, 1872-09-18

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much more for a handful of contour or
for a herring, so it is ultimately the starry
ing populations here, from whom, through
Indirect taxation, a great part of the table
money is extorted. The pauper pays the
retailer, the retailer the customhouse, the
customhouse the Colonial Treasury but
the pauper has also his share in paying di-
rect taxation for he is obliged to pay
higher houserent in proportion as his
landlord pays to the Colonial Trea-
sury a higher tax for his property.
The money thus in a great measure squeez-
ed out of the poor now again gradually
evaporates in many directions, and it has
pleased our high rulers, that 81 200 of this
money shall every year evaporate in Fly
sum-. How cheering it is to the paupers
here to know, that thus a means is afforded
our potentates of receiving and requiting
splendid inequalities, as those shown the
late Governor Billie in Porto Rico !!
Another great result to be anticipated from
public money being spent on Elysian
splendor is this, that,-from a spirit of ri
valry, particularly in such people out here,
as, in accordance with Mr.. CIindinen's Just
remark, in spite of their greatest real in
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tire, when walking in the street,-their
intense e~xertion in struggling for appear
ances may be nightly toStered, to their
ultimate ruin. Let such weak characters
remember to pray "Lead us not into
temptation :"
The last audible wandering of my mind
shall be upon the nice chance, which we
starvelingS have of a~verting our poverty
by our own exertions | have hitherto
subsisted poorly enough by my own exer-
tons, particularly as a private teacher
now, though in no respect incapacitated,
1 nave no pupils, and do for weeks not
earn one cent. People certainly OCCASION
ally speak to me about private instruction
of their children, as the Danish school is
a humbug in which their children learn
nothing ; but they add, that they are too
poor to pay me. What shall [ then now
do Take a hoe and work in the field 2
Or go to sea ? 1t is easy enough to say,
that "a good deal of the poverty might be
averted by the e~xertion of the parties
themselves ,"-but how7 Can a horse
move when he is tied, if he even has ever
as much "vitality"? The public education
in this island has, since Governor General
Won Sholten's time, been criminally oppres-
sed. (See my communication in this pa
per for Saturday the 10th of March 1872,
No. 22.) Rational beings want food for
their minds as well as their hearts, and no
services in any other respect are here more
urgently required than those, [ have rem
dered and am still able to render l have
also challenged a trial in this respect (See
the sam paper but the "Prince of this
world" Ooh. 10, 31,-l4, 3O,-16, ~
has had his unlimited sway here in st.
Croix for many years hence its dreadful
decline. Mr.. Billie did no good whatever.
Can and will Mr.. Garde do any ?-Just
qualified in every respect for a public
teachers calling I have been, and I'm still,
excluded and brought to starvation, while
sham has been and is stuck up and richly
stuffed with public money for making edu-
cation and learning a humbug. The just
claims from the inhabitants to the Govern
ment to have their best interests
properly attended to have been cru
ely neglected for many years and in
telligence and free e~xertion have been
checked. Hence that miserable state of
things, which has been SO truthfully des-
cribed by Mr.. CIindinen; but our public
Guardians have either been really blind and