The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-22
HOW TO DEVELOP OUR
TRADE WITH THE ORIENT
Continued From First Page.

| the nation. Individual effort should be
| packed by systematic national support
and assistance. The business men of the
| country are ready to do their part One
! of the very first and most important
| things to be considered in our efforts to
| facilitate trade with China is the ques-
| ton of freight rates steamship and rail-
way. This is receiving most intelligent
| consideration.
| He Who Has Done Most.
| ''The one man who has done more than
| any other in the country in developing
| the Northwestern and Pacific states-in
| so reducing the cost of interstate trans
! bic between the latter states and the
| interior, and thereby developing and en-
| larging both sections-is today giving the
| problem of ocean freight rates on tho
| Pacific the benefit of his long years OF
experience. For the purpose of reduc-
| ing the cost of Pacific transportation down
| to the lowest possible scale, he will
| have on that ocean three of the largest
freight steamships af1oat.
| This laudable ambition on the part OF
| great transportation companies to reduce
| the present cost of trans Pacific ship
| ments should be supplemented by every
proper effort of the nation to develop our
| trade so as to furnish sufficient bulk OF
merchandise to justify even lower freight
| charges. Let the government now do
| all in its power to assist our business
men (and government influence is always
| cial supremacy is assured.
| 1.-The possibilities for unparalleled IN
| dustrial development of the Chinese en-
pire are too well known and too well
| recognized to need comment. Given an
| industrial people and natural resources
| and it needs but one other element. mod
ern methods, to insure a wealthy ma
| ton China furnishes the first two red
/ uisites. Western enterprise VIII furnish
the other
/ oil inc no touch
| civilization when it's immense labor en-
ergy, intelligently directed, will result in
hensible The moment this labor energy
is directed towards the development OF
her resources untold wealth will leap
from her mines and be iured from her
soil. to add to the worlds commerce.
! That wealth must and Will be eXpend-
ed somewhere. 1t is a we'll known law
of trade that all people buy the comforts
and luxuries of life to the extent of their
| means; there will be no exception to this
| rule in the Orient.
How Secure This Trade?
1.-THE Chinese people heretofore have
not been heavy purchasers because they
! have not had the means. When they
have made their own country prosperous
| that prosperity will be felt all over the
civilized world in increased commerce,
purchases and sales.
Now how may the government assist
in securing this trade? We seek to sell
goods to a people commercially unac-
quainted with US and with the goods we
desire to sell them. One of the very hrst
things to be done is to demonstrate to
those people that we do produce things In
this country for sale; and that these
products are useful to them. If the prod
. ucts are a class of articles hitherto un-
known to them, we must demonstrate
their utility If they are class OF art1-
cles of which they have some idea through
their dealings with the merchants of 9TH
er countries we must be able to show
them that our particular goods are either
superior In quality or can be delivered
to them cheaper than like articles from
other countries. In either instance there
just be ocular demonstration. We are
one of the greatest purchasers from the
country amount to very little. In articles
of general merchandise Great Britains
sales to China are sixty-seven times that
| of all American sales What is the rem
edy? How may we the sooner Overtake
| our competitors?
Must Take cross-Cut.
Starting a century behind Great Brit
ain, we can hardly expect to overtake her,
following the same slow, tedious process
by which she has built up her trade in
China. II we wish to overtake her we
| must take crosS-cut somewhere. Great
Britain, Japan and Germany are on the
ground. They have the trade. They have
to a certain extent learned the require
ments and wants of the trade, and secur-
ed the confidence of the Chinese mer-
chants. We must give them some good
| reason for making a change. They are
not compelled to deal with us. Outside of
petroleum. they can obtain most of the
| goods they are purchasing from other
| countries; but we need their trade we
need it as a field for the contamination of
the surplus of our manufactured and agri-
| cultural products
Il believe that a permanent exhibit of
our goods, so that they can be seen by
! the Chinese merchants under the most
favorable conditions, in a clean, bright
and airy building, kept in order and tidi-
ness, would be worth more to our mer-
chants than a whole army of commits
sion men. And 1 believe that an in
t stitution of this kind could be made more
, than self -susta lining Such an institution
, gateway of China.
Let government effort directed by
good Judgment: be continued with per-
sistent energy for a quarter of a century,
and the trans Mississippi territory win
reach and hold position in wealth and
commercial Importance equal to that Of
the states east of that stream"
Gist of the Resolutions.
The congress adopted resolutions IA
voring statehood for Oklahoma and In
dian Territory combined; a territorial
| government for Alaska; an American
merchant marine; an international fish
, hatchery to be established on the Fra
ser river; closer trade relations with
Canada; placing the consular service
under civil service; also resolutions re-
lating to forestry, irrigation, public
lands and the improvement Of rivers
and harbors; favoring an appropria-
ton of $1,000,000 for the Lewis and
Clarke exposition at Portland, reads
and bridges in Alaska; recommending
a Trans Mississippi man for the bu-
reau of manufactures; recommending
, man from the same district for a
place on the interstate commerce COM
mission; approving a plan for a canal
i connecting Puget sound and Lake
, Washington at Seattle; favoring more
{ stringent pure food laws; the st. Louis
exposition and a differential Of per
cent in favor of Pacific coast bidders
on battleships; protesting against fur
Their extension Of forest reserves in
, Washington; recommending the con-
struction of an isthmian canal; favor
ing The Hague tribunal as court of
last resort and misunderstanding the
sale of large tracts of Philippine lands
> and the introduction of coolie labor
! l,,{o tell