Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-30
CALLED FREEBOOTERS
GRoWINv DISSATISFACTION AT
MORALES GOVERNMENT.
Strong Denunciation Of America and
Its Alleged Filthy Prejudices-
Reasons for Hating Us.
Special Correspondence of The Star.

Special Correspondence Of The Star.
SAN JUAN p. R., August q. 1905.
The official dispatches from Santo Domin-
go recently received by Dominican Consul
General to Porto Rico Don Juan Eugenio
Medina inform him that the Dominican re-
public is enjoying an era of undisturbed
peace. The minister Of foreign affairs In
forms Consul Medina that General Candle
lario de la Rosa, who had risen in arms at
Barahona against President Morales, has
been forced into submission and is now at
the mercy Of Morales.
President Morales has been unusually be-
nevolent to this famous rebel chief and has
contented himself with the bail that Cen
eral de la Rosa offered for his future good
corduct. Wiseacres. who compare Morales
mildness to this fierce fighter with his I'M
relenting severity to offenders of less i'm
portance, whisper that Morales Is afraid of
him and is seeking to win him over. Others
laugh and say that Morales would have
much easier time in trying to tame a wild
hedgehog by carrying 1t in his bosom than
in trying to seduce this old warrior or tame
his fiery spirit
Among other things President Morales
tells Mr.. Medina that a new telephone sys-
tenn connecting the city of Santo Domingo
hundred miles, was inaugurated on the 18th
of August, the forty-third anniversary Of
the restoration Of the independence of the
republic 1.-The Inauguration took place"
says President Morales, in the midst OF
great rejoicing and the people seem to
realize that this is one of the many i'm
provements that I going to introduce
which are the fruits of a peaceful and we'll
organized government"
The statements, however, of coupe Of
Dominican gentlemen who arrived at San
Juan on the 10Th instant en- route from
Santo Domingo to Europe, differ widely
from the assertions of President Morales
and his ministers. These gentlemen say
that the Dominican people are daily grow
ing more and more dissatisfied with Nor
ales and his government and II they find 1t
impossible to overthrow Morales by a revo-
lutionary movement they are sure to
Sassinate him.
Morales Cordially Hated.
No man, they say is so cordially hated
throughout the republic as Morales. The
feeling of the Santo Domingans is intensely
bitter against Americans. They regard the
United States in the light of nation of
freebooters and in many instances semi
savages, who are SO pretentiously upstart
as to boast that they are going to civilize
the world while most of the southern and
western states need civilizing.
The bitterness Of Dominican sentiment
however, reached its limit when courtesies
were exchanged between the Dominican and
American authorities on this memorable
day, and when the very cannon that had
been sent to force the Dominican people
to respect and obey the will Of the Amert-
can nation belched forth their fiery con-
gratulatio to the Santo Domingans for hav--
ing again freed themselves from the CALLING
yoke of Spain Just three and forty years
before, many of the well educated natives
muttered deep curses against the Wash
ington who in his blindness had freed a
people who In time should become
scourge and a bane to all nations and
races smaller and weaker than their own.
On that day many a fercely clenched
fist was shaken at-tife stars and stripes and
many a vehement vow was uttered that,
should the Americans attempt to encroach
too far upon the liberties of the republic,
the descendants of those who had spared
themselves no sacrifice until they had driv-
en- the Spaniard from the country with fire
and the sword would prove themselves
worthy of such heroic ancestors.
When the Dominican gentlemen who ex-
pressed themselves SO theoretically were
asked why the Dominican people hated the
Americans SO deeply they replied:
Bad as the Spanrads were, yet we owe
them the blood that courses through our
veins, we owe them the first notions of civil
lzation we received. we owe them our Ian
guage, our religion, we owe them the proud
spirit that does not permit US to tamely
brook oppression and scorn-in fine, we owe
them all the virtues and vices that were
once the characteristics of the most pow
erful nation In the civilized world.
Cheated by the Americans.
Since then we have learned much from
the French, Germans and English. We are
indebted to these nations for their courteous
treatment when we visit their dominions.
Many of us owe them our education and even
large percentage Of our blood and we
have always had square dealings at their
hands On the other hand what do we owe
the United States, we who have always re-
ceived their citizens with courtesy and hos
pitality? They have repaid us by cheating
US.
They have laughed at us under the be-
lief that they have cheated set of fools
Their fake concerns have entangled US In an
endless mesh of debt without giving US
anything in return for the riches they tear
from US. The very men who share our hos
pitality, fawn on us and are extremely meek
when in our country and tell us wonderful
stories about the justice and liberty OF their
country, flee from US when we go there as
If we were leprous wretches and should they
take notice of us 1t Is simply to treat us
less kindly than the beasts Of the field.
What will they bring US II they succeed IN
gaining a firm foothod in our country?
They will bring their filthy prejudces to
make US miserable, they will bring their
savage lynch law, which does not even ex-
list in the heart of Africa and which Is fine
invention of North American civilization;
they will seek to exterminate US as they
have practically exterminated the North
American Indian. or they will taboo US as
they have tabooed and prosecuted their own
negroes whose sweat and blood have made
their country rich and whom they have
wronged from beginning to end; they will
scott at our men and despise our women.
Why should we long for such good. such
comforts and such civilization at their
hands?
Why They Hate Americans.
.1s tbara an honest American who can