The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-08-10
Our Trade Expansion.


zone reason why am an expan-
sionist," said Senator Lodge while
discussing the possibilities or our
trade with our island possessions, "is
because | have watched the great
growth of our commerce with the Haw-
allan islands.
Give years ago, in 1895, the total
Hawaiian trade with the United States
amounted to only III million dollars.
Last year it reached 33t million dol
lars, having increased almost three
fold within five years, and the most of
this increase has occurred within the
past eighteen months or so.
"We may not think that business
of 33t million dollars amounts to
very much when our foreign trade is
now running up into 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 TIE United
Stat es 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 is
lands is over $50 per cent larger than
our total trade with Austria-Hungary.
at is - per cent larger than our
trade with Denmark.
at is go per cent as large as our to-
tai trade with Italy.
"It is nearly four times as large as
our trade with Portugal.
at is over $50 per cent greater than
our total trade with Russia.
1T is almost double our trade with
Spain.
"It is l2j per cent greater than our
trade with Sweden and Norway COM
bihed.
cit is more than double our trade
with Switzerland
1T is ten times as large as our
trade with Turkey.
at 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 United States
is equal to 30 per cent OF our trade
with the whole Dominion of Canada.
at is nearly $50 per cent greater
than our trade with all the Central
American states.
at is go per cent as large as our
trade with Mexico.
"It is so per cent larger than our
trade with all the British West Indies.
"It 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.
cit is almost twice as large as our
trade with Argentine.
''It is almost half as large as our
trade with Brazil, whence we import
most of our coffee.
"It 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 nearely fifteen times larger
than our trade with Ecuador.
at is more than six times larger
than our trade with British, Dutch
and French Guiana.
"It is ten times larger than our
trade with Peru.
"It is ten times larger than our
trade with Uruguay.
''It 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 million dollars of being as
large as our trade with the empire of
China.
''lt is more than three times as large
as our trade with Hong Kong.
sit is nearly half as large as our
total trade with all the British, Dutch
and French East Indies, which send
us such large supplies of sugar,
sit is equal to 65 per cent of our to-
tai trade with Japan.
''It is more than five times larger
than our last years. trade with the
Philippines.
sit is nearly twenty times larger
than our trade with Asiatic Russia
"It is larger by 4 million dollars
than our trade with the whole of the
Australasian colonies last year, with
their 5 million people.
"It was larger last year by more
than million dollars than our trade