, 1892-10-08
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- AS0N H0OStANA 40 A. y 10 y W ~ duG
advances and TO grant $4,000 for that pur-
pose from the lmmigrationfund. When we
consider the state of affairs last wear. when
the Island had made but very poor crops in
deed IN the previous year, and the Island had
just passed through one of The heaviest droughts
aud consequent hard times ever experienced
in the annals of the Island, it was certainly
JUSTIFIED IN the existing scarcity of money to
carry on cultivation to come to the rescue BIZ
making use of the available means of the I'm.
migrdtlonfund to lend parties needing help
but things are different this year; and the
question arises, is 1t the intention that the
immigration fund shall constantly be used
for promotion of the Sugar Cane? It must
not he lost sight Of, that this is the only
Fund we have, and it is hard TO tell # and
when 1T may not be wanted for it's original
purpose when a crisis comes. Then again.
$4,000 is rather too large a sum. If we had
heard from His Excellency how the affair
stood asst year, We might have been able 10
form some opinion as to what is required this
year but LENDERS are without that inf0rm2-
ton. 1a now the amount needed? He took
1t for granted that last year a great part Of
the Island was not assisted from the loans.
and DO was inclined to believe that that was to
q great extent owing to the wav in which
the lOans were granted 1T seemed that Es.
tates not delivering to the Central Factory
had not at all the same right as those deliver
ing; for, IN some instances whore q plication
was made, thu party was told, quite contrary
to the Rules w-ioh the Council agreed on.
that further security was needed beyond
that given under the Rules and the Ordin-
ance in short, then, Estates not delivering
canes to the Central Factory had to pay a
fine of 5000 as q guarantee, or else respecta-
b1a nartlAG RhOOId he Civa, -, Al
the tine would be paid. This was, to saw the
least, a very great imposition on the parties
and it was going a great deal too far against
the parties. Under tho circumstances in
which the planting community and the whole
Island was placed in consequence Of the
unparalleled drought, where estate owners
could not ind means to pay their lab0urers.
nothing cOald, indeed, be said of a man who
theA fails, and It ought not to be any thing
against a man OF q man B character; when
then "a man requires q loan from the public
funds, he should not be made to feel the
situation harder and heavier than it ia
and thus has been done by placing a man
IN the necessity of begging has friend to be
a guarantee for his honesty. If the loan
were to be granted this year, it would there
lore nave been necessary to make some
notifications on that consideration in the
AuiOS -" 1ACellency uaQ mtQtlOQeQ his
intention to propose notifications it is not
likely they would have been in a direction to
remove that evil point; but before these
things are properly arranged, the loans
should not be granted again this year ac
cordlng to the Rules nothing more was re-
CURED than the security in the crop, but to
ask a man for guarantee for bis ho esty that
he really will give what he has 10 pay with,
or to exact Of ii man to trouble his friend TO
I've a security for the payment of a fine,
in case he falls, is making Il mn too little.
The best thing hereafter would b that there
lie appointed a Committee Of 5 who along
with the Governor and the Secretary would
have to take under consideration the cir
cumstanceS, or else that the apptaisement
Of the crop Of the applicants comes before
tine whole Council. To vote $4,000 now
with the object of using it in the manner
as was done last year, isa matter he would
would not recommend; aud if parties could
get such s%ureties, why they need not apply
to the immigration fund. Another thing he
had to say, that if the granting of loans is to
be made so very much dependent on the de.
livery Of canes to the Central Factory, well,
why not let the Factory step forward and
advance the means? If they have that lien
on the crop. Well then let the money for
raising the crop come from that source too;
it is customary for Establishments of the