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Show ITALY WILL PROFIT I BY PAH C1AL I Great Work Which United iH States Has Completed of Interest to Rome. AID' TO IMMIGRATION H Development of New Coirn- try Means Far Greater De- , mU mand for Italian Labor. ROME, Nov. 2D. Italy Is following with ' the greatest Interest everything connect- j ed with the Panama canal, which la con- ! t cldorcd a work worthy of the ancient 1 Romans. The opening of the canal will ' j affect Italy, above all, in Its principal ez- fll portatlon, namoly, emigrants. In Co- i'J lombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Chile. '1 now fields of activity will be found tor ( them and, furthermore, the emigration J to the western coast of Mexico, the f' United States and Canada will bo In- ( creased. Already several Italian lines are ' preparing lines of navigation. Also, It is " calculated that once tho means of trans- portatlon la facilitated, Italian exports to '. South America will be at least doubled, while those for the western coast of Mox- ico, the United States and Canada will , Increase greatly. Growth Is Rapid. When the Suez canal was finished, Itnl-Ian Itnl-Ian emigration was very limited and did not reach 100,000 a year, but between 187S and 1SS9 the annual average had bo-come bo-come 135,000. Betwcon 1&S6 and 1900 that ' number was doubled, and from 1200 it , has reaohed an average of 600,000. while In 1000, the highest year on record, the ' emigrants' were 787,977. In 1912 thoy 1 wore 708,009, and this year they may sur- 1 pass In numbers those ot 1906. r An average of half thly emigration goes across tho Atlantic tha greater part bo- ' lng absorbed by the United States. Thin , transoceanic tide In 100C numbered 440,- ' ' 338, of whom 310,975 went to America, 114,818 to the Argentine, Uruguay and ' iH Paraguay, and only 13.145' to Brazil, as emigration there waa prohibited by the '-Italian '-Italian government. What remains. A merely 1399, went to the other countries of .the American continent The same proportion na that of the record year, 1906, occurs In other years, so that In . fM 1912, out of 312,210 transoceanic einl- grants, 208.447 went to the United States, . IH 69,308 to the Rlvor Platte. 23,438 to Bra- 1. IH zil and the roraalnden 1S68, to other it countries. "Trade Follows Rags." H A study of Italian emigration is inter- j cBtlng and necessary in order to follow J) tho development and direction of Italian t commerce, as tho commerce of Italy, as 1' a rule, has followed tho poor emigrants, ', bo the saying that "trade follows tho (lag" can be modified for Italy as "trade ,1 follows tho rags" of her migratory sons. I For two years the figures of Italian m-ports m-ports and exports have surpassed SI,-200,000,000. SI,-200,000,000. Tho foreign office here, at I the end of 1911 published statistics show- x lng that the Italian imports and exports had so increased as to surpass propor- 1 tlonatMy the Increase of any other . country. . Putting at 100 the imports and export.? of each country In 1S9S, It was calculated 1 that at the end of 1910 that percentage . had risen as follows: IMPORTS. ' Italy 213 Belgium 237 MU Germany 207 Unitod States 190 England 162 France 152 f EXPORTS. United States 225 . Italy 221 Mm Germany 224 mm Belgium 204 ; England ICS Franco 161 , Therefore, Italy surpassed all other leading countries, with tho exception of a ( the United States, which In exportu only was 2 per cent higher. This wonderful lncrcaso will bo augmontcd with th opening of the now waterway. Trade Very Heavy. ;j Figures will demonstrate this better than words. Italian ox port a to tho United States are $60,000,000. equal to : 12.4 per cent of her total exports, an . amount which Is surpassed only by Ger- many nnd Switzerland, where the Italian ( mm exportation Is respectively 14.7 and 13.1 8 per cont. In the same way, the American 11 Importation into Italy Is 12.7 per cone ; of tho total imports, being Burpasaed only mm bv Gcrmanv with 10,9 and by Great Brit- aln with 10.1. ,t MW Italian exportation to the Argentine is 11 mm S31.000.000 yearly, ciual to 7.7 por cent; ' mm to Brazil, J5.200.000, or 1.3 per cent; to ; mm Canada, $2,730,000 or 0.7$ por cent; to ' Uruguay, 2,600,000. or 0.7 per cent; to , Central America, $1,211,000, or 0.4 per mm cont: to Mexico, $920,000. or 0.2 por cent. ' mm Notwithstanding the difficulties, before mm the opening of the Panama canal, of g mm reaching the coasts of tho American" con- mm tlnont on the. Pacific, the Italian exppr- mm tatlon to Chile averages between $8,000.- 1 mm 000 and-$4,000,000, or about 1 por cent of mm the whole exportation; to Peru. 51,400,000. j mm or 0.C per cent, nnd to the othor smallor fi mM American countries, $3,000,000. or 0.8 per mm Figures Below Mark. Many of the foregoing official figures I aro below the actual, as a largo amount J of products is Introduced into tho mar- mM kcts of the American continent as . bo- ! BVJ longing to other countries, for Instance, H Bilk appearing to como from Lyons, cot- mm ton goods sold a3 English, etc. Llkewlia, . , a number of American mechanical prod- JJ ucts enter Italy aa coming frorn Gor- $ mm many or France, and American Bhoos as mm originating from England. Italy l now : mm Importing nearly one and a hair mil- , mm lion pairs of socb from abroad. ! |
