Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-09-21
MAY FREE HAITI
 SOON DECLARES
 SECRETARY COLBY
sBenevolent Purpose" of In. tervention Nearing Alt
 tainment, He Says


 terventiOn Nearing Att tainment, He Says
 Washington, Sept. 20.-Announcine that the benevolent purpose" of this country's occupation of the island o1 Haiti was "nearing" attainment, Sec retary Colby declared in statement tonight that the United States "hopes" to withdraw and leave the Islands administration to the "un aided efforts of the Haitian people, when that purpose has been fully achieved. The relations of the Unit ed States with Haiti, the secretary added, should not be "misrepresented even under the temptations that g political campaign presents to ire spcnsible utterances and conscious unveracity."
 While not replying directly to re- cent charges by Senator Harding, the Republican presidential nominee, that the administration was conducting ."ur1,onstitutiona warfare" against Haiti and San Domingo, Secretary Colby recited at length the history of American occupation and defended it as being guided by mo thought ex- cept to help" their people. Senator Harding's attack on the administra- tion's record in Haiti was made in connection with criticism of state ~mGnts by Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dem ocratic vice-presidential nominee Earlier in the day it was learned that the state department had informed G. Baran, Haitian Minister of foreign affairs that the salaries of the pres ident and other officials of the Haiti an government which have been with held since last June, would be so withheld until the native government ceased to interpose obstacles to the carrying out of certain provisions of the treaty entered into at the time of this country's occupation of the island.
 Protest against American interven- tion in San Domingo was made in a simultaneous statement tonight by Julio M. Cestero M. Cestero, repre- senting the Dominican junta in the United States. Referring to the re- cent declarations by Senator Harding and Secretary of the Navy Daniels Cestero declared the citizens of the Dominican republic "have never sought the present American inter vention" and have never ceased to ask for restoration of their freedom and sovereignty"
 'sAs is well known, for many years prior to 1915, the island of Haiti was the scene of chronic disorders. The revolutions were sometimes accom- panied by wholesale massacres and alwys by serious fatalities," says MT. Colby's statement. "The culmi- nation of these conditions came with the president of President Villbran Guillaume Sam, who was dragged by mob from the French legation where he had taken refuge. This grave affront to the rights of the French government resulted in the landing of French troops in Port Au Prince. At this time Haii's Euro pean creditors were pressing for payment of the foreign debts and fear was generally entertained that murder of the Haitian president would prompt an aggressive program on the part of some European gov ernment which would not only chal- lenge the Monroe Doctrine but ar ralgn the United States for failure to perform duties which it had ex- pressly avowed as part of the Mon- roe Docrine. These duties have no. Where found more explicit statemen' than in the addresses and messages of the late President Roosevelt.
 "In performance of this duty the United States with the full assent oi public opinion occupied the city of Port Au Prince September 8, 1915 "A few days after convention was signed expressing the mutual desires of both countries to strength en the amity between them by meas ures for the common advantage. The United States obligated itself to as- sist Haiti in three specific ways: T, cooperate with the Haitian govern ment in placing the revenues and if nances on a stable basis; to help tn, haitian government to mantain tran quiiity throughout the republic; an, to contribute in other proper way to advance the prosperity of the re public and welfare of it's people.
 The United States has confine, It's energies entirely to the announce, purpose of it's occupation and as result complete tranquility exist, through the republic"
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