Are there none among the workmen of English manufacturers and farmers?
Abuses may spring up, and do.

Do none spring up in London and elsewhere?
But the Government has the power to interfere, and uses that power.

These poor people are sufficiently protected by law from their white employers; what they need most is protection for the newcomers against the usury, or swindling, by people of their own race, especially Hindoos of the middle class, who are covetous and ill-disposed, and who use their experience of the island for their own selfish advantage.

But that evil also Government is doing its best to put down.

Already the Coolies have a far larger amount of money in the savings' banks of the island than the Negroes; and their prosperity can be safely trusted to wise and benevolent laws, enforced by men who can afford to stand above public opinion, as well as above private interest.