The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-06-22
TRADE WITH HAWAII.
The United States Has Nearly All
the Business.


New York. June 22-The Hawaiian
islands, their commerce, finance. pro-
duction and population form the SUBJ
Ject of series of tables which will APP
pear in the next number of the Sum
mary of Finances and Commerce, is
sued by the bureau of statistics, says
the Washington correspondent of the
Tribune. From these it appears that
the United States, since the reciprocity
treaty of 1876. has had large share of
the commerce of these islands. Prior
to 1876 the annual sales of the United
States to the Hawaiian islands had
never, save in two exceptions, reached
81. 900 900. With 1877, the $1.0vO,O00 line
was permanently passed, and since that
date American exports to the islands
have steadily grown, passing the two
million line in 1879, exceeding $3,000.000
in 1888. 100000 in 1890, passing the
100000 line in 1891 and promising to
reach nearly Sc, 000, 900 this year.
Of the total imports by the Ha-
waiian islands in 1875, a little over one
third was from the United States. In
1876 the reciprocity treaty Went INTO
operation and in 1877 the United States
supplied one-half of the imports into
the Hawaiian islands, which then
amounted to $500, 900. By 1880 the i'm
ports had increased to over 49, 600, of
which over $2,O0O,000 worth came from
the United States. In 1890 $685.. 000 of
which SAIL, 600 came from the United
States, and in 1886, $6,063,000, of which
States.
OF the exports from the Hawaiian is
lands the United States has also had
the lions share since the reciprocity
treaty OF 1876 In 1879 only ABOUT %
per cent of the exports from the Ha-
waiian islands came to the United
States. In 1877, the year following the
treaty, over 80 per cent came to the
United States and has since continued
in about the same proportion. OF the
$500. 600, 000 worth of exports from the
Hawaiian islands since the reciprocity
treaty of 1876, more than $1S0.OOo,00O
worth have come to the United States
and of the 500, 100000 worth of imports
into the Hawaiian islands during that
time about $70,00Q,000 worth were from
the United States.
Sugar, of course appears as the chief
article of expectation from the islands
though rice has been for years an item
of considerab BILE value and of late COT
fee, pineapples and bananas have taken
important rank in the expectations of
the islands. OF the $15, 500, 600 worth OF
exports in 1896 almost $15,000,00O worth
was sugar, though in addition to this
there We're exported over FIVE million
pounds OF rice, 225 5000 pounds of coffee
1875 900 punches of bananas and 14S,000
pineapples. The increase in sugar and
coffee has been rapid in the last few
years, coffee increasing from 5,30O,OO0
pounds in 1887 to %, 255, 900 pounds in
1885, and sugar from 100000 pounds
in 1887 to 443, 900, 900 pounds in 1896. The
parently been to reduction in the
number of articles produced. In 1876
the list of exported articles included,
besides sugar and rice, WOO, tallow, mo-
lasses, peanuts, hides, wool, tallow, mo-
skins whale oil, whalebone, ivory, salt.
sperm oil and many other articles, but
now sugar, rice, coffee, bananas and
pineapples are the chief exports, though
the total value of 1896 was six times
tina! of 1876, when the articles were
much more numerous.
The imports as above indicated are
mostly from the United States, those
of 1876 being divided among the great
nations as follows: The United States
S., 464 5000; Great Britain $3.50, 1000; China
900; Australia $4,000. The largest
items in the list of imports are grocer
les and provisions, $500, SS5; machinery
$343 105; fertilizers 1892, 239; cotton goods
$311, S91; clothing 1922. $50; hardware and
agricultural implements $21S,261; grain
and feed $273753; lumber $255, PAP; to-
bacco 1874, S36; flour $169,000; building
materials S1O2, 639 and besides these
scores of articles ranging in value from
$4,000 downward.
The population at the last census was
in round numbers 100000 of whom 81
900 were HawaiianS, $4,000 japanese.
81 600 Chinese 600 Portuguese, 5000
Americans, 1850 British and 1,430 Ger
mans. The receipts of the government
are about 81, 100000 annually, of which
about One-t third is gathered by tariff
taxes one-third by internal taxation
and one-third from miscellaneous
! sources. the expenditures being slightly
less than the receipts.
The commerce of the United States
with the Hawaiians extends over more
than half a century, one of the tables
which will be presented showing inn
ports from them as early as 1926 and
{ exports to them as early as 1887, though
the latter seem to have been only oc-
! casional prior to 1853, when they
amounted to s4,40e, and by 1868 had in
creased to s54S, 7SO. In 1878 they were
s672, 191, passing the $1,OOO,0co line in 1877
after the enactment of the reciprocity
| treaty: while the imports from the is
| lands will this year be the highest on
record despite the general reduction OF
| imports from other parts of the world,
the total this year being likely to ex-
| coed s15. 900 900. against S13, 6S7 ,000 last
wear and 81, ISL, 900 in the preceding
year.