The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-03-11
KuhiO'S Speech On
The HarbOr Bill
Continued from page fve.)

I5Vf d loldl OF nearly A5,OOOOOO was PAID
by this port into the Federal Treasury
or an exact average of $1.242,57O. 65 per
year.
This sum places Hawaii tenth i'm all
the collection ports Of the United States
and next to the receipts of Baltimore
and ST. Louis, while it exceeds that of
either Detroit, Buffalo, Cleveland, Mil
waukee, Portland Ore, or the entire
Puget Sound district.
During the four years i'm which the
4,97O,2 S2 so Of customs dues have been
taken from Hawaii there have also
been collected $257, 141. 10 Of Internal re-
venues. During the same period the
money paid for Federal salaries i'm Ha-
wall as shown by the annual appro-
priation bills, amounted to $136, 500. The
difference leaves net revenue of ST.
272,73O.94 paid annually by the Terri
tory of Hawaii to the Federal Treasury
or net total of $5,O9O923.76.
Nor must we lose sight of the fact
that every dollar of this revenue is
from goods consumed within our own
territory.
When it is considered that this money
is literally taken out of our circulating
medium and is shipped i'm gold coin to
the sub-treasury at San Francisco, it
can be readily seen what drain it
makes on a total population of only
$4,000 people And it is entirely out
side of reason to ask that I'm addition
our little Territory should continue to
bear the burden Of dredging Honolulu
harbor.
The records Of the Treasury Depart
ment show that the total revenues from
all the other four Territories of the
United States for the fiscal year of 1904
amounted to 1901 1916 They further
show that the Federal revenues from
the Territory OF Hawaii for the past
four years were greater than the sum
total of customs and internal revenues
from the four other Territories mem
toned, added to those of the States of
Idaho, mississippi, Nevada, North Da-
kota, Delaware, Wyoming, South Da-
kota, and Kansas. And remember
that added to this Hawaii pays her in
direct quota of customs revenues on
the fifteen to twenty millions of dollars
worth of goods which she purchases
from the maitland each year.
These comparisons are not drawn to
disparage other commemorative or
cities but merely to make our octual
status known by comparison with COM
munities whose Importance has already
been recognized by Congress.
We are not asking this appropriation
merely to get back a part of the money
we pay to the Federal treasury, but
we ask 1t in order to meet a vital and
imperative need of our commerce. and
for the additional benefit of the grow
ing international commerce of this ma
ton on the Pacific Ocean.
And l assert without hesitation that
there is not in the entire river and har-
Dor bill a single port that can show
stronger reasons for an appropriation
than is contained I'm the condition that
attach to Honolulu harbor
The future of Porto Rico and the PHI
lippines is a subject of much doubt and
wide differences of opinion throughout
this county.
But the future of Hawaii is settled
for all time to come.
No thoughtful man either in Hawaii
or here on the mainland believes that
the Stars and Stripes will ever cease to
float over those sunny islands.
1t is not matter Of reprOach, but
rather of honor, that the Hawaiian peo-
pie looked with much regret and many
forebodings at the passing Of their own
nation and the transfer Of sovereignty
to a great nation across the sea.
What that effort cost the Hawaiian
5 people has never been fully appreciated
8 IN America, nor do you fully realize
with what good faith our people ar
= now entereing Unto the problem o
e adapting all forms of American gov
% eminent to fit our insular conditions.
e. Our loyalty to the new flag is NOR
e than mere cheap talk, for it include
t heavy payments to the National treas
e ury, and enormous purchases of Anne
g rican goods every year
n Where Porto Rico pays nothing I
e the Federal treasury and the Phillip
.- pines are an enormous expense to thi
country, Hawaii makes a larger pc
j. capita payment to the Federal Treas
n ury than does the American people a
IS a whole.
with some fear and many misgiving
0, we gave up our national existence