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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">In Jamaica, adult suffrage was ushered in with a landslide for the Jamaica Labour Party under Alexander Bustamante. It was alleged that it was also ushered in with violence and intimidation during election tine and with post-election discrimination in the matter of employment. At that time, it seemed to tile People's National Party under Norman Manley that this Party did not receive adequate police protection for their meetings, and that plutocratic mugwumps strongly favored Bustamante. Indeed after the landslide victory of the Jamaica, Labour Party, it was claimed that the People's National Party might have to operate as an underground party, that is to say that adherents would have to dissimulate allegiance to the Party in order to obtain jobs and escape persecution and violence. Thereupon, It Is alleged, the P.N.P. opted for the short-cut to security and power; that they trained their own strong-arm squads, and determined to meet violence with violence. In any event it became abundantly clear that the Jamaican masses were incited by their political leaders to regard politics as a summons to war. The short-cut to power, which political leaders adopted, has been a big, black mark against them. It is claimed that it is these leaders, with their trade union affiliates, who have corrupted a normally peaceful Jamaican public. The peaceful nature of the Jamaican people was abundantly proved by their behaviour on their emergence from slavery.
It is claimed that Bustamante might be forgiven, because he did not then know better, not having had that long experience of British law and order which his cousin Manley had. For Manley, few people were able to find an excuse.
Jamaica is however free of many of the complications which affect the emerging African states beset by somewhat primitive tribal customs. But it should be borne in mind that, while the short-cut may bring speedy power or profit, it does not make for integrity, which in the long run is what is of permanent value in the life of a people as in the life of an individual.
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It is claimed that Bustamante might be forgiven, because he did not then know better, not having had that long experience of British law and order which his cousin Manley had. For Manley, few people were able to find an excuse.
Jamaica is however free of many of the complications which affect the emerging African states beset by somewhat primitive tribal customs. But it should be borne in mind that, while the short-cut may bring speedy power or profit, it does not make for integrity, which in the long run is what is of permanent value in the life of a people as in the life of an individual.
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