Arizona republican., 1899-02-10
IA COLONIAL SYSTEM
An important FdCfOr in Eng
 lands Commerce
The FiLiaI Gratitude Of inc Children of Nations illustrated by Stetis- iCS in inc Cases of Germany and inc Netherlands.

| Washington, Feb 9.-(Special.)-
 The non-British world buys 15 per cen
 of it's total foreign merchandise iron
 the United Kingdom; the British colo
 nial world buys 43 per cent of it's for
 eign merchandise from the United Kingdom. The total imports of the
 British colonies amount to 215 million pounds sterling annually. Great Brit
 ain by supplying 43 per cent of this i instead of F per cent, which she aver
 ages in the commerce of other coun- | tries, makes an additional market fer sixty million pounds sterling annually
 of her products. Her total exports to i foreign countries (Omitting the colo nies) are 206 million pounds sterling, or Is per cent Of their total imports, and if to this were addei like percent age of the imports of the colonies her total sales would be 238 million pounds sterling instead of the grand total of 296 million pounds sterling which she enjoyed in 1896, the year to which these figures relate. It is thus appar- ent that her sales are enlarged through her colonial system in the sum of about sixty million pounds sterling in round figures, or geo million dollars per an mum, thus increasing by 9 ger cent her tCtal exports and creating by her colo niai system a market for 300 million dollars worth of her products and manufactures.
 These are some of the facts shCl1n in a recent publication of the treasury bu- reau of statistics On the colonies, pro- tectcrates, and dependencies Of the world. French colonies buy quite as largely from the home country as do those of Great Britain. and even the Netherlands colonies purchase largely from the mother country although To- cated on the opposite side of the cath
 Not only has Great Britain added to her market by bringing the $50 million people of her colonies into the colonial relationship, but there has evidently been through the material deveIopment which has followed this relationship, a great increase in the purchasing power. The construction of highways, haTbOrs. railways and telegraphs have evidently quickcned the general busi- ness conditions and with the increased activity and prosperity, enlarged the consuming power.
 That the construction Of roads. haT- boTs. railways, teleg:aphs and the es- ta tablishment of postal and banking fl cilftieS must increase the activity, pro- ductiveness and consequent consuming power goes without saying. The rail ways now in the British colonies alone are more than 55,000 miles in length, i tho telegraph lines nearly 150 000 miles l and the highways far in excess of that i A large proportion of the railway lines | is under the control, and in many cases | operated by the g0ve: :nment, and 1t is an interesting fact that the lines oper- | ated by the government eXpend | smaller proportion of their total re- | ceipts in running expenses than those | operated by private corporations. In | nearly all the colonies there are say | ings banks in conjunction with the | postOffces and the deposits in the say | ings banks of the colonies amount to | more than $300,OO0,000.
 In the import trade of Great Brit ain the colonies also prove advantage GUS from the British standpoint Ove- One-fifrh of the more than two billion dollars which Great Britain sends out side of her immediate Iipfits in pur- chase of supplies is spent among the people of her colonies, and thus largely to the prosperity Of either British colonisUs CT British capital That the industries of the colonies are 70 a considerable extent controlled by British capital goes without saying, md that the expenditure of nearly 500 million dollars of British money in British colonies each year for the prod tets of those colonies must benefit the 'apital thus employed and so reflect to he business advantage of the home country whence that capital is drawn s equally apparent. The total imports nto Great Britain from he colonies in S96 were over ninety-three million bounds sterling, and in 1891 were over linety-nine million pounds sterling, CT Il round numbers 5G0 million dollars, ormi1g more than one-ffth of the ctal imports into the United Kingdom.
 The following table shows the ex- ,crts and imports of the United King om to and from it's colonies in 1897:
 Exp'ts to. Imp'ts from.
 Sterling. Sterling British India .. ..28,009, ,385 24,8130 099 australasia :. .. .23, 3,G95, ,970 29,362 129 North American
 Colonies =. =. 6,464,s8o 19,53S, ,99s ape of Coed
 Hope =. . .10,766,168 4,195,74 traits s ct le-
 ments .. =. :. 2.538. .916 3,648, 8,224 long Kong -. :. 2,G79,951 606, ,314 Jatal :. .... .... 3,G21,373 752, ,254 ayIon :. -. 1,070,932 4,688, PTS Vest India Islands 2.7G9,497 1,976. .685 hanneI Islands .. 1,303, ,259 1,3z7,111 agos 521.204 1,1O0,943 IaIta 856 ,694 74,903 =. .. 677,7S1 59 ,365 iger PrOtectorate 60S,193 351,617 old Coast :. =. 482,378 460,131 terra Leone .. 3S7,72 240,721 Iauritius 3O3,497 94,548 F .den 173, ,357 173,319 ritisb Honduras g ,830 227 sos