Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1915-08-20

HAITI IS ALSO Undesirable
Governments In sucE, COUNTRIES Are
Seldom Successful and Always Cause
Mere or Less TroubIe-?airAkr Of
Pennsylvania. Probably VIII BsCoun-
se'or to State Department.:
81 ARTHUR w. DtJNSN.

By ARTHUR w. DUNN.
Washington Aug. 1S.-[Special.l i
When Aiillu Root made his memorable
trip around South .~zncrila f0I the pur-
pose Of esjaDli,hiu. I,c:ter relations /
i4.@,ecn this coI,1-ls.,. ,jnJ tpe Latin
American republics Ec 1l:t{le.s wonder
ful declaration at Islo.tlq .Janeilo to the |
effect that. we coveted net a foot Of /
LANE, OF the countries south pf Us, but
Aonly wished t!4ola peace and prosper
ity.
Since chen We have 9rietl' to lie up
20 -:at iGea enc TO <,oil :cc ri . any
Mexican t>.2:S~'y, ttou2l. tie .tUre
l-.s. fierce 81, ! ! ol. * lGnt
want Haiti. but We may lie forced to
assume L protc> toIatG and govern the
land. In the end we may have to an
mex the whole island, including SantO
Domingo. \: .
And Old Elan.
President Grant wanted to annex
santo Domingo for the purpose Of find
ins out whether ,t!la blacks ullt.cr the
tutelage of the United States could es-
tablish a govelll1i:e:t Such govern
ments have. net been successful in Ell
Their Haiti o." :saslto .Doning,.
Senator NeN.ln,ls. the author OF the
resolution which brought about tie an
nexation &C Hawaii,. felt 50 good over
his venture that his first effort in the
senate was the introduction Of a reso-
r1;ion to annex Santo Domingo he
was severely seeded b. Senator Hale
OF Maine for LIZ, action. Sill, I then he
fo7nl that. there was really no desire
. TO gather in any more islands peopled
}. b.. race which were incapable OF self
!, government.
The troubles in both these black re
puhlics may bring forward PROPOSE
tio-.s fo' annexation in the coming
&C :. | we will have an oppor
t,lllity to see how the Representatives
Of the people feel about it.
| f.. Palmer Stands Firm.
: !. A, Mitchell Palmer held seventy-tw'
Il. Pennsylvania. votes solidly for Wilson
: at a time. when they did him the mos
II good il the Baltimore convention
t /: Texas east forty votes for Wilson
9. !: Texas has two places in the cabinet
}: Palmer has been offered several sui
coordinate positions and refused then
e No doubt Palmer believes he was hi
enough to be secretary Of state, yet h
/ has seen 3 man who never did any
$ thing il politics given the place. an
S he is offered the second place.
T But Palmer is not disgruntled. E
is as strong for Wilson and the Dem,
cratic party as ever before.
III ~. Cracks at England.
- l.. Hannis Taylor is one man who doe
II not hesitate to speak his mind He
a southern Democrat, but he is III
= looking for preferment Of any kim
10 He had his recognition many yea
= ago when Cleveland made him 70
eign minister Now he is incensed
II With cotton goods. Taylor, with b
~ prominence as a diplomat, does n
~ hesitate to say what he thinks abo
IL the manner in which America is beil
d treated by Great Britain If the
were more men like Taylor it mig
u mean war with Britain rather thu
~ a war with Germany.
kindeI Still on tire Job.
- Former Congressman George J. Ri
- del Of Colorado is still on the job, tn
a job being an attempt to put in for
% a different parcel post system.
w writes long and curious letters to
IL president, letters which would ia
~ even such an astute scholar as Woo
w. row Wilson long time to unravel a;
understand. Kindel certainly knows
lot about freight rates, express rat
re parcel post rates.. and he has lots
lst diagrams, ground plans, figures a
M formulas. All Of these, together w
ed maps, tables and comments in diff
ob- ent colors, with pictures Of hims
be pointing to Denver as the .er
ar the United States, he put i. lis OF
ms letters to the president Aindel "
about Washington long enough