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ORANGES. tThe leading men here aay that the M«Kinlev bill with its reciprocity IwU tlilcot down the revenue of the talan100 000 dole a jeer, ell to the if the people. One industry is, howeverIn in red by it. end thet is oranges. Neve: jViy developed, although they claim thin the world, the cnltivaUon of oranges is discouraged by the in creased duty put upon the orange boxtaThe doty on the trait itself was unchanged,being. 1 believe# 55 perI* OLD BACHELOR who grew up withTHE COUNTRY.takenThe eocoanot milk, taken trom a green„ut, is a favorite and refreshing drink. 1ae itself that aronses popular vn the emphasis is pst upon the race colour of the parties to it. That Is th ground of inuignation and abhomnce .e appeal is not to the moral sense, bi to the well-known bathed of one cla towards another. The device is used witl ill and effect, and the question of gait innocence becomes unimportant in rce tumult of popular passion.For two hundred years men in the!h have committed this offence agaimback worn n, and the f*ct has excite a attention evlt; n at the north, excep ng abolition lets, wh ch plainly dem#i irates that tne horror uow • xisted is noBEE !BEE!BEE 3BEK !BEE !BEKBEEBEE nu to be exceedingly healthful have beard a story of an old bachelor, 89years of age, who came here for his healLnkmr! cocoanut milk soor the “i rime'* but thai it is based npothe reversal of colors inYet this ilheparticipantsconsideredBEErenewedapology, rightly utterly f*ils to palliate the crime of lyncBEEthe egrewafterwards i. raised t1 caunot,or the truth o,« *.v„ requires no care o And wbat woncer that theup wkh the country personally vouch fcthe story, icultivation.natives are laay, when lavishthe fruit into their laps.Against the virtues of the cocoannmilk ist.be bane of Jamaica rum. If yoi drink it in the United States, no intelli edit American would ever think of touch iugit here. As sold to the natives it is i e water*' of the n ost frightful quality. Its use is apparent la. the midnight brawls beard ia the streets. Bum shi ps are on every hand, and the bars are tended bywomen.Most of the Jamaica rum goes to England. Canada takes a small amount and the United States about one fifth of it, o20 per cent, more than they ought to. 1people will drink mm let them avoid th deadly Jamaica.WHO THEN MADE THE ANCIENT PROSPERITT?Just about 400years ago, Columbus or his second voyage to America discovered “the blue summits of a vast aud lofty itland.” He toos possession in the nameof Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain, and it* as named Jamaica. I t was wrested f romSpain by England, and though England hLs since held it, it was reserved for the United Slates to cultivate and develop it, Its fruit products, growing everywhere withbut little cultivation, spontaneously ami lavishly, caunot go to Englaud on account of the distance, as bananas and oranges would decay before getting to market. New York and Boston tatte practically theaw. tot if toe charge against the negro[is trne, and the evidence of his guilt over whelming, as is usually asserted, ther cau be no rational don t of his certi punishment by tbe ordinary processes lt;law. No decent white man in the Son will pretend th** in that region thcould be lmpanoelled a jury black, wh te mixed, which would in case of prooi othe deed allow a gni.’ty negro to escape condign pnnishment.I do not deny that the negro may, i some instances, be guilty of the peoal’s crime so often impntea to him. There aihad mjii Sinong them, as there are anon, all other varities of the human family,bu I contend that there is good reason t qnestioL these lynch law reports on thi point. The crime imputed to the ' negro isone most easily imputed aud most difficultto disprove ; and yet it is one that the negro is least likely to commit. It is i crime for which opportunity is required and no more convenient one was eve offered to any class of persons than wa possessed by the negroes of the Sent during the war of the Rebellion.There were then left in their power wives and the daughters, the mothers and sisters of the rebels, and during all the period no instance can be cited of an outrage committed by a negro upon a person of the white woman. The crime is a new* jk # *one for the negro, so new that a doubt may be reasonably entertained that he h learned it to aoy each extent as his ac cusers claim. The character of a peopl established by long years of consisten lile and testimony, cannot be very sud denly reversed. It is improbable that thi peaceful and inlt; ffeusive class has snddenl aud all at once become changed mtlt;BEEBEEBEE :BEEBEEBEKBEE ]BEE ]BEE 1BEE ]BEE ]BEEBEEBEE 3BEEBEEBEEBEEBEEBEEwb« le crop. class of the must daring and repulsiveLeading men here say that Jamaica'^criminals. should belong to the United Mates, since lhe distressing circumstance in thi England does notniog for them except togrevival of lynch law in different parts o . % u the Bonth is that it shows that prejudiceA i about tbe island are ruins of old £ and hatred have increased in bitttrnechurches aud stone buildings, which arewith the increasing interval between theaii there is left to tell tbe story of anytime of slavery and now. The resistance ancient prosperity. Gr*at piantatioua,g met by the negro is tome evidence thatindicating the wealth and luxuiy ot thosejbe is making progressBEEBEEBEEBEEBSEhistoric days, of which only the outline exist, have become great banana fielding immense crops for New Englandconsumers. 1 cannot better describe abanana tree than to ssy it is like a corn stalk, but as large as an apple tree. One bunch only grow* on a tree, which is cut down, within a few feet of the ground Another tree or stalk then starts from thi same stump, which process is repeated for 6 or 6 years, when a new tree must be Set out. 10,000 bunches in a single cargo aresent to Boston, and six steamers are kept going from Port Autonio to Boston duringthe fruit season.In' Pun Antonio 20 years ago, thepeople were in dense ignorance, vice ami squalor. The natives wore but little clothing. Since the development of the greatbusiness, the Boston Fruit (Company, there •has bren an entire change, lhe natives are ts clean and tidy, as well olothed and as well behaved as are the coloredThe children attendpeople of Virginiaschool, Mr Hopkins of tbe Fruit Company, is known as “ the great temperance advocate, for his work among the natives in fighting the drunk habit which is prevalent all over the island. Port Antonio has about 2000 people, of whom not over 60 are white. When our party of 13, from Boston, landed a few days since, we “astonished the natives.’ and 1 supp by this time we are ** well known” peopleA GRUESOME RELIC.The Kingston Public Library contains12,000 to 16,000 volumes, many of thembeing old and historic. The cl mate aud out-door life do not stimnlate much reading and study, and books and newspapersare not in much demand.Dow n in tbe museum is a gruesome relic that was dug up nearly a generation ago. It is a cage of strap iron, so constructed as to fit the human body, with bands around the neck, breast and loins, bars and stirrups for tbe legs and feet (the last having sharp spikes to press into the soles of the occupant's feet), aud a.riug at tbe top of the struct are to suspend it by. This awful instrument of a fiendish tyranhy contained, when exhumed, the bones ef a woman, who had without doubt thns satisfied the malice of an euemy, or, more likely still, the barbarous passion of a master to whom the life of a slave was a thing of less valuethan that of his dcg.Here are several fine book stores whereall the late English and American books may be found. The cheap libraries and paper-covered novels find a ready sale among the tourists.BUILDING SOCIETIES.Building societies similar to the co-operative banks at home, are chartered by the government, and flourish. Some o them have regular offices,and headquarters. Building is very costly, the lumber being all imported, paying a heavy duty anadrausportatton ratea. No good lumbe for bnilding purposes grows here, and 1 have seen no wood-working establishments or saw mills. |The houses are bail lightly, no warmth being required, great economy of lumber is practised, laige hotels and mercantile buildingsmade of brick, while stone is used foreminent buildings A small house that couldbe put up for2,000 dole in New E«g would cost 6.000 or 8,000 dole, here, only on account of the high price of lumber but also because the Dative carpentertktdsao little work in a day.It is only when the negro rises in wealth, intelligenceand manly character that be brings npohimself the heavy baud of persecution. The men lynched at Memphis were murdered because they were prosperous Tuey were doing a business which a w ite firm desired to do—hence the mob1 and hence the murder. When the uegr is ignorant aud degraded he conforms to popular standard of what a negro should ^be. Wjhen he prusumes to be •Jinan among men he contradicts tbis plt; lar standard, and becomes an offence tisurroundings.The responsibility for lynch law does no rest entirely with the ignorant mob These are not the cuen who make publi sentiment. 1 hey are simply the hangmen, not the court, judge, or jury. They] simply follow the public sei timent of the Bouth, tbe sentiment created by wealth aud respectability, by the pre s and pul-j pit. A change in public sentiment can be easily effected by these forces whenever they shall elect to make the*effort. Le the press and the pulpit of the Bonth nni their power against the cruelty, disgrace and shame that are settling like a rnutl fire upon these lynch law States, an scb law itself will soon cease to exist.A. Rerun-. 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MELDON.sANOTHER.Barbados, 28 th March, 1892. fDNKY Rosa Co , New York.Gentlemen,—I was suffering from Indication, and used year Dr, Ross’ LIFE PILLa. aey relieved my distress at once.Yonrs truly,JULIA HERBERStron—8 t k c per wk.29 6Waverly HotelBJMANOEVILLEAt Wh,*nlt;2S00ABOVE THE SEA.Lyitch Law in South Am-erica.\by Frederick Douglass.When all lawfnl remedies for the proven lion of crime have been employed and have failed; when criminals admiDiete the law in the interest of crime; whenthe Government has become a conspiracy1 tgainstthe welfare of society; when men guilty of infamous crimes are permittedto escape with impunity ; when there i« Lo reasonable hope of reformation, there is at least an apology for the application ofljnch law ; bat, even in thi* extremity it mast be regaidtd as an effort to i*en traiize one poison with another. In no tolerable condition of society can lynch law be excused ordtft-nded. It is gener-nliy in the hands of the worst class of men tbe com inanity, and is cl acted under fhe most degrading and blinding infla tneei./ioaie of us remember the storm of disIk asure that came up from all the regions: of i.avery against William H. Beward for the utterance which claimed a higher *av than the law of slavery. Then tbehom stood stoutly lor the bindingLree of the regularly enacted laws, cl'..i rued to be tbe conservative. a * . “ . * * . • . I• fement in our Government; bnt to it is the defender of mob usurpations,£; *■ icrmory has become the theatrec* ' -- violence against a defenseless1Pscple. The crime which these usurpersI* tofts* to punish is the most revolting oftbs side of murder This, they know, beet excuse, aud it appeals at oncet0 a prejudice which prevails at the Northas at the Bouth Heuce we have. Ior a^t of lawless violence the same ex-j c^f an outrage by a negro upon seme white wuman. 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Kingston Daily Gleaner
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Thu, Jul 21, 1892
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