The Denver star., 1915-10-02
More About Haiti's
American Occupation.

of schools and predet of the local assoca
of teachers the following letter
concerning the Hayen territory
by American The first letter published in The
AGE OF September I6- Miss Holly makes strong
ment for the Hayden people and crses severely the al
legged actions of some of the american troops.
This country has need of missionaries
and devoted Too many of those that have come here SO
far have descended the level of the political and
agtators instead of trying the people to
higher standard of civic morality AND abnegation-
Haiti has had to work her salvation. poisoned
ottner than aided by those whose profession and
sion called them point hdr higher things In spite of
them slower teacher bitter experience has been at work
enRhtening her judgement and forming her national
conscience that the crucial he American in
vasion) seem to have quckened nt4 life 1t would be too
much affirm that the nober ideals this indicates have
equally matured in all the individual that go
the forming of the great national organ.
The presence American torres they
kept friendly attitude would have been and
welcomed for the security gave lust any reasonable
minded would feel grateful Ito the passing
tor disarming unruly and pass }onate child who.
bloody blndly muttatnd all comrades within his
reach. -.Ai
The execution of General v.S(; Sam was no worse a
Crime than those committed almoSt by the American
mob and without the THAT resulted in the
cution of the Haitien President.
1t than probable reported ordered
the of the hundred in number
owing the anarchy that regned their muated and
bloody had to be borne uncovered their different
homes and hastily prepared for Immediate burial that there
hardly block that had victim in the lotone
what pitch of renzied indignation the relatives
and the friends OF the victims were worked up
/ is probable than sangnnary propensity which
dictated the wholesale butchery of the prisoners and all the
similar instances in the history of this
direct outcome OF our impious white ancestry The theory
is scientifically tenabe. Some has said that self c-
sign of progress. 1t remarkable that strong
tide of national self criticism has concded with the
nal people, the the cursed
strain having well nigh itself through the four
generations we had reached last turning point and
about to begin to be normal selves
i What pity that such grand and legitimate hope
should be hwarted and that the nation
the former faint should have again. perhaps absorb
! eIeme destined retard her ormal evolution
Did not America owe it herself to be a grand and
generous sister to the little Haien republic? Did
it herself to lend, circumstances might require
guiding aud protecting hand instead of bullying brow
beating the feeble nation!
For however she may choose to ignore it officially,
nothing will the historical fact that while
in the etters of slavery baalon nine hundred strong
forth from the ranks of this people and signal aid
in the conquest of American Independence.
! If America required further incentive magnanimity
could she not recall the conduct of the blacks during the
of secession? During the great civil when the
egons of the South marched against the Northern heroes
the former had alternative but to leave their fortune
and zhters and helpless care of
the people whose Social economic and political degra
daton they went forth to consodate the Of their
very life. blood.
And that martyrrace, debona,r guiltless the
Great Mar>a of Golgotha. the peril of their lives
against their personal interest," faithful the
strange and sacred trust.
For all these seasons, Haiti cannot of the
erful American Republic disarming child nation binding
its feeble mbs them point bayonee
her fortune and obedience calling friendness
phan ropy.
Cait injustice. call oppression call it despotism call