Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1905-10-05
WILL PROFIT eY TREATY.

WILL PROFIT BY TREATY..
J. w. Davidson, y. s. Consul to Muk-
den, Says This Country viii Develop
Great Trade In the Orient.
]. w. Davidson, U. s. consul to Muk-
den, Manchuria, was in Jamestown
Wednesday. Speaking Of the results
of the treaty Of peace to the Alert, Mr..
Davidson said that 1t will no doubt be
of great benefit to this country and
stimulate our trade with the Orient In
food products and heavy machinery
Japan is not competitor of ours in
manufacturing, as SO many people
suppose" said Mr.. Davidson, '.they
manufacture mostly small articles and
novelties and while their trade will
undoubtedly be greatly extended along
other special lines in China, yet the
United States and Great Britain will
reap the most advantage from the
treaty as they manufacture and sell
food products. locomotives and the
heavy machinery required to operate
railroads which China and Japan need,
to develop the country. The Russians
being now practically out of China will
remove the strongest competition of
this country. The treaty will cut into
the trade of Germany and France more
than any other nations. Our advan-
tage in Japan will be manifest very
soon and with the removal of Chinese
boycott it looks as If our trade would
be greatly extended throughout the
great empire of China.
'Great credit ds due President Roose-
welt in the matter Of the advice and
friendly conference with both belliger-
ents which the people Of Japan as a
whole do not as yet understand. They
seem to think the world believes that
they consented to peace because they
were cowardly, which is of course a
wrong impression. The Japanese
have proved themselves about the
foremost military nation of the pres
emit time, and the popular feeling in
Japan will in the course of a year or
SO realize that the world under
stands that the peace treaty was
made through the generosity of the
Japanese desiring to bring about bet
ter relations for the whole world in
the far east than from any cause of
fear of the Russian army or the Rus
sian successes. The rioting in Japan
after the peace treaty was a matter
of small moment and had little effect
on the nation at large.
The treatment of the Chinese off,
GERS, students and members of the
higher classes who are being sent to
Europe and America to learn modern
civilization is something that counts
greatly against this country on account
of the emigration restrictions and reg
ulauons. We do not want the Chinese
cooale, in America but we do need the
visits and friendly investigations Of
the leading men of China and the pre.
5udice against letting the Chinese
native land on our western coast is
now SO great that indignities are fire.
quentay received by the future vice
roys, governors and leading statesmen
OF China at the hands of our emigra-
ton authorities. Some decided re-
forms In this matter should be insti-
tuted very soon if we want to keen
the Chinese leaders pro-American
rather than pro-Belgian, pro French or
proterman. The San Francisco
papers seem to cater to the popular
proJuddcies in resisting the free inter
course and visits of-the higher classes
OF Chinese in this country, on the
ground that their arrival here is only
an excuse to mingle among the labor
ers and become competitors Of Amer;.
can labor"
Consul Davidson returned to Car.
flngton Tuesday and will proceed to
washington to transact business with
the department there. He expects 10
return to China some time during The
coming winter and may be assigned 10
Hardin as consul OF this country.
that town being the largest commer-
caal and railroad metropolis in Man
cnurla and very desirable place Of
residence. sonsul Davidson has acted
as successor to Consul General Goods
nolgh at Shanghai, China, for some
time. -.