Speech #550144341

We sold to them over $5.000.000 worth of stuff. In 1896 we sold to them $3.985.000. or a million dollars less than we sold to them in 1891. and we bought of them $15.098.000 worth of goods. So while our purchases and the amount of duties which we remit constantly increase. their purchases from us decline. because their population is becoming more and more Asiatic. and Asiatic people do not consume the things we produce. I will place this table in the RECORD as a part of my remarks. It shows the amount of goods we have imported from the islands since 1877. the amount of goods we have sold to the islands since 1877. and the amount of duties each year which we have remitted to the people of the islands.