The Afro-American advance., 1899-08-26
ARE HIGHLY PRICED.
American Goods in Great Demand
In Oriental Markets.
European Merchants Leave No stone
UBfuraed 10 Hurt Our inter-
ests-nogus Labels Used
by British Traders.
fspecial washington Letter.l

DIR. Edward Bedloe, United states
consul at Canton, China, has leave
of absence and is on his way home.
He will be welcomed by friends in
every city between San Francisco and
Boston; and he will be especially well
coined in this national capital, where
his friends are legion.
Consu! Bedioe was in the diplomatic
service during the Harrison administra-
ton as consul at Annoy. lie was re-
moved early in the second Cleveland ad-
ministration, and returned TO America
as the Chinese governments commits
fioner to the Chicago expedition. Dur
ing his diplomatic experiences Consul
Bedloe has made some discoveries OF
great value to our country. In a letter
to personal friend he says:
II think our best and most profit
able markets will be found in the ori-
ent. Japan. with her 40,000,000 OF Peo-
pie; Corea, with 12,0O0,0 900; the vast en-
pire of China with more than 400, ,o0o,oOo
and Siam and the Spanish, Portuguese
and French Indies with another 400, ,0o0,-
600, comprise the territory in which our
American merchants and manufactur-
ers should and must compete with those
of England, Belgium, France and Ger
many. The difficulties and obstacles
are numerous, but the national trait Of
Americans is TO overcome such things;
and by wise foresight Of our legislators
and diplomats, and a study of condi-
tions by our boards of trade and cham
bers of commerce, IL can be accom-
plished. We are bound TO encounter
the jealousy and hostility Of the Eu-
ropean trade interests already estab-
l!shed in those distant lands. The great
British houses, the German companies,
the Belgian and French firms leave no
stone unturned to hinder or injure us,
and to kill or hurt our American trade,
TO the promotion Of their own. Some
foreign firms, indeed, go to lengths
which In our own land would he re-
garded as actiOnnble at law and even
punishable by our criminal courts"
To illustrate his meaning DIR. Bed
loe cited instances. Imitation win
chester rifles made in Belgium. ana
more dangerous 10 the men who fired
them than the men or animals at whom
they were aimed had been palmed off
by an English Arm. Cheap and fraud
ulent limitations OF American cart
ridges. fabricated by cheap labor In
England, were also sent to the eastern
purchasers. Additional instances were
mentioned. He further said:
"Other frauds were the filling of
American flour bags with poor imita-
tion British -four. filling canvas covers
OF Chicago ham and bacon with really
unmarketable pork, putting up Si-
beTian salmon in exact imitation of the
best salmon canned in California and
Oregon. and selling cheap limitations of
axes and shovels. farming implements,
saws and lamps. Worst of all, | have
seen the trashiest barytes-filled Eng
lish cotton cloth stamped with coun-
terfeitlabels Of Fab River. Taunton, Will
limantio and other high-class American
trade marks. American kerosene tins
are filled with the lowest grade of
Russian oil. and even with the kerosene
from the new petroleum discovered in
Sumatra. American cigarettes, Amer
lean sewing machines. American clocks
are all initiated in the manner that l
have described
THE whyfore and wherefore of these
frauds Is not difficult to understand. 1t