They were sometimes manacled like slaves, compelled to work for weeks with little or no pay and inadequate food and shot down if they attempted to escape. Public Order by Emily G. Balch P. 128 interesting quote by Audain. Claims that neither order or security were much compromised. The Haitian has not innate destructive tendencies, or class hatreds with their savage results. Almost unknown to us are nocturnal attacks, ambush and assassination, great bands of bandits such as terrorize certain European cities and countries.
Thieves abound it is true.
This absence in Haitians of the idea of murder creates a most appreciable sense of relative security in a country where nevertheless the policing of the country is badly organized. One can go without risk from one end of the country to the other, travel for days alone on deserted ways, plunge without fear into thick forests or scale the cliffs of our uninhabited mountains. March 6, 1926. Neither the judiciary or education was under the occupation. The Press and the Prison by Grace D. Watson and Emily G. Balch.