| Show I IS JUST AHEAD OF US r Con Consul S S. S. S Greene of Harbin Manchuria fan hur a pyrites W it s to w the thc government go about the thc cotton tra trade c in iI and nd how t the e Japs are arc absorbing it He Hc says Tho necessity of taking measures not only to extern but oven to pr preserve Cf c the market for American cot cot- ton on n goods in China should be he bru brought ht clearly to the atten ion n of American manufacturer The Tho situation in Mon Man Manchuria In churia requires special notice where the Japanese tire ure energetically ener ener- Re introducing their and aud drills The hc l lending leading mills have combined for this purpose and haws appointed as Ill agents the Mit Mitsui ui Bussan Busan which has bas offices in all aUthe the tho leadin leading cities of Manchuria and conducts ln business in both exports and md imports The r cotton Hon goods goode are itro shipped on commission direct to o the tho Branches of this company in the principal market towns to t f. f and special banking arrangements have have- been made so that the heavy beavy loss b by exchange ordinarily incurred in makin snaking making payments or remittances in Manchuria is I r reduced to a mini mint while the the- money noney one necessary to finance the business i is advanced at unusually low lo rates t y Thus the Chinese merchant in the interior who wishes 9 to th bu a few bales of finds the article f for i salo in iii hJ his own city at a price which seems to him very ver reasonable r He further explains s that if the thc Chi Chinese iner chant prefers American cotton goods he must get th them from but that the merchants at nt C have ha to get their goods from Shanghai Shang Shiang- li hid hai i and the rate of exchange makes a barrio barrier haid b fr fo overcome o He thinks that there should fio i such a combine as the Japs have ma made c to sUlP supply the the goods fc to Manchuria l doing a away with the i- i j J t t I I I charges of middlemen commission Ci cic nd i flu so far faras faris as is possible the fluctuations in exchange should be bel avoided l He Ic thinks that unless the tine matter can be be swiftly adjusted the thc Japanese will be JJ What is in strongly in Manchuria true of bf Manchuria l is true of all aU China in greater or oress orless orless less ess degree And An what is true of c cotton goods is true llUC rue of all aU other products from this countr country And the he trouble is everywhere c the same the the Lion ion in in exchange JJ It seems to us if there lucre was ever cyer a trumpet cull call callo to o a n commercial people t to strike down a n barrier over o which their trade with half the world must be bc forever brever shut hut out it is right now Unless the they can stop thos those r fluctuations in exchange e with the orient with those countries they ther will be he as ns Japan was vas to the hue world sixty years n ago ago ago-a u o-u a closed coon coun- ti ry Th Thud The silver question must be ho readjusted 1 on ons s sensible and and right lines or so far Jar as the export to the tho orient is concerned concerned our country will he C absolutely shut out ont |
