Show V STILL BLACKS i RULE WHITES History History of Il ti Exceedingly Exceed DarK and d Teems With Horr Horror r. r END v TERMS VIOLENTLY is s Free Land Landin in Name Nam and Emulates United States Form of Government BY FREDERIC FREDERIO J J. J HASKIN PORT PORTAU AU PRINCE Hayti Uati May 16 i is the tho one be f place bce in Christendom where bere black rules rues white Here the thone- thone ne- ne Igro o has had the opportunity of working work work- j ing ig Jt out his own destiny destin He has won for or himself him independence c and Sand durin during a 3 along along long term of years has been governing M according to his own notion Hayti is a republic in na name c and andi i ia orI or or- I in cm emulation m l J tio tion of tho the States It won its s independence from be French b massacred all of Ithe Trench bench women and children in the coun- coun and and yet yot its institutions are French ti l language e bears beau about the same relation re reo re- re lation tion to French that cockney English earl bears i r to the tongue of Shake Shakespeare thud Milton and its people like to read news from Paris better than that im m In any other of the thc worlds world's capitals he past history of H Hayti ti is exceed exceed- cJ- cJ dark Between assassination Sly Id and suicide perhaps two two- birds thirds of f its presidents ended their enns ernis violently But today todar the Ha Hay Hay- Jens ens' ens believe c i a new era has bas dawned dey ev See ace in President Comte wh who sue sue- ed Nord Alexis after his hs la n a a man man who will wille give e the countr country a ab ale le b O of peace instead of ofa a rei reign n of terr ter ter- r r. It is 5 but just to sa say that ho has bas out auspiciously although b that light ight be bt slightly misleading ding were it itt pt t added that others before him have fen I Yen Yen- promise romise of wholesome rule at the winning ginning and bavo Q failed s signally g ally in inC inc bo c end cud Knox Impressed When Secretary tary Knox talked with wib resident C Tio ho was us rather rathor i im imi im h elsM i with the thc showing l ad l- l the Jf-F Jf mst s gratifying information mation allon 1 he e gave e a to Mr Knox was the theet let et ct that hc he had arca already reduced tb the Irray tray of oC the republic from to 1000 00 and that thai he hp hoped he would yet yet- be o le lc to cut tut it 10 down to 2 2300 OO He mAy rny mAyot ot have ha J his generals to beat beir tir swords s into plowshares plot but he ho he has baS caused dozens l of them Q 0 lay down their c commissions si ns as mili tary ry leaders And nd to take up new new ones oness 5 s members of the street improvement force Fierce I T now bavo bao a Jen- Jen rals breaking rock on tho the street street said lie hc and I J hope to add Secretary Knox reminded remind cd him that ra ti is a a. a rich country and that what what l s IS is needed is JS a long lont era of peace peace peace internal but peace with inhabitant fellow 0 or of tho the island iRland Santo i-Santo Santo Domingo President Comte comprehended what wha Mr Knox r p was wa driving at at aud r responded that while ile it was wag true that most of or the tho guns L n found in tho the hands hand of the tho revolutionists revo rave in in th the thc Dominican republic F t were guns Cuns tins the they were there in J spite of or the go and I not through any pur purpose o o of to ud tid or abet the Dominican revolution He Ie said aid that tharin in in the succession of or wars ars I in m in Hayti it was was inevitable ine that thousands thou thou- sands ands of stands of arms b fall faU i into to hands bands of persons person and that tb these arms were now tiow boin being r smug smuggled smug smug- acro across s the lino line into Santo Domingo Dominno 7 He promised to uie ue effort to p prevent prevent pre pre- e. e vent Hatlon from giving aid ail and comfort to to either cither of the contending factions in in Santo Domingo I Believe in Cointe Comte i. 1 Tho foreign eJ element ment in beI boo bo- I het that President Comte i IK H animated ani ani- A i mated by correct motives and that if it i he continues as h he has be begun un Hayti 4 Continued on p page tue 8 A REPUBLIC STILL BLACKS RULE WHITES Continued from page pace 1 will cease to be he revolution swept One American who bus bas been In business in iii for thirty thirty sir elx years says that Comte ii i st his administration bettor better than any of his predecessors predecessors' in all that time Conditions in Port au Prince arc bad enough but they thoy arc said to td bo be better than thau one elsewhere in tho he The other cities cities' are arc innocent of sanitation and the tho rural districts district arc aro undeveloped unde Ibo people of the whole island arc arc voodoo worshipers It has been said that tho first act of every na tion in starting a new colony is IS cal ral Spain Spam builds a church England opens H a bank Germany set up a store spume France rance starts a cafe caf and the tho United States State looks affre sanitation t is is somewhat and distinctly un- un American Tho only reason all lt its citi 1 zoos zons are not dead is because men become be come immune to germs germ has a a naw of which It its people peo pick arc aro proud The flagship of oj the tho fleet is the old Italian cruiser When he bt wa was i for the scrap pile she hc was bold to a German dealer for for- a hone He Ile got iu lonch with the Ha ti n government which finally her r at She was brought over under a Gorman German and delivered Now th sell for One may rt au no of the tho patriotism of the thc of Hayti from a lion tion with witha a boy who Js is' a gunner on i ithe the He Tic said that when the United states Slates sOUL ono one pf of her cruis rf into th the harbor last year vear she aho was as afraid to tackle tho Etruria A of tho Washington to whom he be Va was talking replied that the United States could whip the with ODO of the tho Washington's steam launches launches' AsKed the size of flip on hoard hoara the tho Etruria the gunner hesitated Tho asked him if their largest guns guns' were not inch our oves H thought a a moment and then tho tile they had bigger gone gans than that tim tho biggest t ones being two Yet if all hi his an is' were as at ignorant an as hp he- he would not have hesitated to engage a Florida or a North at range There is a laugh in the thou thou- sand and ono one littin surprises that come cometo cometo to the visitor to Hayti Some of theta them seem more fitting for the burlesque stage than for R a government When one of the tho revolutions succeeded some somo Years ago the victor proclaimed himself him self under the title Paustin Faustin the First He lIe made mado four men princes ono of them claimed the title Prince Bobo Ho established nine fifty dukedoms and among the dukes were their graces of Lemonade and Manna Manna- lade lado A later president was known as Augustin Simon Sara Sam As As' we sneak of the colored people in in the United States they speak of the blancs blanes in Hayti The soldier in in Hayti is to get about 12 a year year and his pay is is' reckoned in the unit of money But before his his' pay reaches him him it must pass through the hands of every superior superior officer of of- fleer from the thc commanding general to the second lieutenant and by that it is scaled down to about 6 i a wear Then his lieutenant insists insist upon shaking dice with and of tenor than no not ho he loses all en the fall of the hones bones T Although Catholicism is the state religion it can scarce scarcely hold bold its own against the which is widely practiced The voodoos are arc men upen an and women who are past liast masters in in the use of subtle poisons Borrowing Borrowing- a alot lot lotof of mysticism from Asia and Africa mix it with their poisons so to speak sneak and are arc able to convince their followers of the tho supernatural powers they claim to exercise The high priests and high priestesses of they spoil spell it are aro known as and which terms are corrupted from the tho French Do Dovon von vail have an enemy you wish to kill Visit a and he will give that thata enemy a it potion which will entail any desired degree of suffering Do you want to take a man mans man's a reason front from him and leave him a raving raring maniac for life has the tho potion that will do it Do you ou put a a man into an Indefinite stupor out of which he lie COD cau be he called when you desire it A rood food bank bill for i Is all vou mu d. d And so it got goe There Ther are arc dave dava and days of unnatural orgies bent beat the that send a it thousand shivers down tho bark be be- f-aus f of the tho wildly weird noise they make a a noise that sounds low nearby but which carries carries for miles and mi niile leg ov over r the lulls hills calling the wor worshipers hiners in to the secret temples Their sacrifices may ma- mabe be fruits and flowers hickens or goats coats or even eon children It ItIs Itis Is is said that women willingly give their babies to b boiled and help ieli to cat afterward up to now has been a failure Where mire were tile tho splendid plains nf of PuI iii de Sac producing exports worth francs today there is a tropical jungle Where once there thoro were rich and amid prosperous coffee plantations today there are here and there wild trees hut but no on attempt to do more than pick nick the volunteer coffee And Ando to o it 11 is c everywhere c 3 where wreck and ruin and ignorance the nr li but brothers brothern to tho ox Can P.-o-ident P. Comte change it allT all If h he lees doe he lie will deserve a high niche in inthe inthe the temple of fame Tomorrow CARIBBEAN POLITICS The The NicarAguan Treaty |