Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-06-22
TRADE OF THE PHILIPPINES.

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The United States in the fiscal year
1914 for the first time supplied more
than one-half Of the imports into the
Philippine Islands, ,to-wit 81 per cent,
rs against IA per cent In 1904. The
Imports into those islands In 1914,
according to official figures published
by the insular bureau of the war de-
partment and reprinted in the "Statis-
tical Abstract Of the United States"
Included $22,572,000 worth of merchan-
disc from the United States and $27,-
100000 from other countries, while In
the same year those islands sent to
this country $22,047,oO0 worth of mer-
chandise, as against $29, 191 900 sent
to other countries. Statistics covering
a later period and including nine
months ending with March, 1915, pub
lished by the department of commerce
through its bureau of foreign and do
mestic commerce indicate q marked
decrease in shipments to the Philip
pine Islands from the United States
and considerable increase in value
Of their shipments to this country
when compared with the same period
one year ago. The value Of shipments
from the United States to the Philip
pine Islands In the nine months end
Ing with March was $16,434,000. as
against $21, IA, 900 in like period of
last year, and shipments from those
islands to the United States in the ten
months of the current year were valu-
ed at $685., 900, as against $12,23S,0
last year.
The following table summarizes our
trade relations with the Philippine
Islands during the last twenty years:
Am exports to Imports into
Phil. Islands. U. s. from
1885 ......; 10000 $ 4,7s1, 900
1900 $500. 2,64O,0O0 $4,000
1905 5000. 6,201 900 12,65S,000
1919 ...... 16,S33,000 17,31S,000
1915 49,. go, 900, 900 s24,O00,O00
sEstimated, based upon actual fg-
ures for nine months as follows: Elk
ports to the Philippine Islands, $751;
434 900: imports from the Philippine
Islands, $1s,9s4,00o.
Cotton goods head the list of articles
shipped from the United States to the
philippine Islands, their total for the
calendar year 1914 being $6,082,000,
compared with $4,205,0OO for iron and
steel manufactures; $1,616,0 900 for min
oral oils; 81, 227 900 for leather and
manufactures thereof, and $1,139,0O0
for broadstuffs. Next in order of i'm
portance are paper and manufactures
thereof, $715,000; cars and carriages,
chiefly automobiles, $685., 900; explos-
ives. 3623,0OO; meat and dairy pro-
ducts. 3621,o00; chemicals and drugs,
SB24.000; soap, $4,000; India rubber
manufactures. $42a,ooo; lumber and
other wood, $4,000; electrical ma
chinery and instruments, $3s5,0oo;
Ash, $4,000; tobacco manufactures,
1882, 900; coffee, $4,000; refined sug-
ar. 100000; vegetables, $751;, 900;
coal, $4,000; and fruits, $171, 900.
Manila hemp, sugar, vegetable oils,
corpra and manufactures of tobacco
arc the most important articles i'm
ported into the United States from the
Philippine Islands. The quantity of
manila imported from those islands in
the calendar year 1914 amounted to
60.S23 tons, valued at $9,744,000, a
slight decrease In quantity when COM
pared with 1913 and falling of Of
about one-t third compared with 1912.
Sugar, however, scored q marked ad
vance, the total receipts from the is
lands in 1914 amounting to 84S,2e0, 900
pounds, valued at 81, So2, 900, as against
ss,214.ooo pounds. valued at $2.oo1, 1000
in 1918 and 2s2.147.00O pounds valued
at 81, 0ss, 900 in 1912. Imports OF veg
etable oil from the Philippine Islands
we're valued at $1,904,000 in 1914, an
Increase Of SO per cent compared with
1918. OF Philippine oopra our imports
In 1914 amounted to 100000 pounds,
valued at 31,s94,00o, compared with
1922. 900 pounds, valued at 1926, 900 in
1919 and $1,000. 900 pounds, valued at
S2,2s2,0OO in 1912. Imports Of cigars,
etc. amounted to $4,000 pounds. valu-
ed at 91,2SS,000. compared with about
400, 900 pounds, valued at $2,00O,O00
for 1912 and 1918, respectively.
PEACE LEAGUE PLANS.
That some notifications may be
made in the proposed league Of peace
to be composed of nations in an effort
to prevent war became evident Thurs
day when the members Of the national
provisional committee began a discus
sion at Philadelphia as to what steps