Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-10-22

Or JAlN w HEN SO1lI <Alli1L
WITH GERMANY, FRANCE AND
GREAT BRITAIN.
Special to the Register.
Washington. D. c., October 21.-The
rapid gain which the United States. is
making in the extension CT IT'S export
trade is illustrated by some figures
presented in statistical abstract of the
principal countries of the world re-
Gently issued by the British govern
ment, and just received at the Treas
Uly Bureau of Statistics. This pre-
sents tables showing the imports and
exports of the leading countries of the
worll year by year from 1886 to 1896,
and in these tables the United States
I.akes for herself a remark ably al
vant:geoce showing in gainc of her ex-
port trace. The tables cover the ex-
ports and imports of twenty-five Of
the leading countries of the world. An
examination of the export figures
shows tlat the total experts of the
twenty-five countries in question
amounted in 1886 to 1,157 200, 900
pounds sterling, and in 1896 to 1885,
$4,000, an increase of 20 per cent in
the decade, while the figures for the
United States alone show an increase
Of over 80 per cent in the decade Thus
it will be seen that the United States,
between 1886 and 1896, increased her
exports much more rapidly than the
average country of the world, while
a detailed examination shows that our
gain
OVER OUR CHIEF RIVALS,
France, Germany and the United
Kingdom, was even greater than in the
average shown by these figures. Ger
many's incease in exports in the decade
1866 being Is per cent, that Of
France but Az per cent, and that cf
the United Kingdom 1917 per cent,
while that of the United States, as al
ready stated, was 60 per cent. A sub
stitution Of the figures covering the
exports of the United States in 1898 for
those OF 1896 would present a much
greater increase, our exports Ia 1898
having been 40 per cent greater than
those Of 1896.
ThnI oh IT,, h.
merce of the world is steadily increas-
ing is shown both by the figures pre-
scented by the publication in question
and comparison with those of earlier
compilations. Our share Of the total
exports of the twenty-five countries
under consideration in 1885 Was less
than II per cent, and is now over Is
per cent. Adding to the total Of the
countries covered by the publication
in question the latest accessible figures
On the commerce of the other countries
of the world it is found that the ex-
ports of the world are about $780,
100000, and the total commerce (ex-
ports and imports) approximately
SIT 100000.
OF this vast sum the United States con-
tributed $1,S47 ,531 1884 in 1898, or in
Inmates of 91a per cent. in 1889, ~
per cent. in 1870 and 5A per cent. in
1880. Of this increased percentage in
the worlds commerce which we now
enjoy, exports at present form a much
larger proportion than they did at the
earlier periods referred to, the imports
having exceeded the exports at each
of the dates mentiond, while in 1898,
for the first time in our history, the
exports were double the amount of our
exports.
An examination of the tables relat-
ing to the imports and exports of the
leading countries, shows equally favor
able conditions in regard to our own
commerce. Our exports of iron and
steel, for instance, are shown to have
been in 1887 $15, 959 900, and in 1896
SAL ,161 ,00O, while those of the United
Kingdom which in 1887 were 24,992 900
pounds sterling, were in 1896 only 25,-
sol 900 pounds sterling, showing a loss
Of five per cent in British exports of
iron and steel. while those of the
United States were
INCREASING OVER $50 PER CENT.
Our exports of leather and manufac-
lures thereof, increased from $10,436, coo
in 1887, to s2O,243.O 900 in 1896; while
those of Great Britain. which in 1887
were 1912, $50 pounds sterling, were in
1896 3,99S14S pounds sterling, thus
showing a gain for Great Britain of
less than five per cent, while our own
exports of similar articles were increas-
ing nearly one hundred per cent. Com
pairing these evidences of the growth of
our exports of manufactures with those
of France and Germany, the result is
equally favorable, exports of leather
from France being. in 1886, 1873, 00O, 600
francs in value, and in 1896 but $1,000
0CO francs; those of metal wares and
tools, 61.C00,000 francs in 1886, and 3D.
mn mn fr,roe ~, 1909