Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-02-23
OTHER NATIONS REAP REWARDS
Manufacturers and Merchants in the
United States Arc Letting Golden
Opportunity Slip by. While Euro.
pcans Arc Selling the Markets That
Arc Open.
Try Assnclaicn Prcssl
Arc Open.


WASHINGTON. Feb. 22.-Among
the arrivals here to confer with the
Department Of Commerce and Labor
on American trade in China, is Baruch
Cert, general manager of the Indus
trial Commercial Exhibit of American
Manufacturers. at Shanghai, China.
In an interview he said:
1T is to be regretted that the man.
ufacturers and producers throughout
the United States are not paying more
atinction to the development of trade
with China and taking advantage of
market which is geographically
theirs and is the natural outlet for ex
port goods.
China Anxious to Buy.
China is ripe today for our goods;
her purchasing power is enormous,
and | can safely say that there is not
an article produced or manufactured
in the United States which is not sal
able in China, providing it is intro
duced properly and arranged to meet
the requirements of that trade, both
in labels and packing.
AS minimum of trade possibili.
ties, were each Chinaman to spend
IA gold cents per month. equal to
One.fifth of one days wages. on AM
erican goods we would have an en-
port trade of $50 100000 per annum.
nh
dollars per day.
Boycott Not Recognized.
'The constant publicity given the
supposed boycott is detrimental to
trade. You do not hear Of any boy.
colt in Central or Northern China, the
wealthieSt and most fertile parts of
that country. lndividualism of prov
inces is the protection of trade and as
they do not speak the same language
and have different customs and me.
thods of doing business, that which is
pertinent to one province lis of no
interest to the other.
All Countries Fight For Trade.
This is recognized 1y all the Ell
ropcan powers. England holds her
sphere OF commercial influence along
the Iangtze river, Szechuen Valley
and plains of Manchuria France is
fighting for this trade from northern
Fokien provinces. Germany. with
Tsintau as a basis is working south
and north into the same territory ia.
pan. with Port Arthur as a starting
point. is fighting for this trade Rus
STA. with the trans-Siberian road is
working south into this wealthy trad
ing district, while America. with her
vast possibilities. has been only look.
ing to the extreme south of China, in.
stead of having all of our products
known and recognized from New
chwang to Cochin China. and from
Shanghai to Chunking, the farthest in,
land treaty port.
Chinese Must See the Goods
1.-THE Chinese merchant must see
tn buy. and he must also be able to
feel the pulse of the consuming mar.
ket as we'll as know the responsibility
and extent Of our manufacturing and
producing interests. With the Chinese
merchant you have class of business
men whose word is their bond, and
who are ready to buy when the prop.
er goods are shown them
THE railroad and steamship lines
are rendering every assistance i'm the
opening of that trade and it only rests
with the manufacturers and producers
as to whether or not they wish to take
avantage in proper time of the vast
export field now open to them"