The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-07-22

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ID eager aad bold, aud with hundreds ii
thousands Of yoaag men studying his
tory, se5eEee and economies. a seuzr1
1 for lager careers mgss follow Some
u these yoatG wEl eoale 30 great Infi9-
enee II is 80 BE seeB whether China
/ WILL respond only 10 the eoayuIsion o.
some Strong Man. 0s. a. her frIends
hope. TIE Ieaven aaay peEnaease grzsfgs-
/ aIlg and the empire come peacefully
InEo modern Industrial and political life.
Sir Eoserg Hart q "reminiscences sug-
I gesS fast progress Is making. He found
I'VE treaty ports in 1854; n0w thexe are
forty. There was thea enc steamer In
coast trade n0w there are nearly one
I thousand One goes from HongE0ng %
SaaHg aas IN less than three days, not
: twenty-five, a. did he The 300 .ayB
f0nnages 20 the Orient mas increased
tenfOAd, and China . foreign trade Is
now ssJG,0yG ,GEJg q year Peking and
London are but fifteen days apart. The
nature Of China s imports Is broadening.
Opium, waiea used 20 be nearly half
Ehe total "a value, u now IA per cent:
though the value Of the product i no
less az vet. World sentiment is clos
ing In on this destructive eOmnoslity.
! China's foreign trade has doubled In
ten years. Sir Robert Hart long ago
pointed out that the Chinese have the
best food. drink and raiment the world
produces, N nee, tea and silk, and does
not need what the rest OF the world has
10 offer. Yet she is learning negg needs
American chief exports are piece goods.
kerosene oil, -four, lumber, mining, rail
way, milling and other machinery. wlEil
canned meats and fruits. condensed
mink, sewing machines. shoes, hardware.
clocks, lamps, umbrellas, thread, bot
tied goods and druggists sanarIes, and
kruDiseT and leather manufactured arri-
cies. There ~ practically no general
manufacturing as yet, though knit goods
have begun The mass or the people
are 50 poor that they need little or moth
ing we hare; they must be taught to
need them, or, In other words. new de-
sires come with more prosperity and
larger ambitions. When it Is Yemen-
bered there are but 25,000 Europeans
and Americans in China, 20 whom NAV
be added a few tens OF thousands OF
progressive Chinese, the limited nature
OF the market for many lines Of our
production Is evident. Other articles
20 be accepted by the Chinese must be
cheap and they must be persIstenrly
offered, for the Gninaman elings 10
. chop and always there is the com
petition Of England, Germany, and es-
peeially ef the Japanese. who naturally
regard the country so near them and
whose people are Asiaties themselves,
as market Of destiny.
But America must necessarily play an
increasing part IN the trade OF China
Our exports have fiuctuated in value
owing 10 local causes. In 1889. sIU.-
000,gU0; 1904, $4,000, 600; 1905, soo,-
0go,100; 1906, s44,000,000; 1907, S26,-
100000; 1905, 81, 500, 700. The signifI-
cant thing is that before the Boxer
outbreak (Which marked the new com
mereial era), We were sending $4,000
900 only annually, and we now have
S53,0G0,000 as precedent. Cotton
goods normally constitute 40 per cent
of our exports. It is reassuring to note
new and increasing export to the
Lla0-tung peninsula, over s. 900, 600 in
1905, showing the promise of fertile
Manchuria. Japan sent US in 1908 some
$6s,0O0,000 worth Of goods, Of which
two-thirds was in silk; but that coun-
try buys little. When the tenfold pop
ulatlon of China begins 70 buy in earn
est, the Importance of China in the
trade Of the future will be realized. 1t
will require generations and more of
education and good government in
emma, but our descendants, living in a
time when the American home mar
/ ket' that has served us so well, will
! need to be supplemented by an increas-
ed foreign trade, will reap the benefit
! OF any wise commercial and diplomatic
/ policies we may now institute.
| One of the most potential forces at
| work in China to bind the empire to
the United States is the increasing
number of Chinese students In the
United States. The dietum, 81 care
not who makes the laws of a country
II | may write her songs,n might be
modified to read, 81 care not what ma
tons struggle for power in China if
America may educate her select youth. -
There are score of leaders in Emma,
from Lang, head of the Foreign Office,
TO Jeme Tlen Lo and Tang Shao vi,
down to officials of lower rank, and in
dustrlal magnates, who were schooled in
| America in the eighties; and hundreds
are now in our colleges The indemnity
return provides for governmental sup
port of hundreds of students. These
graduates know the friendly spirit of
our people; they form acquaintance
that lead to business relationships.
President Taft IS personal friendships in
the ports run into the scores, and not
a few of them bld me carry their greet
lngs as to one they liked and whom
they felt understood them To send Chi
nese students to America calls for dis
erection: Some have been spoiled in the
process through vanity and dissipation
others made the mistake of neglectino
/ their own language and literature. and
so have lost touch with the Hterati of
their own country; but when the period
IN America is wisely chosen and prop
erly taken advantage of, the prestige
and equipment insure a large career
on return to China.
1t is no kindness to i" Americanize y
a Chinese youth; let him be a thorough
Chinaman, but armed with the new
learning and invested with earnest pur
pose to communicate to his fellow Chi
nese the insight into Anglo-Saxon civil
ization.
The pekinp Governments Is heeomiue