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Samoa Times and South Sea Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 72, 8 March 1890, Page 2

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y# ' a* ,#r the Wkmtf mmm mmtii wflvjgr NMtetWM afifigg •til “-MMtai" pods* WX IAfM Sfc»r pwtag loth# thitiffjkMfWMi UtltiMt won ow his «nn7tlH that Im would pass me byaagamnto KMlwmiui’t latest prodaedua an M •minantly oharaofsnstic that betwew the liaM any wall ha raad Ika wall known signature. Far ha it from uu to daonr nit virtues or to proclaim hit demerits. Afar carefully perusing hia t«o column paraonai attack it 11 olaar to aea that, having purjioaelj misconstrued what I hj id written, 1m severely oririciaaa hia distorted version aad than avoids tha main (mint i« question, the present hard timaa anil how to batter them. The multiptota of words With IVhiuh be defends tin adUva rights to freedom araaltlos) upon me. “ Actions speak loader that word*.” says Mr. Now (hum. It this country's darkest hoar, at tha instance of the U. 8. Consul, with oulj a few dajra notice, 1 left my homo nw business, and at tbo expense of v«3 considerable time and money I carried the Samoan cry fur freedom bofon the very higiest tribunal to which! had a> cess. While I was ao nnployei how was Mr. Freudian engaged. ,li a wrangU over an ua*avemy haw with a poor Frenchman. Tkl • ccnpied his attention, if 1 ramumW right. During the bloody war fo liberty how many tins of liiiad or hag of rice or ronuds of ammuuiti<*n did Mi Fntrdou contribute to aid the can* ho uow »o seolously support*. Tin Soiuomu Government (uol Mr. Fr« don or I) will soon l»e called upon t». ’ tormiue to what extent that freeduu shall lie curtail d, and whvie tin right# of the natives shall begin nai close. The self-sacrifices nmde b; Malioto* so pathetically referred to k< Mr. Fr. o.loiu were very gnat in*i> eu 1 w ill add to ihu almy and lustre u his name. They comuiein-ed Imig he for# the late troubles ; vet wi'lmt thi natives who ought to be the brs judges se> in to be utterly unaoprecia tivoof his merits. That overflowing and effusive iuvo for the poor illueec native which seem to permeate everj Hue of Ur. F< cedent's rnticul essay n highly commendable. Yet uow utnJ then, if only lorn change, he migiil step down from the ulevated (ledestal on which lie pu-ee ami just oouaidn that he and I have nomu countrymen here engaged in trade and otherwise usefully employed, and there are other* here beside.; and that among us all some thr.o foni'ihs of the waste land* of (his kingdom are now held, for th< grn'u er part fairly purchased from Mu ffamoaue with the almighty Chile dof. lar. Tli .t bead.* these tins, slight M vhuy are, some of oar friends have brought foreign laborers into ito country to work those lands; that othan hnva built nn this town and ita depautrading throughout th< gaomi. aud ao hano ii<t«reMs of nc MBalUcaount. OMMrsatiil tiring out el •«* w** *■ Baw|» during tha past t a jUri Md tow vainly look" for n return fIUiVO thmo people no ainhaa on gr Freedoms aotmideratioa. dasniflei to Mr. Freedom’s advise they must in tha kaauasna of their aompeii thm that triula Buy thrive. The eg. aallanaa el tha adage whirh to toi quoted certainly apptow in afvOaaf S' uSS£tSSi SSJOZ acHS&H&|E that a revival of toriaeaa'muaHMuT *»** WaaddtoatoUniaalpL of toMw aad Hampering tradmEfaio •dtorn wwuld iasnra tha toStoE F*f*i*yot that daaart pfitoTß It was made to prodneo Ntoßl MMthrSw dgtoiag aoantriaa datoaii A |ME Aaw namtorof Miaßhalmlffi iflywai vtonltottihjy and ftwond along to ttoWheßi *1 toatoWtotafi« tomnnV

i wnotw|m annas re t<* ***** **»+»<* A* m swvia«t)OTe< «a* two totter* wkka Jk«wjrt«y« The "flO jP«Sa*J I IWI sUgsastod Hn twksbeea iasaits* upon tbo statute m* Saaoa. Ones during the regime. Bis*. ■afWasearanow ia fives ia Tonga aaj to, Fiji, aed have been applied the wwrU ewer at aJI time*. It haa long M»» hwi »» ■• that it had been agreed at tfM Berlin convention that t6l eatonoay of Snaoa had baan gHWIMaI, and that «he Beaoaa* with sane who|s*om* at *i«ranee wave to ant* jsasaotooa, and that Uift fw tha Osaka* of thia Governmnat would have to bo forthcoming. How in it pmsible for tha Bam»an« who ara now living from hand to month to meat thia Mff demand, aupply their neasaitla and paj off tha obligation* whiab tbay hare contracted to <lie trader*, uidaaa some profitable mmni rnient ope.ia tn them. Now Piuoaii Govcrn-ieut (vliat is ma velvet), in idelliwr reridatiuMS araiiewhat aftar of their noar *t neighbor* tiara that it wae nece*«nry cli-being and comfort of tha v. that tom* recenaary puldic idge* and building'* »liould icted, and that to enable tha thia, and nl«o pav *fa»working egpsiaaa; a mm of money equal t • a certain mint per adult mala inhabitant would have to be aub. scribed. That to take thi* from tha small »ura« now received l»v 'he |ieople for their eopri crop would entail more or lata hnnlahiri; therefore the Goterument had concluded that for a year nrt*o oxtr* exar»ion« would have to ha made, and wi»h tha* object in view arery eble-'-odi"d nauve would l<e requited to plant a certain amount of ' oottoo or bananas or wme other crop, fMn tha proreorila of the »al»- of which ha amid face the new li.ihility and par off hi« "Id oh'itMtiona to the trader*. Ruc'i a ouura* it* what I narked a mild form *if cnmpulanry and it ia neither i- tiou it»d »r nor would the penide h'Somo i»y or hca*t* of burden. Oat of tilt*■•xpn*>ai"in of mine Mr. Freedom ha*built OjMm niar.'a neat. We had no in 187.) trh»n Btern.her.ar jM** l *" '° '"• Tairm»a that mott mm wale Haraoan should clrar oneartfcolla«i'l mid pUnt 60 conoani't trrea Theveon. and i-aeh year he slurild itn tha *v*u f»r aeversl ye:ir«. a"d when BmnaVi* during hi» rule m-ide the aame rejrulalion (and enforce 1 it in mine localities) there nroee no opposition, nor will there now if the common mn*e of the peoptoia appealed to Hud Bteinherger't regulation hoen enforced hut two aeasona the copra crop of Samoa would ba about double what it ia today. Aa a man's prosperity inersaosa. he I aomatimea arrive* nt that point where he ia able, by the bet'eroircumatanoeathat he enjoy* to gratify hia taste for what ha haa, in earlier life, considered aa hisuriea. In moat raaae of the aapiring human being, thia deaira of battering hia condition, when one* awakened, die* only whan tha individual take* hia departure from thia Ufa. If in thia year tha Bamoana are only able to obtain $900,000 worth of supplies, and next year they gat goOO,000 and wantll,ooo,ooo worth, It only fwtowa that «Mt tnaifaiiaa effort* tha following **r wflleaahla th*m to hare that $1 Od>.ooo worth, and more, parhope. Wiß they,thon. ho tha uahappatewhen the* can, with eaae, piocare ■what thay now regard aa unootainabU ■luaurioa, altogether beyond their reach? ■ Willnot Mr. F. concede that it iaeren Inofafble that the poor Bemoan any ■yet be leaned to walaailali with ■pride the result of hia labonra—a oom- ■ fcrtnUo booaa oad n 4aU or ■ garden f Bacauaa anderotah ahanged ■ eoodWone the trader afconld alao reap ■oana odmnteirea X o*onot oooeaiee ■why Mr. F. nhould hi andoafiy otirred, land eoaneel hia to teekfaoe aoapoti■tioa^wfconnnehiaonraeooakloalyfa. I HprUff oboady oorppied too mnek KaoaaV I Wro only room tn notice that ESSaoai with a »W***t* dirty, tbo Wpmmgmmm pm of whioh wna lMawiaof,gaJcr nhnaa aMahaa aae^awmMaa^Jl EafS mt »s C> ifjKi ~\'*mmf of bh7>yan. litis" »«ft-i.

* \ Joat of ajajaity. For one wCknow » reryteta^tUrtrtn^wkaaooikaaaiiho » be haadl-d hia aabjea ra a anaterry » aanaan Howwror, ho winda an hia • diaeoarte with a qaeatUm, which I will !, nntwor, and any, that whan the law* of laoenahajl afford eoaae little bettor loroJfctkwl.MMlothora,wiUbeghulto 1 iaproreaomaland, and not wait for tha I native* to show n* aa example • but I , daaairof "New OMra*'following auit. , I hova not now the time or apace to aaawer Mr. " Non-Trader'* " pertinent 1 remark*, and an mnat leare them. 1 Perhapa I am wrong in tha eonolu- ' aiona at which I hare arrived ; hut certainly neither of tha gentlemen. «A«f "Freedom." "Now Gbna," or '• Non-Tmdor " hare ahaken them.— lam, etc., H.J. M.