Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-08-29

| of the trade is American. and our trade
| grows. Notwithstanding Russia's ad yances.
On some things. however. are los ng
our Manchurian trade. We lost about 2O0.-
O0O pieces in our exports of Amer. can drills
in 1902 over those of 1901. They were dis
placed by Russian cottons and by Chinese
cloth made on hand looms The Russian
cotton goods are excellent but so far they
are not so well known the American cot
tons. The same is true of flour, but local
mills are now being established along the
Trans-Siberian road. and its Chinese east
ern connection and Siberian wheat will
compete with American wheat The Rus
slams Will make very low freight rates for
such things and sooner or later the car will
give a bounty to such goods need it, and
IN TINS way will give his people the mo-
nopoly of the trade. After competition has
been crowded out the bounty will be with
drawn and the prices raised This has been
the Russian policy in other Asiatic coun-
tries and it will probably be so in Man
churfa and also later on in China The
RUSSIAN exporter and manufacturer has in
fact, the car as his business partner The
whole empire is controlled by one man
ana that man, the car, is for Russia and
the Russians against the world 1t is in
oeed Dig combination to buck up against.
Made a Million in Siberia.
Speaking of our trade with Russia, 1 met
Yankee in Moscow who has made a mil
hon dollars by selling American goods in
Siberia. This man is Enoch Emery and he
comes from Cape Cod. His parents lived
IN Yarmouth, Mass, and Enoch began life
by going to Siberia as a clerk for Freeman
Smith Co. of San Francisco who had a
branch establishment at the mouth of the
Amoor river, and shipped goods there for
sale.
This was thirty or forty years ago. Mr.
Emery saw that there was money in the
importation Of American goods. He in
creased the trade, and was soon given
charge of the business. Later on he saved
enough SO that he was able to buy out the
American owners. He then established
branches all along the river and in differ
ent parts of Siberia, and gradually became
the largest merchant of that country He has
today more business than any Euro
pean in Siberia, and carries on an immense
trade In all sorts of wares. He sells vast
quantities of American machinery and
hardware, handles cottons and dry goods
and does big business in groceries and
drugs.
He trades with the government as we'll as
with the farmers, and during the Chinese
war he sold his river steamers to the car
at good, round profit He armed his own
men then with American Winchesters and
supplied the troops with American hatchets
and axes He has, all told. brought sixty
ship loads of American goods across the
Pacific to Siberia, has been around the
world sixteen times during his trading ex-
periences there, going over Asia on horse
pdCh anu III SleQSoS until ne KNOWS II bet
ter perhaps than any American now living
Our Goods in Siberia
Mr.. Emery told me that there is a big
demand for American machinery in ST.
IBERIA. The people like our farm tools and
will readily pay good prices for them. He
said that he had himself introduced enough
American machinery to equal the labor of
100000 men. and that the country was just
beginning to be. He says the Russians are
establishing settlements everywhere along
the line of the railroad. They are building
towns and villages and growing rich.
The eastern part of the country is es-
pecially adapted for the American market
and the trade between it and our Pacific
slope will steadily increase. Mr. Emery
says that our exporters should send their
agents to Siberia and supply them with
large stocks of goods, the people wish
to see what they are buying when they buy
it. They do not like catalogues and want
to handle the goods.
1 asked Mr.. Emery about Manchuria. He
said:
There is no doubt but that Russia in
tends to keep it. She has sent 100 900
soldiers into the country, and MANY of
these have their families with them. She
is sending thousands of emigrants every
year to Siberia and Manchuria The emf
grants are given land and tools on long
time payments. They hold the land as
villages and not individuals aIthousb
they can buy land as individuals if thev
wish. They are more free in Siberia than
in Russia. and it may he in stimo that the