The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-19


With Manila as an entrepot, an inn
Inense trade might be built up within
a few years, and Pacific ports in this
country would come in for a lions
share of the trade. 1t wouldn't hurt
the Atlantic coast cities, for European
shipping ports are now getting what
Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los
Angeles and San Diego should have.
Relative distances would influence
this trade to a certain extent. From
Manila to Hongkong and Canton, the
gateway to southern China, is but half |
the distance from New York to Hava-
ma, and from Manila to Yokohama, |
Port Arthur. Shanghai, Bangkok or the
Strait settlements, is, in each case, a
distance but little. if any, greater than |
that from New York to Havana And |
while the British India ports and the
cities of Australia are little farther /,
away, they are nearer to Manila than |
to any. other distributing point for the |
class of produce we have to offer
Already, as has been stated, the inn
portations into these four countries, ia
pan, China, British India, Australia, the
Straits settlements and the thousands |
of isles that await only touch of civ
ilization to make them productive and
| commercially important, amount to a
billion dollars.
Those of Japan, which have increased
100 per cent in the last ten years, are
now more than $780, 600, 600, and stead
lily increasing. Those of China have in
creased 20 per cent in the last decade,
and now amount to nearly 5000, 200 600.
Those of british Australasia are about
$500, 100000 a year, and those of British
India and the Strait settlements, which
show an increase of about 10 per cent
in the decade, are $500, 100000 annually
More than hall this sum is represent
ed by articles produced in the United
States, and which, with tariff restric-
tons on fair exchange removed, this
nation ought to be supplying right now.
| With Manila as base of operations,
the farmers, the manufacturers, and
the tradesmen of the United States
ought to capture the business anyhow.
Of cotton and cotton goods alone, the
imports into these four countries
amount, in round numbers, to $50, co.,
600 per annum, and of this amount, but
little over $4,000, goo worth is from the
United States. the great cotton-pro-
ducing country of the world. We ought
to have it nearly all.
Imports of iron and steel into the
four countries in question amount to
over $30,0O0,000, and of this, $1,000, 900
worth comes from the United States.
Owing to the fact that we have better
worllmen and more extensive factories
and foundries than any other nation,
the United States is entitled to a mo-
nopoly of this, which merit and equal
opportunities will insure.
The imports of leather and manufac-
lures amount to 81 ,010 600, and less than
81, OOO, 900 of that sum from the United
States. Wood and manufactures there
of amount to about $4,000, 600 annually,
and less than $2,OOO,OOO of it from the
United States. By opening up the
channels of commercial intercourse in
the Pacific, the shoe factories of the
east, as well as the cattlemen of the
west, should be able to reap the re-
wards of this market.
y
head of iron and steel manufactures. to
S2OOOO,OOO, of which less than 100000
were from the United States. Still, we
are competing with implement and ma
chine-makers of the world, in Egypt
and wherever our limited shipping IA
cilities carry the goods.
In various other lines this country is
getting left for the want of a better
system of commerce on the Pacific.
Chemicals, drugs, etc, amounted to
more than S12,OOO,OOO. with less
than 81 100000 of it coming from this
country. OF the $1,000 600 worth of
mineral oils imported into the four
countries in question, we furnished
over one-half last year. of the ST., OO0.-
!, 600 worth of breadstuffs furnished to
those countries, our share was less
than 100000 worth, and of the S.
100000 worth of coal, we furnished less
than per cent. OF the s., 600 600 worth
of provisions, we furnished but little
more than $25O,OOO worth.
Among the statistics of the treasury
, department, many other interesting
figures may be found, although not ar
ranged for the purpose of. showing the
possibilities and advantages of estab-
: fishing a distributing point in the far
| east.
t But here are eleven leading articles
, produced for barter or exchange in this
country, manufactures of cotton, iron
and steel, leather wood. machinery
chemicals, mineral oils, breadstuffs,
i, provisions, coal and raw cotton, of
which the United States is furnishing
d meagre supply; of which China i'm
ported, in 1897, $50, 100000 worth, and of
that sum, only s11,OOO,OOO worth came
/ from the United States. Japan i'm
l ported in 1897, $5S,OOO,O0O worth, and of
that sum, So, 600, 600 worth came from
; the United States. British Australasia
imported s64, GOO, 900 worth in the same
yeas, of which 100000 worth came
from the United States; and British In
dia, $4,000, 600 worth, of which So, 500, 600
r worth was furnished by the United
States.
These figures are worth considering.
I This trade is worth having. 1t has not
| been obtained in the absence of an en-
T trepot and distributing point in the
a Orient. Such an establishment, it
4 seems. would go long way towards
= bringing the trade this way.
i The editor of the Wastach Wave took
n a vacation this week and this is what