The sun., 1918-07-07

sued a proclamation declaring Santo Do
mingo to be under the military admins
tration of the United States, but stating
that the object of the occupation was
not to destroy Dominican sovereignty
but to restore order; that Dominican laws
were to continue in effect, so far as they
did not conflict with the objects of the
occupation or the DEGREES of the military
Government; that the Dominican courts
were to continue in their functions, eX-
eept that offences against the military
Government were TO be judged by mill
tary courts, and that all the revenues of
the Dominican Government were to be
paid over TO the military Government,
which would administer the same"
This was the status quo when the pres
ent volume went TO press in January,
1915 The affairs of Santo Domingo were
being administered by American naval
officers, pending a reorganization of the
civil Government of the republic.
Columbus's Hispaniola.
Just as all Gaul, in the time of Julius
Caesar, was divided into three parts, so
all of the great West Indian island Of
Hayti is divided into two parts: The
French republic of Hayti in the west,
dominated by French negroes, and the
Spanish republic of Santo Domingo in
the east, populated by whites and mulat-
toes of Spanish descent.
"The area of the island is generally
stated at 28,249 square miles, of which
Hayti is credited with 10, 204 square miles
and the Dominican republic with 1S,045
square miles," No part of the country,
however, has, ever been carefully sur
veyed except the railroad lines and the
chief harbors, so these estimates are only
approximately correct.
We may fairly consider Santo Domingo
as being about as large as Vermont and
New Hampshire taken together. The isl
and was discovered on his first voyage
by Columbus, who called it La Espanola
Tin English, Hispaniola), because the
scenery reminded him of Andalusia in
Spain; and the Spanish colony which
was established there enjoyed great pros
perity for about half a century, espe-
cially under the administration of Diego
Columbus, the son of the great Admiral,
who married Maria de Toledo, the beauti-
full niece of the Duke of Alba, and main
tanned a sort of vice-regal court in the
castle which he built at Santo Domingo
city, and which is described as an i'm
posing structure even in its ruins.
Frances Foothold.
About 1903 the island began to be
called Santo Domingo, but for almost
three centuries royal DEGREES continued
to refer to it as Espanola. So flourish
ing was its state at this time that thirteen
of its towns were granted coats of arms
and three were declared cities The colony
was and for many years continued to be
starting point for voyages of discovery
and conquest in the islands and along the
shores of the Caribbean Sea-" By the
peace of Ryswiek in 1857 Spain ceded
the western part of the island TO France,
whose colonists had long claimed it, and
soon made it the richest country of West
Indies
"Great plantations Of tobacco, indigo,
cacao, coffee and sugar were estab-
lished. The country came to he known
as the paradise of the West Indies and
IL, a. IL
verbal" The French Revolution, how
ever, turned this paradise into veritable
hell. The half million of slaves rose
against their 10000 white masters and
negro rule was permanently established
The great plantation homes were burned,
the wide estates desolated, white women
were ravished and murdered and white
men put to death with horrible tortures,
while the liberated slaves INDUCED in or