Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-03-10
Improvement in Philippine Trade.

in our foreign commerce during the last
few years has been in our trade with the
! Philippines, Porto Rico. Hawaii and other
! mon contiguous territories" The In
crease in the period from 1908 to 1910 was
81 per cent of the value of the merchan-
disc shipped from them to US. and 179 per
cent in the value of the merchandise ship
| ped from us to them. This does not in
clude $15,OOO,GOO in gold dust that we
received from Alaska.
| The chief imports from these mon
contiguous territories are sugar, tobacco,
cigars. hemp, fruits and nuts. and other
raw materials, and from Alaska silver,
gold. lead. fish. furs and copper ore. The
principal articles shipped to Hawaii were
automobiles and carriages valued at about
a million dollars: cotton manufactures:
| nearly two million dollars: iron and steel
manufactures, three and three-quarter
millions: leather and manufactures there
of. more than half q million; tobacco
| manufactures, one-half million: manu-
| features of wood Chiefly lumber), one
and one-half million; breadstuffs. one and
| three-quarter millions, and meat, three
| fourths of a million.
| To Porto Rico the principal articles ex-
| ported were cars and carriages one mill
| lion dollars in value. of which automo-
| bileS formed a little more than one-thfrd:
| cotton manufactures, four and one-third
| millions; iron and steel manufactures.
| four and one-half millions; leather and
manufactures thereof, over one-half mill
| lion: soaps. nearly one-half million; man.
| ufactures of silk. one-third million: man
! ufactureS of wood. one and three-quar-
| ter millions; ibreadstuffs, practically six
| million dollars, and meats, three and
| quarter millions.
| To the Philippines the principal articles
| shipped were cars and carriages, over
! one-haif milliSn dollars in value. of which
| more than two-thirds was automobiles:
| cotton manufactures, four and a third
millions, against one and two-thirds mil
| lions in 1909; manufactures Of iron and
steel, four millions; leather and manu-
| features thereof nearly one million; pa
per and manufactures thereof. more than
one-half million; manufactures of wood
| Chiefly lumber), over one-half million;
| mineral oils, over a million: breadstuffs,
| one and one-Quarter millions. and meats,
| one-half million.
| To Alaska the principal articles shipped
were iron and steel manufactures. four
| and a quarter million dollars in value;
| fourths of million: mineral oils. three
| fourtls Of a million; tobacco. one-half
| million; vegetables, one-half million |:
| wooden manufactures. over one-half mil
| lion: cotton manufactures. over one-half
| million; explosives, nearly one-half mill
| lion: eggs. nearly one-half million: bread
| stuffs, three-fOurths of a million, and
meat and dairy products, over two mil
, Lon dollars in value.
| SO far as trade Is concerned the ex-
pansion policy of the United States has
| proved to be very profitable especially
| since the tariff duties upon products Of
the Philippine Islands imported into the
| United States were modified by Congress.
| That legislation was the most encourag-
| ing act of kindness that has been con-
| ferTed upon Fflipinos, and, although sew
erai great interests and industries were
| convinced that they would be ruined, no
one has suffered in any disadvantage.
/ The same conditions will doubtless follow
| the Canadian treaty.