Show Q I Tropical Tyranny I ITHE T GT THE G- G PHE HE white man in the tropics is is the victim of 01 i his environment That is one explanation of 01 the slaughter of native Haitians by American Amen Amen- can marines and the local gendarme under gendarme under American command during command during the five and one one- one one-j half years of American occupation j j It is a terrible stor story of f reversion re to primitive primi li- li i tive passions But the white man suddenly confronted con con- confronted fronted with an inferior civilization and nd livin baring absolute power r in his own hands almost invariably invariably invariably in in- in- in variably is brutalized until his own reactions have had time to stabilize him I. I When th the Spanish conquistadores occupied I I Mexico and Peru they showed themselves the II victims of this law of barbaric degeneracy So Sc did the Europeans who colonized other parts of ol the new world The Belgian atrocities in the I Congo which sti stirred re civilization into vigorous I I protest Potest fifteen years years years' ago were of the same I stamp I I When the United States occupied the Philippines Philippine Philippines Philip Philip- pines pine the water cure cure torture was applied to the natives showing the thc primitive law in operation operation operation opera opera- tion there General Dyer who ordered the recent recent re rc- re- re cent massacre of native Indians at was himself under the frenzied tropical spell Examples Examples Examples' Examples Ex Ex- Ex- Ex amples amples' could be multiplied indefinitely Now conies comes the Haitian revelations to show Americans at home that th the white man seems Ui the the- universal victim of this form of atavism We ourselves are scarcely three thousand years removed from the savagery that for half a million mil mil- milI lion Hon years formed our instincts and guided our habits But the higher civilization demonstrates its fineness nevertheless For Foi white the man no nol l a allows allOs s Hn such sh barbarities barbarities' to continue The white man himself 1 n self st stops ps' ps them His Hi indifference indifference ence to injustice is is' So America will witt slop stop the Haitian slaughter slaught r and eventually y will witt provide H Haiti iti with ith a stabilized d democratic gOY gov nt |