At the Inst meeting of the Y.M. held in the Lecture Hail of Union Eh Dr Edkine rend a paper on the World's Fair, 1893.
Dr. Edkins, in the course of his lecture, said he reached Chicago on July the Fourth, of the present year, when the city was celebrating the a Declaration of Independence. the next day he paid his frst visit to the Fair, and he proceeiled to give his impressions of that and subsequent visits. Japan was well represented in various ways, but China did not show the same politiceffort. There was an exhibit from Canton, which wax pleasing. Many unknown visitors Dr, Edkuie found quite willing to enter into emverss One whom he addressed was a San Francisco man who is bitterly opposed to the Chinese. De. Elkin" asked him whet faut he had to tind with the Chi-yese, He said: "They will not buy our goods, and food they will wut eat, prefer rt their own from China. In the prisons they are two to one as compared with whites, They are unwilling to become citizens. They are a moral blot on our country and ought to be extended They live in filth and rob the working whites of their bread and butter."
sted that what he told me was the ago there were 50,000 but now there are about 35,000," After giving an interesting description of umnyof the exhibits, the Lecturerenutinued: "The Forestry exhibit is very creditable to Japan, 'The Japanese have a beautiful meuutainvus country, and they wre doing the best they can' with their forests, was the square bamboo, an inch k. Ite four corners are all rounded, nese nil it the Aangehre, They had specimens vf the wood of which they build houses and ships and make cabinet work, they published a hok of five hundred pages for the exposition, giving a sketch of the commerce and industry of Japan, It was Fnnustry. Te saya that about 1870 the eile rebared by the Bureau of Connmerce and
trade of Japan' boga assume a new aspect. Lhe export of silk is valued ab thirty million dollars, seven millions of which go France and seventeen millions to the United States, The silk demand of America is a glost fact showing the material progress of ed States, It also shows the habits the people. 'They will wene silk even though scattered over so vast country, multitudes of them living in lonely spots by themselves where there is no one to cee them, Japan exports three million dollars' worth of silk hautkerchivfa and the United Stares buy 1,800,000 dollars' worth of these, Knghind is content with $460,000 worth of them. There are twelve neighbourhoods in Japan where there are filatures, Iv the cuttlefish trade China pays to Japan. a million dollars " year for this favourite article of food and for shrimps $200,000 year. China spends $40,000 " year in bringing from Japan dried 3wabi called in our dictionaries **vea-ear" frou its resem bianco to the human ear, and haliutis by the scientific, The Japanese export green ten now in " year to the extent ut forty-one wwillion extties and of dust tea four million exttivs, nud Japan receives for thie green ten in a year about nine million dollars, Black tex export is m mere trifle, It la ensy to seo that it was giod policy in the Japanese to do their utuest to represent favourably the productions of their country at the xh: ition. Ching sells her tea now for four million dollars, In regard.
is to twenty-four, a0 i the posi-of Jepan to the position of China, Trade Usen is developing greatly the ree not in evidence at Chicago, It is he reintroduced inthe San Francisco exhibition and it would have been very popular if me troduced at Chicago. It would have been useful everywhere, in the Midway, in the cave dwellings, and along the winding banks the and in the evening at the electric illuminations."
In Japan, a8 one of the Pacific Ocean ions, on remarkable fact is observable, viz, that the peuple there are sv far civilised that they require the yrentest possible variety of civilised products tu satisfy them, It is not only Christianity that is slowly making its way over the whole world, but the desire for Christianity, The Japan sigh for variety of objects possessed and of mechanical arts acquired. For instancy, if you ask how many Geneva watches they require in a year the exposition manual of Japanese commerce tells you that there were impened t" Japan 66,000 of these watches in 1887, 75,000 in 1888, 103,000 in
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