The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-05-27
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SPECIAL Correspondents.
WARRINGTON. Nay n.-The net hat
the United States hos overfahau ana pam-
20 the United Kingdom ~ m export coun-
ny ana = now leading the world n . dis
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"a IN elaborate paper ~ ~ Robert 0aHen,
~ e. b. LII D.. r. n. g.. recently read
before the Royal Statistical Society Of
England. and just received by the treasury
Dureau OF statistics. The paper In oues-
ton. entitled The Excees Of Imports" oc-
cupaes seventy closely printed pages Of The
journal Of the Royal Statistical ooctaty.
and r While u primarily discusses the excess
% BRUSH Imports over exports, incideAt-
ally gives much attention to the rapid In
crease In experts OF the United Statsa
Dscussing this special subject. the papes
says:
Theirs are obvious reasons why The
United Sfatee Should have "a excess Of ex-
has TO pay In ifs exports cor the shsre q
the carriage Of goods Ia its foreign trade
which z performed 81 foreign ships. ms
pronert,o Nh '. y ~ nsuss: u recent year the
me lated states carried in foreign ships
49, l .hS between % and % per cent, -
s sat me United states Il country which
o. It's goods in the foreign trade. Il may
De mentioned ~ the way. that the foreign
country eS which does the carrying trade Tor
Kingdom. and in this difference between
the TWO countries accordingly we have
pro tanto. an explanstion Of the excess OF
dom. and Of the excsss OF exports In the
case q the United States Next, the
United State. - q country which owes
money 10 various gay. e forsiFn nations.
visitors to Europe. and there - an Amsri-
can colony permanently residing In Europe
whose expensss have to be paid for. More
been invested IL the United States By
people and Belsians. as well 4: BY French
IL Europe. Tss in e mn an ,h
debt has. OF course. to be paid In exports.
unles: to the extent that In any given
United States. In these various waya,
then. an excess OF exports from the United
States can be accounted for. and II may
Dc questioned whether IN recent years.
sny srss, .itSdrsvsi & espitsi from r. nj s: 3;
United States was 10 progresa."
,,,ds y. , Ihs shM@nses IN the sspo.s
''one cannot but b. struck by the in
ce.sant changes that are going on in the
thing at one period. another thing at an
make srea, Transformation. Probably
time M the history & our ns orsxn trad. g e:
e espo.s q raw wv. wool. e pss comnos
e e, ps N eos.s sss r:r @
la4t a All sbsuf. fNsnty = thirty yeers
aso.shbe e4poet - iron and Iron maaufAA-
= tSst asb n,i Es &c p sas recent s'sss
hAve htsly been DEVELOPING most rapidly.
cmf and other articles have bssn exported
mere largely than ever before. md tlsy
export lists GENE entirely new s sr Il lea
the frst tine. Al tie sam. time our s nip
Export IN sp.c. o a:s.
oped prodigiousiy. Coal and shipping to-
kether. We may say. now occupy q chief
then by WOODEN manufactures. and then BIZ
iron and iron manufactures"
Summarizing the causes OF the recent
connsries' Mr.. Ginen's paper says " s"''0us
THE excess OF imports 10 to BE- account
ed FOR in the trade OF country like Eng
land IN several ways. principally by the
try. and does large business all over
gers Tsis work !. rsally IN iss s p IN IS.
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eresi. for SO much IL iss dea nS su With
other countries In addition. England n 3
country which earns large commiasio
of different kinds in i's trade with different
center Of the worlds trade. Last Of ALL
England is one Of the countries which has
become entitled TO the receipt OF large In
ser.st and profits from other countries on
account of capital which II has Invested
and business which II carries on In such
countries. including the sums receivable
By British subject: In the service Of .
dependency like India
''wfth regard TO the earnings OF chips,
Ii II pointed out that the increase allowed
for Il very much less than the increase
self In ISs2 The calculation was that the
shipping fleet consists Of A0O.000 tons 81
satiinx shipe 2 90. 40 tons OF steamers. the
equivalent In sailing tons OF the steamers
being considered to be 10. 600 on. making the
total I'm all fton co. At the present time
the shipping feet consists Of . smaller
tons being now only zs0eoc. Hut the num-
her Of steam tons has increased TO 500 90
tens equivalent on the former computa-
ton IN ~ enc 90 tons. and making the total
OF the fleet M the present time In the
equivalent OF sailing tonnage OVER 5000
90 tons ar double what the figure vas
eighteen years ago IF the earnings az the
ships had Increased proportiouatesy 70
what they were in lisa the figure would
now hc fflaoo.Qo0 az compared with an
amount Between f-o 0o0p and ESQ % 0ao
above estimated. Along with the increase
az steam tonnage however, there has
e.e~n A great increase II, efficiency and d.
yuinution In ths cost Of construction and
working. resulting In great reduction OF
f-etghss and IL IL not possible TO estimate
thar the gross earnings have increased In
proportion to the Increase Of the neet IT.