| Show 4 AMERICAN GOODS IN THE ORIENT I Possibilities of Opening Up Trader Trade-r With China i i A SYNDICATE IS FORMED q f COMPOSED OF FRO3IINENT PEOPLE t OF CHICAGO 5 Hovr Reciprocal Relations 3Iay BeE Be-E tatilishcd to the Benefit of Both China anti America Big Rat 1 vmy System Among the Enter prises of the Near Future China on the Eve of a Great Change CHICAGO April 20M R Jeffords a civil engineer widely known through his connection with railway construction construc-tion and equipment this and other countries recently returned from a prolonged absence in the Orient He has been visited by many merchants k and manufacturers anxious to gain information respecting the possibilities of opening up trade with China To a reporter he paid The result of my visit in Chicago on my trip from China to New York has been the formation of a syndicate for the purpose of establishing an Ameri canChinese chamber of commerce for the introduction of American goods anfl wares at Shanghai I RECIPROCAL RELATIONS i can thus be established to the benefit i of bothi nations George S Bowen an old citizen of Chicago well and favorably favor-ably known to merchants and manufacturers manu-facturers of the western states as also of the middle and eastern states has been chosen president of the organization organiza-tion J Ensign Fuller well known among eastern manufacturers has been chosen as the manager in the United States W R Townsend of San Francisco who is thoroughly in touch with the manufacturers of the Pacific slope and Fung How Wong who has been fot the past six years an attache of the Chinese legation in England and who was here with me last summer ae to be the managers In China James Deitrick formerly I superintendent of the Southern Pacific Pa-cific railroad is to be the superintendent II J superinten-dent of construction and exhibits My time is very limited here as I must go east and return t China in June but I think we have made a good start upon a sound foundation during the time I have been here I am favorably impressed with China and with her people They ARE FAR DIFFERENT from what I had pictured them by what I had read and heard They are not Inventive and have had little inducement in-ducement to become accustomed to western ways They learn are hard workers sober and among themselves them-selves seem to be happy hospitable and generous I do not believe that China would naturally become a great or even a modem te manufacturing country because be-cause their tastes So not run that way They may be forced into manufacturing manu-facturing and producing things that they have heretofore bought from Europe Eu-rope and America on account of the great difference that now exists in exchange ex-change under the present monetary laws of the United States The industry of the Chinese like that of the savage is simple while ours is varied and complicated Varied Var-ied industry is a product and result of nigh modern civilization I has been truly said that no country can profit F so much by diversified industry as the United States and no other country bas such varied advantages and I NATURAL RESOURCES I There is a vast field of commercial enterprise for us in China and the i Orient which is now being opened and practically unimpeded United States Consul Jernigan one of the brightest representatives in China recently wrote me One fact should ever be kept in mind by our countrymen China is on the eve of a great change I may be retarded by conflicting claims of national rivals but i will come up sooner or later and the only way to reap our share of the results of the change is to prepare ourselves and this point should be pressed upon the consideration of our countrymen who ought to consider i most carefully in all its bearings and farre Aching consequences China Is about entering into the construction of a system of railways that will open up her vast resources and act favorably upon the PROSPERITY OF THE PEOPLE uirectly and indirectly On the first land by giving the poor of the overpopulated over-populated districts easy and cheap means of getting to busy cites where 1 livelihood can be earned on the other to lessen the chances of outbreaks out-breaks by rebellion facilitate the collection J col-lection of taxes and create trade and commerce between remote sections I I Air Jefferds leaves for the east today to-day to conclude arrangements for the construction of the Pekin Hankow railway a line 750 miles long He Is booked to sail from San Francisco t China on June 6 next |
