Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-04-18
AMERICAN TRADE
IN THE FAR EAST
Congressman Donald MCKlnIay
Takes A Gloomy View Of
Its Prospects.
VISITED JAPANESE PITTSBURG
Ito Told Him Not to be Afraid Of Jap
anesc Iaborcrs as All Are
Wanted at Home.

New York. April iS.--Congressman
Donald f.. McKinlay of California,
who was a member Of Secy. Tafts
party on its trip to the far east. was the
guest OF honor ana principal speaker
at the dinner OF the New York Credit
Mems association last night. Congress
man McKinlay spoke Of industrial and
commercial conditions In Japan as they
are going to affect the markets In the
far cast. He warned his hearers against
the illusion that Japan is going to he
our commercial ally In the far east, or
anywhere else" and according to to-
days Times, said
I'VE hear whole lot these days
about the United States dominating the
markets Of Japan and the far east, hut
any hopes we hold In that respect are
destined 10 be rudely shattered. The
10000, coo Of people who live on the
shores and the islands OF the Pacific be-
fore long will not only not be consup-
ers of American goods. but VIII be our
competitors, perhaps in our own home
markets.
A JAPANESE PITTSBURG.
while in Japan | visited Osaka,
which Is the Pittsburg Of the mikado's
empire. It has at present some 100000
inhabitants, but modern factory Is
spTinging up on every corner In that
city. and before long II will be the home
OF half a million industrious japanese
Marquis Ito who was the guide of
Secy. Taft's party In the japanese
Pittsburg said to me. You need not
be afraid that we will allow japanese
laborers TO come to the United States.
We need them all at home. In couple
Of months we viii bring home a mil
lion men from Manchuria. We are go
ing to teach them all how to manu-
facture everything in the world with
the best laborsavlng machinery to be
found, Instead OF sending you cheap
labor we viii sell you Americans goods
cheaper than you can manufacture
them yourselves
at Is only six months since Marquis
Ito told me this. Three weeks ago |
picked up a California paper and read
that whole ships load of japanese
goods had come into the port of San
Francisco. am afraid that the people
of the far east viii become not only
our commercial competitors but that
they actually may become our com
mercial masters.
PEOPLE WAKING UP.
More than half the population Of
the world lives on the Pacific. Up to
recently they have been living In the
far east In sloth and indifference. They
are waking up now. The boycott or
American goods In China was not In re-
tallauon for the treatment we had
served outSfo some Chinese merchants
whose papers were irregular. but a
manifestation Of the new spirit OF the
orient.
China under the tutelage OF Japan
Is awakening.
In Osaka | saw % cotton mills The
machinery OF one OF these mills had
come from the United States The rest
the Japanese had constructed them
selves. | saw there also 80 flour mills
ready for shipment to the wheat re-
gions OF Manchuria. one of these mills
had been imported from the United
States Twenty-nihe had been con-
structed in osaka for one-fifth OF the
cost Of the American machinery. Our
patent laws do not extend TO Japan. II
is the sheerest folly for us to dream
of establishing markets in the far
enst."
Congressman McKinlay severely
condemned the lethargy of Americans
in their fight for the markets in the
far east.
I'm Shanghai" Congressman McKin-
lay, continued, 1--WE found that the
German consul had SO business agents
on his list The British consul had 40
and the Japanese 1850. We had to get
II search warrant. and the chief of DO
lice, to find the consulate OF the Unit
ed States, which was on a dirty side
street, with consul who said he was
hardly getting money enough from the
American government to pay for
young man to do his typewriting."
PHILIPPINES OUR HOPE.
Mr.. McKinlay said that our only hope
for eastern markets was bound up
with the Philippines. He said we
ought to keep them and establish in
Manila great emporium for Ameri-
can goods for the filling of quick or
ders. He thought the Filipinos. within
the next Is years. must take 500, 000,-
600 of American goods annually.
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