 | American Economic Association - Economics - 1903 - 774 pages
...faults and a considerable disposition to hang themselves, they have been found very useful. Suffice it to say that some of our largest sugar and coffee plantations...their wages are reasonable, that you can calculate on retaining them for a certain term, that the climate suits them and that they are handy in the house... | |
 | Toy Len Chang - History - 1988 - 234 pages
...faults and considerable disposition to hang themselves, they have been found very useful. Suffice it to say that some of our largest sugar and coffee plantations...upon them for the principal amount of labor done." And in 1857, a group of 70 "foreign" merchants registered a complaint to the government which referred... | |
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Chinese have been introduced here and more are on their way hither. With all their faults and a considerable disposition to hang themselves, they have been found very useful. Suffice it to say that some of our largest sugar and coffee plantations are... 