CO129-253 - Public Offices & Others - 1891 — Page 455

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more dve aith

the colony

corkman

Car

6

the added to

* more

in England. certain good

against Bank Holidays But in England, the

wages to the

of the many importance

is regarded

faj The workman prefers

Sunday wages

to shunday rest.

But these arguments are not

application. If

of a merely they be true.

do

cal

76

of

equally

true of

ong Wong, they London, Liverpool,

ae

Hull, & Glasgow, in which ports

the majority of the

dock labourers

might equally prefer Sunday wages to Sunday rest; & in which

communities wealth might be similarly increased by

labour instead of

six.

Seth E

days

4. The Governor's further

rgument about the possible

lowering of the

of

the

heathen

crime likely

moral

standard

& the increase

to result from

weekly day of rest, has doubtless

a

much

of

truth in it as

the

used

against

similar arguments sometimes

of

a.e

67.

more

than the possible evil the few. And in a British 452 brown Colony, solely dependent

on its trade by sex,

for existence

The undisputed good of the 120,000 who annually 4 firemen

Ae amer

enter its harbour in British ships

alone is

nore

consequence than

evil to a few

the possible moral

hundred

Excellency

رم ایک

heathen

coolies.

has apparently

long out

of England

lost touch

His

resided

as to have

with the progress of

British sentiment.

5

His Excellency's crowning

argument is the inconvenience of putting honest working man into gaol with thieves, for hoisting

cargo

Our

a

Sunday. But this does

not happen in

the world in which restrictive

harbour in

any

regulations

Briti

Gola

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