The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-01-27
EXPORTS OF THE ISLANDS.

a couple of days ago The Star ex-
amined into the amount OF trade done
with the U. S. Pacific ports and
showed that in 1895 the total of ex-
ports and imports amounted to SILL
224, 794.76, and that including the ex-
port and import trade with the At
lantic ports the United States COM
manded ninety-one per cent of the
total trade of the Islands.
1t is by no means uninteresting to
note how much and of what character
the Hawaiian export trade is. And
here are reached marked results. The
is practically all to the United States,
$3.50 per cent going to the U. S. Pa
cific ports and 1922 to the Atlantic
coast, so that 1904 per cent goes to the
United States, while six countries, viz:
Australia, New Zealand, Islands of the
Pacific, China, Japan and Canada get
somewhat less than one per cent
among them. The following are the
proportions: Australia and New Yea
land OF of one per cent; Islands of the
Pacific, .12 of one per cent; China and
of one per cent; in all 90 of one per
cent.
1t is also interesting to note what
the staples are outside of sugar, which
is the mainstay of the Islands. Next
to sugar stands rice. This goes almost
entirely to the U. S. Pacific ports, to
the value of $155,1S4. None of it goes
to the Atlantic. New Zealand had 112
pounds for So; the Pacific Islands
little over 10000 pounds, and Canada
100000, valued a $5,90S.50. In fact
rice is the principal thing that this
latter country takes.
Following rice come bananas, with
a total value of $102, 599.25. Of these
9S,164 punches went to the U. S. Pa
cific ports, value $97, s13.00; and 6,S91
punches to Canada, value, $4,7s6.25.
Coffee, staple which is but in it's
infancy, was exported to the amount
of 1875 pounds, amounting to $22,-
S23.6S. This by no means shows the
value of the whole coffee crop, for
there is very large local consump-
ton, whereas in sugar the whole value
of the crop is Seen, nothing but re-
fined sugar being used throughout the
group. OF the coffee exported, practic-
ally all goes to the U. S. Pacific ports,
for they take to the value $22,0111S,
leaving very little over $500 to be
distributed among four countries,
which took small quantities from us.
OF the remining exports wool, hides
and pineapples are the most import
ant. A little wool goes to Canada, but
the hides go entirely to Che U. S Pa
cific ports. OF pineapples the U. S. Pa
cific ports get two-thirds and Canada
one-third. The remaining exports are
not worth Analysing, but what there
are of them go almost exclusively TO
the U. S. Pacific ports.
The year before the Reciprocity
Treaty was passed, viz: 1878, the total
value of exports was $2,09S,736. Now
to the u. S. Pacific ports alone it
amounts to STOP, S74.54. The total inn
ports in the same year amounted to
$1,5O5, $40, while in 1895 they amounted
to, United States Pacific ports alone,
$4,121, 92O.22. Thus a trade, which
amounted with all countries twenty
years ago, to little under $3,60O,0O0
under the influence of the treaty has
increased to just about eleven millions
and a quarter of dollars.
If people like to kill the goose that
lays the golden eggs, why the goose
cannot very well stop them. The
goose can, however, argue and show
them, their folly by pointing to the
fate of the man in the fable.