Show I OUR TRADE WITH ASIA I Last year Japan bought from the United i r States more than thun all the rest of Asia combined I More t than half that Japan bought w was s raw cotton cotton cotHon cot- cot ton Hon and the rest was mostly machi machinery er to further further further fur fur- ther her manufactories When the regular t session of congress comes in December we hO hope hone e ei i I that some member will have the forethought to institute an inquiry as to why the exchanges i have increased with all silver standard countries I Ito to a point which closes their ports against American wares We v hope so because the peoa people peo peo- a I pIe at large do not understand the trouble and the laboring hosts bosts of this country of what a menace the situation is to them In five years more as matters are rire dr drifting lint very zi t the e chief ch ef products that Asia Asia- will be imp importing rl ng into this country will be articles that will come into direct competition with the products of our own country the production of which now gives thousands of men employment and under present present present pres pres- ent conditions it will be impossible to compete against the Asiatic imports They will come in inthe inthe inthe the forms of coal pig iron steel rails rice wool and other articles which rest entirely upon labor It is the fashion of our country never to prepare to meet a difficulty but the truth is more pertinent pertinent pertinent perti perti- nent today that when the late Tom Reed issued the warning that the white man with his yellow yellow yellow yel yel- low money can never compete with the yellow man with his white money u |