The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-06-13
AGRICULTURE.
ABOUT OUR NEW FARMS IN TaB
TROPICS.
Correspondence of the Progressive Farmer.

correspondence or the Progressive + arner'
Now there's Hawaii. From the time
the native mossba cks cooked Captain
Cook and ate him until Uncle Sam
planted it out to politicians, it has been
an exciting little garden truck patch.
Rather sma!l-6 GAO square miles-RC-
cording to report from the Treasury
Department Bureau of Statistics.
North Carolina has 48, 666 q Iare miles
Of land. Population 1G9 C2O North
Carolina had l 700 OOOin 1890. A little
over one third of Hawaii's population
is native and bRlt caste. About one
fourth are Japs; about one-fitCh are
Chinese; Cll- seventh are Portuguese,
and less than 4 900 are Americans.
In 1897 the United States exported
OF our domestic exports, 81 622. 581; of
foreign exports $76 494 That's what
we sold TO those foreign moDgrels. We
imported 431, 1876 $50 pounds OF sugar
valued at S13, 1914 379. We bought of
them a total OF $13, 687 799 North
Cardinals cotton crop was valued at
more than SI9, 600, 900 in 1898 aud cot-
ton cheapest it has beeu in fifty years.
Il does seem as though more attention
to North Carolina interests and less 90
Hawai- would pay. But Uncle Sam
has caught the disease of the great
powers-hogging land from weaker
poWers-and will no doubt join the
trust, in which five great powers will
divide up and rule the rest of the earth.
There's our new Philippine farm
ia 1926 square miles, trifle larger
than Arizona. Population Z go, 900.
Just why Mckinley bought those mig
gers for us at $2O, OOO,O don't see.
We had niggers to burn already-in
Georgia.
Their imports were $28 815, ,O75 in
1896 OF which we sold them 1852 446
worth-a little over ! Of 1 per cent
Bah! Their trade viii be worth our
$50 100000 in about hundred years.
But they sold-exports-s3 481 484
worth and we bought "a 962 857 worm,
149-1 10 per cent. a balance of trade
against US exceeding "a 800 900. Tc
me it looks ike a dead loss. often
wonder what the Republicans would
have said if Bryan had got elected aud
cut such a dido"
The population is nearly 70 to the
square mile-about 10 Or II native nigs
to one Of white descent.
There's our Porto Rico-''kid" fac
tory, 1 judge, for, with QUE area OF
$3.50 q lare miles (seven average North
Carolina counties) it has population
OF 784 7O9. about 26O to the square
mile, eight times as dense as North
Carolina's population. Stay where
you have room to think. We sold
tham-exports from the United States
in 1898, S1,5O5 GIG We bought of
them 50, ,4l4 356 Commercially, Porto
! Rico is worth to Uncle Sam about ae
much as a sore thumb. We paid over
$50 600, 900 for imported sugar in 1898
If the cost of Cuba, Porto Rico and the
Philippines had been applied in build
ing up the cane industry Of louisiana,
florida and the South. we should have
received some equivalent.
We don't own Cuba. What it has
and will cost, if applied to develop the
cane and beet sugar industries, would
have saved our importing nearly five
| billion pounds at a cost exceeding $99
900, 900, as We did in 1897.
We had over 100000 "colored'
population. We have bought over
1000, 900 dyed in the wool" people at
a cost running into hundreds OK mil
lions. Mckinley philanthropy is g
costly toy. e. +. h.
HOW WAS 1T DONE ?