Show I JAMAICA There Is some talk of an exchange between Great Britain and tho United States whereby the United Stktes is to acquire Jamaica and Great Britain js to haVe some possessions in the Philippines Phil-ippines It is all right to give Great Britain an Island or two In the Philippines Philip-pines 1 she wants them but we certainly cer-tainly do not want Jamaica There are about 700000 inhabitants there of whom 17000 are white Gunlons Magazine I Mag-azine says the great proportion of colored I col-ored inhabitants accounts for the reason rea-son so many negroes are found in tho professions tho arena of commerce and in similar walks of life as artisans arti-sans they are also much in evidence and as a matter of course all heavy labor is performed by them It says further that Jamaica negroes know only too well that but for education they would never have attained to positions po-sitions which are seldom reached by the race anywhere else In the field on the plantation or at the docks It Is difficult to see a negro who cannot at least read or write We fear that Gunlon has been subsidized to give Jamaica negroes a character It is the wickedest place or about the wickedest wicked-est place In the world A for negro laborers tho labor is performed by negro ne-gro women Any one who ever saw a ship coaled In Kingston harbor will vouch for the above Two long gangways gang-ways are fixed from the wharf to the deck of the ship A row of poor wretched negro women is formedEach is required to carry a halfbarrel of coal up one gangway empty it inlo a nacgiiway then go down the other gangway and take her place In the line and all the work done by men is by a big negro who is on the wharf close to the ship and when any poor wretched woman after hours of that kind of work falters a little she Is o cour1 aged by n couple of blows from n brutal I whip wielded by that brutal negro on her naked shoulders ns she passes by Wo do not wonUer that ffrcat l3rIUi In wants to trade the Island off Hatlfljlod l atfntd In advance that nothing in the Philippines Philip-pines cau Se quite so l brutal > and barbarous bar-barous Thenu walk through tho streets or Kingston for half an hour will convince any one that the good Lord has grown merciful since the clay when Sodom and Gomorrah were de j I I stroyed for their wickedness because a Jamaica negro could have given any f j Inhabitant of Gomorrah cards and spades and beaten him at his1 own I gain wlc1cednc88 And yet Jamaica is IhcMnost beautiful island probably I 1 in the world and could its Inhabitants be swept out into the sea It would make 0 winter residence for the angels themselves |