The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-21

and staff officers and 1000 regimental
officers to command 5000 priyates, and
which more recently contained LOU
generals of division in 10000 men.
Indeed, did not President -Salnave
once convert a penniless day iaporer
into a general by a mere wordE Enem-
les of the republic may argue that 1t
is also true that the same general was
shortly after caught in the act of steal
ing a uniform from tailors shop ana
forthwith paraded round the capital on
a donkey by an indignant police!
There are no class prejudices in Hay
ii. and even the least hope to become
the greatest. For did not Captain Sou
louque of the Life guards buy brand
new crown for $4,000 in 1862 and turn
himself into his imperial majesty the
Emperor Faustin i. and daZzled all Eu-
rope by the magnificence of his court,
with its SO dukes and marquises and
earls innumerable? Even his very Sc
rene highness my lord the president
Christopher, afterward his imperial
majesty the Emperor Henry, with ms
40 chamberlains and a court calendar
"vieing with our own" was once
mere soldier.
True, not even every general can
hope to become an emperor or even a
mere president. -Four republics ana
one kingdom at one and the same time
in a country the size of Scotland are
as many as, even Hayti has ever yet
been able to find room for hitherto,
though there may be better thlngs IN
store for her in the future In the
meantime. as there are not repubics
and empires enough to so round, the looo
generals have to content themselves
with G140 year and gold lace al nd
itum. Still, a Haytian general need not
do so badly, even as things are, for VINO
has better right to act as paynaster
To his soldiers than their general! And
if soldiers do not come and ask Tor
their pay who has a better right to 1t
than that same general, While II they
do have the impudence to ask Tor IL
instead of patiently waiting until 1t Is
given 20 them what officer (Haytian)
worthy of the name would not line
them at least six weeks pay Tor such
an unheard-of breach of discipline?
There are not, so many patriots In
| Hayti but what it is sometimes little
| difficult to keep a battalion up to It's
| full strength, which is perhaps, the
reason why one recently paraded only
| numbered ten officers. 13 men and SIX
drummers. But an enterprising coionel
| will find an easy way out of that din
| Guilty by periodically sending his men,
armed with clubs, into the streets to
! seize volunteers" No one is ever COM
PEELED to do anything in the free and
Independent republic of Hayti.
| So when parliament meets the signlh-
| canoe of the gaps in rows OF members
is readily understood, and Mr.. Black
! Rod sent off to the various barracks
to inspect the bleeding and tattered re-
! cruits and liberate the Nj. P.'s among
them. The remaining volunteers may
! choose between serving their country
for their love Of it and paying the col
| onel so much a week to be exempt. AS
the coloners pay is $40 year. he
thinks that the less love of their coun
try there is among his volunteers the
better, and perhaps this is the reason
why the party lin" and the party out
are importing alien soldiers to decide
which shall be in and which out"