Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-08-31
WHAT SPAIN HAS LOST.
Trade With Former Colonies Was s40,-
100000 Year.

100000 Year.
iiss.tt,llba, Porto Rico and-the philippines
afforded. az market for over '$4U,000,00
worth of Spanish goods per annum, ac-
cording to a statement of the British
consul at Barcelona, Just Received by
the treasury bureau of statistics. About
three-fourth of this amount was in
manufactured goods and considerably
more than one-half of this market was
that of Cuba alone.
According to the statement which
Consul Roberts sends to the British
foreign office, dated June is, $iS99, the
exports of Spain to Cuba iii 1896
amounted to 134,461, 675 jpesetas3 to
Porto Rico, 37,660,S 800 pesetas, and to
the Philippines, 3S,357,757 pesetas,
making total of 21O, 4SO,241 pesetas.
or, accepting the value of the peseta at
20 cents, $42,096,04S. OF the 1874 ,461,-
CTS pesetas worth of goods exported
to Cuba in 1896, S2,652,093 pesetas,
according to Consul Roberts, consisted
of manufactures, 50,S50,556 pesetas in
provisions and 959,025 pesetas in raw
materials
OF the 37,660,S09 pesetas worth of
goods exported from Spain to Porto
Rico in 1896, 29,107,977 pesetas was
manufactured goods, .S,401,5O1 pesetas
provisions and 151,321 pesetas raw ma
terials. OF the 3S,357,757 pesetas worth
of goods exported from Spain to the
Philippines, 34,250,S92 pesetas was
manufactures, 4,070,557 pesetas provi-
sions and 36,3OS pesetas raw materials.
OF the 210,4S0,241 pesetas worth of
goods exported from Spain to Cuba,
Porto Rico and the Philippines in 1896,
146,010,962 pesetas was manufactures,
So, 1922 ,624 pesetas provisions and 1,146,-
655 pesetas raw materials.
To this market for $4,000, 900 worth
of Spanish produce, which the three
colonies supplied, Consul Roberts adds
2S,000,0 pesetas, or $4,600,000, for
money paid to the Spanish steamship
companies for the carrying trade to
and from the colonies. The imports
into Spain from the colonies, he says,
amounted in 1896 to 260,S77 tons from
40,9S5 tons from the Philippines. He
computes that the amount paid in
freight amounted in the commerce
with Cuba to 7,S26,310 pesetas; Porto
Rico, 7S2,130 pesetas, and the Philip
pines, 2,254,175 pesetas, total of TO-
862,615 pesetas. If to this be added
the value of passage money to and
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low average of $50 pesetas head, it
shows a further 100000 pesetas per
annum, giving total of 23,000000 pes
setas paid in freight and passage
money yearly to the steamship COM
panies for the carrying trade to and :
from the colonies.
Consul Roberts expresses the opin-
ion that Spanish manufacturers and
dealers are not going to give up the
markets of Cuba, Porto Rico and the
Philippines without a struggle. He
also intimates that other nationalities
have in the past participated in the
so-called Spanish trade with these
islands by locating in Spain and thus
getting the advantage of low tariff
inally given to commerce originating in
Spain. On this subject he says:
In the year 1892 the Spanish GUS
toms tariff on manufactured goods was
very considerably increased with the
view of virtually giving monopoly to
goods manufactured here for exporta-
ton to the colonies; this, of course,
gave an enormous impetus to manufac-
facture in this province, factories in
creased largely in number and the
Catalan manufacturers grew rapidly
rich. The only way in which foreign
ers who had good clients in the colo
MES could meet this competition and
retain their markets was. BY starting
factories in this country, the goodaA
thus manufactured in the peninsula y
tering the Spanish colonies Ag6 ~
same terms as those of the Spani.
manufacturers, whereas if shippec a
from England or elsewhere the prohib-
tive duty rendered competition i'm
possible; or by having resident agent
IN this city who, purchasing from the
Catalan manufacturers, exported the
merchandise from here free of duty"