The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-02-11
WASHINGTON
CORRESPONDENCE.
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SPECIAL Ds~pates 90 the Post-fnteillgenc@r-
WASHINGTON. FEB Es--Ths non-Brst-
isa world tsxys Is per cert - ~ toeas
f9fe[gn n-e -craEzzsEe from sae United
kinx3ern ;he BFlsisA colaosa. gcrld buys
a. pr cent 81 ns fore e. rrerc1aa1 Sc
from fAs United Kingdom. The total m
g~srts c, tbs Ersti.a eolen.es amount TO
A--s5 .e'slo.3 anngA4iY. Gre&t Prltala By
sz4pEssytrg a. pr ceat- q tbs irxSsead %
y per cent, wasca sire averages sn the
commerce II other cs30rfrsea makes Al
ADDITIONAL market fo- Esa sass,e Annually
of nsr products Her tetal exports 80
fore.sE countries t2nnitssng she colonssss
Is aSs.sssAgo Or Il tsr ce1i % thslr
sct&l szagortA and = % tbs ~ere aided
= .ake percentage - tie imports 81 the
colonies 1sr te&M sase@ soasld be- A@3s 500
80 instead ~ tne grand tosai Of &-s Do
ss9 a a.eh she enjoyeg1 In lessa the year %
wsI.s IA THESE figures Eeeate Il - 1lsuS a.
parsnt that her Gales are enlarged tagoaga
Aer colonial system ta the sSgYi o. aa0at
asosss.tssl III round agaFes or SSaoo1Es6
f*r annams thss Increasing ay = yer cent,
hgr total exports AMI creating by her
colonial system a market Tor k6a.lts9 80
woTfa o. bsE pfos84sats ard manufactures.
These are some Of the facts ssloEn II
q recent publication o. tas treasury
bureau OF statistics on the co.onias, pro
A-htS- AIS As&@ sks<fsz2s4-SlzE& 1a4 u 4
French co4onies bay quite SIS largely from
the home country as do those Of Great
Bg5fa4n. and even fhs Netherlands coOn-
ies purchase largely from The nether
country although located or the opposite
side 81 the earth
Not only has Great Britain added 70 her
market by bringing the 3ge,9oupl people II
her colonies into the co.oa!a. feia taonsnip
but there has evidently been, through the
material development which ha. followed
tais relationship q great increase ia ire
purchasing power. Tic construction OF
highways. kaFs-oEs, railways and tele-
graphs las evidently Qlalckened the gem
sEai DF1S.uess conditions and with the in
creased activity and prosperity. enlarged
the consuming power
That tha construction OF roads harhors
railways. tricgraphs and th, establish
ment OF postal and banking facilities must
increase the activity. proGuctiveness and
consequent consuming power. goes with
cat saying. The railways row In ths Brit
Ism colonies alone are more than Is. oo0
mites IN length. the telegraph lines nearly
lSevps and tho highways far In excess Of
that a large proportion of the railway
lines IL under the Control and in many
cases operated By the government. and
TX is an interesting fact that the lines
operated by the government. expend 4
ia running expenses than those operated
oy private corporations In nearly All the
colonies there are savings hanks in con
junction with the possoaices and the de-
p"stts In the savings banks 3g the colonies
amount To more than S3aal1oao
IN the import trade OF Great Britain the
colonies also prove advantageous from the
Er.tish standpoint. over on@~rfth OF tina
more than & Ca 40 ss1 which Great Brit
ain sends outside OF her immediate limits
III purchase Of supplies il spent among the
people OF her colonies aud thus LARGELY
contributes 70 the prosperity of either
British coIonists OF British capital. That
Inc Industries Of the colonies are To n con
siderable extent controlled ny British cap
tal goes without saylug and that the
expediture OF neatly 100000 OF British
money IN British colonies each year for
tie products 81 those colonies must benefit
TIE capital thus employed nd 81 reflect
10 the business advantage Of the home
Country whence that capital fs drawn h
equally apparent. The total imports into
Great Britain from the colonies In ISas
were over f95 90. fs'o nd in 1851 were over
az at"p9. ar in rounds terms $500 GO go
forming more than one-ngth al The total
IMPORTS into the United X ngdo,n
Inc following table shows the export=
aud imports % the United kinr.!a,u 10 and
rom us colonies Ia ia.