Show HAWAII NOT A BURDEN Any AnT notion that Hawaii has been a financial al burden to the United States is I based on fallacy On the contrary c the territory has always alwa s been more than tin During the fiscal year ending June 30 SO 1908 1903 the Hono lulu custom c dist st m house collected over Jl si the postoffice ce not In Including includIng eluding profits from box rents registry department or money order depart department department department ment and the Internal revenue office or a total of or went Into the national treasury from Hawaii The federal government during the same period spent In maintenance of customs house ce Internal rev revenue office ot Immigration station ma na marine narine rine hospital hos and quarantine station United States district court lighthouses and harbors and the territorial govern government government government ment approximately 0 or about 22 per cent of the amount of the rev revenues revenues The appropriations available at atthe atthe atthe the present time for new lighthouses and harbor Improvements which w ich are of international rather than local importance Importance Importance tance amount to upward uI ward of Also there is an appropriation of for a federal building for Honolulu but all the public Improvements yet et etI made or provided for by congress Is Ismore ismore ismore I more than equaled by two years In Income int income t come from the territory These figures of or course do not include the expendi expenditures expenditures expenditures tures to be made In fortifications and the naval station at Pearl harbor which while e important to Hawaii are also vital to the interests of the whole United States Besides good showing Ha Hawaii Hawaii wall Is a customer orthe United States not to be despised During the last fis jis fiscal cal cat year there was Imported Into the territory a total of nearly pearly of goods of oC which amount the United States supplied nearly V Most of this amount came through the port porto of o San Francisco |