Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-08-25

the injury that would be done Ameri-
can interests by a war between Ger
many and Great Britain. What would
happen to us in event of a war of
our own is now pretty well under
stood Our merchant marine however
| Is in such state that a war between
two first class foreign powers would
almost put our ocean commerce out
of business.
Mr.. Elwell, secretary of the Mer-
chant Marine Committee of One Hun
drcd, made the statement that war
between Great Britain and Germany
would bring our foreign trade to an
almost absolute stoppage. with result
ant panic and disaster to other COM
mercial interests.
ut is not generally known that of
our total foreign commerce nearly so
per cent. is carried In German and
British bottoms. This carriage. of
course. would cease at the first note
of war"
Mote what happened in the Boer,
war. Although the South African re-
publics possessed neither battleship,
privatcer nor merchantmen, England,
| in the prosecution OF that war, ana
incident to the forwarding and sup
plying of her troops, withdrew from
her merchant marine tonnage ap-
proximately 1891 900 tons Of shipping
from the lines running between Great
Britain and Boston. The natural re-
suit was a sharp rise in freight rates,
amounting in many instances to 30 per
cent. and over. This, as one can read
lily see, was injurious to our export
trade. In fact, the first year of the
Boer war the shrinkage in our exports
of foodstuffs amounted to s4S,OOO'OoO
las against the figures OF the year pre-
,ceding; In the second year the shrink
age was $67 100000 as by the same
comparison. OF course this shrinkage
Twas largely in values rather than VOL
lume, and the farmers of the Middle
West, receiving less for their products
than they otherwise would have DONE
helped to pay the cost of the Boer war
"lf we are to safely hold our export
trade, and, still more, If we are to
tries, we must have our own means
lof delivery. No store trusts to a rival
Iconcern for its delivery service. Our
Iexports are almost wholly delivered
in ships. If we are to make these de-
Iliveries in the face of the trade riv-
AIRY of other nations we must control
the ships. Other nations see very
clearly the necessity of maintaining
a merchant navy II n foreign trade is
to be secured and maintained
As secretary of the Committee OF
One Hundred Mr.. Eweli has compiled
a vast amount of data According to
these figures we produced In 1910 from
, soil, mine and mill, products to the
value OF $27, 900, 100000. or this pro
, duction, we sent abroad total oil
i$1, 72S, 66S, 900 In value. Only one ma
ton sends abroad to foreign markets
"A greater total than we export. -Four
nations sell to others more than 81 ,OOO,-
, 100000 worth of their production
, These four, with their respective to-
tails are: United Kingdom, $l,S35,'
1873, 900; United States $1,72S'66S,Ooo;
Germany, sl,6O7,2j3,0OO; France
$l,Ol7. 4S7 900.
Secretary Elwell's statistics show
THAT, of the vast total that we export
about 5000, 100000 represents the value
of raw manufactured articles, such as
cotton and grain; the balance Is oil
articles that we have manufactured
The manufactured products include
food-stuffs, such as -four and prepared
meats, and such articles as machiner,
and the like.
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