Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1900-06-09
Trade Under Expansion.

waiian trade with the United States
amounted to only SII,5oo, 900.
Last year 1t reached $33, 500, 900,
having increased almost threefold
within FIVE years, and most of this
increase has occurred within the
past eighteen months.
The senator says we may not
think that business of $33,5oo,-
900 amounts to very much, when
our foreign trade is now running
up into the billions, but to compare
our trade with the Hawaiian
Islands, with their handful of peo-
pie, with our trade with some of
the larger countries Of the world,
gives a better idea of the value of
colonies to the United States.
As a result of his investigations
Senator Lodge finds that
Our trade with the Hawaiian
Islands is over 100 per cent larger
than Cur total tt ade with Austria
Hungary.
1t is rs per cent larger tn n Our
trade with Denmark.
1t is 60 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 I2o per cent greater than
our trade with Sweden and Nor
way combined.
1t is more than double our trade
with Switzerland.
1t 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
the American continent show tn It
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
American States.
1t is 90 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 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 Haiti
and San Domingo included.
1t is almost twice as large as our
trade with Argentine.
1t is almost half as large as our
trade with Brazil, whence we i'm
port most of our coffee.
1t is nearly 400 per cent larger
than our trade with Chile.
II 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.
It 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
countries across the Pacific. and
finds 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 orr trade with Hongkong.
1t is nearly half as large as ouI
total trade with all the British.
Dutch and French East Indies,
which send us large supplies OF
sugar.
1t is equal to IS per cent of our
total trade with Japan.
1t is more than five times larger
than oui 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 wear nv more