The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1904-04-15

all the deadly engines of modern warfare
the blacks know nothing of the appll
ances Tor rdeiving the sufferings of Tn
wounded. There are no surgeons. n,
medicines ALLEN with broken leg In,
soldier Is let to succumb to hunger and
thirst, or u be devoured by the wild
hogs that ln'est lhe forests.
Inc physcal and Social conditions are
worse thai the political. The land,
material rhil may be said now to be
complete. cven the coffee trees, whose
ilIe Is thaC Ola generation, are being no
longer tranplanted. All other crops
are taliing; NE exports are decreasing.
NO money lScirculating; the currency.
what httle Mists, is nickel, worthless
outside the Ountry. The revenues are
| hypothecdteCto foreigners; the right of
c"astwlse trsde has been sold to foreign
ers' Nobody in the islany has either
capital or crdit. An appalling poverty
has It's clutci upon the laud. The peo
pie live ankle deep in filth; ,heil ignor-
ance Is incr.dib!e; religion has degener-
ated INTO ITO savage superstition. HUI
man lie Is cheap What we know as
morality does not exist. In the noun
talns of La Selle, at least, and probably
clSewhefe, Serpent worship and sac. itice
vi chlldreL and cannibaiism prevail.
This is what hundred years of negro
rule has made of the loveliest land on
The globe; for the physical beauty of
Hlspanolla, as the discoveries loved To
call IL, is 81 marvellous that one is re-
IuctanG 10 speak of it, so extravaganza
must seem his words. From The sea the
lahd Is seen TO swim in RlOries that sur
round no other West Indian isle, and in
lts lnterlort The prospects are entraucing.
asSurediy nowhere else Can Nature have
cohtrlved such magnificent pauoramas,
no other land can she have adoaued with
such riot Of ravshing color.
But not only is the beauty of Hispauia
Wonderful; 1t Is probable tha. no other
like auea On earth is 80 rich in material
wealth. 1T is safe to say that probably
no other extent of territory contains
within Itself, under proper auspices, 50
many elements of prosperity, worldly
success aud happiness, are the measured
wodds OF Mr.. Hill, of the United States
Geological Survey. There are fortunes
for thousands in coffee, cacao, cotton,
tobacco, sugar, rubber, fruit, spices, ma
nogauy, dyewoodS, gold, silver, copper,
asphaltum, sulphur, salt, phOsphates aud
guano. All these springs Of wealth lie
untouched, forgotten, by the people to
whom Lhe land has ben too long sur
rendered.
sxORli FOR THE UNITED STATES.
cfi1s3 mot unlikely that the end has
srnrnsnt Yorsiiaiti. The Ethiopian has
been failure in his Eden. He has
nothing to show for a century OF inde-
pentence but wilderness where there
was garden, and ruins where there
were great monuments of industry, art
aud joy. His governments have proven
ridiculous effairs of contemplate inca
paclty; his mortal condition is an affrout
To the conscience of the world. He has
no principles 10 pelpetuate, no ideals to
live for: the future holds for him, if he
is suffered TO sink into it, nothing but
total atavism into savagery. Ii ever hu-
maue considerations Called To duty
they cali now the worlds attention to
the case of Santo Domingo. The
world" in this instance, is the United
States William Bayard Hale in Satut-
day Evening Post.