Exports to the Philippines
By Editor
REPORTS for the first nine months of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1900, show that United States exports to the Philippines aggregated in value $1,888,360. The list before us contains 56 sums of money, representing the value of that many classes of goods. Forty of these items are valued in amounts from $2,000 to $20,000, the total amount for this part of the list being a little less than $250,000. Eight items have values between $20,000 and $60,000, two in the ninety thousands. Four are between $100,000 and $200,000, and three are above $200,000. The largest item by $60,000 on the list is for beer, $299,333. Beer, whisky, and brandy amount to $414,801, or more than the total value of 45 classes, out of 56. The sums for mules, horses, hay, and oats aggregate $672,056. Of course these last items were mainly for the army; perhaps the next to the last were, too. But it is not a very creditable showing, nevertheless, with beer, whisky, and brandy heading the list.