The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-03-31
Famous Books.
THE BLACK REPUBLIC OF THE
WEST INDIES

THE BLACK REPUBLIC OF THE
WEST INDIES
Haiti the mysterious! Haiti the black
republic, With it's traditions of black
Napoleon, with lis strange stories of
snake worship and poisonings, human
Saclihce, and CannibalisIn, That is the
burden OF loskoth Pricaards book
descriptive of a journey across and about
Haiti. iii which RACES the curtain is lift
ed ON a stage fringed with dark green
shores and shrouLed in guarded silence
to reveal a drama of Life and death that
is being enacted today. with such curl
Gus and horrible variations from the
ordinary tenor of human existence as no
civilized person can conceive. The APP
zeal CT its strange revelation is terrible
and fascinating, yet Inevitable. Ships
from the two great cont nents PASS and
repass perpetuaiiy along the picturesque
coasts of Haiti; they put i'm at her ports
and move away on the highway of the
seas; ocean cables link her to the rest
of the globe, yet,fiVe miles inland among
her scowline dark forests mankind loses
touch with civilization with the world.
Haiti presents the novelty OF being
ruled by black as opposed TO white men,
the later having no rights worthy of the
name; and yot here is a country within
cry IF civilization, in constant communI-
Cttlitt N4iH lIit clRH1HeU WOfIu, ana Win
the legations and consulates eff the pow
ers il, residence. Haiti tor the Haiti
ans The war cry OF tho people of the
black republic means really Haiti for
the negro-no mulatto need apply. Here
alone" writes one Of their politicians,
"one show a black face withou:
receiving upcn st n buffet Al is the
corner of the earth sacred 10. our rights
Elsewhere in Africa, in America. tbs
&c.
In Haiti alone the black man governs
himself the black is. the equal nf thu
white
Haiti confrents the civilized man as a
magnificent ruin "a riotous waste oe
splendid resources. Nature alone seems
to take any care for its sanitation and
1t is puzzing problem to the traveller
who goes there how Haiti perhaps the
fflthiest place in the world is not also
the most unhealthy place In the world
The town of Port au Prince has its foup-
cations literally set upon decay. The So
briquet White Mans Grave is a COM
mon nomenclature of certain unhealthy
spcts on the island. The white man visit
ing it is appalled, by the thought of what
might happen We're an epidemic to break
out there Yet with the exception of the
ordinary malarial fevers, di@ease in its
largest sense seldom visits Haiti. Shortly
after his arrival at Port au Prince Mr..
Prichard came upon "a white mana
sailor-moying cautiously with Disguised:
nostri, who inquired Of him the shortest
way to The wharf Upon being directed.
the sailor overlooked Mr. Priehard with
interest II say" he asked how locg
have you lived here?" fcour days was
the reply. II wish / had your constitu-
ton. then retorted., the sailor I've
been ashore here an hour and three-quar-
tors. and if I haven't a museum of t.qe
most virulent microbes inside me-, it isn't
the fault of this town, that's an And
he hurriCdly made of far the sh re.
The policy is row, as it has always keen,
to drive out the foreigner. who lives and
trades in the republic under protest. A