The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-06-09
dAINLAND TRACE
WITH HAWAIIANS
Remarkable Showing Which
Led Senator Lodge to be
An AnnexatiOnlst.

WASHINGTON, May 3O-"One rea-
son why am an expansionist," said
Senator Lodge, while discussing the
possibilities of our trade with our ISL
and possessions, 'is because I have
watched the great growth Of our oom-
merce with the Hawaiian Islands
Five years ago. in 1885, the total Ha-
waiian trade with the United States
amounted to only $11, SOC, 900. Last year
it reached $S3.5O0.000, having increased
almost three-fold within five years,
and most Of this increase has occurred
within the past eighteen months or SO.
We may not think that a business
of S335OO,000 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 a better idea of the value of
colonies to the United States which
! ship their products to us and buy their
| food, provisions and clothing from this
| country.
| Let US begin with Europe.
Our trade with the Hawaiian ISL
| ands is over 130 per cent larger than
our total trade with Austria-Hungary.
| 1T is rs per cent larger than our
trade with Denmark.
1T is so per cent as large as our total
| trade with Italy
| 1T is nearly four times as 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 and Norway COM
| bined.
1T is more than double our trade
| with Switzerland
1T 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 will take the American Con-
| tinent.
Hawaiian trade with the United
States is equal to 80 per cent of our
trade with the whole Dominion of
Canada.
1T is nearly $50 per cent greater than
our trade with all the Central Ameri-
can States.
1t Is 60 per cent as large as our trade
with Mexico
1t is 80 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
II Is almost half as large as our
trade with Brazil, whence we imnort
most of our coffee
1T is nearly 400 per cent larger than
our trade with Chilli
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.
1t 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 Hongkong.
1t is nearly half as large as our
trade with all the British, Dutch and
trench East Indies, which send us such
large supplies of sugar
1t is equal to 65 per ce..t of cc.r
total trade with Japan.
1T is more than five times larger
than our last years trade with the
Philippines.
1t is nearly twenty times larger than
our trade with Asiatic Russia
1T was larger by four million dollars
than our trade with the whole of the
Australasian Colonies last year, with
their five millions Of people.
1T was larger last year by more
than three million dollars than our
trade with the entire continent of At
rica.
AS / said, the increase in our trade
with Hawaii has been very marked
since it's annexation by the United
States, and I look for equally rapid
Improvement in our trade with Porto
Rico and the Philippines. These COLO
nies will absorb some of our surplus
manufactures, ard they will also draw
upon this country for their provisions,
thus increasing the demand for the
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