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

people would dessise President VIII,
pretended TO Iegard one. The Govern
meht Is coDfessedly group of men baud
ed for plunder. Whatever they CAL
steal, cunllscate or procure by terrorism
did III the way OF bribes is the just re-
"ald or Their patriotism. AS for the
lGea of goVerDmentas "a benelice It insli
luton, regulating the various public
functions, maintaining public order and
/ dtceEcy, fostering enterprises of com.
merclal, industrial and social advantage
1t is utterly remote from Dominican im-
aglnatlon. Consider it in auy feature
AID you bring up in qnagmire Of hone
less Ineptitude and m"nsJrous ma admin
istratiOn.
STATE OF ABSOLUTE ANARCHY.
Santo Domingo proper, in the east, of
late far outstripped her sister "repubiicn
III The Kaleidoscope brilliancy of her DO
iltical history. According to the cJusti
lutlop, tbs Presidential term is four
years; since 1899 Santo Domingo has re
Jolced in a glad procession Uf seven
tIesldents, and before this article is in
type MOIalus, the present incumbent.
may have been in turn overthroWu. by,
Jllninez Or 10y a9Qs AsE ieed sao
ga aTals now ID the haid; Jiminez anu
WoZ y Gil. who are lighting each other
DIS well as Morales, their common foe,
very interior valley harbOrs chief who
Is ready at moments notice to start
ior The city of Columbus, burning towns
and gathering ragged horde as he goes.
Thsse revolutions imply 10 stir OF
IDEAS. They are not the consequence OF
social or political aspiration. Tney are
ihe lesa4t of mere lighting habit, mer-
cui ial temperament aud selfish ambition.
Revolution is the nol NAL stale OF the is
land. The literal fact is that, In its
spanish and French Countries alike, alb
soiute anarchy prevails in Haiti. The
group of adventures which AT present,
III lieu Of a better, IS recognized by the
United States as the iactO government
Of Santo Domingo Is pOwerlesS except in
the streets and port or TWO. Within Il
few weeks the American consulate al
Sa;naDa has been invaded by an armed
folce which dragged refugees from its
pI election; two American meI chantmen,
lhe Cherokee and the New York, have
been repeatedly fired upu"I ,he American
training ship, Yankee has been fired up
on, machinist aboard her being killed;
t. launch of the American man-of- wal
Newark has been fired upon, and the
N-waIk has tten forced 10 shell the
woods lying ac.os, The river from the
ci' ! of Sdllo Domingo.
such state Ut affairs is simply into,-
cradle. The great danger in wbicn il
places the peace of the world is lllustl at
ed by All incident that occurred a few
weeks ago: supporters OF President
| Morales board,d d The German merchant
man Holstein, then in the hal Dor of Sau
| =, drO de MaCoris, and seZ!ng lhree
| refugees carried them off as prisoners &c
the DUmiDican gunboat Pes den g.
Germany is occupied just at this time,
but o, her such luso .ent affrouts, if tn, y
ale permitted, may b. ing down upon Il {
Island The just wrath OF Europe, and
force lis to as-eIt The Monroe doctrine
against SONS great European power
which has uLd ell Daken to establish order
in Hatai only because We have neglected
to do IL ourselves.
IL is d mistake to suppose that Domin.
lean revolutions are slight and blOOdless
affairs. AS arule, the slaughter is great
cave in the particular that the leaders
are much given to such formaliIies a.
the piOmulgation of constitutions anG
the appolDtn [" " caulnen,S, campaigns
OH the islaia aie much like raids of wilC
Indians, of Zulus or Kattiis, upon othel
tribes oanlo Domingo and Haiti are
Lot Latin American countries; they at,
African, with slight mixture of Span
ish and Indian in the east; their peopl,
fight with the rage and bloOd-lust OF
savages, and from time to time from
among them Use captains of no littl,
military genius. Many thousand bav,
lost their lives in the battles of the pas
TWO years, and many thousand more hav
been summarily executed or done t,
death in captivity. Prisons in Haiti ar,
unspeakable welters of infected corrup
tion where victims lie down with rats il
pools of filth.
War in the island has horrors all il
own, Every Dominion Can pound wit
hls terrible cOcOmacaque and hack will
his machete, whose poisoned wound
Leal slowly. Rifles are universally dis
trlbuted, and machine guns are plenty
5ut though they possess and manipulat