The San Francisco call., 1899-08-02

THE assassination OF President Heureaux' after
serving sixteen years in that Office seems 70
have been intended to prevent his election to
another term though it had the pretext OF personal
revenge.
As the usual means Of efectng changes IN the per
sonnel OF that country revolutionary II IS not d
surprise that revolt has followed and threatens TO
become general Immediately there IS raised here an
outcry that our government must intervene TO pre-
vent revolution. By what right? We have had three
revolutions in this country since We became 1nde-
pendent and two OF our Presidents have been assas
sinated Suppose that all Europe had treated any Of
these events as valid reason for sending allied armies
and associated fleets here take charge OF US, what
answer would our people have made to such an IN
vasion?
Our last revolution, the civil war, visited wide
spread misfortune and famine upon other countries
The cotton pnners OF Manchester starved while their
spindes rusted for lack OF the raw cotton to spin
No revolution, ancient modern, has visited upon
the worlds commerce such distress and loss ct we
treated it, fought and ended it, in own way, and
would have resisted TO the last and last dollar
any interference though upon the plea OF lmPerled
commercial interests and interrupted trade
The mongrels Of San Domingo have exactly the
same rights that we had The right Of the discon-
tented to revolt is not limited numerically We have
had the whisky rebellion, Shay's rebellion and the
civil war, only three but may have others We
have had two Presidents murdered, and our average
in both respects is not much behind that Of San
Domingo
OF course every American observer knows that If
the administration permit itself to be nagged into
active interference it will be not through fear OF any
damage to American trade. Our total exports 70
San Domingo for the eleven months ending May
1892 were valued at $o47,367. II the profit were 20
per cent it was less than $2ooooo and it would cost
twenty times that to make interference effective.
The real reason for urging interference is the de
sire to assume more Of the white mans burden, to
go abroad seeking more glory and preparing to IN
crease our present daily war expenditure OF $8oo,ooo
The population is like all tropical people, peppery
as their climate and unstable as its storms. White
men can't live there and the blacks work as little
possible and use their abundant leisure in politics
Toussaint IOuverture made the country, in con-
necton with Hayt, republic in 1901 and it became
separate republic about sixty years ago. a revolu-
tionary chief offered it to the United States in
Grants time, but Republican Senate had the good
sense to reject the gift since when have done very
well without San Domingo and San Domingo has
done as we'll without us.
When the island first became free and the black
slaves became its rulers they at established
aristocracy. Being more familiar with the nomenca-
ture of the kitchen than with Heraldry and the
AImanach de Gotha they soemnly invested each
other with such titles Duke de Champignon, the
Count de Bouillon, Baron de Succota8h and the
Baronet Boeuf ala Mode At bottom Our American
imperalists lust for something like that and beg
to suggest that they depart and coonize the ague-
srnitten mosquito-burdened sand-crab populated
plains OF San Domingo and grow up with the coun-
try in the enjoyment OF titles acquired by the old
aristocracy derived from the menu.