The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-06-25

| flee and out of office again. but these
proceedings have been comparatively
peaceful and have not been in the ma
! ture of a hummer. The professional
! revolutionist gave me some further
hints at the time Of really fierce strug
| gle that was going to take place, anC
| since the civil war broke out in Halt
! have wondered if this is not the revo-
luton which he had in mind, postponed
through various causes longer than he
had expected.
HAITI NOT A LATIN COUNTRY
ings of government in the tropical coun-
tries of this continent to speak of them
as proof OF the instability of the Latin
race. But Haiti is not Latin The
French and Spanish veneer is thinner
there than anywhere else in the West
Indies. French is the language of the
educated classes, yet the patois, which
is spoken by the mass of the people in
the interior, has far less in it of the
Latin tongue than any other of the An
TILES 1t would not be understood by
the natives of Martinique and Guate-
loupe, who have a French dialect of
their own. It comes nearer to being an
African dialect than anything that is
heard in those waters
Notwithstanding that the Latin veneer
is thin, much is heard of Latin civiliza-
ton. Where this exists it really means
the French blood, which has given Haiti
some very able men, and always has
been seen in the high class of diplomatic
representatives she has sent to Washing
ton and to Europe. This pride reaches
down to a lower stratum. Consul Gen
eral Williams, at Havana, used to tell
a story showing 1t. 1t was of the alcalde
or mayor of West Indian town, who
was receiving some visitors from abroad.
He discharged the obligations of hos
pitality with punctilious courtesy.
He was a very intelligent man, and
he discussed world politics with his Wis
itors. One of them unguardedly spoke
of the frequency of revolutionary move
ments in Latin America and regretted
that they could not have the same sta
bility that obtained in northern coun-
tries "Af, sir" replied the West In
dian mayor, Stability and quiet are
good for you of the north, but we of
the Latin race are too emotional for
your institutions. We must have ex-
element" He was so black that it was
not possible to imagine the faintest drop
of other than African blood in his veins
The story so delighted James Anthony
Froude, the English historian, that he
e1nbellished it like his other historical
fiction, and made it a classic.
OPPOSED TO FOREIGNERS.
In spite of the ambition of the edit
Gated classes in Haiti to be known as of
the Latin race, the mass of the people
have no such desire. They are what
they are and have no wish TO be other
wise. Their jealousy of foreigners is
intense. Sometimes they have been call
ed anti American, but in reality they are
anti-foreign Tradition still lives aof the
bloody struggles with the French. The
restrictive laws regarding citizenship
and against property holdings by for
eigners were no more aimed at Amer
leans than at Europeans. These have
kept back the development OF the coun-
try immensely yet also it must be said
that Haiti has farmed out its resources
to speculative syndicates with much less
prod1gality than have its neighbors.
The anti-American feeling, where 1t ex-
lists. usually is due to the race question.
The incidents OF southern lynchings are
not unknown in the coast towns and