, 1874-12-09

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our wants don't require them to be SO. In this
connection he would touch on some of the Mo-
hey Bills attached to the Draft, which are
based on this principle that the men are in fu-
ture to be military and nothing else he would
say let US use them whore we can the men
will not become less disciplined by that, and
they will be ready for military duty when re@
CURED, although engaged in public service I'M
der civil departments. If this proposal had
been to draw the force to Christiansted, but to
continue using the men as now, he might even
have had less against it, for then the saving
would have been crater. But he could never.
admit the necessity of the soldiers not being
used in the Customhous; s, as Police Consta-
bles, for carrying the mails, as Extra Writers in
public offices, and wherever they can be used.
1t Is, certainly, q hard life to serve ont
6 years as soldier here, where the men have no
relatives nor anything else to make time Light
and therefore also we see the men occupying
themselves with their trades, as shoe
makers, blaoksmiths. j%oiners and gardeners
now, he should be the last to say a single word
against that but he could not see why
it should be more dtmoralizing for a military
to act as subordinate at the CustomhouSe or at
the Postoffce 1t has be n said that the men
In that way come under 2 d. ffert mt Authorize
and that no one can serve two masters; but,
then, they are not engaged in both services at
the sam time, and he did not believe the
discipline would. be broken down at all by
the men being used in these positions. The.
few squabhles that might have occurred
between different Authorities at times, have
been but trifing and could not serve as
an argument against the thing. The chief
thing is, that the military commander knows
where his men are, 40 that when they are want
ed, he can call Oh them. And when speaking
OF the savings attending tue plan, it must not
be owe looked, that the Government in the mo-
tives to the Draft put the erect ng Of q new
bar; aok, which will cost $15 900, as a condition
for e~ffecting the change and, hence, the Council
would be bound, il it adopts this Draft to vote
that amount for the said purpose, by which the
saving will become negative for several years.
rot even taking into consideration the interest
on those $4,000. The new plan appears TO
him 10 be attended with much expense, and
if that had not been 50, there might have been
more willingness to accept it. ! the question
were to or atesa new military force, he might
not have great objections to q plan, that
merely put a certain number of men at the dis
DO, al Of the administration, lia7lng it to the
Executive how best to distribute them. But
it was a different thing when the purpose of
the new plan was to withdraw stations, al
ready a long tine established. In the mo-
tlves to the DTatt the change Is mentioned as
an experiment, and he believed the Gov
ernu ent Itself would after a while be
ready to give it up, and reintroduce the present
organise, ion or son ink SINH ar, but al that
time the buildings and establishment: at Kings
hill and in Frederiksted would lie otherwise dis
posed of. The o. %jections against the removal
Of the military from KinAshili and tie Centre
of the Island, where the m, n are really useful,
can not be overlooked. In the last meeting
Che honorable 1st Member for Frederiksted
(Sarauw) had called out to another honorable
Member who spoke for maintaining Kingshill
S alton, that the men are used as messengers /;
but if YOU must hive messengers, why not use
those men as such ? They are not required
to ride about with Drawn swords, But they may
be and are useful without that. 1t is within
his personal experience that the Military at
King bill have done good and if the proposed
change WIS to take place, h. " uld certainly
prefer irstead of APRON Ing more Policemen
to let the POlicemaster have 4 or 6 military
men constantly for there is no doubt al out it
that a mounted and armed n an docs much
more good .by his mere presence than 4 Police
men together. The last time when there was
much use for the military at Kingshill was. in.
1863, when, as will b. remembered, great alarm
prevailed in the District, and patroles had to
be sent out for some time cons family, when also