He supported the official resumption of indentured servitude as long as recruitment was regulated, as demanded by the General Council, an advisory body that represented the free citizens of the colony.
[3] He gave a detail report in the island's economy in 1894 to the Minister of the Colonies, concluding that "politics must be held responsible for the poor finances.
"[7] Workers in Guadeloupe had been receiving steadily lower wages over the last decade, while prices had been rising in part due to the Méline tariff and in part to the bank's manipulation of the exchange rate between the Guadeloupe franc and the French franc.
He wrote to the Minister of the Colonie on 20 April 1895 that the workers live "exclusively on factory wages, buy everything and do not have, at least in wide stretches of this land, a manioc, sweet potato plant, or a breadfruit tree."
[11] In a letter of 30 January 1896 to the Minister of the Marine and the Colonies Pardon mentioned several outbreaks of typhoid and yellow fever.
[12] In August 1896 Pardon confirmed that two patients had died of yellow fever in Fort-de-France that month, while two suspected cases had been isolated and expected to live.
[14] In September 1898 the Écho des mines et de la métallurgie announced that the Société industrielle et commerciale du Soudan français (Industrial and Commercial Society of the French Sudan) had been founded with a capital of 1,400,000 francs.