Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-02-24

llnes which make regular SAVINGS Ior
seattle and San Francisco. They are
experlmentlng now with line TO Peru,
and have sent several Of their ships 10
Mobile and New Orleans 10 test wheth-
ar II win not pay them TO Import our
raw cotton for their mills here IN thelr
own steamers. Last year the Nippon
Yusen Kalsha added six vessels TO its
line the six aggregatlng tonnage OF
$4,000. aud 1t now has twelve steamers
which average more than eOVO IONS
each. ~,
Japan Is very anxious TO see the Nj
caragua canal built, and WIN undoubted-
~ have It's regular lines 10 New iork
as soon as II is finished.
At the same time there are scores OF
other steamships from the great lines OF
Europe and the United States In the
Japanese ports every month, The trade
ls so Increasing that all want their
share OF the freight. One OF the latest
In the field Is the North German LLOYD
which now has regular steamers rom
Europe TO Japan, ana which IS salu 10
be about TO put on service OF me yes
sells 10 ply between llongkong ana san
Francisco. Today the freight between
these ports IS congested. The Japan
ese merchants tell me they cannot get
their goods promptly and that they
have TO wait for months for the ming
Of their orders
THE UNITED STATES AND JAPAN
There is a steady increase going on
In our trade with the japanese. see
American goods In all the cities ana
nearly every steamer brings over COM
merclal travellers who have come Tor
the first time TO work the trade. by
the new treaties foreigners can now do
business and sell goods in any part OF
the empire. Before they went into Ell
feet they were required TO have pass
ports from the government II they Went
outside the treaty ports and all OF the
business was done by japanese mid
dlemen. our drummers can now take
interpreters with them and take their
orders direct.
As TO the foreign trade Of Japan, II
now amounts 10 enough TO be wei
worth our consideration. II was more
than s220. 100000 last year, and OF TINS
the largest share OF the exports went
TO the United States We take IN
fact. about one-fourth OF all the goods
Japan sells TO foreigners. and II Is only
lately that we have been selling here
anything like our share In return we
buy more OF Ter raw silk than any
other nation. our exports 81 this alone
footing up more than tl20O00OO. We
pay her more than $1,000. 600 year for
lea and an equal amount for silk goods,
while we annual" buy a million and
a half dollars worth Of japanese mat
ting. We send S30O,O 600 a year TO ia
pan for drugs and chemicals and q
large amount for curios, porcelain and
other such things. We buy more and
more every year, but II Is only lately
that our sales have largely increased
WE ARE AHEAD OF THE BRITISH
At present we are gaining more rap
idly I'm the japanese markets than any
other nation. Twenty years ago We
furnished only about per cent OF the
Japanese imports and England fur'
nished over 50 per cent. Now we are
supplying 10 per cent Of all that Japan
buys and the English have lost about
half their trade. During the past rev
years the Americans have been send
ing locomotives and railroad machine
ry TO Japan, and our exports OF lror
and steel manufactures now amount &c
more than $500, 900 year. We are
! having an increased trade In wheat anc
flour. some Of the Pacific coast mills
being run almost entirely 70 supply The
Japanese markets. The people are be-
coming bread eaters as wei as rice
eaters. and in the army bread has beer
lately introduced as one OF the rations
A great deal OF -four is used for paste
| in the fan and other manufactures Of
naper. so that the demand for th'
| American article IL six times as grea
now as IL was ten years ago.
THE NEW TREATIES AND THE
AMERICANS.
As 10 Just how the new treaties vii
work. the Americans here are undecld
ed. Minister Buck thinks they VIII d
| 10 the advantage OF our trade, anl
/ seems 10 have no idea but that foreign
ers will have their rights and justice
| I'm the Japanese courts. He sent on
a notice to the American residents a
! the time the treaties went into effec
/ asking them to observe the new regu
/ lltlOnk anu
ese government ON us senerosily u
opening up the empire to foreigners
Inasmuch as none of the other min
Isters had the foresight or courtesy L
do this the act has been greatly ap
praciated by the japanese.
Minister Buck. by the way, has mad'
himself very popular here, not onl!
with the japanese but also WIN .n
common sense Americanlsm. lie be
lieyes in the United States, and Is al
ways doing what he can to advance ~
interests, and he has no sympathy WIN
any American who does not manlfes
the same disposition. heard curl
Gus story the other day OF his treat
ment Of one OF our citizens who TREE
10 20 back on his country. The maj
was originally sent out here as mis-
slonary by the Christian or Campbell