The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1877-08-25

tlarles, and of the hope and promise of the ris-
ing generation whom they seduce from the path
OF honest labour, and indoctrinate in all the
worst and most ruinous ways of lawlessness and
vice.
Whatever may be the special or the general
and manifold reasons, there is 10 this country a
great and growing scarcity of labour, and unless
this state of things is remedied, a fatal issue
may be anticipated for those great industries on
which the prosperity of the country depends.
All classes of the community benefit directly by
the successful cultivation of the staple produc-
tions, and as this cultivation cannot be continued
without a steady supply of labour, it is the in
terest of all classes to obtain the introduction of
a wise and equitable scheme which will effect
this desirable object. 1t is the duty of every
honest and patriotic citizen to dispel, by every
means and agency at his command, the damag-
ing fallacy which is entertained by people in
England, to the effect that immigration inficts
hardship and wrong on the native labourer.
There is still the same demand for as many
native laborers as can be obtained, and the ex-
tention of cultivation which immigration occa-
sions, opens up to the Creoles a higher and more
remuneratiye description of labour. We are in
formed by a gentlemen who has had long expert
ence of the system, and whose testimony is most
reliable, that since the introduction Of coolie i'm
migration the demand for coopers, carpenters,
boilermen, and other skilled workmen, has been
doubly and trebly increased on the properties
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too, with the case of a respectable and iniuen-
tial member of the class in England which is
most opposed to immigration into this country,
has seen the advantage and necessity of
the system and Is now an employer of coolie
labour on his own property.
The advocates of immigration here are not
asking for Jamaica what is not conceded to
countries. Demerara, Trinidad, and
other British colonies, duly impressed with the
of a continuous and reliable labour
have obtained from the Imperial Gov
ernment, liberty to make their own arrange
in carrying into effect q wise, patriotic
and policy. We in Jamaica demand
similar liberty, and submit that it is no extra
VACANT request that we make when we ask to
be allowed to do what we deem best with our
own revenue, and apply it to such use as will
most assuredly promote the best interest of the
Colony. We protest, most emphatically and
Indignantly, against the insular conceit and
arrogance of any British society which affects
TO know what is good and right for us better
Than we do ourselves, and has the sublime i'm
pertinence to dictate to us how we are to order
our ways and spend our money. 1t is time
that the Anti-Slavery Society and other cognate
should be taught that the Jamaica
,olOnists are neither fools nor tyrants, but are
quite able to manage their own affairs, and
possess a sense of honour as pure and high as
hose pharisaic Oculists, who, while they neg
ect the beam in their own eye. are for ever
and cropping for the mote they wish to
ind in the eyes of their misjudged and suspec-
ed neighbours.