Arizona republican., 1893-12-02
HAYTpS REVOLUTIONS.
They Have Made the Republic @
 Subject of Ridicule.
The Pride and Glory of the Great Co., |, lumbus Has Become . Gigantic Farce-A Degenerated Country.

Not the least interesting feature of the place is the barracks, where is quartered a portion of Hippolyte's valiant army, says a correspondent of the Providence Journal. The only at tempt at uniform is a suit of blue over- alls, generally in the last stage of dilapidation, and cap, ornamented with red, yellow or blue braid, accord ing to the fancy of the wearer. Some few have shoes or straw slippers, but the majority are barefooted. They are armed, however, with fairly good mus kets and many of them carry ugly looking knives. I saw large numbers of these ''soldiers" on the plaza, or public square, some playing at dice or cards, some talking, others sleeping and all lazy, dirty and ragged. This plaza, which was originally well laid out and which actually boasted an ancient fountain in the center, was lit tered with refuse, rooted up by hogs and filthy with house offal and dung
 The ancient paved walks which orig inally traversed it were badly broken, and the loose stones were widely scat tered by the hogs. Outside the town, as far as the eye can reach, extends 8 hilly country covered with forest. In long tramp through this coun- try we saw no cultivated land. And yet this land is said to be extreme ly fertile and to yield largely any tropical product that is planted upon it. From an examination of an out cropping ledge of rock decided that the soil was underlaid with limestone, and such soil is nearly always rich. But the richness of this island is wasted. For even the old plantations which were well set with coffee, oranges and cocoanuts are grown up to tropical forest and yield next to noth- ing. Right in the midst of jungle of wild trees and bushes I found traces of an old orange and mango grove, indi- cated by the remains of straight rows in which these trees were originally planted. And with the decline and ruin of the plantation has declined everything in connection with them. Even the old carriage roads which originally traversed the island and formed channel for conveying the produce to the ports are now only bri- dle paths, being completely overgrown with forest and bushes.
 And this is Hayti, the Hispaniola of Columbus, the pride and glory of the great admiral For it will be remem- bered that, after examining the other large islands of the West Indies, Colum- bus decided that this one was the richest and best. And later, when un- der French rule, it was one of the fair est and wealthiest spots in the civilized world. The whole republic, in fact, is a gigantic farce-and a farce, too, which may well make all enthusiastic advocates of the colored race and it's possibilities pause and consider. For no nation has ever considered itself more utterly incapable of self-govern- ment than the black republic. In some eighty years of Haytian independence there have been more than ninety rev. olutions; the children, with few ex- captions, grow up in absolute ignor- ance, and with a deep, inborn hatred of the white man; the rulers are blood thirsty tyrants, and the country has degenerated into a tropical wilderness.