The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-10-16
The Thinkers.
rHE Real PERIL IN THE YELLOW PERIL.

THE REAL PERIL IN THE YELLOW PERIL.
While there is serious danger to
the worlds peace in the settlement
of the Chinese question, it is yet
small compared with the peril that
will come to the worlds industrial
peace from the awakening of China
from it's sleep of ages. The only
country on the face of the earth with
resources equal to those of China is
our own. The teaching of the mis-
sionary, the introduction of Western
science and literature, the labor
saving devices of the Western world,
intercourse with travellers, and the
shot and shell from the modern gun,
are fast quickening the Chinese in
tellect, and it is only a question OF
time when their vast resources will
be developed, and that, too, by them
selves.
The beginning of this development
will bring greatprOsperity to nations
like our own which deal honestly
with John Chinaman, but what will
happen when John learns to use
labor saving machinery on the farm
and in the factory? He will not al
ways be dependent on us for cotton
CLOTH, nor petroleum, nor railroad
iron, nor improved implements.
John will soon find that in opening
coal and iron mines he is not releas-
ing evil spirits from their dungeon,
but releasing forces that will make
him rich and prosperous. He will
find use for his iron ore, for his gold,
silver and copper. When he begins
to realize that there is a Father who
cares for John and a future state in
which he is interested, when, to use
Jobs phrase, "the inspiration of the
Almighty giveth him understand
ing" ~ John will meet US in every
market of the world with his finished
products, and when he does this,
history will have but repeated itself.
English farmers. made large money
when they were furnishing Ameri-
can farmers with the improved
breeds of live stock. The next gen
GRAFTON of American farmers under
sold them in their own live stock
markets. English manufacturers
made large money when they we're
furnishing us with steel rails, loco
motives, and improved machinery.
Now they find that we are their
sharpest competitors in their own
market. Our manufacturers of agri-
cultural implements are making
large money by shipping them into
Russia with the result that in a few
years from now Russia will be the
greatest competitor of the American
wheat grower on earth. Western
farmers made large money from 1881
to 1884 in selling their heifers to the
ranchman. They sang another song
in the latter sos and early COS when
their produce met them in every
great cattle market.
There will be large profits to all
concerned in the opening up of China,
but when the Chinaman learns to
use improved machinery, which he
will do very quickly, learns to invest
and to construct, as he will do later
on, let the manufacturers of the
world look out. They cannot COM
pete with John working for twenty
cents a day, payable in silver dollars.
When this comes to pass, as it will
than we look for, the men
who are loudest in their prise of the
gold standard will be moving
heaven and earth for an inter
national agreement as to a ratio be-
tween gold and silver, and thus
equalize wages and establish a a of
exchange without which trade be-
tween gold and silver countries is a
good deal of a l~ottery.-Wallace's
pOScEc ANN ATucIrEr