no 



LABOR NOT CAPITAL. 



hotel where I stayed, for articles, every one of which could 

 be cultivated in Jamaica with the utmost ease and abund- 

 ance, and ought to be sold for prices far below the current 

 rates for the same articles in any city in the United States : 



Butter, per lb., 37 %, 



Cow's milk, per quart, - -- -- -- - Ya\ 



Goat's milk, per quart, - -- -- -- - 25 



American cheese, per ]b., 25 



English cheese, per lb., - 37% 



Potatoes, per lb., 6U 



Eggs, 2 for .6k 



" during the Christmas holidays 5 cents a piece. 



Garlick, per lb., 25 a 37 % 



Flour, per lb., 12 a 18 



do per barrel, $16 a $18 



Corn meal, per bbh, $12 a $14 



Hams, at retail, per lb., 25 



Lard, per lb., 21 



Onions, per lb., 12% 



Nothing apparently can be more unnatural, than for the 

 people of this island, in their present poverty-stricken con- 

 dition, to be paying such prices as these for their daily 

 food ; and yet nothing is more inevitable, so long as the 

 land is held by a few absentee landlords, in such large 

 quantities. 



No one who has lived in a slave country need be told 

 that it never supports a middle class. The intelligent 

 white operative with no capital but his muscles, his cha- 

 racter, and his ambition, will never settle in a country 

 where all muscular labor is performed by a degraded 



