Show K IE am 0 ly aj aw N Z 7 3 A NA N h FP val 3 fa the marines hav E landed and have ahn situation in hand L dy by JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN N A popular almanac and ana year book for 1024 1 published in CA dengo chicago ly by americans for americans you 5 oil will find tills this and but tills this about haiti haiti president lou borno U 8 high commissioner brig gen clon J 11 II russell tho the area of 0 haiti la Is square miles and the population t about corfee coffee cocoa and logwood aro are the leading articles sold total exports 1921 imports exports to the united states in ili 1923 1 imports interesting it and so PO complete 1 all nebout general russell and what business lie ho has ins ns As united 1 rate s high commissioner in nn independent republic I 1 now thores a good scoty y in the foregoing dry as dust why for it means of at course that undo uncle sam Is running haiti and uncle sam though latin america thinks lio lie i Is tho the biggest busybody on earth with tile tho longest nose nud anti an ltd itch for butting in ili and hates him film accordingly never steps in and takes charge or of a country unless circumstances make it absolutely necessary you soc ace tile tho doctrine Is wo no of the things for which tile tho american people will fight in consequence it la is always kept hept in working order anti Is always on the job and every now then some western ileine country puts its thumb to its noso nose and wiggles its fingers at sonic some Euro european penn nation when it ali and inasmuch na as uncle sam says tile the said paid flur european nation must not punish tile the said western hemisphere country uncle sam has to step atel in and make tile the western hemisphere country behave or else sonie some western hemisphere people get to noting acting so outrageously among themselves that resl resident north Amer americans lentis are lit in danger and then undo uncle sam lias hns to stop step lit in to protect ills his nieces tind just as lie ho lins has now in flon honduras durns for example halt lins has long been a bad actor columbus tit the island haiti and san domingo on ills first voyage and called it hero was tho birth of the buccaneers bucca and the cradle of pinicy in the western hemisphere never in Il altis years its as a free republic was there a peaceful presidential inauguration with tile ex president attending until undo sani chaperone the performance during the five years previous to loli 1915 seven presidents of the black republic had been murdered exiled or forced from froin obilee tile the climax came in 1915 1015 president guillaume slim sam was chased chase by a mob aniol to the stops steps of the french legation dragged forth and hacked to pieces french intervention was imminent lent also foreign nations were p r e I 1 ng for the payment of debts so undo uncle som wan forced to step in the monroe doctrine gave him film no alternative well tho the marines it forro ol of tile tho united states marine corps was sent to haiti and pretty soon washington got the usual message the marines haya landed and hay hare the PROa tion in hand washington has been etting that 11 A FA k I 1 4 af very same message f from rom the nin rines for IRO years from nil all parts of the globe it hns has conic como from tile tho philippines pines from samoa from china from cuba from mexico front from arun front from san ann domingo and its always literally true in the world war it cattle first front from ant and I 1 fl from bin belleau wood now bols bois do in brigade do de marine and later inter f from ro ill every place tile the marines went into action devil dogs the them after they had once heart tile famous growl bark and howl of the soldiers rind and sal sailors lors too now how Is it that uncle sam can land nn an armed force on a foreign shore without invin having the net act construed its as a of war well long ago the principle was laid down and accepted that landing the marines Is not to be construed they do not belong beloin either cither to the finny army or the navy A As an act of war uncle sam says quite peaceably eaLly and plea pleasantly no now dont get excited im just sending some borne rood good fellows to bee that americans dont got hurt and maybe they can help you folks folka to keep order if necessary well the marines are rood good fellows so good that most people prefer to keep heep on friendly terms with them for they fire the finest fighting men on earth carth and anil everybody knows it all aj gen john archer lejeune Is their commandant ills pet nanie Is johnny the ilard hard and ills his men fire like unto him lin having ving till nil passed strict mental in moral and physical tests and being expert 11 tito marines landed in haiti in july 1015 because americans were in danger of course they found it necessary to kielp tell considerably in keeping order they found the country overrun with 11 cacos bandits vi alio lica were slaughtering and looting find had find combined to wipe out till 9 government overn ment so the jun marines rines set about exterminating tile cacos haiti Is not nn an onsy easy country for a white man to travel 1 I ani tile bandits proved to he be reni fighters but finally the remaining remu ining ninde their last sanna in nn an old french fort on the crest of n mountain tito marines charged up the slope and found that the only gap in tile the walls was n hole wide enough to adwalt a man mail more this tole hole ans under tile the fire of every bandit ba lit nevertheless tile the alist two mn marines him actually got cot through alive and held their own inside tile the f an fn t long enough for others to crowd in bucl end the fight As soon ns As order was ans restored n treaty was signed and uncle san sam took charge of tho the finan finances cem of the bankrupt republic later on an external loan of and on an internal bond issue of were floated these provided funds funda with which gradually to n out tangled adnall cial affairs airs one of undo uncle sams first steps was waa tho the creation of n national army tile the gendarmerie Gendar merie d 1 ills idea was waa to tench teach the to rule them pelves without american assIs assistance the natives have made rood good soldiers find and have absorbed the idoa idea of loyalty to haiti instead of service to some particular lender leader tito tho army Is 2500 strong and liaa has repin replaced ced tile nin marines rines in nearly every interior post native oil leors are being trained in a Ilal haitian tian west point thu the decolo tito police and fero have been modernized in the prisons starvation filth ond and disease have been done away with and the former death rate of BO 50 per cent brought down to prisoners tire arc tau taught gilt a trade find and share in their earnings monetary reform lias fins stabilized the gourde at a guaranteed value of five to the american dollar tito tho elimination of government graft and tho the honest collection of revenues lifis has greatly stimulated commerce since 1015 the debt hns has been reduced from to less than sanitary conditions have been entirely made over formerly haitian settlements were vere filthy till and pestilential beyond words white wings clean the streets sewers have been installed and mosquito breeding grounds eliminated there was but one hospital in haiti now thero there are ten and in addition rural clin clinics les first nid ald stations and dispensaries dispensa ries which yearly treat patients who never before were able to have medical ald aid in the hospitals Flat haitian tInn doctors and nurses are being trained tho public works department has linked the country together with good roads right eight years ngo ago an automobile had thore there been one could not have been run three miles out of any town there tiro are bridges instead of fories there aro are telephone lines with 30 exchanges and with local systems in ten towns streets aro are lighted by electricity tri city elty is id ono one of the garden spots of the world and production la Is increasing rapidly in coaree and cotton sugar cane Is being successfully raised and pineapple production has hag been begun on the other hand ninety five per cent of tho the population Is illiterate the schools of tho the country arc few find and many of the teachers know little more than the pupils tito tho people are very poor there Is no internal Intern nI tax law revenue Is limited to exports and imports only both the lio laws and the personnel of the courts need reforming haitians Hait ians are reluctant to accept american suggestions gest ions of chonge uncle sam has bas no control over the judiciary or over education the income la Is inadequate the monroe doctrine Is a grout great doctrine and must all and shall be preserved but it puts uncle sam to lots of trouble anti and hell have to stick in haiti for years to conio or else till all that lica been done will vii havo have been wasted |