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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1920-12-09
PLAN u. s, LOAN
TO AID FARMERS
Senator Hitchcock to Offer $780,
100000 Relief Measure
Next Week.
GOV. HARDING FAVORS SCHEME
Money He Would Advance Is the Gov
ernment's Share in Profits Of the
Federal Reserve Banks, Pay.
able Next Month.

Washington. Dec. 4.-Immedlate
loans Of $GO,OOO,OOO from government
funds to aid farmers In the faGe of
falling prices of their products is pro-
posed by Senator Hitchcock Dem)
Nebraska, in a bin drawn after a
conference with Governor Harding of
the federal reserve board.
Senator Hitchcock plans to present
the measure when congress meets
next week
The money which Senator Hitchcock
would have advanced to the farmers
is the governments share In profits of
the Federe Reserve banks, payable
next month, and which under the law
would be used TO increase gold re-
serves or amorti2e Liberty bonds
Loans would be made through the
federal land banks on ChatteI mort
cages or warehouse receipts with az
ricultural products or live stock as Sc
curity. Loans on grain would be linn
ited to six months and those on live
stock to one year,
This would be only drop In the
bucket toward meeting the enormous
needs of agriculturists," said Senator
Hitchcock, but It would have a good
effect beyond the actual amount of
money made available"
Senator Hitchcock indicated that
Governor Harding Was fuyOrublv in
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1920-12-09
MOSCOW THREATENS JAPAN
Soviet Government May Form Mill
tary Alliance With China Against
the Japanese.

Berlin, Dec. G.-The soviet govern
ment at Moscow threatens TO make a
military alliance with China against
Japan unless the latter ceases its i'm
perialistic policy at the expense Of
Siberia according to advice from
Moscow.
The last issue Of the official soviet
paper declares that the japanese pol
icy in the Far East is becoming more
and more threatening day by day.
The paper closes with the statement
that the soviet republic in the Far
East and China, whose joint interests
are endangered 10y Japanese imperial
ism, will bo forced to take refuge in
"a military alliance to counter the
japanese plans on the Aslatic CONT
nout
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1920-12-09
.FAV0RS MATERNITY STRIKE
Milwaukee Woman Would Force Dis
armament by Refusal to Give
Birth to Children.

Milwaukee, Dec. G. Advocating a
brides strike ana the refusal Of
married women to give birth to chill
dren until future wars are made i'm
possible through disarmament, Mrs.
Jessie Handy Mackay, president Of
the Milwaukee Peace society and
chairman Of mass meeting Of the
International Association Of Mech4n-
les. and the society here declared That
IN this way pressure could be brought
which would produce immediate re-
suits.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1920-12-09
Between Red Russia and Green Erin,

Between Red Russia and Green Erin
England is having a colorful existence.
Mexico is such a quiet noighborhood
these days that Texas is contenplat-
ing breaking down the door to see Il
the whole family has been asphyXr
ated.
Paupers in Creek county Texas, are
wondering if the oil gusher dug ON JnD
poor farm is going to mean anything
to them
An Illinois man made a vain attemp.
at suicide because he couldn't find Z
wife. Bet his mail is flooded with pro.
posals now. II pays to advertise
These days the home with an empty
coal bin is about as cheerful as
grand opera libretlo.
Shoes have been reduced 50 PEI
cent but what Is most needed Is a
shoe lace that doesn't breah at d
critical time.
Lawyers got $1,OOOOOO for fixing the
meaning OF the Marshall Field will
and people wonder why law schools
don't need TO advertise.
A woman beat her husband with a
poker. That comes Of having the tools
In the house and no raw material In
the bin.
English scientists are trying to de
yelop a walking fish. This town has
several.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1920-12-09
ROB C. M. & ST. p. MAIL TRAIN
Men Board No. G az Minneapolis and
Escape With 100 Pieces Of Reg.
stered Articles.

Minneapolis MIMI Dec, 4.-Thrce
young masked bandits held mp and
robbed the mail car on the Chicago,
Milwaukee aud 81. Paul train No. g.
Mobridge, S. -, to Minneapolis. and
after binding and gagglng three mail
clerks, escaped with a pouch Of reg
istered mail and other packages, csti.
mated to contain currency and papers
worth between $4,000 md $4,000
This train was bound for Chicago.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1920-12-09

to the drug store for paint, pow
ders and beauty creams, when she
should go there for a blood medi-
cine and stomach alternative known
as Golden Medical Discovery"
This vegetable tonic and blood
Alternative clears the skin, beauti-
fes it, increases the blood supply
and the circulation, while pimples,
boiIs and eruptions vanish quickly.
Ask your nearest druggist for DR..
Pierce's Golden Medical Discov-
cry in tablet or liquid form or send
1Oc. for trial package of tablets to
DR.. Pierce's Invalids' Hotel in
Buffalo, N. Y.
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DEATH FOR ALL TRAITORS
Sim Fein Circulates Proclamation
Throughout the West and
South of ireland.

Belfast, Dec. G.-The Sim Fein has
circulated proclamation throughout
the west and south of Ireland declar-
Ing that those guilty of Unreasonable
conspiracy" will he executed as trait
ors to the Irish republic. The proc
lamation reads:
"Whereas the Irish republic has de-
clared war on England, we hereby
give notice that any one guilty Of
reasonable conspiracy will be shot
without warning as a traitor to the
republic"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1920-12-09
GREET WIDOW OF MACSWINEY
Thousands Of Irish Sympathizers Wei.
come Widow Of Late Mayor
of Cork.

New York, Dec 4-The steamship
Celtic, bearing Mrs. Muriel MacSwi-
ney, widow, and Miss Mary MacSwi-
ney, sister Of the late Terence Mac
Swney, lord mayor of Cork, who died
in n hunger strike in BriXton prison,
London, arrived here.
Mrs. MacSwincy comes to testify be.
fore the committee of one hundred
now inqulring at Washington into con.
dltions in Ireland.
Thousands Of Irish sympathlzers
greeted them at the pier, and sew
eral squads Of police reserves were
called out to insure order.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1920-12-09
INDGCT 2 IN BUILDING TRUST
New York Grand Jury Takos First
Action on Charges Of Craft
In That City.

New York, Dee. 1.-Two ndct-
mcuts returned by the extraordinary
grand Jury IN connection with inyes-
uguUon Of the building trust were
directed against John A. PhIIbrlck u
dealer In masons' supplies, and 10.
seph Penny, secretary Of the Builders
SnnpIy Lurenn.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1920-12-09
HARDING SEEKS
SMOOTH CHANGE
Want Cabinet to Go to Work in
February.
WOULD SET NEW PRECEDENT
He Desires That Proposed Member7
Familiarize Themselves With Gov
eminent Business Before lnaugu-
ration and Prepare for Duties.


Washington, Dec. 6.-Presideut-
elect Harding will break all prece-
dents by naming his cabinet early in
February and putting all of its mem
| bers Immediately to work in Wash
ington, according to information Cb-
tanned here.
The country will in effect at that
time witness the extraordinary spec
tacle of two complete governments in
practical operation at once-the one
closing out its affairs and making
ready to quit, while the other takes
lessons on its job and prepares to
move in.
The informant stated he had dis
cusscd the proposed plan in detail
with Harry Daugherty, confidential
adviser to the President-el
Smooth Shift Sought.
IF the President-elect has con-
ference with President Wilson during
his visit to Washington, as is now eX-
pected, he will only be setting an eX-
ample for the proposed members of
his cabinet, whom he will ask to
famllGrize themselves with the gov
eminent business before Inauguration
day.
"Whomeyer Mr.. Harding designates
for secretary of the treasury, taking
that department as an illustration,
will Immediately be requested to
communicate with Secretary Hous-
ton with the suggestion that in the
interest of a smooth shift of author
ity he will be permitted to spend two,
possibly three, weeks in that depart
ment solely as an observer, preparing
himself for his responsibilities.
an some cases private secretaries
might follow the same process of
preparation.
Cooperation Expected.
whereas, in the past these changes
In personnel at the heads of the diff
ferent departments have been made
under circumstances which resulted
in nothing but disorder and disor-
ganization at least for a time, we pro
pose to be ready to take over things
without so much as a halt In the
governmental machinery.
"No one expects anything but
hearty cooperation from the retiring
Wilson cabinet officers because Of the
nations governmental affairs being at
stake. 1t only means a sensible and
MT Pl f,.pr OF Of n,
troll of the worlds greatest business"
While 1t is understood that. the
President-elect had approved the plan,
no official announcement is to be
made until the men selected for Hard
ing's cabinet have been consulted.
The matter will receive further con-
sideration in the conference when the
Presldent-elect arrives in Washington.
Probable Cabinet Choices.
In spite Of all previous suggestions
to the contrary, the selections for the
cabinet which appear most probable
are as follows;
Secretary Of State-SenatOr Henry
Cabot Lodge Of Massachusetts.
Secretary Of the Treasury-Georg
NJ Reynolds of Illinois.
Secretary Of the Navy-John w.
Weeks Of Massachusetts.
Secretary of War-Henry l.. Slim
son of New York.
Secretary of Agriculture-IIenry c.
Wallace of Iowa.
Attorney General-Harry NJ. Daugh.
erty Of Ohio.
Postmaster General-Will II. Hays
Of Indiana.
Secretary of Labor-Representatiye
John /. Nolan OF California.
Secretary Of Interior Herbert
Hoover of California.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1920-12-09
Another lrIsh Ambush.

London, Dec. g. Six policemen
were ambushcd m Youghal, Ireland
one was wounded md one IS missing
AT Random the bodies Of three yolun.
tocrs, who were shot near chat town.
were discovered lying near the road
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1920-12-09

Dublin, Dec Countess Murtie-
wicz. NJ. r., prominent Sim l'cn lead.
err was found guilty by court-mnrtial
Of consprng TO spread scdtion and
cause murder In Ireland Sentence
will be mpuspd later.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1920-12-09
Redn Exacnfe Enrtu a nau

Berlin, Dec 4. No less than LOG
persons, nm average Of 40 day, were
sentenced to death by Moscow reyo-
lutionary tribunals and executed dur
ing September, according TO the ofli-
ciul soviet organ Isyestla.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1920-12-09

Chattanooga, Tenn, Dec. -Four
armed men boarded the Southern
orthbound train from Chattanooga 10
Cincinnati near Oneida, rIned the
mail car and escaped. The post Office
ut Oneida had previously been robbed
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1920-12-09
chieaq, nandIts Knl Merchant

Chicago Dee g. Henry IIoIler.
owner of fulr.ers shop at 355 East
Thr hHh street was shot and
Killed when he sought 10 halt bandits
HaEng aHay with approximately ST.
DgJ worth III BIS stock.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1920-12-09

A race horse was tried by court-mar-
tial and sentenced to death by the Boil
shevlk on a charge of having won
Gun offered by the former car and so
'haylng had dealings with the old re-
gime"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1920-12-09
COY Made LIE Memher

New York, Dec. Governor Cox
Of Ohio, defeated Democratic nominee
for President accepted life mem.
bership IN the National Democratic
club 81 feel highly compImeuted,"
said Governor Cox
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1920-12-09
Baron's Death Report Denied

London, Dec A.. Reports that Baron
Desborough died suddenly Wcdnes-
day evening vt Birmingham, which
were published here by Il London news.
paper proved to be incorrect. The
baron IL IN tie best Of health.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1920-12-09
Sim Felners informed.

London, Dee G.-The first group Of
Sim Fem prisoners to be lnterned I'm.
der the governments recently nm,
nounced plan left Dublin for BaIly-
Nnler County Down. Their number
was not made public.
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Half Million Loot Found.

Huntington, Ind, Dec. 4.--Four bags
containing $4,000 In Liberty bonds
and 100000 In notes and mortgages
stolen from a clifton (ll) bank two
weeks age, have been recovered be-
meath section shanty
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1920-12-09
The Only MAY

"My wife never once answered me
back, wanted her own way or failed
to try to please me in all ways
"aow did you ever manage TO &C.
compllsh all that?'
IL never married"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1920-12-09
AK More lime IN Campaign PRONE

Washington Dee G.--Authority TO
continue lbs investigation into cam
puig expenditures until next March /
viii be asked Of the senate by The
committee headed by Senator Kenyon
of Iowa
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Three Eo1s and Girl.

Sal' Lake city, Dee 3 Mrs. Vlna
~ Knight wife u q farmer al Plain
'GHy Utah gave birth 70 four children,
three boys and a gH. The doctor re-
ports the m4LLer and chlldren-pro-
l0resslng fagorabiy.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1920-12-09

Rear Admiral Edward Rhodes Stitt,
commanding officer of the United States
navy medical school since 1916 has
been appointed surgeon general OF
the navy TO succeed Rear Admiral
w. c. BREASTED, who retires after serv-
ing in this position for eight years,
Admiral Slit is best known to the
medical profession as an authority on
tropical diseases.
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CHICAGO MARKETS.
Grain, Provisions, Etc.

FLOUR-Hard spring-Bakers' patent.
$3.50; first clears, $50; second clears, $G41
q67O; special mill brands In 9S III cotton
sacks S9O0Q925; warehouse delivery. 50. Is
Soft winter wheat-Short patent. $3.50
900. Hard winter wheat Kansas short
patent. S5O6775; first clears, s550G6.75
Rye hour-White patent, $500; dark, $50
HAY-No. 1 timothy, s3o0oa32OO stand
ard and No light clover mixed s2Sg0
900; No timothy and No. Glove
mixed, $2GO0q2SOO; No. s timothy, $1,000
800
BUTTER-Creamery, extras, % score.
bOc: higher scoring commands premi-
UNI: frsts. 81 score, 47c; $3.50 score. 400tic
seconds S3-S7 score, 36a3Sc; centralized.
4Sc; ladies' 2Sd3Oc; packing stock 2oa26c
Prices to retail trade: Extra tubs. Sc
prints, SIC
EGGS-Fresh firsts 73d7Gc: ordinary
frsts, 66d71c; miscellaneous lots. cases in
cluded, C6d71c; cases returned, 6507oc: ev-
tras, packed In whitewoOd cases, S30SGc
checks 4064Sc; dlrties, 45a55c; refrlgera-
tor, 561Rd5S1ac.
LIVE OULTRY-Turkeys. 35c; fowls,
&c; spring chickens, 25hc ROSTERS. lSn
ducks, DC; geese, &c.
DRESSED POUI Try - Turkeys Acc
fowls. 26d27c; spring chickens, 26d27c.
ROSTERS, 1Sd2Oc; ducks. 30d3lc; geese.
25626c
POTATOES-Sacked and bulk 100 lbs,
Minnesota round white, sl5od17O
CATTL E Choice to prime steers sl4 Oo7
1923: good to choice steers s12O0014 90.
fair to good steers $9.OOG120O; western
steers. IS 5Oat10O; yearlings, fair to choice
$40 OOdl650; good to prime cows, $3.50
1000; fair to good helfers, $9o0d11 90: fair
to good cows S5OOQ725; Gamers. S2.75U
3S5; cutters, s3.7514JO; bologna bulls, $500
@575: veal calves, $l2.O0Q13OO; heavy
calves 100000
HOGS-Choice light butchers $40 nOn
1875; medium VT. butchers s025d10 IS
heavy butchers, 270-35O lbs s9S00l0 %.
fair to fancy light, s975d1090; heavy
packing, &95)d1ooO; rough packing 5000
CTS; pigs, SS.5o1lO25.
SHEEP Native lambs, sl1O0Gl3 On.
fed western lambs, s95Nd11.O0: wethers.
slOO6lOOO; yearlings, s5o095J; eyes, $500
d525,
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.0aasyodessA
3Sa1i:u Shin
Because of her rosy cheeks and
satin skin a woman attracts the
admiration of all men. When the
young woman

young woman
4 peers in her
glass, she may
see pimples
a nd blotclles
and she I'M
nediately goes
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Buffalo, n Y, Dec. 3.

CATTLE Receipts G25 slow.
CALVES Receipts, 1900; 81 lower; 5ipl
G1GOO
HOGs-Receipts, 400 Zoe lower; heavy
mixed, workers. light workers. and PIGS
Sil0O. roughs So25a950; stays, 500
500.
SHEEP AND lambs Receipts. SOFA
slow: lambs Csc lower; lambs SGoo0i2 rs
others unchanged.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24

(Continasd on nest ps<s)
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24

They have not even exercised their
one faculty-that of imitation-for
they have been too much shut off
from the rest Of The world to find
anything to initiate. Though the
sugar cane was introduced into Cuba
by the French refugees from Hayti,
the entire country cannot at present
compete with the largest single
sugar mill in the prosperous island
to the west. The Haytian laborer
has lost all knowledge of the sugar
making process, except his own prim-
tive method of producing rapadoue."
Two Classes of Natives
AS for Haytians generally the au-
thor divides them into Haytians and
cacos. Regarding the former he
sayss
"The blacks are respectful, child
like in their manner and have much
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24

Haytian history in 1867. The men
who took to the bush in the insurrec-
ton against President Salnave
adopted that pseudonym and nick
named zandolite those who supported
the government. The semi-savagc
insurrectionists, fitting at will
through the rugged Interior of the
country, Indifferent alike to the
thorny jungle and the precipitous
mountains, saw in themselves like
ness to the Haytian bird which flies
freely everywhere, and in their op-
ponents similarity to the helpless
caterpllars on which it feeds. The
two terms have persisted to this day.
With the exception of a few ephem-
eral leaders with more or less the
rudiments of education, the cacos
are heterogeneous mob Of misguid-
ed wretches who have been cajoled
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24
MAJOR GENERAL
4'A JOHN a. LIE JEUNE,
present c0n1n1dndant of the
marines

time came to loot the national treas
ury and flee, program which was
frequently cut short by appalling
sudden death"
"In 1915 the Presidency was oc-
cupied by a particularly offensive
black brother named Guillame
Sam," the author continues.
Though it has not been so record
ed, Sans middle name was evident
ly Trouble. Foreign warships took
to dropping in on Port-au-Prince
(the capitaD and demanding the
payment of debts to foreigners.
Up in the northern peninsula, as
usual in mango time, when the trees
of the island constitute a commits
sary, revolution broke out, and, to
top off his woes, Sam was busy mar
rying off his daughter and INSTALL
ing her in a new palace.
'In his wrath at being disturbed
at such a time Sam passed the
word to his chief jailer to clean out
the penitentiary, some of the po-
litical prisoners in which were no
doubt in sympathy with the revolu-
tionists, but many. of whom were
there merely because they had
aroused the personal enmity of Sam
or some Of his cronies.
The sentence was carried ou,
more like a rabbit hunt than ar
execution. In an orgy in which the
primitive instincts of the African
had full play the two hundred o,
more prisoners were butchered in
circumstances better imagined thar
described. Among them were many
members of the best families OF
Port-au-Prince.
ut is not recorded that any Of
this class took personal part in the
revenge that followed, but they un.
doubtedly instigated it. The ranl
and file of the town, thcse same
more or less naked black who arr
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24
NATIVE gemdarm e s,
' trained By our marines,
guarding prisoners IN Port
au-P,lnce penitentiary

Of the docility of the negroes of our
South before the Civil War. They
work for wages which, as wages go
nowadays, are less than a song.
House servants receive from $5 to
SIS month, and the one meal day
to which the masses have long been
accustomed rarely costs a 20-cent
gourde. They are usually stupid
beyond words, with the mentality of
an intelligent child of six, but they
are sometimes capable of great de-
votion, with a doglike equality of
faithfulness. But as for the cacos
he writes:
"The word caco first appears in
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24
RRIGADIER GENERAL.
IL GEORGE B a RNET T,
,Uhose report is the basis Of
the Haytian scandal

out through the current investiga-
ton in Washington. How we'll they
have pacified is handled in the
authors book. An "indiscriminate"
killing of natives, the author would
lead us to believe, must have been
in isolated cases, while a systematic
if not wholesale killing of cacos Is
a responsibility to be divided be-
tween the marines and their "child
organization" the gendarmerie de
Hayti, a native police force Off
cered by non-commissioned officers
Of the Marine Corps, and the system
engineered in Washington, system
which has caused the lifting of eye
brows all over the West Indies and
in South America.
Roaming Through the West In
dies tells US in effect that despite
a native government which exists,
the government Of Hayti is dis
tinctly an American political and
military proposition.
An American Government
A thumbnail sketch of Haytian
history reveals that when Columbus
wrecked his flagship on the island
coast in 1892 the natives were In
dians Of the purest blood. Then
came the Spaniards with their
peculiar habit Of exterminating In
dians. Eventually the Haytian por
tion of the island passed to the
French, who imported African slaves
to work great plantations. The
French possession became a veri-
table garden of French architecture,
massive canefelds and sugar mills,
which are still found to-day amid
jungle growths or reduced to rubble.
Hayti was once Frances most pro-
ductive possession. Then came the
slave insurrection and Haytian in
dependence, the expulsion of the
French and the Haytian Republic.
The author says of Haytian prog
ress:
"No one who has visited the island
can question the extraordinary fer
tility of it's soil. During their more
than q century Of freedom the ne
groes have done nothing but destroy.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24
Under Our Protection

Hayti has been an American pro-
tectorate since the summer of 1915.
There is native government, but,
under the orders of Washington,
Hayti and its revenues are almost
solely administered and policed by
Americans-marines and gendarmes.
Previous to the American occupa-
ton, the author points out, the
Black Republic found itself gov
erned by "gentlemen of color
negroes with white blood in their
veins, sometimes educated in the
Sorbonne of Paris or other Euro
pean or American universities.
These men played high politics with
their dark-skinned constituents, and
jealousy among themselves usually
gave a Mexican government trend
to Haytian affairs, as ''most of them
were interested only in playing
Caesar or, more exactly, Nero over
their black fellow citizens until the
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24
CTRIKING the colors at
~ United States Marine
Corps camp near Mirebdlai,
HAITI

or forced into revolt by circum-
stances Of coercion. Ragged, penni-
less, illiterate fellows in the mass,
they gather in bands varying from a
score to thousands in number, de-
pending on the reputation, per-
suasiveness or power of compulsion
Of their self-appointed leaders. .
The backwardness and poverty of
Hayti are largely due to the con-
stant menace of these rowing out
laws. Travel has often entirely dis
appeared from many q trail; more
than one fertile region has been left
wholly uncultivated and virtually un-
inhabitated because of the marauding
bands of cacos. The depreda-
tions of the cacos have cost the
Black Republic most Of it's wealth
and the greater share of it's worldly
troubles"