The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1904-04-01
NATIONAL POLICE DUTY.

We sending ships Domingo and may be
that shall do police that republic and It's
nation which do this and that the United States we nave ample
act punded murdered
have been fired consul has been nued
consulate has been wrecked and yet we make no move
There danger situation that European power may
take its head ayenge the insults flag Only the other day
supporters Of President Morales whom recognize President OF
the socaed republic boarded German merchanman the Holsen
the habor San Pedro and Selling three refugees carried them
the Dominican gunboa Presdene Should Germany undertake to
and would be unnecessary difficulties island which will
police ourselves, and will allow else to police.
According the constitution OF Sano Domingo the presidential
for four years. yet 1899 there have been less than
presidents Morales the present president moment be
thrown by nez other apants power For besides
mnez and Wos Gill; fighting each other well Morales
every interior valley habors chief who ready moment to
start for capital burning gathering ragged
The Dominican and Hayan revolutions savage their erocy
Many thousands have their lives in the past years the battles
Many thousands have been summary executed done to death
in captivity The prisons unspakabe wee of infected corup-
ton according a spot
lie with the pools of filth Not only is waged
cruelty but there appliances aid the wounded There no
surgeons The hunger and
thirst devoured while half alive by the wild hogs that
the forests is island Of savages barbarou than the wretch
ed of West Africa In fact West Africa transpanted the
West Indies and made worse by Of civilization.
writer says The physical and social conditions
than the political The lands material ruin be said now to be com
Even the coffee whose life is that Of generation being
longer anspaned All crops falling exports
casng No money is circulating the currency what little exists
nickel worthless outside the The revenues hypotheaed
foreigners the right OF trade has been sold foreigners
NOBODY III Inc Island mas eer capa or credit An appalling poverty
has its clutch the land The people live nkedep hh their
ncredbe religion has dgeneaed
Human life cheap What know morality does exist
In the mountains La See least and probably elsewhere
worship and sacrifice of children and cannibaism prevail.
This what hundred negro rule has made of the oveest
land the GLOBE for the physical beauty HspanO the doy
loved call marvellous that reluctant speak Of
eltravagan his words the
glores other West Indian isle, and
terror the prospects enhancing Assured nowhere Nature
have coned such magnificent panoama other land she have
adorned with such riot Of rayishing color.
But only the beauty of Hpanola wonderiu probable
that other like earth rich material wealth 1T safe
say that probably other territory within itself
under proper auspices many elements prosperity worldly
and happiness the measured words of Mr. Hill Of the United
States Geological Survey There fortunes for thousands coffee
tobacco, rubber fruit spices mahogany dye
woods gold silver copper aphaum, sulphur salt phospates and
gano All these springs Of wealth lie untouched forgotten by peo
pie to whom the land has been too long surrendered"
viii the United States do its duty by this island? We nterered in
Cuba where conditions nearly bad We have made Porto
Rico prosperous We have occupied the Panama strip going
allow this paguepot tester the midst of prosperity c
zaion We have for interference
would have stood the insults which have done during
last six months OF have things of greater importance
attend and the of presidential election
conditions San Domingo such that wake
ing and find ourselves embrd with say Germany simply we
would not do manifest duty keeping order island which isl
but stones throw from doors