Show A BAD EXCUSE The government keeps a couple of men ofwar at PortauPrince and the reason for this is said to be this The fact is that white people are not looked upon therewith there-with too much favor at any time and just now they are threatened with more than tho customary danger through the violence of an armed mob This is a confession which a Republican administration ought not to have made Any other excuse than this for sending armed vessels t Hayt would have been better Tho negroes of Hayti are a intelligent as those of the United States as well educated and as highly civilized They have had advantages advan-tages which were denied the blacks in this country and have advanced as ranidly as could have been expected Nevertheless Neverthe-less they are semibarbarians and so ugly that foreign war ships must constantly threaten them to restrain them from the wholesale massacre of whites I is unlikely un-likely that tho negroes of the United States would bo any different from those of Hayt under similar conditions and circumstances Indeed in tho large black communities of the south the superstition and barbarism are as pronounced as in the black republic and if there is less criminality it is because of the fear entertained by the negroes of the laws enacted by white men and enforced en-forced by whites The political party which sends armed ships to Hajti to protect white people against negroes who have enjoyed self government gov-ernment there many years is doing its utmost ut-most to establish the blacks in control of large American communities Republican orators rant and rave because the blacks are not political masters of several southern south-ern stat s occupying the offices and interpreting inter-preting and administering the laws for the white people Would the whites of South Carolina Mississippi be any safer under negro rule than are tho whites of Hayti I We think not the negro being the same the world over And would a Republican administration I ad-ministration send troops to South Carolina to protect white people from the barbarous blacks Not much the whites being i Democrats and the negroes Republicans I Some other excuse for keeping United States men of war at Port au Prince should be found |