Arizona republican., 1906-03-26

ed by the department of commerce l and labor through it's bureau of statis | ticts. These discussions have present. | cd an analysis of the trade with each | country of Europe by principal arti- | cles, and when summarized show that | Europe takes more than a billion dol | lars worth of the exports from the | United States, while all other parts | of the world take a little less than d | half billion dollars worth. In no year since 1899 has the value of exports to Europe fallen below l billion e lars, l while that to all other countries has never touched the 500 million dollar mark Prior to 1900 the exports to Europe had never been as much as 1 billion dollars in value; in that year they crossed the billion dollar line. be- ing 1.O40 millions and have since that time averaged about 1,050 millions per annum. In 1900 the exports to all sec tiOns of the world other than Europe were 354 million dollars in value, but
 have grown year by year until in 1905 they were 49S millions, the growth since 1900 in exports to the non- Euro pean countries having been propor-
 tlonateIy greater than that to Europe.
 On the import side Europe supplies,
 as already indicated, about one-half
 of the merchandise brought into the
 United States. Prior to 1890 the share
 of the imports drawn from Enrope av-
 eraged about 55 per cent; after 1890
 the average was a little more than 50
 per cent; in 1905 it was ASA per cent
 This reduction in the percentage of
 the imports drawn from Europe is ap-
 parentIy accounted for by the growing
 demand in the United States for trop-
 icaI and subtropicaI products which
 gre supplied almost exclusively by the
 other grand divisions of the world.
 The value of the tropical and sub
 tropical products brought into the United States in 1905 was sos million
 dollars, against 3O3 millions in 1895 and 21S millions in 1885. Most of this class of imports comes, of course,
 from the non European sections of the world; much of it from South Amer
 ica, especially coffee and india rubber;
 much of it from the southern part of
 North America. especially sugar, sisaI
 and tropical fruits; a considerable
 part from Asia, including tea, raw silk and spices, while Oceania contributes sugar, spices. cocoa and other prod , ucts of this character, and Africa Egyptian cotton, india rubber, hides and skins, and a small supply of sug- ar.
 The trade of the United States with Europe is composed on the import
 side chiefly of manufactures and ma l terials for use in manufacturing; on the export sides of food stuffs, manu- facturers' mater IS, and manufact- ures. The manufactures imported ! from Europe are chiefly the higher q. y,f, | into which labor, and in many cases | hand labor, largely enters; while i chemicals, certain grades of iron and | steel manufactures, toys. wines. China. and porcelains, cut and plate glass and ] other articles of this kind contribute l largely to the grand total. In addition 1 to this, however, there are imported ! from the European countries certain articles the product of their respective | colonial possessions, including india rubber, fibers, tobacco, hides and skins, raw silk, diamonds, and various l tropical and subtropical productions ! The articles exported to Europe are | chiefly breastuffs, meats and live cat | tie, and fruits, for food; raw cotton l for use in manufacturing, and a varie- | ty of manufactures. including copper | in pigs, bars, and ingots, mineral oil l L i shoes, manufactures of wood, oil cake | cotton-seed oil vegetable oils, naval ! stores, and various manufactures of
 iron and steel
 Of the 1,021 million dollars worth of merchandise sent to Europe in 1905, | 239 millions was manufactures. the ! other TSP million dollars worth being | largely food stuffs and manufacturer s materials. With the growing tenden- | cy of our steadily increasing popula- ] ton to consume at home a larger | share of the food stuffs produced in | the United States, and to increase the
 consumption by our own factories, the | supply which can be spared for Europe | is decreasing rather than increasing, and as a consequence the percentage \ of exports sent to Europe is slowly II decreasing.
 Prior to 1887 the share of our total | exports sent to Europe was over so per cent; since that time the percent
 Gge has gradually fallen until it reach | ed 72 per cent in 1902, and in 1905 was ] tut 67.23 per cent of the total, while
 the share of the exports taken by
 those grand divisions to which the ex- ! ports are chiefly manufactures SHOWS | an increased percentage in 1905 com 1 pared with 1904