Norwich bulletin., 1920-11-20

l note merely the Republic ofN Hayti | which occupies the western third of 1 it's area. The possibilities of confu- sion are increased by the fact that the | island is also known as Santo Domih go and San Domingo, names applied | likewise to the Dominican Republic, which occupies the eastern two thirds of the land unit.
 The name Haiti is much used be-
 cause it was the descriptive term, meaning high land given to the isl and by it's aborigines. This was the | favorite island of the West Indies to Columbus. who reserved for it the
 most complimentary name bestowed | on the lands which he discovered
 Hispaniola, little Spain Something of the impression which this beautiful and promising island made on the great discoverer can be gleaned from his reference to it as a Garden of
 Eden and from the fact that he
 named the point at which he first set
 foot on Haiti. December 6, 1492. The
 Vale of Paradise
 History has been prodigal to the island of Hayti and has crowded one | interesting and tragic event after an-
 other into the relatively short span of years since the eyes of white men first
 behold it's towering peaks. On its northern coast, near the present Cape Haitien, the Santa Maria, which bore Columbus to the New World. was | wrecked on Christmas eve, 1492,r and
 from it's broken, historic boards was
 set up by the crew the first structure erected by Europeans in the Western l Hemisphere. This was the Fortress of NaVidad in which the men of the
 Santa Maria were killed whlie Colun1-
 bus was on his return voyage to Spain
 to report his epoch making discovery of the Indies.'
 Farther to the east on the northern ] coast of the island, Columbus built on 5 his return the first white settlement ? in the New World, naming the little
 town Isabella for the queen who had f made his voyage of discovery possible . On this second trip Colu-abGs brought . with him to his magic ise a great r fleet bearing large force of soldiers s and adv enturers. After defeating the . natives the conquerors journey ed tc e the south coast and there laid thC - foundations of the city of Santo Do. d mingo-first permanent city establish d ed by Europeans in America, and fore. d runner of the countless cities and vii J. lages that are the seats today of tn, 1t industry, commerce and culture of tn y three Americas.
 II Tt was wonderful future tha ], seemed to open before Columbus ant O his fellow voyagers as they took pos
 session of the most favored of the An a titles. Those of vision among then n saw it in the future. no doubt, as 6 mighty island treasure house, yieldin n up it's riches Of mine and forest an al field; harboring a great and prosper
 ous population. But the avarice ( is man stepped in and plotted out tn le promising picture. The Spanish ad te venturers, unwilling to work, enslave ts the native Indians and drove them s 4 I | aN-.- i- When death threatened to rob theI
 of their laborers, the exploiters i'm
 ported large numbers of African slave who were better able to bear up undt
 the heavy tasks and who multiple :" rapidly. Soon the natives were ex
 terminated and the negro slaves an "a free mulattoes far outnumbered th
 white land owners
 "A brief golden age insofar as tt
 exploiters were concerned; the arous q ing of envy on the part of English an ,e French buccaneers; wars which al ,s vided the sovereignty between Spai :. :, and France and finally left the latt, n' n in complete control-these were char 'e ters that followed one another rapid
 ly in the history of Hayti. By tf i'd time of the birth of the United State s, the blacks and mulattoes in the wes :" ern part of the island, that part fir
 dominated by France and now the R, Ut public of Hayti, outflurnbered u le whites four to one.
 ,u ''The seeds of oppression bore fru 1t under stimulation of the French RevC CT lution, and in 17s1 the slaves ros
 ushering in a decade of bloodshed ar
 revolting cruelties on both sides. F
 nally in 1894 independence was obtain
 ed, slavery was abolished, and u
 negro republic of Hayti was born. IT
 country passed through the stages Il, a negro empire and kingdom befoi n- a republic became the accepted for ed of government Haytf at one tin to conquered and annexed the, SpaHis nt part of the island. but in tsl4 the la le ter separated from the negro republ h. and established the Dominican Repul
 lie
 r. The history of the Republic t. Hayti, as we'll as the 'empire ar 6; Kingdom has been a series of revol, in tions assassinations of rulers, ar ne general strife between factions in col 4a frnl nf d