The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1869-10-30

cMr. Harris5 had said that thew :. woud not leave their native
strand without they held a contract in their hand" while an
other member (Dr. uutchison) had said on the same evening,
off to the vessel by the hundred" This system tends to The es.
tabiishment Of caste, or. to he clearer, a classification OF socisiy-
tory of Jamaica, an island which the planters under the old
regime had declared was created by Ged to grow sugar, an opin-
lon which is shared by our planters in regard to this group.
Read remarks in regard to the administration OF Sir j. Z.
"The island when he landed was in a state of chronic insoi-
vency, the revenue being always short of the outlay by from
100000 TO 100000, or say one-siNth, and the debt increasing
come" : saThe revenue and eIrenditare of the colony
have been brought to an equilibrium" while the budget Of
1s61-6S shows a small surplus =
declining in prosperity, and inhabited by races so hostile that a
bloody riot seemed to the higher caste to presase a massacre,
ulation. Instruction was expected TO become chronic, and the
most hopeful on.loSseEs doubted lift would ever be possible to
THE change is complete, and is due mainly, if not entirely,
entirely from lis new attitude as an impartial authority, re-
able man, and the new Constitution is far superior TO the old
but he would have failed, had he not carried with him the first
cessfuI government of mixed races. that the spirit of caste shall
not enter into legislation; The State is independent of all, and
That is the grand idea which their long experience of empire is
slowly forcing on the minds of British statesmen, will replace
IN their hands an instrument of power too long neglected and
dlsused, the loyalty which accretes to the impartial, impas'ive
all-protectns State"
Thus can be seen what one honest, earnest man could do. He
did not consider it essential to a proper administration of the
his time employed to the detriment of the public service. The
speaker believed that We must search farther than the labor
system for the cause of our troubles Believed that it was not
essential to change the form of governments, but a new admin
isaration was needed. The second resolution passed declares
that the importation Of Chinese coolies is undesirable. You
have been told no contract system, no coolie {; the remedy is
with you. To you who represent labor, 1 say assert your man.
hood,-assert the dignity of labor, which can oniy be done by
demanding the repeal of all enactments, rules and regulations
which tend to degrade the lsborer.
j. H. Hood-A gross imposition was put on this
community by the Board Of per-
haps.
Minister Harris-AfterD DR.. Hillebrand's ~explana-
ton. how can you say that the coolies were deceived. (Cres
of question) |
z. III. Dauies read a written speech, in which,
while he spoke for the planters and advocated the
coolie system. he treated the subject in a jocular strain, cali
ing those I.hm9eites who opposed the resolutions, passed at
the Planters Meeting, and concluded by saying that he came
here under a contract, which he had fulfilled. He didn't come
headed up in a cask. !
Ihos. Hughes spoke again on the side of the plan
When they were prosperous, the foundry had
employment for all the hands that could be got. Mechanics
prospered when the planters prospered. loud cries of ques-
Judge Montgomery here got the floor, and endeav-
to get a hearing, but the audience tit being now
past ten o'clock) were getting impatient, and not inclined to
to any more speeches The previous question being in
sisted upon, was put and carried, and the third and fourth res
buttons were then adopted by a large majority. The meeting
vas then adjourned to Friday evening at ! O'Clock, at the same
place.