The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1905-02-17
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turns on personal property exceed those
on real property.
In addition TO the foregoing. our pco-
pie paid To the Federal Government, in
1902. an indirect tax or internal rev
enhe and tarif Of. approximately, a.,
2S5.oO0.00. Thus, every person in Ha-
wall paid direct tax of $500 ana an
indirect tax of $3.50, total for the
year of S23.lO.
With a population of o53,000 Porto
Rico gross revenues and correspond
ing expenditures were, in 1902, as fol.
lows:
Customs receipts ......... $S4s, 05S.30
Internal Revenue ......... 94I ,oo9.l0
Taxes on personal and real
property and all other
sources ........s........ 4Of ,4l4.Uo
a total OF. ......... S2,203, 1881 80
Thus eacn person contributed by di-
rect taxation, per annum, the sum of
$0.43; by indirect taxation, $1.s6; a
total of 1929.
Prior to the annexation of Hawaii a
Territory was considered political sta
tus, period of probation during which
opportunity was given to the inhabi-
tants to demonstrate that they were
strong enough and had enough intelli-
gence and capacity to be entitled to
statehood. 1t was cruae method, under
more or less strict supervision by the
Government at Washington, and re-
duced to the lowest and simplest form
for the governing of sparsely settled
frontier. For instance, Indian Terri
tory has no organization at all. Alaska
is organized without any legislative
body-has only a Governor, a Judge, a
Marshal and an Attorney General, APP
pointed by the President, by whom the
laws are administered. Its progress
has been noticeable only since the dis
covery of gold and its people are grad
yates of the school of patience they
have had "ample opportunity to learn
to watt
There is belief entertained that an
American community must first be an
organized Territory before it may be-
come State This is an error. There
is no such requirement in the Consti.
tuition and precedent is against it. The
State of Texas was admitted into the
Union without first being made Terri
tory. Congress has recognized no rule
as to population, wealth or area, but
has been ever ready to confer the bene-
fits of Statehood on any community
when, in its Judgment, it seemed wise
so to do.
These facts are set forth to the peo-
pie of Hawaii for their careful consider
alton. Not for one moment would l
have the foregoing taken as an ex-
preston of discomfort with our lot. /
am not pessimist but, under the pres
emit circumstances it would appear as if
the burdens borne by Hawaii will handi-
can her in the race for Statehood. Yet,
these very drawbacks may be her max
ing and develop in her power to at
tain that great intelligence and capac-
! ity which, in the end. will cause her to
outstrip all rivals. Independence is a
quality sought by every American com
munity as well as by every American
individual. 1t is not compatible with
our condition, at present, in that we
are mendicants before Congress asking
for special recognition of our peculiar
situation and for appropriations to Off
set, to some slight extent, drain
which, probably, no other American
community sustains.
If it is the desire of the people to pro
coed as at present, work out our own
destiny as best we can, then we must
expect the cost of living to be high.
Accumulated wealth must be prepared
to contribute in the future even more
than at present in order to provide for
the ordinary increase which is found
in the expansion OF every community
and no person can expect that portion
which is now taken from his labor and
energy for governmental support to be
reduced.