El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-09
Facts and Figures
American People, and To Guide Them
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for 900 meu for railroad work. The
calamity prophecy WIS q failure In Mr.
Bryan's own state, ss 1t was else where.
The South and Ship Subsidies.
A representative southerner. ad-
dressing tie cotton spinners of the
South, at their annual cow ention, at
Charlotte, N. c., lately, declared that
for years preceding the Civil War the
sentiment of subsidizing American
shipping was a growing one In the
South. and he quotes from democratic
platform and Southern convention ut
tersnce to prove his assertion. He
said, 10 addition, that the South is
regard to American shipping needs
that it reached half century ago.
There will be few bourbons to favor
the free registry of foreign built in
stead Of the construction Of American
ships, but If progress is in control the
proposition will be killed.
Where the Farmers Come In.
Plenty of work and good wages
follow the opening OF the mills, In
creasiHg the homo market for farm
produce SO as to make the ten staple
crops worth upwards OF 1928, OOO, 600
more to the An erican farmer than I'M
der the Democratic free-trade admin
istratton, which shut our mills, killed
our home industries and gave our
trade to foreigners.
Add to this increase of 1928, 600, 600
the advance of 1888 900, 900 in the
value of live stock within the last few
years, and it will be seen that the farm
ers of the country have gained almost
Q round billion dollars through the
better times under the republican
administration, without estimating
the increased values of their fruit,
butter, cheese, eggs, vegetables and
other email crops, to say nothing OF
the increased price paid for wool.
Trade Under Expansion
Senator Lodge Is one of the most
careful and thorough investigators of,
the expansion question in all of it's
bearings. He has just been examining
the growth of our trade with Hawaii,
and finds that five years ago, in 1895,
the total Hawaiian trade with the
Un ted States amounted to only S11,-
0COOO. Last year 1t reached $685.
O50OO, having increased almost three
foio within five years, and moet of this
increase has occurred within the past
eighteen months.
n
chat q business of S33 500 900 amounts
to very muc when our foreign trade
Is now ru ming up into the billions,
but TO compare the foreign trade with
the Hawaiian Islands, with
their handful of people,
" it'll our trade with some of the larger
countries of the world, gives a better
dea of the value of colonies to the
Unite States.
AS result of his Investigations
senator Lodge finds that
Our trade with the Hawaiian Islands
Is over 100 per. cent larger than our
total trade with Austria Hungary.
1t Is rs per cent larger than our
trade with Denmark.
It is 50 per cent as large ss our total
trade with Italy.
It Is nesrly four times IS large as
our trade with Portugal.
1t is over $50 per cent greater than
our total trade with Russia.
1t is almost double our trade with
Spain.
1t is 125 per cent greater than our
trade with Sweden aud Norway COM
bined.
1t is more than double our trade with
Switzerland.
It is ten times as large as our trade
with Turkey.
1t is nearly 80 times larger than our
trade with Greece.
Comparisons with countries On tn e
continent show that
Hawaiian trade with the United States
Is equal to 30 per cent of our trade
with the whole Dominion of Canada.
It is nearly 156 per cent greater than
our trade with all the Central Ameri-
can states.
1t il 60 per cent as large as our trade
with Mexico.
1t is so per cent larger than our
trade with all the British West Indies.
1t lie 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 Haiti and Santo
Domingo included.
Ii Is almost twice as large as our
trade with Argentine.
1t is almost helt as large as our trade
with Brazil, whence we import most Of
cur coffee.
It is nearly 400 per cent larger than
our Trade with Chile.
1t is nearly 400 per cent larger than
our trade with the United States of
Colombia.
1t Is nearly fifteen times larger than
our tarde with Ecuador.
1t is more than six times larger than
our trade with British, Dutch and
French Guiana.
II it ten times larger than our trade
with Peru.
II is ten times larger than our trade
with Uruguay.
1t Is more than five times larger than
our trade with Venezuela.
He then makes comparisons with
across the Pacific, and finds
that our trade with Hawaii Is within
six million dollars of being as la~ge as
our trade with the Empire of China
1t is more than three times as large
as our trade with Hongkopg