People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1895 — Japan to Be a Competitor. [ARTICLE]

Japan to Be a Competitor.

San Francisco, June 5. —Charles E Pierce, a jute and cotton manufacturer of St. Louis, who has just returned from a business tour through the orient, is of the opinion that Japan will soon become an important factor In the manufacturing industries of the world. He says that the reports of the United States consuls show that the competition which the United States has to fear Is not that of Europe, but of East India and- Japan. He visited Japan to investigate the advisability of removing the works of his company to the orient, and addressed the Chamber of Commerce of this on his investigation.