Evening star., 1919-08-31

extensive development work backed
by American capital.
amples of how the United States is
giving industrial
Opportunity for aid to China in the
Employment. ur.sorms". ua.tae,;n~ :, 1ar nar
most fundamental resources, which
promise an opportunity for the profit-
able employment Of the Chinese peo-
pie. who number more than one-quar-
ter. of the entire population of the
globe
China, throwing or the stupor of
ages and emerging from thousands of
years OF deadening monotony and
sameness is being Americanized by
the necessities OF life, the comforts
and some of the luxuries Of modern
civilization. American missionaries,
American teachers, American furnish
ings for the homes, and, more than all
else. the absorption Of American Gus
toms, ideals and American push by the
Chinese students who have come here
to be edncafed under the Boxer in
demntty fund. have given the Chinese
the American viewpoint, the American
more progressive Chinese to want and
requisition American goods of all
kinds.
And this in spite Of Great Britain's
we'll laid plans for so many years.
Get out map of China and review a
the great war. Tientsin. Port Arthur
and Weihaiwei have figured most
conspicuously in the breaking up of
emma, due to the fact that all out
side approaches to the capital. Peking,
had to be via the Gulf of Pechili.
Tientsin. on the gulf. has for so long
been the great military base and
stronghold of Great Britain in north
ern China.
Then Russia. with valuable Siberian
territory and infinite resources. lying
along the northern China
RuSSia'S border. and seeing Great
A.: Britain intrenched on the
"s' iand-locked waters in north
ern China, also sought a base on the
Gulf of Pechiii. Finally China entered
into a treaty with Russia granting a
right Of way and concessions for
the Transsiberian railway across
Manchuria, to Port Arthur. command
ing the approaches to the gulf.
Russia then had an advantage over
Great, Britain. being able to reach
Port Arthur with troops by both rail
and water.
No sooner had Russia's treaty with
China been announced than Great
Britain demanded from the Chinese
empire a concession directly across
the Gulf of Pechili from Port Arthur.
thus more completely controlling the
gulf than Port Arthur. China gave
the British Weihaiwei.
Great Britain promptly made Wei
haiwei one of the greatest military
strongholds in the world.
Again in central China, spreading
back from the port OF Shanghai. Great
Britain for many years has been
Strengthening her hold on the trade
of the fabulously rich valley of the
Yangtzekaiang. which embraces near
ly one-half of the most valuable area
miles long and drains. with it's tribu-
taries. nearly 100000 square miles of
territory. The eastern portion of this
rich valley, the province of Szechnen,
borders British Burma With the
foothold Great Britain had at Hong
of the mouth Of that mighty stream.
With railroads entering that open
back door Of China Great Britain
commanded the trade routes of the
entire YangtZe paSln,
Yet again, in the northern provinces
of Shansi and Honan the immense
coal deposits nearly twenty years ago
were controlled by the Anglo Italian
syndicate.
With all this-and in the back
ground -China's financial obligation to
Great Britaip-the latter for many
years has held an overwhelming in
fiuence over the international policies
and the foreign trade Of China.
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Now the United States has devel
oped as a quite dangerous competi-
tor. due principally
Acquaintance to the most depe nd
r..h, able trade principle,
1I1ncipAe. get acquainted" AS
told above, China has been educated
to know American and American busi-
ness and to trust them. China has
learned to use American goods anu
to like them and to know that they
could be trusted for quality.
Messages continue to come to the
bureau of foreign and domestic con-
merce, to the consular bureau o1 !ne
board, to the Department Of AgIicul-
ture and to the Chamber Of Com
merce of the United States. showing
the Increasing demand in China Tor
practically ali lines Of commerce from
the United states. Here are few ex-
amples to show how American busi-
ness through furnishing machinery.
through judicious advertising. through
syndicates, through credit arrange
ments, and through direct dealing is
now endeavoring to do business. and
on an increasing scale. with all parts
of China, even though 1t spreads over