| Show OUS OUR GO AS YOU PLEASE PEOPLE william F r curtis writing from todo japan to the chicago record says bays that during the past ten years we have purchased lur chased from japan raw materials to 0 o the N alue of 0 7 yen anil and have sold her merchandise to the value of yen in the meantime great britain has haa sold bold japan merchandise to the value of 0 yen and has hag purchased ot of heronry her only 6 2 yen of oc her products A yen Is worth about halt half a dollar it will be seen by the foregoing that we save have purchased more than live ivo times as much as great britain lias has and that great britain has sold gold to japan four times as much as we have the correspondent explains that the reason Is because the arri amerl cans ans will not accept the japanese way 0 af f doing business while the nations of europe do and he gives several illustrations trat ions the city ot of tokio tried some time lime ago to rut put in extensive water works it was under the direction ot of a japanese who was educated at the troy roli 1011 school but lie haid had never worked in a foundry and the superintendent and ills his assistants in fact till all bands about the place undertook to make the pipe as a cook would make a 1 I cake from IL a recipe found in a look book before she had ever seen a calie cake made in her life the local enterprise having tailed failed the city authorities called for bids from england scotland france germany belgium and the united states the pipe was to be of a certain thickness and strength was to be delivered in japan and the payment on dc delivery liverY and approval was wa to be in cash there was no doubt about the cash being paid promptly but the americans would not send the iron unless it could be examined and pled in this country the firm that received the contract refused to deposit or 10 per cent of the contract price as earnest money to be forfeited in case of 0 failure to fulfill the terms that little circumstance shows shown that our nation as yet although very bright does docs not anderst understand a n ol 01 the process necessary to deal wit with h outside nations especially those not as far advanced in atlon as our own the jap japanese allege want to trade with us but our people have not the faculty of trading with them although the bids showed that our pipe makers could supply pipe as cheaply or more than even Delg belgium lurn great is 13 a very prudent country but it 1 great britain were situated as our country ts Is for that matter were france or gormany germany situated as our country is id chere here would be an instant rustling of the work on the nicaragua canal there would be permanent lines linea of steamships established between san fran canco and australia san francisco and south america all down tile the coast to valparaiso from san francisco to japan and china from portland or to japan and china from some port on the sound to japan and china and also australia and there would be behind them hem subsidies enough to keep t them hem steadily running for years to cc come m moreover they would be suppler supplemented rien ted by cables to all those coun counti tiles ios and Engli engllish blei or german or I french as might be merchants would be located in all those countries as branch houses of great houses in the united states with till tho the full understanding that whether they paid or not tor for a few years they would be kept going until the language and customs ot or all those peoples would be thoroughly understood it Is true there Is a monthly line of steamers running now between yokohama and san francisco but that ought it t to be semimonthly semi monthly it Is true there its a IL a strong line running between tacoma mind and yokohama including a fleet of seven ships but that fleet Is backed by the northern pacific r nail all road and Is holding its own at a heavy we believe there are lt iree american Ameil can ships chips between sun san francisco and australia but they are able tu to un uil let alrh bi lif paid field them by L australia under the theory which pr prevails a v a Is in our country I 1 it f so an american steamship cannot run aide ald by side eld with art an english steamship without help and ana compete with her site she bring brine heavily subsidized there Is no thing for her to do but to cease run our part anil and the th ning nine that policy on policy which prevails in france germany and great britain has ha caused our merchant marine to almost retire from the sea boa and it Is I 1 all wrong japan uses millions ot of dollars worth of roti cotton annually and in our stupid way we tend send the cotton colton to england it Is paid tor for there in english goods and england sends send it to japan and fait takes C japans yens for or it our west went coast Is ribbed with alth iron and all the iron japan uses ought to be shipped I 1 from born our shores japan Is buying no end of 0 machinery it all to be supplied by the united states and it would it if we were as shrewd a trading p people cople as the men of europe and it if we w a had a bit of 0 senne as nation our two sources of future trade apan lh job america and the orient we me mean an profitable trade the selling of 0 our manufactured products and nany many of 0 our f tood 0 p products ro d acts we could get in accord lod w with th those a e countries la in the money that we use that Is our government would not rest real until it called a congress of 0 tho the silver nations and agreed upon a common coinage and a a common mintage the tha wlee visa men ot of europe who are arc milliner stuffing the gold standard down bur people must l dust in their sleeves when they see eee liow how narrow our vision Is and what opportunities wo we are away |
