The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-01-01
COMMERCIAL PROGRESS.


The manufactures Of the States now form oneird OF
the exports which larger proportion than any preceding
year ms Is phenomenal and it also gudepost
march OF progress There period will shown later in
tins article the manufactures small that they might
be regarded as an almost negligible quantity while still further
back we only produ material Africa TODAY
W" suped the raw material and other nations worked up
making PoIt Tor the capitalists and for the skilled workers.
Once had become manufacturing country competing with
The skilled Workmen OF other parts OF the world position
e world mas changed we have to face commercial expansion
and that totally different policy was policy
of even four or five decades ago
The Bureau of Statistics has published figures
OF the year which closed yesterday these show that
formed during that period 326I per Of the exports
the country while the highest percentage preceding fiscal
that OF 1900 which the exports of manufactures
ed 3I6 per OF the total exports year
manufactures formed much Of the exports
The figures OF the months available indicate
exports OF manufactures during the calendar year will reach
about million dollars than in any preceding fiscal
year save III the exceptional when the total 43
millions
These facts as they stand now but such statements are
OF little value unless they be compared coated con
statement of the Bureau of Statistics enables s 70 do and the ~
celant working Of that Bureau shown by timely information of
this kind Where such information is readily hand easy
the for present legislation and the
present policies advocated
During the first half OF the past century which
acture formed OF the total exports SMALL ranging from 7S6
in 1900 to 1870 in 1926 1870 in 1850 and I272 in 1860 Since
that date there has been marked upward tendency in the per-
cenage which manufactures form Of the total exports In 1868
they formed 1919 OF the total exports 1904 1885, 1871
I3 from 1871 to 1901 the percentage which manufactures
formed OF the total exports did materially change In 1891
23 IN 1890 2o8% in 1899 282S in 1900 $780, and in the
months OF the calendar year have formed 32626 Of the
total The total value the exported
1900 only p million dollars and reached much
millions prior S4O From that has rapidly moved
forward being millions in 1850 millions in 1854, millions
1900 68 millions 1870 and 1877 for the first time crossed
the million dollar line 1t until 1896 that the total
expectation OF manufactures reached million dollars
but in 1899 it exceeded 800 Millions in exceeded
millions, above millions that
One feature OF the expectation of manufactures which espe
ciay interesting and important the large OF
features which find market in the chief manufacturing countries
the world More than Oneaf OF the manufactures exported
the United Europe
of the world and that about OneOurth OF the total
OF manufactures North America the other fourth be-
ing about equally distributed between South America ASIA Gee
and Africa Five articles form the bulk OF the eXPorta
OF manufactures the United States kurOpe-COpper
mineral manufactures leather and agricultural
implements The annual expectation of copper mineral oil and
steel manufactures each exceeds million dollars while
that of leather exceeds Millions and agricultural implements
: 10 millions.
with the advance in manufactures be
sdered the present methods of rapidly communicating nfoma
ton from continent to continent When communication
SLOW manufacturing production slow 1t owing to rapid
the United States able
the bridge the Albara
Africa beating all British competitors The line of cable which
has reached this territory and which before the end OF the
opening today will reach Manila and directly tap the will
influence the development OF trade the tar
East Gable point the following facts showing
rapid advance of commerce through the operation OF cables
The first successful line into operation between Europe and
States in 1866 In that year with
In 1876 S72S950O53
In 1886 $S9OII and in 1896 came to 6SS74
In 1866 with the world amounted to $867IS8
and has reached the enormous total of $28
and is increasing by leaps and bounds We in Hawaii,
of the greatest highway of this trade and we shall see it de-
veop month by month and year by year.
the cable az tina