The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-04-26
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Every country has its phiianthropists
in politics-its weak sisters in the play
of craftsmanship; its men who are weak
enough to hesitate and cavil and doubt
of certain lines of conduct The admins
tration at Washington IS now hesitating
about the army in the Philippines, out of
deluded Difference to the laboring men.
AS Of it had been possible to accomplish
anything in the line of the ''open door"
in China without a show of force at some
point in the Orient
In the twenty years commencing with
1880 and ending with and including 1892
the United States imported from the Phil
ippines merchandise to the value Of $685.
566,361, mainly in sugar, hemp and tobac-
CO, but not including cargoes of hemp
that were transhipped by way of LIVER
pool and Hamburg In the same time we
exported to those islands goods to the
value Of $2,S62,0 leaving a balance
against US of $153, 7O4, 3S1-GOLD, payable
wheat,
flour, cotton and barcon.
In the five years commencing with 1892
and ending with 1896, the mother country.
Spain, imported from the Philippines to
the value of 1OoOOO,OOO pesetas (worth 1875
cents), or at the rate of $4,000, 900 per year.
In the same five years Spain exported to
the Philippines to the value of 124 OOO, 900
pesetas, or at the rate Of about 81, 0OO, 900
per year. The net gain to the mother
country being about $1,O00,0OO per year, to
be checked off at London against the
American account in London for wheat
flour, bacon and cotton.
In cotton goods Great Britain has been
accustomed to contribute three-fourths
of the importations of the islands, but
Spain has sold to them as high as $4O0O,-
900 worth in one year.
OF the shipping of the islands to and
from the United States, our own custom
house returns show that in the seven
years, inclusive of 1892 and 1898, we ''en-
tered ia American vessels from those
islands and 1875 foreign vessels with car
goes. In the same time we Cleared
| seven American vessels and sixteen for
eigners, with cargoes for those ports
From this our discrepancy in trade is
clear and our losses apparent. We sold
| but little, and what we did sell was car
ried in other peoples boats Yet we
| bought over 50 per cent of the hemp ex-
| ported by the islands to the Western ma
tons in the ten years ending with 1897
| The annual importation of cotton goods
at Philippine ports varies from s4,O0O.O 600
to $S0OO,OOO in value. The annual impor-
tations of the same lines into Cuban ports
vary from 100000 to $9,9OO,0OO Spain,
Great Britain and the United States have
sold the greater part of the latter goods,
both of the others overselling the United
! States.
! To the Philippines Spain shipped in one
year paper and paper goods, leather and
! leather goods, fax and hempen goods,
! canned foods, -four, iron and steel to the
value of a million dollars, and umbrellas
@ to the value of $12S,414, or almost as
much as the entire shipments of the
United States in the same year to the
same islands.
So that it would seem that the Puerto
Rican and Philippine problem resolves
itself into this Of the Puerto Rican tariff
means anything more than a makeshift);
American cotton goods VS.. island sugar;
exorbitant wages and high prices for
| goods VS.. expectations; European vs.