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acclimatization, and training in habits of industry are 
needed before new comers suited for work in a tropical 
country can safely be trusted to put forth their best 
efforts. 
In Indian immigration, with back passages at a reduced 
cost, or abolished, we have the means organized and 
ready to hand not only to maintain the sugar industry, 
and with it the revenue and means of government, but 
also to settle up the country. Under the system, per- 
fe6led by years of experience, we have a continuous in- 
flow of people suited to the country and climate, who are 
carefully looked after on arrival, acclimatized under 
good conditions, taught to be industrious, and placed at 
once into positions where they can earn a living, and 
save a little money. When their contra6ls are com- 
pleted, they are free to set up for themselves in the 
occupations which they prefer, possessed of some capital, 
and with habits of industry formed fitted to ensure 
success. Untrained settlers, with an imperfe6l appre- 
ciation of the reward that follows slow and continuous 
effort, are wholly unsuited to occupy the land and build 
up prosperous industries in this country, where it is so 
easy to provide for a bare existence. 
If the necessity tor back passages to India can be 
removed, the best available and indeed the only appa- 
rent avenue fpr safe colonization on a suitably large 
scale, is immigration through the medium of the sugar 
estates. Then, the larger the annual influx, within limits, 
the better for the Colony, Indeed the measure of the 
immigration might very well be the capacity of the 
estates to "fford them means tor earning a living, and 
gaining experience during their period of indenture, 
