New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-01-01

of the late belligerents- Naturally, IL VIII re
suit in some changes of commerclai reia ..
Our trade with Japan, which was adventitiousiy
Increased in certain respects during the war
has now been restored to more norma! Ioot
ing, on which 1t continues to make sausIAcIoiy
progress. With Russia our trade was ieoS az
fected during the war, but it promises TO ENJOY
a greater increase with the return OF peace anu
Doubtless will do so when order is restored IN
that much troubled empire. With the coioSSep
revolution now in progress there this country 10
not directly concerned save in respect OF SYM
pathy with the forces which are Vaianuy SulE
ing to restore order and to establish HDeraI ana
enlightened institutions. The appeal Tor some
sort of intervention in behalf of the horribly
prosecuted Jews had, Of course, however re-
gretfully to be denied but the influence or
America has nevertheless been potent IN secur-
ing some material abatement of the inVldlous
and oppressive determinations which nave long
been made in that and other countries against
that people.
The Chinese Empire is again becoming COM
mercial and political storm centre. 1t owes
more, perhaps, to America than to any other
nation for 1t was America that chiefly pre-
vented a too great punitive spoiation or emma
after the Boxer outbreak, which secured from
the European powers a specific promise to re-
spect the territorial integrity and adminlstra-
tive entity of the empire, and which effect1Vely
moved for the circumscription OF the area or the
Russo Japanese war so as to involve mini
mum of Chinese territory and interests The
official Chinese attitude toward America mas
remained quite correct. Unfortunately IN SO
decentralized and democratic a country, popu-
lar sentiment and action are not always fdentl-
eel with or controlled by the central govern
ment For some time luminosity toward the
United States has been growing. 1t had its
origin in the failure of this country to make a
new treaty with China, in some of our Chinese
exclusion laws and still more in the arbitrary
and oppressive way in which they were admin
istered, and in the undeniabie i'll treatment
which many Chinese merchants, scholars and
other travellers have suffered in America In
consequence q widespread boycott OF American
goods was organized by fhe Six Companies and
other trade guilds at Canton, Shanghai and
elsewhere in Southern and Central China The
Chinese government protected Americans IN
their treaty right to introduce the goods into
China, but Il could not, of course, compel the
Chinese to purchase them. and there have
for which purchasers could be found.
Nevertheless, American trade with China has
, been enormously increasing during the year,
and if subtract from its volume the
largest estimate of boycotted and unsoId goods.
it still reaches record breaking proportions. In
the first ten months of 1906 exports to
China were more than twice as great as In the
corresponding ten months Of 1904, although the
latter had been the high record for all preced-
ing time. In January October, 1904. our ex-
ports to China were less than 81 100000 In
January October, 1905, they were more than
S5O,O0O,00O. OF this great volume cotton cloth
formed more than 80 per cent, a fact which is
to be carefully commended to the consideration
of our cotton planters and manufacturers, and
to the manipulators of our cotton market, to-
gether with the further fact that now with the
return of peace, Japanese competition with our
cotton trade will be largely intensified. It is
apparent, then, that even If half of our exports
which Is scarcely imaginable has still
been marked increase in our trade with that
country. But the urgent need from the point
of view Of national honor. well that OF
national profit. of readjusting our Chinese re-
lations upon the basis Of justice which Presi-
dent Roosevelt has indicated, is too obvious to
require elaboration.
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