| Show AMERICAN Mt IGA TRADE E IN I THE FAR EAST E T Congressman Donald McKinlay Takes A Gloomy View of Its Prospects VISITED JAPANESE PITTSBURG PITTS BURG Ilo I to Told Him i I tin Not Nat to I ii he bo A hi of ut Jim p II n I lii lits II All 11 Are re at itt It Home New York April 18 Congressman Donald K 10 I of ot California who Wilt was u member of ot Secy Tafta Tafts PirtY on aim Its Ill trip to the fur tur oust cast was the tho gusst gu st of ot honor and speaker at ut the dinner cf at the New York Mens lenH association last night Congress Congressman man loan McKinlay spoke poke of ot Industrial anti commercial conditions In Japan as IlK N they hoy the theare are ore going to affect tho the markets In the tho tot fur east eat He lie warned his against the tho Illusion that hut Japan Is going to be he our OUI commercial ully In the tho fur far east cast or anywhere else and according to to days tin Times Flutes salt Wo Vo 0 heat heal u tl whole lot these days about the United States dominating the Ih markets of ot Japan liel the far till east eaRl hut but tiny any 1111 hopes we vii hold haiti In that respect lire are destined to be rudely shattered shuttered The Thi of ot people cople who live on the shores and the Islands of ot the be before before fore tore long bug will wilt not only On not hot be bo consumers ers era of ot American goods but will vii be our perhaps In III our own homo home markets A 4 While In lit Japan I visited Osaka Of Ilk a which Is In the of nt the It has at present some sonie Inhabitants hut but n a 1 modern factory l Is springing up tit on every corner In that city elt and ant before long bug It II will be the haute hornu of ot half a it million Industrious Japanese Marquis Ito who was as the guide of ot Tafts party In III the Japanese bald said to me You need not hot he be afraid that t we will allow Japanese laborers to come cause co I to the time United States WI v st need them all at home III In a it couple of ot months we 1 will bring In II I homo borne a 11 mil mu million million lion men front from Manchuria Wo Vo Ve lire are go 10 going going ing to teach th m nil alt how to menu everything In the world work with the best hest machinery to be found Instead In of ot sending you cheap tabor labor we WI will viii sell gelt you ou Americans goods cheaper than you rou cnn can manufacture them yourselves It lt Is In only six months month since Ince Marquis Ito told mo moo this Three Weeks ago aHO I picked up tip n R California paper und and rend read that a whole hole ships loot load of ot Japanese goods Boods had conic como Into tr the o port of ot San Francisco I lila inn afraid that the tho people of the far east will wili become not only on our commercial competitors but hut that they actually may become our com masters UI UP More than thull half the population of ot the tho world lives on the Pacific Up to 10 recently they have been b en living In the till tar east in sloth ant Indifference e They mire are waking up now Time The boycott bocott or American goods In China Chirm was waR not In re ic retaliation 1 for tor or tho the treatment wo we had served out o some Chinese merchants whose papers were Irregular but a n manifestation of ot the new spirit of oe the orient China under tinder the tutelage of at Japan Is III I In III Osaka O I saw sat 25 Ii cotton colton mills The lime machinery of ot tine OliO of ot these e mills miliA hat had come collie from rout the tho United States The flie rest the Japanese e hut hud constructed them themselves selves chell I eie I paw satt there also aillo 30 Hour flour mills ready for tor shipment to 10 the wheat re regions gions of or Manchuria One Ono of ot these mills hind had been heen Imported from the United States Twentynine tint had been hoen con COli constructed In lii Osaka for tor of ot the tue cost of ot the tho American machinery Our patent laws do not extent extend to 10 Japan It ItIs Itis Is IR the Iha sheerest folly for us to dream of ot establishing markets in the time fur tar oust east Congressman salami Mc severely se ye rely condemned cOll time the th lethargy of ot Americans In III their fight for tor the markets In III the far tar east eastIn In Itt Shanghai Congressman hal Iny III continued we found that the German consul had han 35 business agents on ott his hili list The British consul hurl haul 10 40 O anti the Japanese We e hall hail to get lIet u it 1 search h warrant and 1111 alit the tho chief of ot po pa police palice JO lice to 10 find the consulate of ot the Unit United United ed ed Suites States which was on a II dirty cHrt side street treet with n It consul who said raid he was hardly getting money mone enough h from train the American to pay for tor a ayoung ayoung young titan man to do his typewriting l pa 11 tl PHILIPPINES QUit Mr Ir said slid that our only hope for tor eastern markets was wall bound up with time the Philippines He lie stilt said we ought to keep koep thorn them tutu establish In Manila a II great Kr lIt emporium for American Ameri merl merlIan tan Ian good goat for hr the filling filing of ot quick or orders ders lie He thought the Filipinos Filipino within the next 15 years must take of ot American goods annually |
