Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-07-01

an opportunity Of showing that the senti-
ments which have expressed on the same
subject are justified by his high authority.
IL VIII Not Down
This is not a business of seliishness OF
faction, nor dixie many Of those questions.
which are daily moved in parliament merely
to agitate and perplex government can IL.
be dismissed by a vote. Ii will come for
ward again and again, and haunt admin
istration i'm n thousand hideous shapes. until
more liberal policy shall take place. FOR.
no folly can possibly exceed the notion that
any measures pursued by Great Britain Will
prevent the American states from having
Somc time or other. a commercial inter
course with our West Indian territories on
their own terms,
With chain of coast of twenty degrees
OF latitude, possessing the finest harbors
Tor the purpose in the world. all living So
near to the sugar colonies and the track
10 Europe-with a country Astounding I'm
everything the islands have occasion Tor
ana which they can obtain nowhere else
All these circumstances necessarily and
naturally lead 10 a commercial intercourse
between our islands and the United Statcsr
IL Is true. we may ruin our sugar colonies
and ourselves also. in the attenni 10 pre-
vent II, but il Is an experiment which God
ana nature have marked out a imnossihle
TO succeed. The present restraining system
is iorbidding men To help each other, men
VINO, by their necessities their climate and
productions, are standing I'm perpetual need
% mutual assistance and able 10 supply H.
The Cause of Humanity.
He continues: Il write with the rr,al,p,
OF history, for it is the cause OF humanity
that L plead" And he might hav, added.
with the spirit of prophecy FOR this &C.
markable forecast was written as has
been stated, hundred years ago BRYAN
Edwards was for many years "a resident II,
Jdhdlcd, ana knew the island well Since
ms umc there have been many famous men
Dorm ar resident there whose lives and
works have shown that tho en-,alI,I A.
Slo-SaNon does noJ deuerioIate in an, IRON
les Jamaica, indeed. has always held
mrs. place IN the cause Of West Indian
clNlh@ation, as evidenced not only in indi-
NidGal cases. bat by her literary and sci.rl-
tfc societies
SO long ago as 1575 (to instance n note
worthy act in a slave colony a debating So
clety IN Kingston determined by a major
liE that the trade To Africa for slaves Is
neither consistent with sound policy m,
laws OF nature nor morality" Yet Rris-
lol ana Liverpool petitioned against it's re-
sulctloh says the historian. and the Earl
Oh dartmouth president of the board of
iradeD declared: We cannot allow me col
ones res 10 cheGk or discourage in any degree
d udillc so beneficial to the nation
Favored the United states.
That same year also. l775 the assembly
OF Jamaica petitioned his majesty in favor
"a nc IICdhs, IN thelr forthcoming
struggle. Their petition was disregardod.
however and in consequence of the war.
as the Jamaicans had foreseen would be
me cas- many articles necessary in tho
west Indies rose to four tunes their usual
price.
IT is most interesting to note at tho pres
ent time that not only has Great Rritain.s
dtutnde toward her suffering colony been
consistently oppressive but that Jamaico's
atNtude as toward us has also been com
stantly friendly, and in measure president
OF thai great change which shall some time
oilIs her INTO closer relations with our
country. That change may NOT come abour
inns year. nor in tins century but eventual
~ We snail acquire, not alone Jamaica. hut
all her sister Islands uI the Caribbean
Sea-those glittering gems in a chain which
links us to hat country for our fur,r..
commercial expansion-the continent Of
South America.
FREDERICK A OBER