The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-08-10

The market which the people of the
United States will be able to make in
the Philippines, while amounting to
many millions of dollars, is, however,
a small item compared to that which
opens to them through the possession
of the Philippines as an entire port for
the distribution of American goods in
the Orient. Grouped around Manila
as a point Of distribution lies the most
densely populated part of the world.
More than S0,000,000 of people form the
population of Japan, Asiatic Russia,
China, French Cochin China, Siam,
British India, Australasia, the Dutch
East Indies, ETC., all of which
are nearer to Manila, as a point
of distribution, than any other great
commercial center, while such cities
as Canton, Shanghai and others are as
near Manila as Havana is to the city
of New York.
The commerce of this section, of
which Manila may be made a great
commercial center, now amounts to
more than S2,OO0,0OO,0OO per annum,
and its annual purchases 81 100000
per annum, or an average of 100000
600 month. Practically all this vast
sum which it sends to other parts of
the world is expended for the class Of
goods for which the people OF the
United States are now seeking a mar
ket. Cotton and cotton goods, bread
stuffs, provisions, dairy products,
manufactures of iron, steel and wood,
the products of the farm and factory,
are demanded by the people of that
part of the world.
In most cases the apparent DISPOSE
ton is for these countries to purchase
from the people of the United States
rather than from any other section or
people. China, which in 1880 took only
2.5 per cent of her imports from the
United States, in 1898 took SO per
cent Of her imports from this country.
Japan, which in 1893 took only 6.S per
cent of her imports from the United
States, took 144 per cent Of her i'm
ports from this country in 1898. Our
exports to China, which in the fiscal
year 1893 were but 1900, 457, were In
1899 $14, 49S ,440. Our exports to Japan,
which in 1893 were s3,195, 494, were
$17,264, 6S8 in 1899, and in the fiscal
year of 1900 reached $25,OO0,000.
To British Australasia our exports,
which in 1894 were $S,131 $3.50, were in
1899 $19,777, 129, and reached $25000,-
600 in 1900. To the Hawaiian Islands
our exports in 1893 were $2,S27 ,663,
and in 1899 $s,S05,47O, while those of
the fiscal year 1900 were S14,000,00
To the Philippines our exports in 1897
were less than 100000, and in the
year 1900 exceeded 100000 Taking
Asia as a whole, our exports, which in
1893 were but s16,222 1854, were in 1899
$4S, 800, 161, and in 1900 amounted TO
$6s,000,0 600, or four times those OF
1898. To Oceania our exports, which
in 1893 were S11, 1879, All, were in 1900
in excess of $40000,0 900. Thus our ex-
portations to Asia and Oceania, which
in 1898 were $27,OOO,OOO were in 1900
upward OF $1000000O0 or four times
those of seven years ago.
That such fields still remain open to
us in the Orient is, however, shown by
the following table, prepared by the
Treasury Bureau of Statistics from the
attest available data, showing the val
lie of the imports and exports of the
orient and the share of the United
States therein