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Show TlIE PACIFIC OCEAN TRADE. A most thorough nnd enthusiastic article on the trule of the Pacific ocean Is found In the Nation il OeiiBruphlc Mngazlnc for August, from lho pen uf Hon 11 P. Austin, thief of tho Ilureau of Statistics of the Trentury Deptrt-ment. Deptrt-ment. In Itn Illustration of the pnlntn undo there gnen with the article n map whhh shows by mean nf American Ameri-can flig Ihe possessions nf the United State In and bordering upon that ocean, Ihls nlmom in tken tho North Pacific a mure clausmii of the United Stales, and show that we have so established nurse lv en with respect to III it ocean as lo almost make it our own, hnvlng In possession "the ptlntl-pal ptlntl-pal islands and liarbois 111 tho gloat inld-niiuii ' Mr Austin's 111 st proposition Ih that the countries on the other sldo of the great ocean produce tho mtlclen which we must buy uhioad, articles absolutely required by our people, and which wo cannot, or tit lent do not, pioduio at homo. Thcso mtlclen comprise raw mnl manufactured silk, India-rubber, tea, eolfee, stigir, tioplcal fruits, nuts, vegetable oils, splce-s, cabinet woods, deH and dvennnd, gums and miiiy others Our liniioiliitlt.ns of tronlrnl and ct-uh-lniplc.il pro Iticln amounted Inst )t ir to almost Jmct o')0 000, or nearly near-ly niio-lnlf nf our total Importations The high lininrliince nf having a closo commercial leliihmshlp with lho ciiiin-tiles ciiiin-tiles pi.i.lii. lug Hie great tulle, los which we so liigiiy Import und must nlways bring fiom iibincd ms Mr Atintln, will I... b. Iter realised when It In 10-iiieinb. 10-iiieinb. ml thai Hi.) United Htntes consumes con-sumes prut lleitlly oiie-liair of the cono sugar proluceil In ihe win Id, morn Ihan one-hilf of Ihe woildK production ot corfee nenrly one-half of Its pio luctlon of ludla-i libber, nnd about one-fourth of II production of r v silk The se. nud pinpoilllein Is that Iheso saino cuuntili aie buying n hundred million dollars' woith of merchandise overy month nf evoiy )eir, nnd most of it I the cits of gi.nds Hint wo w-int to sell In siipiiort of this proposition he recites Import of tho various countries coun-tries as follows China, JlUO.eXiuOnfl, Japan. JIID.tOo.oon, Hliulls f.etllcrnents, liw.ooonoo, Australasia, $2M,000,uoi), India (easily reached via the Pacific), S0 1 (00 000, iilillng Asllllo lliisnln, K'nieii, French liido-t'hlnn, Slam, t'ejloii. the Dutili Hast Indies, tho Philippines nnd Ilawnll. tho tntnl In nhcui $1300(iOO(WO To thin idd the eoinineice of the American countries funning on that ocean, uml tho totnl Is himihhl up In a fillllon mid a half. Of whit do these Import consist? Cotton ninnufat Hires aro pininlntiit, and also law cotton, ngrlctilitiral machinery, mineral oil,, ron nnV7eT7: cars, locomotives, rai. , ' a leather, flour and to " show that In this trad. , States han mile rhf J " r thus, while the gain oTo' hoen EO rtr cent line, nj' the United State, ha. cent. The trade between thi. 1 nnd the countries nam,! 1 T called a complementary e... . capible of Incleflnite expaalV, the needs and prolurt, nl? those orlentnl peoples n, enormously, and their ,M, ' f spondlngly, our capacity 1. their need Inn Increased it ' greatci ratio, and Is practleMWo able. n Tho third nnd final propoiitlon k the United States ha. greater tcr fncllitles for utilizing T ocean ns a highway ot coms,,!' any other nation hns or ever cut In support of this proposition hi .' first, that we hive a greater tea nnd moro nnd better harbori Pacific than nny other nation,,. Hint wo have more railway En serve ns land carriers torn,' merce than all the other countn, together; third, that weonn,. way stations of commerw ot ocenn, the Islnn.l ports ot call ic. Important In nn ocean of iK dlstancen: fourth, that tee mat best nnd nearly the only nA route on which to lay ubmrtwt across tho ocenn, nn Important.-In Important.-In a consideration of Id nm possibilities; fifth, that at siiti havenn extremelv vnlcku -i.... point for commerce for all pu tho Orient; nnd sixth, that bub,' given to the North Araerlcaa Cm, great nnel remarkable adrantijs commerce across this ocean, aire which must continue lo eilitu a the continent nnd the octanes: In their present relation. Th points refer especially to thi . winds nnd the ocenn current!, 1 nfford such plain nnd easy ssjim Austin closes with the assertion nt lenst one of the great prolM: the Pacific, that of commerce, hu solved, and solved In favor cj United Stales," It Is a highly Important and pn showing; mid lt Is an argiurst value In favor of tho Isthmtut nlso of grcnt significance totheA seaboard; although Mr Austin doo Insist upon this or make It prai Wo have constantly held that tie ncxatlnn of Hawaii, Wake, Gun the Philippines, together with the harbor of Panso Panga on Tululli nnd, gives us tho control of 'tun nnd Mr. Austin's paper comrletdr unstratcs that lo bo the fact |