Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1846-07-23

Three days. the first and second weeks of every month";
for the king and chiefs. The people, in all cases, find
ing themselves and, being required to have their pro-
visions ready cooked, which they are to take with them
to the field of labor. This claim for labor may be
cancelled by paying SO.
2 Whenever it shall be Judged necessary for the
good of the government, the people may be called up
on for IS days additional labor in the month.
Land T'arsS-S1O for large farm this may equal
acres; $5 for small farm about equal to two acres:
49, so for a very small farm, about one acre
Poll 1dr.-S1 each for every grown man: so cents
for every grown woman 25 cents for every boy, and
u 10 for every girl.
On each alternate year the land tax is reduced one
half-he other, remaining at the specified sum; on the
other years the poll tax is reduced one half while the
land tax remains at the stated Many of the peo
pie must of course, cultivate the soil or the nation
must save whatever the rents may be: allowing that
SO will pay the annual tax in both kinds and that that
sum be equal to one fourth of the time as above then
we have one half of the time of the common man taken
up in labor for the king and chiefs, and he has few
acres, mot exceeding four as a boon for it.
Let it be remembered that extraordinary services for
the government may still require additional labor from
him, and the time in which he prepares for his own
wants. even while working for the chiefs, must be talk
en- not from the time allotted to this work. but out of
the remnant which is allowed to the man. And yet
it would seem, there are those who think this IS not
oppressive. Let the world decide.
3 Right of personal property. This has had a
beneficial influence on the people, They are more in
dustrous since the change, and are better clad The
privileges and improvement are in direct proportion to
each other, Both are SMALL small, because of the
want of right of soil, and want of right to time.
B. The representative branch of the government,
from the common people. This branch constitutes a
sort of House of Commons, while the chiefs make the
House of Lords in the council of the nation Some
have therefore compared the government to that of
England. There may be some ground for the com
parson, so far as the form is concerned but in reality
they very different In England, since the revou-
ton in 1858, the Commons is the paramount power in
the government. Several hundreds of the abest men
in England compose that body. The House of Lords
is composed of comparatively few. In the Sandwich
Island, the chiefs in parliament are the manythe in
fuental and the powerful by reason of their place,
their talents, and many advantages from the position
they have long occupied in society. The Commons
are the few seven in ally the imbeciIo in mind, on ac-
count of their former and present expressions
powerless, account of their degraded place in So
ciey. 1t is absurd to suppose that, under such cir
cumsances, the common people can control the legis
lative proceedings In the Sandwich Islands, as the
House of Commons that of the parliament of Eng
land. The comparison would not be instituted but
from want of a correct knowledge of the difference
between the two, or from desire to sustain oppres
sion.