The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-03-17

! gether bear out the assertion. Taking
/ the commerce of the Hawaiian Islands
with this country by periods OF nine
years, We see a very remarkable condi-
/ tion of things.
| We see that in the nine years immedi-
| ately proceeding the treaty year-that is
/ from 1867 to 1876 inclusive-the exports
| from this country to the islands were
valued at s6.792.179. while the imports to
| this country from the islands were val
ued at $40, ,626, 40. In the next nine years,
| that is from 1876 to 1884. inclusve-our
exports to the islands were valued at
| s2l, 66S, ,O63, while our imports were valued
| at $43,S1S,94S. In the next nine years a
still more wonderful increase is shown.
and from 1854 to 1898, inclusive our ex-
ports to the islands were OF the value
of SS2, ,491, ,4SS, while their exports TO us
amounted to S95 5925,552
1t is true that during the twenty-seven
years whose figures L have just quoted,
the islands took from this country goods
valued at $60S91,675 while they found a
market in our country for goods valued
at SLOT, S65, $40. There is undoubtedly a
vast difference in the value of what
they sent us and what we sent them but
this discrepancy is due entirely to the law
of supply and demand. For while il is
true that their exports to this country
have risen from an annual average
amount of 81, ,1S0. 716 in the anti-treaty days
to present average annual amount OF
Slo,65S,Ss5 1T is also true that one exports
to the islands have risen from an annual
average of S74S, ,020 to an annual aver
age of 3,610,159.
That the increase of our exports TO the
Hawaiian Islands does not keep pace
with the increase OF our imports from
the Hawaiian Islands is due to this sim
pie fact. That in the one case the pur-
chasers number $4,000 600, while in the
other case the purchasers number 90, 160.
1T ALMOST SEEMS TO ME SHABBY
ANDS HAVING THE BEST OF THE
BARGAIN. cannot help quoting here
an extremely pertinent and valuable
statement to which I call the attention
of those Senators who look upon this
treaty as such bad bargain, being all
as they claim no one side.
That while the total value of all i'm
ports from everywhere into the Hawai-
ian Islands during the calendar year 1892.
as reported in their statistical statement
was S,439,4 4S3. of this amount $5 294. .279
came from the United States; s1,2Ol,32s
from the United Kingdom; 1884, 145 from
Germany: and $3.50 SOS from all other
countries. That is, the Hawaiian Islands
took from this country goods amounting
from all other countries of the world
combined. AS a matter of fact, the Ha-
waiian Islands would gladly take from
require, and ii has only been by the ex-
treme energy of the representative of
Great Britain, and by the wonderfully
increased commercial push of the Ger
mans that those countries have sue
on the islands.
AS we have seen. the entire population
of the islands is only trife over 10000,
ana they raise everything in the nature
of supplies; in Il word as purchasers
they take from us all they can. When.
countries take from us, we find some
very instructive comparative figures. In
the fiscal year 1892. the five. Central Am
er1can States combined took goods from
us which in the aggregate were only
worth $S27.767, more than those which the
Hawaiian Islands took from us; the Ar
gentine Republic took little more than
half, ore exports to that country being
1927 4SS; Chile was not a purchaser to
an equal extent by $1749,572, while Peru
was only purchaser to the extent OF
s1,00 ,035. Our exports to Japan amounted
were only s5,66S 497, while we imported
from China three times the value, for
which we paid them our gold and silver.
THESE FIGURES ONLY STRENGTH
EN- MY OPINION THAT THE HAWAI-
IAN ISLANDS ARE A VERY GOOD
the Hawaiian Islands have been a class of
merchandise that has given employment
our people, We have sent them the pro-
duct of the cotton loom OF Georgia and
MASSACHUSETTS The iron from the mines
and furnaces of Alabama and Pennsyl-
vania has been by American mechanics
fashioned into machinery for crushing
cane and manufacturing sugar, furnish
ing hundreds of miles of large iron pipe
that is rolled in the rolling mills of Ala
bama, while the factories of Ohio, Illi-
furnished the planters their wagons and
agricultural implements; and California,
Oregon, and Washington have furnished
them lumber, grain, flour, horses and
mules and other live stock, and built for
them their steamboats, and other vessels
that navigate among and around the
islands
The report shows that they have in
the islands forty-two steamers and sail
ing vessels, and out Of those forty-two
vessels that are registered there are
THIRTY that have been BUILT in the
STATES; eight were built by
the Hawaiians themselves out of material
furnished by our people, was built
in Japan, and the other three in Great
Britain, thus bringing home to us the
benefits of building these vessels i'm
own country, placing the cost of them
into the pockets of our American me-
chanics.
So much Mr.. President, in brief for
our side of the question. But the Hawai-
ian side of the question was more beau
tifully and more logically presented by
the distinguished Senator from Alabama
than it is possible for me to present it.
To the Hawaiian Islands the solemn