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PROCEEDINGS OP THE VICTORIA INSTITUTE. 
■ J ,01nt ' 0U ^ this, that by no possible means would they ever 
induce the labouring classes to establish minor industries on their 
own initiative. Even with all possible encouragement from tie 
Government or elsewhere, in no country had such a thing ever 
yet been done Th» ...u- 1 „ . • 
ye jeen done. The only way in which so-called minor indus- 
ries were established was when the initiative was taken by the 
arge proprietors. The labouring classes were accustomed to 
worn perhaps the greater part of their lives upon estates growing 
sugar or cocoa. That particular kind of work became to them* 
seconc nature, and it was impossible when those men came to 
acquire sufficient funds to purchase lands of their own, or to send 
tneir sons out to work, those people naturally applied themselves 
t° the Particular work which they had been born and brought 
up to, and it was almost impossible for them to take to any other, 
l fu a . 1 eo e or Venezuelan labourer cultivated a portion of 
land he took naturaHy t° either sugar or cocoa. The Indian 
o le when he came here naturally took to rice or maize, ft 
I- j ru ^ * le ^ ar badian labourer would, when he cultivated 
saw tvT.ff ,taport ' ion <>f it in vegetables, but there again the; 
had alw«v fi ° f be lar S e proprietor, because in Barbados it 
estate to he ? 6n , 1 ! e cl,stom for a large portion of each sugar 
which Wlth §round Provisions. The only way* 
by the armH *?• ustl ’ les cou ld be established in Trinidad would be 
the su"ar nH l T* 1 ° f Capifed by large landed proprietors, 
come W N^T Wa9 , t0be ruined "'here was that capitals 
If they l.ar) ,0 m those men who were ruined, undoubtedly- 
certainlv woiffi?? g , 0t ' cap ’ ta l to carry on sugar estates they 
The same remark mi 'hi 6 ! Capital t0 establish minor industries- 
ing, and the reason be applie d to the question of fruit-gro*- 
vation was simply 'V" V ° U ' pe< . )ple did not take to fruit culti- 
U P to it had U* Cause . 'bey had never been brought 
to go about it '''i *? en . done, -and did not know bo* 
properly established « , -i 16 ^ r uit trade here would never b* 
established large estate * T” With C!lpital came forward an 
employ perhaps thousands ° £ years those estatRS W °l t 
with 8 uffi c i en ( In Sa “ fls of la bourers who might be sent out 
perhaps the.se men would” 1 *? h L,^ e , lands of their own, and then 
accustomed to, and that *'* ab , ls 1 t * le cultivation they had been 
veloped in Jamaica Wj.r 8 wby tbe fruit trade had been de - 
»nd a great many of oth,.,' rega , rd 10 the Cocoa Ordinance, » 
Murray’s opinion. The h t P, e . op e differed from Mr. Busse 
would have immediate r menfc of a central drying house 
ceny and give direct eneoiir-i " open * n S the door to prsedial l* r ‘ 
who were mostly responsiblef^Tk 4 40 it ‘ The cocoa contractors 
greeny in the cocoa gn.w t^^^'^tep part of the pn*^ 
Period of years and when f h l? r not *> held th eir contracts for * 
cocoa came into bearing, their 
