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Show As to Haiti. Haiti often shaken our belief in the universalitv of the maxim "America for Americans." This blood-stained, barbarous republic, with its mere shadow shad-ow of organized government is one of the barrenest fields on which the seed of Americanism has been cast. Liberty under the law- and government originating originat-ing from the people and conducted for the good of the people have had less honor in Haiti than in any other of the struggling American republics whose political po-litical independence the Monroe doctrine doc-trine was framed to protect. Haiti is still as savage at heart, still as incapable of political self-control, as she was when Toussaint 1 'Ouverture defended de-fended her mountain fastnesses against the armies of Franco. tshe has had many rulers in the century which has elapsed since then, but never one who owed his tenure of office to anything but military force. These rulers called themselves presidents, emperors or kings, according to their fancy. but thev were nil despots, and scarcely one of them ended his reign in ponce. Ignorance, Ig-norance, suporstitution nnd all-prevailing political corruption have kept Haiti from benefiting from the influences making for order and progress which have been working steadily in r?i.'.; - the other Latin-American states. Our duty to this American has been a puzzling problem, r:. , European power tolerated sroh r.-: ; eminent in a depecdenty in t;u :-: s phere we should have JeEKse t.. uation or a restoration o: |