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its warm-hearted people ; both will be forever green in my remem- 
brance, and unfading in my memory will be the glorious scenery of 
this earthly paradise; its grand mountain peaks pointing heaven- 
wards in silent majesty, its feathery palms, its graceful bamboos, its 
wonderful gardens, its golden canes, its marvellous foliage, its 
gorgeous flowers, its spicy breezes, its Southern Cross, its ‘‘ firma- 
ment of living sapphires,” its ‘seas like skies and its skies like 
seas” And in all these I see a,vision of the people of the British 
West Indies, true and loyal to King and country, grateful for the 
blessings which they enjoy, will in far greater measure than they 
have yet. done, realize in all its vast significance what it is to be 
British subjects ; guided by wise counsels, elevated by religion and 
education, recognizing the dignity of labor, the lethargy of the past 
will give way to such activity as may be possible in a tropical 
country, and apart from the teaching of the churches, influenced by 
those modern missionaries of progress, the locomotive and telegraph, 
cable communication with other lands, fast steamships, the people 
of Jamaica will yet take no mean position in the general advance- 
ment of the Empire, which to them and to us has bequeathed her 
spirit and her fame. ‘They will realize more than ever what it is to 
be subjects of Great Britain, sharers in all the glory of the Empire, 
heirs to the vast privileges which to Britons belong, and what it is 
to live under the protecting folds of the stainless Union Jack—the 
emblem of freedom, protection and power. 
The new day dawned upon Jamaica when the wonderful Exhi- 
bition, to which I have referred, was opened. ‘There was new life 
put into the people ; it was a revelation to them, not only showing 
them through the exhibits the advancement of the world, but it 
revealed to them what might be brought to pass in the development 
of the resources of their fertile island by their enterprise and energy. 
Should Mr. Chamberlain’s policy prevail, and with proper provision 
for the fiscal conditions of each colony it ought to prevail, it will be 
a grand thing for Jamaica, especially the revival of the sugar 
industry, which Britain’s extreme free trade policy has practically 
ruined, building up foreign interests in that great staple to the 
destruction of that industry of our West Indian colonies. Every 
true Canadian, no matter what his politics may be, ought to desire 
to see the foreign trade of Canada and of all the colonies of the 
