, 1874-12-09

49, ~AO $500 O&A . 'ANN NAN"S
have been advanced, all by competent men; and
differing from each other he did not
think we could go by absolute military princi-
pies, such as great military authorities would
lay them down; but what we had to be guild
cd by was rules adapted to the requirements
OF the Island and here it is that as long as
he had been in the Island, he had heard con-
tinualIy new views and rules being advanced
and given. Between those military views
that have. been advanced previously by the
Government. AND, others, and the one here in'rO-
duced, We have now to try to find the right
one. His own view, which was more in agree
ment with that adopted by the Government in
1871. he had held for a long time, and he
did not think it likely to be changed. There
can be no doubt of it that a large force can be
kept more in discipline, more stylish, than
a small one; and it is said at the same time,
that if the force be collected in one place,
you are sure of having them better fit for SER
vice when required. but our military force
is kept not so much with the view of being
called into activity, as. to guard against the
necessity OF being called out; the military
force exercises more a moral influence, and he
hoped that none of US should ever see it called
into action. The oljeot of the Military is
TO afford assistance to the Pvlice, to guard the
pooOC ; W IcotUI6 podOe no nUpeu tuoy WOulu
never be called on. For that purpose
they are equally as good when kept in small
divisions under sufficient control, as when kept
in one lsrge garrison under rigid drill. The
object of maintaining peace by the presence
Of the military is secured when they are locat-
ed several places, for then they are before
the eyes of the people, whereas, if only in one
garrison it would only be by hearsay that the
people would know of the exist. nee Of the
force. He would admit that TO the Command
err and Officers it might be more agreeable and
satisfactory 10 have q we'll drilled and hand
some looking company, instead Of a small de-
tachment but if the wants Of the Island do
not go in that direction, the Commanders aud
Officers must give IN; if the vans Of the
Island be, for instance, for o gems d'arms corpa,
the personal qualification Of th, oraticai or
technical ideas must stand back the Com
Tanders must be content in having men w3O
are half-s0ldiers, if they be the men best suited
to the requirements of the Island. Now, that
a corps of men like that proposed in the Draft,
however handsome it might look when on
parade, should be more useful to ma ntain
peace, he failed TO see; and consequently he
could not c0nsidCl this new organisation CCces-
sary from that p int.-Next, as reg arts the
question of saving, The proposal will be con-
nected with so many and such large OUTLAWS
in future, and such a length Of tine will elaps3
before a real saving will be obtaincd,-that
even there the plan did not afford much en-
enlargement. His Excelltncy Tad strongly
urged the position Of the Island as such as to
make it Ice, sary to save, and His Excel
lency added that 1t was more vel our duty
toward the Statetr asury, who is our creditor
for loan, to make re~lreEehments to meet our
debt. Now. be, the Speaker, would not enter
further on this point, but he must say be did
not consider the economical state of the Conn
munity so desperate as it is represented. The
Community has after 3 very bad years con-
trat ted a ,oan Of $500. 900; bat before t at,
the Community had TO debts and this is not
a standing debt, It is not even the Community
that in reality owes the money, it is lent to
planters, who are to repay it out Of the coming
DROPS ; it is to be rel all in l year and the
G! editor be ieves in the possibility of this;
when. it has been paid, the Community will
again Fave. i s ordinary revenues to meet ls
ordinary EXPENSES: with. This does not indi-
cate that the p~~sition is so desperate. He
believed it would be difficult to-. find Commu-
mites in. Denmark Chat are not more burthen'
ed with debts than ours. Therefore we should
neither 10 this matter nor elsewhere be infuenc.
ed by the position of the Island or the pros
poets of saving, when those considerations
work against the merits of the case itself. He
did not mean to say that there should not be