, 1875-05-05

uIdluly upOu d CnSUPeT SySEsW u OWppkYs
II Government can go with you in this
you will have solved the problem, aud can
gain q fourishing future for the island.
st. Croix March 9th 1874.
May I now ask you and your readers, if
this document did not justify US in appre-
hending Mr.. Jolliffe's position as we did,
and if I have not treated him softly and
gently. Do you think that he ia now really
pleased and feels grateful to me9 Had
deserved that be should request me kindly,
and with a promise of thankfulness
on his part, to publish his opmf Did I
not in reality better consider his well-un-
derstood interest by only abiding to his
Circular instead of publishing 'itR he,
however, wilIed it otherwise. His wish
has been gratiied. Ha6eat. And does not
this bit Of Latin call to the readers memo.
ry the old: Quemcunque Uuh perdere etc.
In so far as Mr.. Jollife asserts that the
fact of his having voted for the Ordinance
by which divers immunities were granted
to a Central Factory Company, should
have caused me as being present at the
voting to know his opinions and wishes
regarding them, | beg to reply that the
opinion I then entertained of him was
exactly the same as the one | entertained
and expressed in April this year.
Mr.. Jolliffe voted in the Council at the
close of 1878 for an additional Grant to the
Budget of $4,000 for preparatory %investi-
cations etc. concerning Central Factories
etc. In March 1874 he brought forth his
famous Circular" That he next in
November of the same year voted for the
Ordinance granting immunities to Fac
tories could not prove to US that he was
and had "always been strongly in favour
of Central Factories" especially when
it is remembered whom he opposed.
IF Mr.. Jollilfe's scheme as contained in
the Circular had been adopted, and the
Community then contracted o loan of
$780, 900, we would not have been able
to get Central Factories. Does he per-
haps believe,-to mention only one cir
cumstance-that besides the 100000 it
would have been possible to raise the
amount of $1,000 ,O003 I should think
not. I take it then that l am justified in
having designated his scheme aud himself
as I have done.
It is perfectly correct hat Mr.. JOl-
life has had no " expressions of a private
nature" with me personally against fac
tories, but to others | have been informed
by good authority that he has in private
conversation Expressed himself to that
effect, at least previous to the fall of
bis scheme.
Concerning my word of honor, I beg
to inform Mr., Jollife that it was solely
given to the electors with whom l had
spoken about the elections. They are
satisfied. Mr.. JolIiffe's opinion on the sub
iect is without the slightest significance
to me.
With respect now to the "realty of
the case" l beg to refer to all the above
as we'll as to Mr.. SIoth whose statements
Mr.. Jollihe has tacitly acknowledged.
I hope that Mr.. Jolliffe now under
stands how it came to pass that he fell
through. With regard to Mr.. Jolliffe's.
remarks on "purities of elections" etc.
l am unable to understand what he means.
Can he have meant that it should be for
hidden candidates to canvass for themselves2
With respect to Mr.. J~ollife's final con-
~clusion as follows: "The delay in forward
ing this communication has been OCCASION
ed by solicitations for silence" [ can
assure him that I have neither directly nor
indirectly solicited him for silence. We
may presume then that it has been his
friends. who. from considerations of his