Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-08-27
"Chinese Goods
for China Nou||
Slogan ID Chin,
ASSOCIATED Press co..

against Japanese goods in @s
form. a form against which modt
offer little objection. 'aOaa
President Yuan shi-kars d.c,..
there should be no boycott
Japan as result Of the Lana w
mands upon China, has has
feet. In fact boycotting has 10
more marked. 1t is an affai,
beyond the control of thu n@
government. U.s.
But the boycott has been :.
new twist by the Shanghai c"vt
OF Commerce and other cone
organizations which have starh%
homemade goods movemen,sA
campaign is ostensibly directed -
all wares not manufactured IN ~
but the Chinese have shown a ,,s
disposition to do without y,nss
goods than the products of othssE
| tons.
| Cheap cotton goods and ci,.,.
have suffered more than othes IVY
nese products, perhaps, as r..l
the boycott. japanese goods ara
in China through japanese IN.
agencies. Consequently Chinese, ~
chants have no trouble in avoid,ns n
wares OF the country against ~
they feel grievance. The f,,,,n-
in the sale OF cheap Japanese ce,,l
goods has been so marked that I.a
is seeking market in India
mission recently visited that cow.
and another japanese commission
to go later.
A delegation from the Osaka c,,,
Der of Commerce visited HONG ~.
| Shanghai and other Chinese citias
an effort to conciliate the Cit.
merchants. 1t was announced thai N
feeling against japanese manu..o|
lures was due to misunderstood
which could doubtless be removed Il
closer personal relations. Sir,l,I
get acquainted" movements b.J
been organized by other Janans
commercial associations, but anna,
emily without marked success.
japanese shipping has been an
cially hard hit by the boycott. n
ships of the Toyen Kisen Kak1
which formerly carried several hu
dred Chinese in the steerage ca
trip. now seldom carry single 81
zen of the new Republic. Chn1
freight has also been diverted fl,
the japanese lines whenever possId
Chinese coolies and Chinese comm
cial concerns of large influence <
lending a hand alike in the boys
One Of the features Of the hou|
made goods movement which may
of great interest to the United Sd
is the effort to stimulate cotton nj
ufacturing and cotton growing. III
formerly supplied largely quanta
of coarse cotton goods to China.
Chinese now hope to supply
themselves and are striving to irs
est capital in the enlargement Of "a
ming works operating in. shal
and Hong Kong.
| No reliable figures aEe av4
| concerning the cotton <n1anufacl
of Japan, butait is estimated thak
number of spindles in the Red
varies from 100000 to 1.200 o09
tied quantities of coarse cloth
made in nearly every province
hand looms. Coarse twist Of fot(
and home manufacture has been Z
in making this cloth. Printed cl
as we'll as plain, has been nade-1
printing having been done chiehy
secondhand presses purchased in
ipan. The wooden looms used BY
primitive Chinese factories are md
ly operated by hand and the out|
of each loom of this charactef1|
| about three yards an hour. MacmnI
4 for ginning, spinning and weavinq
mostly very crude and incapable
supplying the finer grades of
now bought from England, the
ted States, France and other
pean countries.
China imported about $105,054
worth of manufactured cotton in'1j
I OF this amount about $67,O@
worth was coarse fabrics, and
of a sort which Chinese faca
| could produce. The same year
estimated China raised slightly
than 100000 tons of native cottores
ly a small percentages OF the a.,
required by its own factories tas,'
Cotton is growing in eight @iu
southwestern provinces and y y
| Yangtze province, but the cuitlaps
!, is so clumsy that the yield per Y.
is small. Definite figures arr y :.
available. but the highest yieag,
acre is said to have been 17S pow.
of cleaned cotton. Poor seed anu " \
cultivation are responsible !of
short crop, as much Of the iana
! said to be admirably adapted 10 G.
ton growing.
It is estimated that the amour.
land in China available for coteoh
ture is 27,ooo,OOo acres. with q p,s; !
increase of 1000, 900 acres through
cation. =.
However, the successful eHtenslO.
cotton manufacturing IN of'''i" W.
necessitate a complete reorsa nl., y
of it's economic system. ABOUT no.
the Central governments lnco'u
derived from the import DUTY Oh :
| roftnn
With the abolition OF opium
ufacture, the government enaea.
to persuade poppy farmers 70 =,
their attention to cotton. ms s ~
ment was not as successful as olI,
desired. but the minister Of agricaSs
is endeavoring. through exper'%',,
farms. to popularize modern plo"''
make cotton more profitable.
Since the presentation OF the ~
csc demands upon China a popu's
f,,nd of about $25 0OO,VUU v,