The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1865-11-18

attempt on the part Of the imperial Government
10 apply the same rules TO them as to the othel
two colonies. The results have proved that thc
conduct OF such an experiment as the one in
question ought never to have been entrusted to
them. We have said that the scheme of employ
ing coOlle labor has, apparently, succeeded IN
Demerara and Trinidad but the fact is, that
both those colonies are now burdened with enor-
nous debts incurred for this Asiatic emigration (;
and 1t is notorious that since TrOllope wrote bis
book on the West Indies Il sad reaction has taken
place in the fortunes Of the latter. What the
end will be of i system Of labor so utterly at
variance with all known laws OF political econo-
my. remains yet to be seen.
In Jamaica, the second trial of the scheme
promises to be as disastrous as the first, although
1t has been made under all the advantages Of the
experience derived from that by the planters and
the legislature. From a recent number Of the
Falmouth Post, n newspaper published ON the
north side OF the island, We find that vaorancy
and destitution are again common among the
coolies in Jamaica:
The parish Of St. James is not the only one
IN the county Of Cornwall ia which there is a
vast amount OF destitutiOn among inning ants
That have been imported from the East Indies.
In the towns and rural districts Of Trela yney,
Hanover, and Westnoreland, many Of these peo-
pie, covered with sores, almost naked, and appar-
entity An a starving condition, wander about ask
ing Tor aims. Some Of them, Il Is SUP posed, are
deserters from the properties Of their employers,
ana others, having terminated their contracts of
service, depend upon chance for their subsistence.
The sub-agent, whose duty it IL to look after,
neglects them and we have reason to believe that
much Of their unserviceableness and vagrancy is
the result Of this eulpable neglect. This is a fact
to which we respectfully direct the attention of
His Excellency the Governor and the members Of
the Executive Committee. What is to become of
these miserable creatures, who, whatever be their
faults, ought not to be left to shift for them
selves ?"
Commenting on this, the County Union, another
Jamaica newspaper, says:
Let the Governor enquire now, and he will
find a miserable cOolie in the county Jail, sent
there for no crime whateyer-sent there upon the
wantOn caprice of Mr.. Rawlins (the sub-agent)
there without trial or offence-sent there
to work out that cold-blooded inhumanity of
which every act of his is redolent. This poor
wretch is, and has been for some time past. a
mere anatomy of bone, covered by as sunken a
of skin as the human frame can exist
in. He is scarce able to crawl-scarce able to
lift hand to mouth to keep himself alive with
Ofal picked up in the streets, or thrown from the
yard in which turtle is prepared for expectation.
We have seen him contest a meal with the car
fighting for the refuse bones with
flesh on them, and if the police were ex-
lInined on the mans case, and chose to speak the
truth, his sores had maggots on them when he
taken up This, adds the Union. 80 shows
what can be done in a country where slavery and
the whip have been abolished"