Arizona republican., 1899-06-08
ADVANTAGES OF COLONIES
Some Results of Annex afion From a
 Commercial Standpoint.


 States. the following questions natuf- ally suggest themselves:
 l. Will cur sales to the islands ii question be increased?
 ? Will our sales to other countries | through the d0orways which these is lands may become, be augmented? 1 g. Will our foreign purchases be l diminished, and shall we be enabled i to expend among our own people any i considerable share of the money which l we have hitherto expended abroad? Regarding the first question. there can be no reasonable doubt that an in
 crease in cur sales to the islands
 would result The British colonies take Cn an average, as already indi- cated. 42 per cent of their imports from the mother country, and thls. in spite of the fact that many of them lie
 a great distances from England. and
 are more conveniently located for
 commerce with other countries. The
 ether countries of the world aside
 from the colonies, take 15 per cenS of
 their total impCrtatiOns from Great
 Britain. It would thus appear that if
 British colonies scattered all over the
 orld, many of them very far remote
 from the home government, make F per. cent of their purchases from the
 mother country, certainly in the case
 of Cuba. Porto Rico, and Hawaii
 which lie nearer to US than tc any other country, we may expect larger
 proportion than that Of their com merce; while we ought also to have at least q fair share Of that of the Phil ippines.
 The second question, regarding the prospective increase of our exports to other countries through the doorways which these islands may afford, is q much larger and much more important enc. The annual imports Of the coln- tries commercially adjacent to Manila as point of distribution amount to about S1, ,060. 900, 900 per annum. a sum whicn nearly equals cur own magni- fcent achievement in the total expOr- taJi0ns during the year just ended. or the S1 ,066, coo, 900 worth Of goods which the countries within easy reach of Ma nila as a point of distribution now an nually import. we supply but 5.3 per cent. Yet the large proportion Of these vast imports is made up of the class of goods which we can supply. and which I've desire to sell-cOtt0n and cotton goods, manufactures ot iron and steel, railway materials and supplies machinery, agricultural i'm piements, breadStuffs. provisions, and mineral oi,s. In fact, nearly all the articles which we produce or desire tc sell find ready sale in this enormous market, whose importatiCns are made up very largely of this very class of material The chief distributing cen ters of China. Japan, Korea, Siam. An nam, and the East Indian islands are as rear to Manila as Havana is t1 New York: while the distributing cen terS Of British India and Australasia 1 are nearer to Manila than to any other great entreport. If cur producers and manufacturers can snip, their goods l from the point of production through a Nicaraguan canal without breaking bulk, to this great commercial field, 1 why should they not obtain a fair 1 share of t4nt commerce instead of the insignificant B per cent which they i now have? The advantages Of the i trade of Great Britain in the east. l which were gained through her port cf [ Hong Kong. and the evident belief of ! other nations that similar Opportuni- i ties in that pars of the world would ! likewise be to their commercial ad- | vantage, would seem to justify US in i the belief that a central point of dis l lying, as Manila does. adia- cent to an area containing 852, ,000,00 | people and annually importing S166, l J000G0 worth Of goods. should be of i sraat value to our producers desiring i @ cultivate that market
 The third question is: Will the new citations with these islands enable us o reduce the amount of money which xe have been accustCmed and required c spend abroad? Our expenditures for he class of articles produced ir tropi- al climates am mounted in 1896 to $20I.- ,29 293 All If fbe=a aTn juced in considerable quantities in the sands in question; and, in practically every case, their production could be 50 greatly increased that the entire ' iemand of the United States, increas- ng constantly, as it does, could bc net by them. If these islands should ,Cme into such relations with the Jnited States that our ciizens should 'ecome, either individually CT through | heir invested capital, the producers of aese articles within their borders, his large sum. which is now annually aid to the people of other nations, { would be distributed to cur own peo- lie, either as residents of those islands 1T through their capital there invested, nd. 70 that extent. the money annual y expended for thesa necessary sr- icles of consumption wcu.d be re- aimed among our own people.
 It seems not unreasonable to as ume, therefore. that the people of the slands in question will be benefited " the establishment Of a stable gov Tnment and the consequent develop dent Of their industries and resources, Thile ir seems equally apparent that he people of the United States will iso be gathers by the enlarged mar let fer their products and the oppo.- unity Of distributing among their own cOple the large sums they have here ofore been compelled to expeud 5road.-O. p Austin in the Forum. g
 - O:-
 A CHURCHMAN'S COMMENT.
 After years of investigation a larg1 rInher of the lpadinc thinlzers sim