The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1907-06-13
HAYTI'S SECRETARY OF STATE
Says Hnyti Must Lay AsideNts Pre-
jueice Against America and
Make Friends.

interest in Hayti and the Haytian
people never lags. There is, how
ever, at present, a manifestation Of
more than the usual amount, due to
a letter published recently in the
New York Herald from the pen of
one "Hayti." This letter called out
a strong editorial by the Herald, in
which it was said that the United
States took no more stock in the pre-
JUDGE reputed to mark it's considera-
ton Of Hayti than the mass Of Amer
lean people take in the foolish pre-
JUDGE Of q certain element against
people of color. This editorial in
spired a rather remarkable review
peared in last Sundays Herald. The
letter takes the form of a book re-
view, the recent volume of Mr.. Fred
eric Marcelin on "Une Evolution Nee
essaire," being chosen for that pur-
pose. The Haytian Secretary of
State makes a bold plea for a clearer
union between Hayti and the United
States, bravely If unwisely contend
ing that the future Of Hayti as a re-
public depends upon the attitude Of
the United States. The letter fol-
lows:
have read the letter from a Her.
aid correspondent in Hayti which
was published in the Herald of May
&c 2nu c6itOrially commented upon
the Following day and have a copy
of the book by Mr.. Frederic Marco
lin, to which the attention of Ameri-
can readers was therein drawn
"Une Evolution Necessaire," pub
lished in Paris by the ANONYMOUS
Society of the Kugelmann Press,
some extracts from which may be
specially interesting at the present
moment.
/ In "A Necessary, Evolution" then,
Mr.. Marcelin, the present Secretary
OF State in the Haytian republic, en-
forces upon his fellow citizens the
moral of the Spanish-American war.
That war, he reminded his compa-
triots, has drawn singular attention
to this island and familiarized the
world at large with names that hith-
erto had been mere names, through
their reiteration in sensational cable
grams. Today few educated men are
ignorant of such localities as Port
au Prince, Cape Haytien, the Saint
Nicholas Mole, etc. They demand
fuller information concerning a
neighbour which they have hitherto
little known or known only through
SlanderOus reports.
They have recalled the fact that
this marvellous country, which comes
Immediately after Cuba in extent, Is
fully her equal, and possibly her su-
perior, in wealth. This rich black
soil, wherein grain blown hitherward
by the wind supplies our Incidence
with multiple crops--where can one
seek its parallel? 1t is not merely
the fertility Of the soil Of which one
may boast. While the oak, the aca-
jou, the gayac, the bayconde, the
pine, the fir, the cedar furnish us
with inextricable forests through
which we can only make our way by
the needless use Of the axe and fire,
our subsoil is choked with gold, Dlati-
mum, silver, copper, tin, salt and so
on. Some Of our coal mines He with
in few hours distance from sea
ports and in the neighborhood of the
cape mercury can be dished up with
q spoon after transforms out Of wa
ters that have descended from the
mountains. How, then, does it hap
pen that a,l these resources which
awaken anticipations Of q future
California, Of still unrecognized
Transvaal, are not at present in ac-
tual course of exDlOtauOn?"
Simply because Hayti Is dominat-
ed, figuratively, by Giant Adamas-
tor, more potent and more terrible
than the monster who in Camoens'
epic guarded the Cape OF Storms.
She has clothed him with all her own
fears. Against people who never
asked for leave to enter we have
raised that article in our constitu-
ton which denies to the white man
the right of acquiring property"
Hayu had no need, Mr.. Marcelin