| Show THE YELLOW PERIL will prove most dangerous in in its I 1 commercial form appraiser dare of wd port says a y s tho the san francisco chronicle has made a collection of arti articles clea imported from japan and sold here after paying duty at prices with which our manufacturers of similar good cannot compete the list includes silk and cotton piece goods millinery stock steel and innumerable artl articles cles of manufactured ladies wear all manner of brushes smokers articles earthenware and porcelain tableware clocks jewelry and watches soaps willow furniture paper in great variety toy toys s 9 umbrellas 1 mb rellas anti and parasols and articles of ornament and minor use without it hout number it is ie stated that the groft greater ter part of these goods are arc made by american machinery machiner and that all this trade is in ili its infancy it is also asserted that american school book it arc r P reproduced in bapat t for use in cagon in which english is digs taught and sold I 1 for less than their cost to american publish published eF g this was certainly the c caso 1 I s 0 a few years ago and Is still hp unless japan has become a party to the international copyright agreement as Ao which we are not advised while the manufacture of machinery in this country aro are for the present enjoying a thriving trade with japan it is not a kind kina of export trado tra de which in tho the long run will berie benefit fit this country it la Is fashionable to say that the Jp japanese ancEe cannot operate intricate machinery with nith sufficient skill to make them dangerous competitors there seems seeing to be no reason in such asumption assumption I 1 A wo vo do not know of any more intricate machine than a battles battleship bip I 1 arid and nobody that we know of is deny ing that the ithe japanese get effect effective lo work out of them that they get of work woric out of other machinery seems proved by the presence in ill our markets of commodities produced by it at lower prices than our own people can sell them for it is said that these goods are inferior to those made in america and wo do not doubt it but to the extent that they come here they will di displace laplace american products just the same there is no reason to suppose that our mac machinery hnery nien can call permanently hotd the ho japanese trade ono michino machine of a kind for a pattern will aon bo about all they will require IL II ie i claIn claimed lel that while the japanese are good imitators they cannot invent ehst wo we linow know aboud aboni th they t auld bo be very silly olly to Iti invent vent until T secured all tha freiti of the he inventS vc ge genites of other people besides Is ithe the result of continuous vor working king with machines and dofing where improvements are de sl 81 rable it is bot to lie expected before mhd second ge generation ot of machine work workers erv there is no doubt that wo we are now entering on a period of civilization whose dominant ph phase aeo will he the competition between the white and bellow races whether it shall bo be peaceful or bloor de depends debendo mainly on whether each r rr a 3 confines its indus driml activities tivi ties to ro its own country |
