El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-17
The Subject of the Mission of
a Highly Educated
Oriental.
IN COTTON GOODS
We Are Working Up a Large
Trade With the Orient,
and Machinery viii
Go Next.

Mr.. K. Hiyama. a representative of
the Japanese government. is in Ell
Paso, beginning a tour of the United
States and Mexico.
Mr.. Hiyama is a highly educated
gentleman and speaks English, Span
ish, German and Chinese fluently He
is the head of a new department es-
tablished by the Japanese government
which might be termed a commercial
or international trade bureau. He
landed at San Diego. California, sew
eral days ago and will visit every part
of the United States and Mexico before
| he returns to the Orient.
Japan is fast coming to the front
with other manufacturing countries"
said Mr.. Hiyama, and especially in the
matter of cotton manufacturing. We
are now operating 60 large cotton mills
in Japan and are supplying nearly as
much cotton goods as the country can
consume. We are not satisfied with
that, however, and are reaching into
China and other oriental countries. I'm
til few years ago most of the raw
cotton used in the Japan mills came
from India but we have found the
American article cheaper and for many
things better than the Indian and
Egyptian cotton. / will visit Calves
ton, New Orleans and Atlanta especial
ly on this one thing and thoroughly
investigate the shipping situation We
have been buying most of our cotton
machinery in England heretofore but
1 think will buy mostly from the Uni
ted States in the future. This country
can make better and cheaper machin-
cry than England can and it will pay
Japan to buy machinery wnere she gets
the raw cotton.
Trade between the United States
and Japan and China is rapidly in
creasing" continued Mr.. Hiyama land
will increase more rapidly in the future
Heretofore our people knew very little
of the resources of the United States
and the trading people here knew or
cared less about us. A closer relation
has been established lately. however.
and great results to both countries will
come. 1t is this matter that l am in
structed to look after most. l shall en-
deavor to tell the people here some
thing of our business and the field
we offer for trade and assist in build
ing up the trade between the two
countries all 1 can.
''The recent war in China and the
opening of the Philippines will work
wonders, for the United States. .he
trade of all the Philippines and good
majority of China justly belongs to
this country and there is no reason
why it should not get it. Outside of
there is practically no man
ufactured goods used in the orient,
when compared with other countries.
and when the people there learn tnat
they can get cotton clothing and other
necessities of life cheap enough in this
country they Will begin to use great
deal of it. OF course they must nave
for their, own raw products
put they can get it when the CONNER
,ial relations of the two countries are
brought closer together.
Inc war In Cne fnlupplneS cannot
asst much longer and when it closes a
Inference can be plainly seen in the
7alue that country is to the United
States. They have raw material that
hey have no use for and need the
goods of this country
Japan does not expect much from the
but now has a good trade
With China and expects to have a mucn
,etter business in the future.
Our best trade with China now is
cotton goods and that
S bound to increase. The cheapest of
abor in Japan makes it possible for
hat country to lead in the production
Il cotton goods and even the United
states cannot hope to compete except