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trying exposure, instead of those feelings in them. Therefore, to make them ashamed by public the object should be to make the public conscious of the shame, for which purpose it would be better to take the criminals slowly round the town, or make them stand high up, than to let them sit head on the ground. If their heads were shaved bare, or the half of their queues removed, or the whole queue cut short, so as to make them hide themselves away for a few months, and awaken to shame, perhaps or go away altogether, then the criminal class in the Colony might be diminished.
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At present those mischievous associations are powerful; and the taze fa or gambling is unceasing, notwithstanding the sincere efforts of the Government, for, alas! but very few of the Police are in sympathy with the Government's earnest purpose. On the contrary, either their hands are defiled, or they seek their ease, and there is secret connivance within at crime from which must not be spoken.
The taze fa work commences at 10a.m. and 3 p.m. daily. There is not a street free from it. The police must know and see it. There is no possible way of explaining their indifference and pretended blindness but by exposing that they are bribed. The only question is to the extent of this bribery, which outsiders have no means of knowing.
Yet if one may draw an inference from a case recently tried, it would seem to extend over the whole police Force; probably the clerks are in the same association. We hear of $100 a day being spent on bribes for taze fa. Such an amount, some thousands a year, would hardly venture to receive. It is no wonder that taze fa gambling is unceasing.
And not only do the Police receive bribes, but they...