The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-31
TRADE IN The ORIEN /
MOST REMARKABLE EXPANSION is
BEING MADE BY KEEN
COMPETITION
AMERICANS AFTER CONTROL
Eastern Manufacturers Are Rushing
Their Best Men Into the Field
Get Business at ANY
Price


Those people VINO insist that all talk
OF American commercial supremacy is
merely vain boasting and that attempts
of American enterprise to capture and
| control Oriental business are imprac-
tlcaDle and foredoomed to failure, may
! have the correct vision. but the Ameri-
can manufacturer cannot see it that
way"
Daniel A. Mcpherson, representing one
or the largest manufacturing industries
in the East, passed through st. Paul yes
terday, en- route from New York to San
FRANCISCO, from which port he expects
10 san for the Orient In an interview
with the G 10 be he made the above
statement.
American business concerns are daily
completing schemes looking toward
world wide competition" continued Mr..
Mcpherson.
"A very short time in New York city
or any Eastern center of trade will con-
vince any one of this fact. Great bust
ness houses are calling their best men in
TO send them to the foreign fields to
push the Oriental trade. They look for
ward, confidently, to a wonderful upris-
ing of American business in the far East
and we are hustling to get in on the
ground floor. Already we have the spec
tacle of competition in British India, not
only between Americans and foreigners,
but between American firms, striving for
the control of their respective lines in
that country
MUST GET BUSINESS.
can American tobacco company has
just sent out a large number of repre-
sentatiVes to the far East to crowd
their interests to the front, regardless OF
expense. The invariable injunction given
us by our houses is, get the business
regardless of expense or profit. We want
the control of trade at any price
THE Consolidated Soap company, an
American packing company and the
leather syndicate are among the recent
invaders of the Orient typewriter
concern, heavily backed is rushing it's
men to the 9ther' end of the world as
fast as steam can take them. Several
gigantic manufacturing concerns have
thrown all their American profits into
old world ventures and are advertising
their export departments, almost ex-
clusively. There is scarcely a prominent
wholesale house of any description in
New York that does not now boast of an
export departmental healthy condition.
This is vastly different state of af-
fairs from that which existed few
years ago. It, certainly proves that the
merchants of this country have faith in
the future oflAmerican foreign business
and are willing to assume risks, no mat
ter how ventdresome they may be, in
order to get into the fight which is sure
1y coming and which when it does come,
will bring results that will dwarf the
whole past and present history of the
worlds commerce and finance"
COTTON EXPORTS INCREASE.
According to Mr. Mcpherson shipments
Of American cotton from New York are
becoming more and more frequent, for
the reason that it is found that the home
product completes successfully with the
Manchester goods. Many other articles
produced in America, whose competing
qualities have heretofore been in doubt,
have demonstrated conclusively their
stability in the foreign fields
For instance" said the New Yorker,
there is the American leather when
especially is breaking down all barriers
in the foreign markets and taking it's
place at the front"
Among the latest commercial exploita-
lions that are being made in the distant
East is that by the representatives of
American electrical manufactures. These
men are in India and other far away
lands persistently nustling for trade and
are meeting with almost astonishing sue
cess. 1t may seem singular to you, who
nave perhaps given the matter little or
no study, TO learn that India offers a
remarkably fine field for this line of
American industries. Large American
concerns are fighting hard to secure cleo
trio lights and power concessions in Bonn
bay and other densely populated Indian
cities which are as yet without this greaL
modern Improvement. There are dozen
cities of over 10000 in India which have
no electric plants. Thus you can see
what the opportunities are.
AS to other American products that
are taking their place in Eastern coun-
tries the American coal should not be
forgotten. 1t is there in vast quantities
and you might say it has gained con-
quest of Eastern navies. The beer manu-
factured In this country flows freely over
the waters. Indeed it is not an uncom-
mon thing to see signs of famous MIL
waukee and st. Louis breweries printed
in the native tongues in China, Japan
and India 7-