotton to India and China will not
reach $4,000, 600 before another decade.
The total value of the textile industry
of Japan NAV reach nearly S100 600 900
this year
Some of the other industries of
which I visited were the rugmakers of
the country where I found children
of and working for cent day
and 8 to cents a day were current
wages for a day of twelve to fourteen
hours. In some manufacturing re-
gions the schools had been depopu-
lated to one-third their number, that
there might be supply of children
to make mating.
1.-THE wonder to me is that Japan has
become so important manufacturer
without being a purchasing country"
Speaking of the foreign trade, the
student of figures says:
"Japan's foreign trade has gone
from SIS, 200, 900 in 1885 to 1926, 00O, 900 in
1895. which is nearly half the Pacific
trade. In my opinion it is sure to in
crease as Japan secures more and
more Of the Asiatic markets"
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