The New York herald., 1922-05-02

the Senator said. was the withdrawal
from the Haytian constitution OF pro-
vision that had stood for Ill years,
prohibiting ownership of property in
EIayti by an alien. That enabled Amer
leans to take 200. 900 acres of fine
Haytian land-"taken." said the Ser
etor. "by the gentlemen interested in
developing Hayti Small landowners
lave been dispossessed.
I'VE have negotiated a s2,500.000 loan
for Hayti." he went on. "and paid
somebody $4,000 TO negotiate II, while
the Haytians still declare that they
about s6.50o.000 more"
Uneasy, Says Borah.
One group in Washington was re-
ported by the Senator as saying that the
island was needed for the security or
our coast line. Uneasy despite the
four Power treaty. he remarked. An
other group said the Haytlans couldn't
govern themselves. 1t may be true that
they can't according TO our idea OF what
constitutes government, but they have
the right to work out their own salVa-
ton, he said.
II was while he was picturing the
evils OF military control that woman
in balcony called out: why don
the President speak?"
He has," said Senator Borah. and
in moment I'll read what he says, ou'
he forgot to do this.
'I don't care who is responsible for
that rule. However high he Is placed nc
is n disgrace to the American people. ne
said OF a regulation forbidding Haytiahs
TO speak in mass meetings.
Reads Evidence of Cruelties.
He cited several cases of cruelty from
the record of the Senate co,nmittee
which went to Hayti and Santo Domingo
One of them was that Of Polidor st
Pierre of ST. Marc, Hayti, who swore
that in the presence of twenty witnesses
and at the hands of Capt. Fitzgeraio
Brown of the American controlled gen
darmerie at st. Marc, he was strung VI
for five days from the rafters OF 6
prison. without water, that his teeth were
broken and hot water poul@d into his
mouth through q funnel, after which ht
was burned with hot iron.
,They say this was not the work o
Capt Brown, but of some savages wh'
were being utilized by our forces. Blu
it was Brown" said Senator Borah
'.The evidence shows that IL was. II
there was another side it was not pre-
sented. That is the kird of savagcrI
that was being practiced at a time whei
! we were saying we were preserving law
and order in Haiti. If we can't pro
tect these people better than that let:
get out of there. l am asked, How car
the United States Marines do sucf
things? It is the story Of Imperialism
all through history. Send out the mos
humane man to govern a subject people
by military force and it makes brute
out of him. It's the mission they're SEN
, on that prostitutes our boys. They
would not do these things If they die
| not believe that the mission itself wa
/ one of force and brutality. And surel.
! it does not belong TO onr principles o
! government to undertake to govern an
other people by force"
Torture of Natives Alleged.
! Another case he summoned from tn
! Senate committees record was that o
| three men who. according TO Noln.
| Pautre. a merchant of st. Marc. wer
| subjected to shock from an electric cur
rent. conveyed from a telephone bo!
| over a wire tied to their teeth unde
the supervision of Capt. Brown, where
upon they admitted that they hat
/! murdered watchman, which they ha'
| previously denied.
'"Thpt is the way we administer th
law In Haiti" remarked Senator Borat
Miss Julia Arthur recited The BATH
Hymn of the Republic" and inspired tn
audience to sing the chorus. Miss Alm
C'layburgh sang "The Star Spangle
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