The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-06-28

QUESTION
What the Mongols Want
Of Uncle
Sam.

Editor Advertiser: On reading the
kilograms which report the action of
the merchants of the treaty ports of
China in which it is stated that they
propose to boycott trade with the Unit
ed States on account Of the manner in
which the exclusion laws of the same
have been executed, some pooh-pooh
the idea and remark on the impossible
ity of there being any united acton in
this respect and also that it is irnpos-
sible for the reason that America is
not only the granary of the world but
the one country where manufactures OF
wood and iron are cheaper and better
than those of any other land, and the
cupidity of the importer will restrain
him from any such action.
That reminds me of story 1 heard
| told on a steamer on one of my return
trips to the islands. Horace Davis. of
Golden Gate Flour Mills, was the
! speaker, and from his point of view it
was quite laughable, but I since learn
ed that the old adage He who laughs
| last is he who laughs best is more
than true. He said: You know I was
in Congress and made it my business
to push the exclusion law. A coterie of
big Chinese merchants of San Fran
cisco waited on me and said, You favor
exclusion of Chinese?' 1 answered that
L did
'"They said, Mr.. Davis, we wish to
tell you that we do not want any more
Golden Gate flour
Il said, is it not good flour? Are
there any complaints?'
"They said: The flour is all right,
but we do not wish to deal with you
as you do not believe in reciprocity and
have shown your unfriendliness to the
Chinese
'They filed their orders from other
flour mills, and when the goods arriv-
ed in China a howl went up which
would disturb the bones of their ances-
tors, as our brand had a reputation
Throughout the part of China where
American flour was being used. Their
principals evidently wrote the Chinese
brokers that what they had sent could
mot be sold as the absence of the blue
brand Golden Gate Mills condemned
lit, for they came again and said: We
have changed our minds and will buy
your -four
Il answered that they could not buy
from me-. and they were compelled to
lpay American middlemen to buy for
them to fill their orders and of course
lpay a commission"
That was his story and he told it
lweu, as he is natural humorist.
The finale, however, learned after
ward. 1t appears that the flour which
had been sent in lieu of Golden Gate
lsuch as Sperry's and others, was al
about the same, and the price was
little less The following orders Wen
l forward for those fiours and broke the
: band which bound the consumers O.
China to Golden Gate. 1t must have
hurt severely, as that mill had worked
up the trade for years until 1t hourish
ed like the green bay tree.
Is not this boycotting, which
Threatened going to have similar Ell
feet only on a scale where mllllonS
the figure instead of thousands Amer
lica. may be the granary of the "orl'
= lbut those who know viii tell you ina
tRritish Columbia produces harder an'
: better wheat than the United States
lopd its fields are increasing at mar
4 1,a,ous rate and it will soon vie VIII
,IrrcIe Sam in supplying that staple U
the world Then again the erect .
the Japanese-Russian war mas peeh "
q advertise and make known that Won
derful theater of battle, VIZ MS'i.
z cburia. 1t is one of the nnesl dsl
G o,,It,,raI narts of the world and emf
n ,nentIy suited to supplying Chiii"
~ rao,,isite flour and other cereals
~ % will bring about the develop
wont of the mineral and agrlcuitura
resources of that great land and' none
II 1o;,c, varv pIenty there, there VIII pe
demand for millions of dollars worth
u inning and agricultural machinery d
r,eu as building materials OF all ue
II orin+ions Can we afford to antagoHl|
n ot, a neople merely because OF III
+ so,d-1ot oratory of some of our walk
II - daleeates"? There is matte
ITCH no man has yet written on
have seen, and that is kero
sene. ,o, GRO prea
I orI[ets for kerosene and singular
j Gov, that heretofore no crude OH oi On
h say -, boon discovered in eithe1
T,.r,5rads of vessels leave the Atlan
80 coast loaded with oil for the Chlil
. ,,e+ AS a matter of fact there
no doubt that great oil heios WI.
discovered in China. for we hllo
De - Marco Polo's time the en-
nc ,rare using natural gas for eval
ao,+ vater and in that viclnlt
he very plentiful. Shoui
OH tb,ng as a boycott take plae
suoh driya the Chinese to develoI
ing the resources of tnelr Own o.ource
| and especially the niiiielal 9TH.
4 They have IloIe 49, 4, ~