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with kindness and honesty. The last condition is most 
essential. Native employers rarely pay their labourers in 
cash, and almost universally deal with them in a fraudulent 
manner. A European settler in Honduras, or any other 
part of Central America, who knows how to act with good 
sense, firmness, conciliation, and strict integrity towards the 
natives, will never be in want of hands to carry on his work. 
The population, of course, has become lazy and disorderly 
by the long unsettled state of public affairs and by the 
general ruin of agriculture, mines, and commerce. It will 
be the gratifying lot of the promoters of enterprises such 
as the Honduras Railway, and of those who may hereafter 
settle in that region or in any other district of Central 
America, to redeem so beautiful a country from the baneful 
effects of a most deplorable period. 
