Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-11-02

British world takes but Is per cent, we
may reasonably assume that Cuba,
Puerto Rico and Hawaii will certainly
take a much larger share than this
from the United States, lying, as they
do, closer to this country than to any
other source of supply, and we may
also expect from the Philippines as
large share as that which England
obtains from her colonies
At present we furnish less, according
to the treasury bureau of statistics,
than per cent OF the annual purchas-
es Of Asia and Oceanica, or $56,749, 167
worth out of u total of $1,066, 557 1913.
Islands Will Sell to Us.
Another question in reference to the
islands which the events of the year
have brought into close relationship
with us, is in their value to us in sup
plying the tropical products for which
we have been accustomed to send mon
tropical products amounted, in 1896,
$S4, 1881 sugar, $S9,219,773; tobacco,
l$1S,703,942; fruits and nuts, $16,957.-
307; hemp, jute, etc, $11,S46,247; and
miscellaneous, $30,O0O,000, making a to-
tai of $251 ,32O,393, which we send
abroad for tropical and semi-tropical
products not produced in the United
States. In this calculation the year
1896 is taken because 1897 and 1898
have been abnormal by reason of the
unusually low price of these articles,
Especially coffee. That American capt.
tai will rapidly invade these islands
and enter upon the growth of these
tropical products goes without saying,
and if the purchasers of the United
States, by buying from them, are able
to eXpend most of this $25O,0OO,0O0
among their own people they will thus
keep at home vast sums of money
which they have formerly been COM
PEELED TO send out of the country. The
following table shows the value of our
purchases of tropical and semi-tropical
products in 1896:
Imports of Tropical Products Into the
United States in 1896.
\ Coffee. ..................$ S4,793, 124
Sugar.. $50. ............ S9,219,773
Fruits and nuts.... ....... 16,957,307
\ Tobacco. .......... lS,7O3,942
Hemp. jute, etc.. ......... 11,S46,247
Miscellaneous. 49,. 80. 3O,000,0O0
Total.... 80. ......... $251 1920, 393
Colonial Control Advantageous to Ma
tive Populations.
1t is quite apparent from figures and
facts above quoted that the closer rela-
tons between the United States and
the islands of Cuba, Puerto Rico, Ha-
lwaii and the Philippines, will be ad.
vantageous to the United States in
view of both the increased sale thus
supplied for our products and the OPP,
Iportunity TO buy among our own peo.
Pile the tropical products for which we
have been compelled to spend money
let us look at the other side of the ques
ton and seeesi whether VII the people OF
the islands in question are likely to be
benefited or otherwise BY the closer re
lationship with the United States thus
established. In matters of this kind
prospective effects can only be deter
mined by a study of effects of sim
liar conditions with similar peoples
Great Britain, an English-speaking ma
ton, has. in former years, assumed to
ward certain people in tropical climate!
relations somewhat similar to those
now proposed temporarily or otherwise
by the United States with reference Il
the islands under consideration. 4
, study OF conditions. il India, Ceylon
$ the Straits Settlements, and the British
West Indies will suggest whether o
not the conditions of the people in til,
$ matter Of Intelligence, earnings, accum
: uiations, conveniences of civilized lif
/; and the like, have been improved unde
D the management and direction whicl
1 the English government and the repre-
e sent:itiyes it has sent to assist in TIL
| government of these Countries have un
i dertaken. Let us take India as tn
largest and most important of TIL
e communities to be considered. At tn
n head of the national system of educa
i. ton in India there are now five uni
r yersities-at Calcutta, Madras, Bombay
4 Alahbad, and the Punjab-which, Will
!. merely examining bodies. have numel
n Gus affiliated colleges in which pre-
( scribed education is given. Norms
= schools have also been established i
:, every province for training teacher.
:, . and staff of inspecting officers visi
: all schools. Medical colleges furnish
: limited number of graduates and
> larger number of certified practitioner
, who do duty at hospitals and dispense,
lies. At Calcutta alone 1905 student
matriculated in 1892 and $500 in 1s9
and at the five universities the nun
e Der of students matriculated in 1s9
j was over 1000. The number of college
n in India in 1897 was 100, with 1875
e scholars, while the schools for gener;
&C education numbered, according to til
s. Statesman's Year Book for 1890, 109
s, 2s7, with an attendance of 3,790,0t
IS scholars. The total number of institl
II lions of all kinds in India in 1897 W:
e 152,025, with Il total attendance of 4
lie 356,S70. Since the appointment of
N commission in 1888 to investigate II
System of education in India, publ
l. instruction has been placed on a broat
ii er and more popular basis, and priva'
It enterprises for teaching encourage
i. with general advancement in educ
d ton and intelligence made plainly pc
Il ceptible, so that in 1896 there wei
# sos newspapers published regularly
,e the languages of the people of Indi
The total expenditure for public il
struction i'll the fiscal year 1867 w;
5,244, 900 rupees. against 671 900 rupe
in 1865, and $4,000 in 1868. This emo