New-York tribune., 1920-12-05
Haytian Ruler
Says US. Forces
Should Remain
Withdrawal of Troops Now
Would BE Greatest Wrong
America Could Inflict on
Black Republic, He Insists
Country Reaches Crisis
Tact and Cooperation Are
Held Necessary to Insure
Success of Protectorate
BY Wilbur F orrcst

fOh "A AU-fklNCE, Y Haytl, Nov. 23
President Dartigucnave Of Hayti re-
marked to The Tribune a few days
ago that the withdrawal at this time
Of the American forces of OCCUPATION
from Hayti would constitute the great.
est wrong that America could infict or
the little Black Republic.
An American business man who per
laps knows more about Haytl and the
intricate Haytian psychology than most
men put it thus:
"rhe United States Is in the same
position in Hayti as the doctor who
takes the case OF a seriously ILL., though
poverty-stricken. patient. If he de.
serts the patient during the crisis he
nas committed criminal act"
Hayti has reached the crisis. Uncle
sam is the doctor. Perhaps It is a
labor Of ethics, perhaps not.
approximately two million people
crowded together in an area Of about
10000 square miles, of which perhaps
81 per cent are black, iliterate in the
sSA iSIeot aAlal ySiS VI Inc WOru, Cnar-
scteristically incapable Of progress
and per cent highly educated and
cultured, affords Uncle Sam, N D., one
oS the most intricate problems he ever
has been called upon to face In his
brief protectorate history.
Five years have passed since Gull
1iame Sam, Haytian President,
playing high politics. ordered the mas
eacre of prisonful of sons of fIayti's
best families. A half decade marks
tne fate of that Haytian executive,
whose body was torn to shreds and
whose head was paraded on a pole by
he infuriated populace of Port -au-
Prince. American marines landed the
same night and here they are to-day.
"White Man Must Remain"
It is the consensus of SO per cent
Of all persons with whom have talked
here-white and black and yellow
that the white man must remain If
there is to be progress in Hayti.
Haytis early history records that
Dessalines, the tyrannical leader who
accump. ished the end Of white slave
rule. stood on the glistening sand
beach at Gonsalves, tore the French
fla into three pieces, cast the white
section Of the Tri-color into the sea
and remarked that never again mu
whites own Haytians in body or Hay
tian lands. Dessaiines thcn sewed the
Blue and red bars into one and created
ne national flag Of the HaytIan ke-
pub ic.
Evcnts have shown that the Jealous
leaders logic was warped. Toussaint
I'Oycurture. the ORIGINAL George
darlington" Of Hayti, came nearer to
analyzine Hayti's future when he led
a revolt to free the blacks from the
French as slaves but to permit the
whites to remain for the good they
IN chit 90 the country. His so-called
partially to The whites handicapped
pls pr'son m'liiSe1y " lsos: career and he died il"
French culture Of the period when
Nayti was 3 cultivated garden spot Of
the Wet Indies and Frances richest
colony has survived to-day only in the
pltlfully meager per cent Of higher
class Haytians who persistently gradu-
ate from the worlds greatest univer-
stiles and come back to their tropical
homes stepped In science and letters
which they seldom make use of under a
sizzling twelvemonth sun.
Religion Means Little
Politics is the chief "sport." and not
entirely free Of traditional tropical in
trigue. Since the freedom Of Dessa-
lines intrigue and revolution, blood
and destruction have marked Hayti's
republican history The great French
plantations, sugar mills, palatial piles
of architecture have given way to ruin
and abandon. Arteries Of communica-
70 narrow donkey trails and. many
areas, once thriving. well ordered
sields, are jungle thickcts.
The coal black 81 per cent repre-
sentlng the Haytian mass seem to have
reverted more toward instincts bred OF
their forgotten African motherland
than to have retained the attributes Of
their white masters. They speak ma
tive patois called "creolc," mixture
Of French, African and purely manu-
featured combinations The French
oequeathed them an ability to drive a
close bargain and chatter incessantlv
3urne the making. Napoleon III
boards have also survived. To them,
however. religion means little, moral
ty nothing and voodooism, q relic Of
African instincts. more than either
American occupation has done much
TO curb tho latter practice, especially
infant sacrifices.
Clothing Nom Essential
The mentality Of the subm.rred
Hayttan 10 generally described as that
Of a nine-year-old child. Sanitation and
clothing are non-essent!al to them, ex-
cept when enforced by the white man.
Naked black pickauinnies are common
both In town and in the bush Rags
which hide the body almost as ef1cicn Z
y as breech-clout are coal black,
HaytPa national dress
He ts a gentle. eastly pleased, easv-
going, shsftless person, this Havtian.
until the call Of ths agitator lures him
to bush banditry and then nc Is capable
OF terrible deeda. Admiral Mavo's IN
yest'gat;on into General Barnett 3
charge OF "indiscrilninate killinvs''
~1il doubtless reveal Isolated cases OF
ruthie3sncss on The part Of ,rrcsponsi-
bic men. crazed by rum and bush Nre.
but the majority Of the more than 200
Killings must be laid 70 systematic ex-
term nation Of banditry.
Hayti. throughout IT. 10, o,00O-odd SQUARE
Iniles. 10 to-day a peace Banditry IL
snbdued. The populace, white, black
IND yellow, has now settled down 10
calm In contrast 10 a year ago when
she nuprernc subject 81 conversation
vas the latest encounter between Can-
tain 80 ard Soc patrol ard the bandit
cscos. That there have been grave
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