The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-06-02
TRADE AND
IHE FLAG
America cree is
With lis Emblem.
IS A C0E!0lN|z|NG POWER
The Figures Show Gain in Business
Since Uncle Sam Went
Abroad.

American control of the Philippines,
Hawaii, Cuba and Porto Rico does not
depend for .ts justification on any mere
balance of dollars and cents.
We are in these Islands not for gain.
but because Of a duty which we owe
their people. If our protection gives them
more peace, thrift, law and order than
hey had befofe-if It opens to them a.
new meaning Of liberty and a broader
range of enliEhtenment-why, then, we
have perfectly succeeded. even if our
new dependencies provide no new market
FOR a single added bale Of American
goods.
We did not count the probable profit
when We sent our army and our fleet TO
Santiago and Manila. No such thought
was in our condolences. But where the
dag has gone c5mmerce, almost without
effort. follows. SaThere has been no or
ganized official. attempt to exploit or
develop" our new dependencies. In fact
not one of theuS except. perhaps Hawaii
IS ready for suc6 A~thing, even If it were
n contemplatioa
The two CHIEF Islands of the Philip
pines are stII v6xed by a factional var
Cuba has not half recovered from Span
sh devastation. Porto Rico lies under in
dustrial paralysis due partly. to the. an full
hurricane aud part1y-te long but inevi-
table delay ~ needed Iegisiat ation. In not
one ofsthese dependencies are conditions
normal With not one of them have
trade relations been set IN a permanent
oasis. Andlyet every o,e OF them ex
hioits what under the circumstances is
an astonishing increase of commerce
With the United States.
Our imports from Cuba, according to
the Treasury returns just published.
mounted TO S19, 100 600 in the first nine
months of the present fiscal year, a gain
Of no less than S. COO, 900 over the corre-
sponding period of last year. Our exports
70 Cuba in these nine months past aggre-
gated sl9,6S0,OO0, a gain of more than
SI.0O0,0O0
our imports from Porto Rico in the
hrst three-quarters of the present fiscal
ear were valued at s726,492 a decrease
Of about 500. 600, due to accidental and
-emporary causes-the hurricane and The
5arim dispute in Congress. But our ex-
ports to Porto Rico in these nine months
ave run up to s2.79S, 900, as compared
with s1,T02 900 in the first three-uuarters
# the fiscal year 1889
Hawaii. considering its small popula-
lOn OF only little over hundred thou
sand, makes a marvellous exhibit Our
IMPORTS from the rich little Pacific archi-
peiago in the first nine months of the f1s-
al year lSOv nave been $l4,510,OO0, an in
rease of about S3,3c0.00o. Our exports to
Hawaii have reached s1n2l4,000, an in
-rease of more than $500 900.
The d slant Philippines, with which our
trade has until now been inconsderable,
sent us in these nine months goods val
ted at $3,s71,o00, increase of 81. 100 900
over the nine months of a year aeo. and
We shipped to the islands goods of our
1wn valued at $,S16,0G0, an increase of
S1,s15, 600.
Taking Cuba, Porto Rico. Hawaii and
the Philippines together, the Treasury
slatstcs prove that our imports from
them In the nine months past have been
$4,000 an increase in round numbers
u S9.eOOgo. or 20 per cent over the figures
II the first nine months of 1899 Our ex-
ports to these islands amounted to s4.-
5000, an Increase of 1851. .000 or a gain
Of little less than 40 per cent. In fact,
our exports to these new dependencies