Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-06-14
. SOME PRACTICAL FACTS.

NO pops.
SOME PRACTICAL FACTS.
Senator Lodge is one of the most care
full and thorough investigators of the
expansion question in all of its bear
ings He has just been examining the
growth of our trade with Hawaii, and
finds tina. five years ago. in 1925. the
total Hawaiian trade with the United
States amounted to only $11.50O,0 900.
Last year il reached S33500,00O. having
Increased almost threefold within five
wears, and most Of this increas has oc-
CURED within the past eighteen months.
The senator says we may not think
that business of ss2,500.000 amounts
to Very much. when our foreign trade
/ is row running up into the billions. but
to compare our tradewith the Hawaiian
islands, With their handful of people,
With our trade With some of the larger
countries OF the world. gives better
idea OF the value of colonies to the
United States.
Asa result of his Investigations Sem
ator Lodge finds that
Our trade with the Hawaiian islands
is over 100 per cent larger than our
total trade with Austria Hungary.
1t is - per cent larger than our trade
with Denmark.
1t is 60 per cent as large as our total
trade With Italy.
1T is nearly four times as large as our
trade With Portugal.
II 10 over $50 per cent greater than
our total trade with Russia.
1t is almost double our trade with
Spain.
/ 1t is la5 per cent greater than our
trade With Sweden and Norway COM
bine,l.
1t is more than double our trade with
Switzerland.
il is ten times as large as our trade
with Turkey
1t is nearly three times larger than
our trade with Greece
Comparisons With countries on the
American continent show that Hawaii-
an trade with the United States issequal
to 80 per cent of our trade With the
whole dominion Of Canada.
III is nearly $50 per cent greater than
our trade with all the Central Ameri-
can states.
ii is 60 per cent as large as our trade
with Mexico.
ltis so per cent larger than our trade
with all the British West Indies.
1t is nearly five times az large as our
trade with Porto Rico.
II is three times az large as our trade
with the Danish. Dutch and French
West Indies. with Haiti and San Do
mingo included.
1t is. almost twice az large as our trade
With Argentine.
II is almost half as large as our trade
with Brazil, whence we import most of
our coffee.
1t is nearly 400 per cent larger than
our trade with Chile.
Ii is nearly 400 per cent larger than
our trade with the United States of
Colombia.
1t is nearly fifteen times larger than
our trade whit Ecuador.
II is more than six times larger than
our trade With British Dutch and
French Guinea
1t is ten times larger than our trade
with Peru.
1t is ten times larger than our trade
with Uruguay.
| II is more than five times larger than
i.our trade with Venezuela.
1 He then makes comparisons with
countries across the Pacific. and finds
that our trade With Hawaii is within
4 S6,op0,00O Of being as large as ouratradt
| with the empire of China.
1t is more than three times as large a.
our trade With Hong Kong.
Ii is nearly half as alrge as our tota
jtrade with all the British, Dutch anc
/ French East Indies which send US sucl
iIlalge supplies Of sugar
i trade with Japan.
!. II is more than five times larger thar
our last years trade with the Philip,
! pines.
4 1t is nearly twenty times larger thar
A our trade with Asiatic Russia.
II was larger by four million dollar!
than our trade with the whole of TIL,
AuNralasian colonies last year, witt
A their FIVE millions of people.
4 II was larger last Year by more than
three million dollars than our trad
With the entire continent Of Africa
Senator Lodge says the increase ii
4 our trade with Hawaii has been yer,
4 marked since its annexation by III
l United States, and he looks for equal,
8Irapld Improvement in our trade witt
A Porto Rico and the Philippines. Ther
4 colonies will absorb some Of our sur
plus manufactures. and they will ais,
i draw upon this country for their pro
4 Visions, thus increasing the demand 70
q the products of American farms /.
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