The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1900-06-13
EXPANSION BENEFITS
SENATOR LODGE ON GROWTH
OF HAWAIIAN TRADE.
Has Increased Tkreefold Within Five
Years and Largely Since Annexation
OF More Value than Our Business
with Many European Nations.


with Many European Nations.
Zone reason why am an expansion
ist," said Senator Lodge in Washing
ton the other day, while discussing the
possibilities of our trade Wit.i our ISL
and possessions, sis because l have
watched the great growth OF our com
merce with the Hawaiian Islands.
Give years ago. in 1895, the total
Hawaiian trade with the United States
amounted to only $11,5O0,0O0. Last
year it reached 3d., 100000, having in
creased almost three-fold within five
years, and most of this increase has oc-
Cured within the past eighteen months
or so.
eve may not think that business
of $50, 100000 amounts to very much
when our foreign trade is now running
up into the billions, but compare our
trade with the Hawaiian Islands, with
their handful of people, with some Of
the larger countries of the world and
it gives better idea of the value Of
colonies to the United States which
ship their products to us and b.'y their
food, provisions and clothing fvCm this
country.
Let us begin with Europe.
"Our trade with the Hawaiian ISL
ands is over 80 per cent larger than
our total trade with Austria Hungary.
S'it is Is per cent larger. than our
trade with Denmark,
1T is 60 per cent as large as our
total trade with Italy.
at is nearly four times as large as
our trade with Portugal.
at is over $50 per cent larger than
our total trade with Russia.
ut is almost double our trade with
Spain.
sit is 120 per cent greater than our
trade with Sweden and Norway com
bined.
ut is more than double our trade
with Switzerland.
at is ten times as large as our trade
with Turkey.
1T is nearly thirty times larger than
our trade with Greece.
These comparisons are with the
thickly peopled countries of Europe.
Now we viii take the American CONT
nent.
Hawaiian trade with the United
States is equal to 80 per cent of our
trade with the whole dominion of Can
ada.
1T is nearly 80 per cent. greater
than our trade with all the Central
American States.
1T is 60 per cent. as large as our
trade with Mexico.
1T is % per cent. larger than our
trade with all the British West Indies.
1T Is nearly five times as large as
our trade with Porto Rico.
1t is three times as large as our
trade with the Danish, Dutch and
French West Indies, with Hayti and
San Domingo included.
1T is almost twice as large as our
trade with Argentine
1T 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 Chill.
1T is nearly 400 per cent. larger than
our trade with the United States of
Colombia.
1T is nearly fifteen times larger than
our trade with Ecuador.
1T is more than six times larger than
our trade with British, Dutch and
French Guiana
1T is ten times larger than our trade
with Peru.
''It is ten times larger than our trade
with Uruguay.
1T is more than five times larger
than our trade with Venezuela.
Now let us make some comparison
with countries across the Pacific. and
we find that our trade with Hawaii is
within six million dollars of being as
large as our trade with the Empire of
China.
1T is more than three times as LARGE
as our trade with Hong Kong.
1T is nearly half as large as our to-
tai trade with all the British. Dutch
and French East Indies, which send
us such large supplies of sugar.
1T is equal to 60 per cent. of our to-
tai trade with Japan.
1T Is more than five times larger
than our last years trade with the
Philippines
ut is nearly twenty times larger
than our trade with Asiatic Russia.
IT was larger by four million dollars
than our trade with the whole Of the
Australian Colonies last year with
their five millions Of people.
at was larger last year by more
than three million dollars than orr
trade with the entire continent of At
RIGA.
'As / said, the increase in our trade
with Hawaii has been very marked
since its annexation by the Unified
States, and look for equally rapid i'm
provement in our trade with Porto Rico
and the Philippines. These colonies
Will absorb some of our surplus man
ufactures, and they will also draw up-