The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1922-01-07
WE MUST AID
HAITI, SAYS
MCCORMICK
Senator Mccormick Outlines
Plan to Aid Haiti Gain
Her independence

American colored men and women
can render a great service to people
OF their own race in Haiti, according
to Senator Medill Mccormick OF
Illinois, who has just returned from
the Island Republic. Senator McCor-
mick is chairman of the special COM
mttee OF the United States Senate
appointed to investigate conditions in
Haiti and Santo Domingo incident to
the American occupation.
Although this Committee has not
made its formal report as yet, it has
made preliminary report to the Sec
retary of State in which il urges that
a very definite policy Of friendship be
adopted by the American Government;
that American officials who are sent
to Haiti be selected because of their
fitness to meet the peculiar conditions
in that country; that, particularly, a
great deal of work must be done along
the educational and agricultural, as
well as financial lines. One OF the
essentials for effective work in Haiti
is a knowledge of French which is the
language of the land The language
OF Creole is also helpful, but the
! knowledge of French is of paramount
importance. Senator Mccormick
speaks French fuently, and his COL
leagues on the Senate Committee have
remarked that it was largely due to
his ability not only to speak French
but to understand French as spoken by
the native Haitians, tifs4t. the work of
the Cbmnl3fee Was made much easier
than they expected.
In part, referring to the work which
the American colored man may do for
his brother in Haiti, Senator Nc
Cormicks report Saws:
Here missionary enterprise alto
gether apart from religious teaching,
can render a great social service.
Here, too, the American colored man,
trained at Hampton or Tuskeegee
(like the trained colored lawyer in
the reform of Haitian JUSTICE, can
render great service to the men of
his own race The field of industrial
and agricultural education is virgin.
There is everything to do. Tools,
seed, sires, and special teachers all
must be brought to the country.
at is obvious, | think, Mr.. Secretary,
that such general policy as many of
us who have visited Haiti for study
dlC dSIttl upOHi can Only succeed IN
the measure that competent men are
wisely chosen to carry it out. AS
much as we must deplore the instances
of illegal or otherwise outrageous acts
committed by individuals in the forces
of the occupation of Haiti or Santa
Domingo those acts we're isolated and
rare, and several of the guilty individu-
ais have demonstrated by their suicide
or confinement to asylums, that they
were irresponsible. The Government
of the United States is, l think, CEN
surable, because it has developed no
policy and because it has in some in
stances chosen or has permitted to
be chosen as its representatives in I
Haiti men who we're not qualified for
their work, or who were unsympathetc |
with the Haitian people in sharp con-
trast TO others who have proved sym
pathetic and capable"
The Senate Committee will resume
its hearings within the next ten days, /
upon Senator McCormick's return to |
Washington from Chicago, where he
has been called on official business.
1t is hoped by the Committee that the
hearings may be concluded by the |
fore part OF February and final report
made to the Senate at that time.