, 1876-11-01

money has been wasted in the reckless build
ing of Coolie Hospitals at Buff Bay, at double
what private individuals could have construct
ed them, while official time was occupied in
q voluminous correspondence over a rs. cd. ice
blanket which had to be paid for out of the
private purse-fne swimming baths, which
cost the country $500 to construct at Kings
House during the administration of Sir John
Grant only the year before, we're pulled down
to make a flower garden for Sir William Grey
at an annual cost of $500 to keep in order,
while no sufficient salaries are obtainable to
pay respectable and trustworthy medical men
TO whom taxpayers in the country districts
must entrusJ the lives of themselves and their
families. These public berths, despite every
public and private remonstrance, are being
filed by any drunken beast Of q Canadian or
Englishman who cannot get employment
elsewhere, where be is known, and therefore
accepts from 9l00 to .9200 a-year to come to
Jamaica, where he takes immediately to rum
drinking, and dies Of delirium tremens in a
month, while bis relatives and the public are
sympathstically told by his friends that he died
of "yellow fever pa contingency to be-
looked for in a pestilential climate 1.-THE
pestilence really being a low salary with d
"cheap and nasty" Doctor sustained entirely
by a rum bOttle-E200 a year being enough
for a physician for the people, while $1,000 a
year is required for a Governor and 62, 600 for
Il Colonial Secretary, who, unfortunately for
the country, but luckily for their families, do
not follow tho example Of these Government
Medical Soakers whom they import to advise
the Par0clial Colonlsts who nowadays don't
count"
The answer of the Colonial Secretary to the
anpa,l oe Mr. E.paut prauinr fOr tina pnU0lrV
he urges into the outrageous expenditure OF
the Government on the Coolie Hospital at
Buff Bay, which he and other planters are tax
ed to pay, is most mysteriously delayed. and
the cause of this delay seems to require some
explanation. 1t is almost impossible to con
ceive that Lord Carnarvon would delay such an
appeal as this, when the interests Of the plant
ing community and d pure Government demand
it,. II is only rotten systems and dishonest
administrations which have to fear investlga-
tions, and the persistent refusal hereto let the
public see into the Charnel- HOu$e naturally
provokes suspicion and strong dlStrust. Even
when the judges are appealed to, instead OF the
Government courting enquiry, the law othctFS
of the Crown succeed IN sitting it at the outse"
upon purely technical grounds, so that no legal
opinion can be obtained from even the Judges
upon the merits of the cause brought before
them.
1t is said that Mr.. Rushworth has succeeded
in getting several years counted to his service
in Jamaica, along with Drs. Allen and Steven
ton and other heads of departments, on a re-.
presentation that the climate Of Jamaica Is
presidential, and he has therefore succeeded III
having Jamaica clasSed among "unhealthy
colonies at the Colonial Office to augment
his own pension, and that of those other officials
who are looking forward to a comfortable retire
mpnt from the Civil Service. There never was
a greater act of Injustice than this, and it only
serves to show how the present system OF
secret and untruthful representations can belle
a whole colony, deceive the Colonial Office.
and betray the |colonists without the vestige
of a chance of counteracting or correcting the
evil. A whole colony is decried and slandered
because a Colonial Secretary is looking 20
''feather his W nest" at the expense of
an unoffending and ansuspecting people, And
what is worse, the Colonial Minister believes
it, and materials are actually used In support
of the theory, which are unworthy, because
the Government has the power to remedy the
evil they so much deplore. They bring drunk
en- men into the colony and put them In office
without making any enquiry as to their past
character for sObriety the consequence Is
that drunkenness and debaucbery has gradual
" erept into the Civil Service until some men
are VIGOROUSLY q bye-word in it, and a reproach
to it, and in some instances to whole depart
ments These drunkards soon die off and their