Arizona republican., 1915-08-10
CAPERTON SAYS
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cent harbor at Mole St. Nicholas is the key to the Panama canal trade | and a menace to the defence of the | canal in event of war.
 While the efforts of Admiral Caper ton to bring the armed leaders into peace and order is lauded, it is point ed out that the trouble lies deeper. 1 It is said here that the only way pos sible to end the deplerable grating and the horrible murders of that be- nighted land is by intervention. That this intervention should inchde the taking over of the finances of the is land and their readjustment is gen orally thought by those in touch with affairs in Haiti to be the main neceS- sity. In the hundred years and more of Haitis independence, only one presl- dent has completed the term of of flee for which he was elected, the others leaving office always by being shot, stabbed, poisoned or driven out. | It is probably because the unspeak- able abuses in Haiti have been com mitted in the name of liberty that the i United States has been loath to ln- 1 tefere Discussing the sort of free land democratic government maintain ed in Haiti, one of the oldest officials of the state department remarked: Tn century of independence, the sole right which those people have saved for themselves is the right to go to the devil in the way they choose. And they hold this to be their dearest right Any other right can be taken without protest, but let it be insisted that they behave themselves and they become worse than a nest of hor- nets"
 | Apart from the humanitarian phase of the Haitien problem, there are con- sideration demanding action by the United States which are of deep if not vital importance to this govern ment Since the birth of the German l imperialistic policy in 1900 the activ1- ties of the Germans in Haiti have made it more and more evident that was essential for the United States to protect it's interests in this little island of the Carribean.
 | The harbor of Mole St Nicholas is the key to the Haitien problem. There the Germans have for years been strengthening their grip, and now con- trol practically all the trade. Many Germans have married native Haitien women in order to enable them to own
  lthat they have financed one revolu- tion after another, when the govern ment in power refused to abide by their will In this way huge debts have been piled on the republic at high rates of interest, which have steadily weakened the governmnt and brought it further and further into ti,e clutches of those who sought con trol.
 When a government is in such de- plorable condition as have been the last twenty odd governments of Haiti, the money lender naturally owns the body and soul Whatever the govern ment possesses that the creditor wants he can take. And the United States has begun to find it very disagreeable to it's interests to have the Germans in such relationship to the harbor of Mole St Nicholas, particularly since the Panama Canal was built
 In 1911 the United States first in sisted upon obtaining a representation,
 in the financial operations sustaining the Haitien government. This was done on the same theory that it was at
 tempted in China, namely, that if the
 United States had a direct interest in
 loans it could check any move on the
 parI of the other creditors that were
 inimical to American interests. The
 United States obtained a minority in terest The European interests, Ger
 man and French, prevailed.
 When the 1911 measure proved un successful by reason of a succession of
 revolutions financed largely by Haitien
 merchants, the United States conteEn-
 plated consolidating the entire debt of the republic, refunding it through a
 loan from a first-class American house,
 reducing the rate of interest so that It : would be less DurdenSome to the Hai- , tien people, and handling through
 American agents the collection and , disbursement of the customs, in order , to end the grating which was running
 the country.
 , The fact that such a. scheme would
 have ended the grating was enough to
 earn the opposition of all the Haitien
 politicians. Efforts were repeatedly
 made to carry the scheme through.
 Finally the European war put tenn f pOrary end to European opposition and f now the French interests are willing to
 sell out But the Haitiens are still op- , posed to the plan.
 l The biting apparatus of a flea is only ne-twelfth the diameter of the finest