Norwich bulletin., 1916-06-14
ISLAND OF HAITI
 REVOLUTION RIDDEN
Second Largest of the Antilles Wac Discovered by coIumhus-center of Trouble for Many Years.
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 Washington, D. C., June 13.-Ease- where on the globe wars may be waged and wars may cease, but revo- lutions go on forever, seemingly, in the two republics occupying the island of Haytf. Double trouble exists there at the present time. In the black repub- lie on the western end of the island the president, supported by American forces under Rear Admiral Caperton, is at Ioggerheads with his parliament, while in the eastern republic of Santo Domingo, President Jfminez, impeach- ed by his chamber of deputies, has re- signed rather than brook armed inter
 vention ont he part of the United
 States.
 The National Geographic Society,
 from it's headquarters in Washington,
 D. C., gives the following account of
 the revolution-ridden, Siamese twins
 of the family of nations.
 Less than two months after Co.,
 lumbus first sighted land in the West
 ern hemisphere he had set foot on the northwest extremity of he island
 which he named Espagnal Gittle Spain1. subsequently, Latinized into Hispanfola and now known as Haiti.
 Four years later Santo Domingo, on 1 the southeastern coast of this, tho
 second largest island of the Antilles was founded, the first European set 1 clement in the New World.
 For two hundred years Haiti, then 1 called Santo Domingo, remained O 1 Spanish colony, but by the treaty of
 Ryswick (1697) it came under the do- through a peculiar combination of circumstances, constituting one of the most picturesque pages of adventure | in the history of the Western World.
 Tortuga. lying off the northwestern coast of Santo Domingo, had been
 seized and held as the treasure is- land of the group of adventurous 1 English and French, led by bold and
 ruthless Commanders. These priva- l teers. as they were called, had been | waging a bitter warfare against ] Spanish commerce, their animoSity be- ing actuated by Spain's oppressive trade regulations. Santo Domingo had | suffered greatly as 9. result of these restrictions, but one of the islands
 few remaining profitable industries
 was the butchering of wild cattle, the
 meat being sold to smugglers. The
 natives prepared this meat in h1ts fwhich they called boucans, and the
 English and French seamen, learning
 the trick of curing the meat, be,
 came butchers and buccaneers" sup plying passing vessels with preserved beef and afterward robbing these sam, ships.
 When the peace of Ryswick wa concluded so many Frenchmen hal settled on the west end of Santo Do } mingo that this portion of the island was ceded to France. A hundred . years later Spain parted with tn ) eastern end also, but before the whol
 island came under her Jurisdiction France had begun to have her trouble with the slaves whose importation 9 from Africa had begun under tn Spanish regime as early as f512. Whil the Europeans were divided anon themselves over the problems of tn French Revolution the negroes ros against their oppressors and under tn leadership of Toussaint BOuverturt one Of the most remarkable men eve : produced by the black race, attaine d their freedom. Toussaint, the grand = son of an African chief, was a militar e genius who made the grave mistake ( = styling himself the Black Napoleon - His resentment being aroused agains
 this self = proclaimed understud, Il Frances Man of Destiny sent hi ?. brother-in-law, Leclerec, to Hayti 1 .- subjugate the rebels. Through treact # cry, Touissaint was captured and ser o to France where he died in 1903. It "Dessalines, Touissaint's followe t. declared Hayti independent and al '- sumed the title of emperor in 180 $ After his assassination two years la Is CT by two of his officers, Christopl '- and Petion, the northern section s, the island came under the sway LAAC LOAA4CAs d ACSHOs MAAAS F ClAOn G er tablished a mulatto republic to u a south. Jean Pierre Boyer, mulat
 of exceptional ability, succeeded the le two and gained complete control of Il to whole island, ruling with hrmness s- nearly a quarter of a century, u n French having recognized the ind of pendence of Hayti in 1925.
 is Tn 1S44 the eastern two-thirds 'd the island set up the independent r z- public of Santo Domingo, with u KS city of the same as its capital ( le several occasions the latter count KS had made overtures to the Unit lg States proposing annexation and sd one time negotiations had progress is as far as the ratification of a trea al by the Dominican people, but, as he the case of the proposed purchase ns the Danish West Indies two years pr hs viously. the United States Senate, l. a tie vote, rejected the proposal: to For the last three-quarters of
 century rulers in both Hayti and Sa is to Domingo have followed each oth ng like birds of passage, flight, assassin at ton and forcible removal from off to being the rule rather than the exec 5s, tion.f
 -is '"The republic of Hayti, which a. fleets it's French character in the la in guage of it's people and in the custs air