San Francisco, June 22, Ridpeléan,. colin - inanafscturers are perturbed over the state of thei trade with the Philippines, It is "estimated. that the tariff in the Philippines, unrevised since 1909, i 480 low on many items that two-fifths chemically identical ang equally as strong. as natural silk threads, can be drawn. 5 Prof. Herzog is reported from Berlin to be ready to come to the United States, as the obvious place come if one kas anything to put of the cotton manufacturers' busin: slaver in the way of silk interest, of the islands goes to other count rid" with real silk "stockings, shirts, than'tho United States. The insular; gowns and underwear made from cotton tariff, reads a message cabled, the aforesaid shells and from the from Manila, "has become one fo wing covers of June bugs and other Revenue only. beetles. Further than that I have nothing to report.
During the first quarter of this But do not believe that Shang-year the total value of seven types: hai, Yokohama or the silk centres of est ton goods imported into. the Yof India need entertain asy alarm. Philippines was just over G§6 The professor frankly admits that millions, and figures show that, though these islands should logic this process in Its present stage is ly not economic. While German be their best market, 'American scientists believe that means may goods are fast losing ground. Japan be found-to reduce cost and make and China supplied (to quote only the manufacture of silk from these tone commodity that sells in. large' commodities possible, I am inform-volume) 1.7 million yards of mus. ed, however, that the day is a long ins, against 1.3 million yards from way off. this country, and, due it is claimed professor of science in the to the cheap labour of those count-{University of California tells me Hes, the Oriental product easily' that some years, ago experiments under sold the American. Japan. [were carried out in Japan, endea-alone out sold America by nearly 50 vouring to make silk from' certain er cent, in dyed cotton textiles, the! [parts of the bard parts of the United States supplying just over crab, but the idea was proved to be two million yards, against Japan' entirely unworkable, nearly: three million, while of this classy of goods Great Britain, though 'What Do Traific Jams Cost? admittedly manufacturing a better I see that traffic congestion costs gr of cloth than either Japan or} New York citizens a million della this' country, only sold a trifle over day, and as I read an illuminating 4 million yards, American manufac-treatise on this subject, I wondered turers, however, had about 80. per' what Bombay, or Calcutta or your ent, of the cotton prints, though' own Shanghai is losing. When one keenly feeling increasing competi-thinks of it, every member of the tion from Japan and Britain, public, if ho pays rates, should be Cotton underwear makers here, Interested in this matter. Take any however, are very peeved because busy street corner that you may they, donot apparently seem to be think of, and then think of the cost able to begin to compete with Jap-in loss of gasoline alone. An average fanese underwear—Japan has prac. small American car will consume tically @ monopoly of this class of gallon of petrol during 40 minutes goods—while cotton thr dung, and I suppose that for the Merlora the fant akan Brith light cars, which consume Bots the lion's share of trade. Aa les despatch says that it ig/® €éllon calculated that "the United States Jost $2,000,000 in cotton goods trade, due to the low tariff, while the Philippine Government gained about, $850,000 in duties collected on foreign cottons," and the Manila Cham. ber of Commerce interprets. this. situation as one in which the United States is paying tribute to the Philippines, but the tribute, "if it, amounts to that, is voluntary, a: Congress has power to change tariff rates in the Islands."
'This successful rivalry agains' U.S. manufacturers may now be the menus of the tariff being changed to suit conditions,
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