, 1891-06-20

lIuuSIII0S Ill OuE uOulC Al0AA OCo'NOAOOAOi' -
cannot forego these few remarks before sit
down. It has been my pleasure, as 1t has
been the pleasure Of many Englishmen i'll
Parliament, to travel through your great IS
lands and see their vast products and their
great fertility and beauty, and not only
looking to yoMr islands bnt to every part Of
the British Empire-Canada, India, Austria
LA and observation-disclosures h~elpasking my
self this question. COnnot we produce in
the British Empire sufficient for all Our
wants? (ChperS).
Sir Waiter'SendaIl: [ will now ask You, La
dies and gentlemen, to join me in expressing
our sense 0fthe valuable and most INTEREST
ing DISCOURSE which we have heard from Mr.
Morris. Cheers Among the many admira-
BILE Qualities which Mr.. Morris is known to
possess. there in none which is more worthy
of communication than his great cOnStancy.
(CheerS.1 Mr.. Morris, | believe, began the
professional c~areerin which he has ach eyed
such distinguished success, i'll the West In-
dies. and we all know how constant he has
remained to the West Indies. | say to tho
West Indies because we learn from the pa
pers which bring us the dOingS OF the pro-
f~pssional Staff ut Kew, the addresses which
from time to time are delivered at the Colo
NAL Institute, and from these sources we
learn the great interest which Mr.. Morris
always takes in the prosperity OF the West
Indies. You read at all times that he brings
his scientific and practical knowledge anu
common sense to bear upon all matters
which arc interesting to us and upon which
our prOSperity-our life we may say, so
much depends. Mr.. Morris, as you all
know, is a practical botanisI; anil from ano-
Their point of view You may call him a SGlen-
tifc gardener. A gardeners business IS to
SOW seed. Mr.. Morris, | am sure since he
has been in thiS,rOOm has been fulfilling the
functions of a gardener. (CheerS.) He has
sow an immense lot Of most valuable seed.
and hope-and yon will join me III hop
ino-that the seed which he has SowD has
fallen ON COOL ground, ana will bring forth
such fruit as may always cause us to renneIn-
Der the words we have heard from him to-
dav. (ChenrS.) [ hope yNl will Ill JON mo
i'm thanking him for the valuable address
he has given us, and in wishing nun II sue
ceSSful voyage. and y long period OF SUCCESS
i'm the career in which he has alIealY Oh
tanned 50 high IA reputation. (Fh9 vote OF
thanks was carried with aoclamatlon.)
Mr.. Morris, in responding, said that he
had to thank the meeting IN the first place
for having listened S0attentlvelJ to what
he had said. He had also to thank His
ExceIlency for the very kind and happy
way IN which he had proposed the vote OF
thanks to him. He felt snre that any ono
would be willing to do q great deal more
than he had done to receive such com
menlatiou from Snch hands. His Excel
lency bad said that he (Mr. MOrriS) began
life in the West indies, but be really began
it in the East Indies, in the island OF
CeSlOn. It was there where residing for two
yeals he came III contact with son OF the
most enterrriSing planters in the world,
and imbibed some of their enthusiasm
and brought it ont to the West Indies; an''
it was in consequence OF that enthusiasm
that it was thought once in Jamaica. that
he was much too sangUine in his estimate
Of that island. But the other day he was
never more gratiied in his life than to see
that the people of Jamaica had not only
taken ND some of the cultures which he
had so long and so persistently advocated,
but had brought them TO good account.
Here in Barbados we have been much bet
ter favoured with regard to our sugar IN
dustry thar the people OfJamaica and he
assures MS that the means opened to us
were such that he had not the slightest
doubt that we could vastly improve our
circumstances and ~pralnce u great deaR
more sugar than we had produced, and at u
less cost than We prolNced it at present
and that Barbados, inf spite of Mckinley
Bills coull be as PROSPEROUS now as she
had been in years gnn9 by. I(Cheers.) He