The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-06-07
Panoramic View
Of Conditions

pages of the Statistical Abstract States just issued by
Statistics of the Department of Commerce and Labor
The 700 pages figures with scarcely line of discussion
other than the title of the tables themselves which form this volume
supply information both historical and
present conditions than could be placed other form equva
lent space z. 7 y.
Does the historian want to know the actual area population
MERGE activity wealth of the United States any given
period compare period with conditions to-day other
point in the history of the country? The figures give
him the records of other
comparison easy determination OF the growth entirely
feasible Does he want see how the population of the present time
compares decade, half century century
ago. determine the sections of the country IN which the growth
has been most rapid The tables of population by
NAL periods give this information Does he want to determine
this rapid increase population is due to immigration
from ether countries or the percentage which foregnborn population
forms of the present time earlier periods This
easily available Does he want determine the rank
which ovn State holds or has held years point popu-
which holds the time in as compared with
Territories? The information at hand Does he
want to know the sources from which the large and rapidly growing
Government drawn and the for which
they are expended? pages this information not merely for
the latest available year but for long term of years.
Does he want the money circulation in the
country kinds whether gold silver gold certificates
time periods during long of years. He has but
page shown by the index and the picture before him.
Does he want to know the Der capita money in circulation any year
during half century the per capita of national Indebtedness
upon each individual for payments the national debt
imported individual the of exports capita? All
of this available worked ready for his information and this is
equally true of many other statements regarding financial industrial
economic conditions the country during the period from
The pictures of growth presented by these columns Of figures
million square miles in 1900 millions the present time and more
32 millions if Alaska be included about 34 millions if
population grown from millions IS mil
onsy all that under the American flag be included
nearly Millions while the population mile in continental
United States has grown from OF persons 1900 to about IN
1850, 25 in 1900 and nearly 28 at the present time.
Wealth. which 1850 down billions OF dollars
o7 1904 year for which figures available
and the capita wealth. which 1850 $3o7 was in 1904 SIo
The public debt which 1864 27 million dollars IS but
millions and the Indebtedness which 1864 S7698
while the charge, which then
$42 capita but % capita The money in cu-
Of
in 1880 973 millions in 1906 236 Millions and the capita
circulation which in 1900 S. and 1850 ST. in 1906 $22
The production of the United States which amounted to less
than 1900 in 1895 1885, and 10000
1906 824 tons beetsugar production which began
the Seventies having grown from 446 1877 to 1880 tons
in $780, 82736 in and 3oo37 in 1906 Meantime
consumption grew rapidly the total number of tons of
consumed having been 4o6I2 1922 and 26o in 1906 and the
quantity consumed capita from little less than pounds in 1922
to a little than 70 pounds in 1906.
great manufacturing industries evidences of progress
equally apparent The page devoted this subject shows the
number of people employed manufacturing has grown from less than
million in 1850 81 millions in 1905 the wages paid a37
million dollars in 1880 26I millions in 1905 and the pro.
ducts from billion dollars in 1850 to nearly billions 1905