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Show with thoM people, wad we, by onr ltrtslation, do not have even terms. We in effect pay them a premium of 60 per cent on their eiports to onr country, which ia not only a mighty hardahip on onr own people, bnt it abowa want of knowledge knowl-edge on the part of onr atatearoen which ia moat discouraging, indeed almoat appalling. ORIENTAL COMPETITION. In the course, of an article in the current Century by James Daranport Whalplay, on Japan's Ja-pan's commercial crisis, which is very able, he aay that "they (the Japs) hare driven American trade from many important strongholda in China." It ia not the Japs that have driven away the American trade. Because of our legialation. which made the silver dollar a commodity and reduced its value, measured by gold. 60 -r cent, ( hin.i cannot buy our goods except auch things aa it cannot produce itself. Japan buys some cotton of us snd soma machinery sti''.. bnt that will not be long, because th eotton area in central Aaia is being widened by the Ruasiana, anil also the cotton area in India and Egypt. Aa it la. onlv 15.80 Dr cent of her imports are from the United States, while we purchase from her 31.80 per eent of all ahe exports, and those exports have risen in thirty years from M1,000 to $327,707,000. This ought to be most slarming to the people of tha United States. We have a large trade in the world outside and might get along if Japan and China did not buy much from us; bnt when - they nnload one-third of all their exports upon us, that strikes a blow direct at our working i men; and it ia so serious thst we do not see how western senators can help but make it clear to Mr. Wilson that in revising the currency one last grand effort must be made to reinstate silver on some fair basis with gold. This article says that Japan's peril at present is in her working men and women. Heretofoic they have been simply slsves to the order of their superior, but they are beginning to think; they are beginning to want to wear European clothing, and they cannot very well support ttheir families snd buy many luxuries from outside on their average wage of SO cents a day. And to carry on her preparations for having a first class navy and an invincible army, Japan has raised the taxea on her people to about $33 per capita per year, and we can all understand how a spirited people must recoil against that taxation on the wages that the average worker receives. re-ceives. Aad, by the way, while in the United States and in Great Britain and Germany about 20 per cent of the laborers are women, in Japan there are 25 per eent more women workers than there are men. They work in the factories; they do oat of the work in th fields; and we know of bnt one domain that they have not been impressed im-pressed into that is, in tha fishing out st sea. But even there where the fiahermen come in every day and the fish are unloaded, then all the work has to be done by women. There is a hint in this article that while .Japanese .Japa-nese woman make first elass wives, they are not calculated to make an entirely peaceable home, which ia aa indication that they, too, think they have some rights and fight for them. And from other sources we have heard that Japanese households house-holds are a little like the man found who heard a great rumpus in a house, opened the door and 1 asked who was the boss of the house. And the wife saidi "That is exactly what we were just trying to determine." The article says the open door is a fiction; that while Japan makes treaties with different powers, giving them all the rights of the most favored nations, when she send her goods to Korea and Manchuria and they reach the custom houses, they are undervalued enough so that the custom house will not prevent rheir offering their goods lower thsn sny other nation ran except China, and China is inert and does not much compete. Bnt this question of buying vast amounts of merchandise of all kinds from Chins and Japan vary year when the fact is that by our legislation legisla-tion tha relative value of thoso goods, measured in oar money, has fallen 60 per cent in seventeen seven-teen yean, is a matter so serious that if the statesmen of our country do not aee tu it the laboring man of the country will, and they will, hav a set of men in Washington who will listen to them. Our laboring men do not know the real facts or there would be insurrection now, bat it is true that oriental goods of the kind which to pro-duce pro-duce requires immense amounts of labor in our country, like iron and coal and steel rails, will begin to come pretty soon in such qnsutities that many a mine will be cloaed and many reduction works will be shut down, because no generous nation in the world on even terms can compete a |