Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-24
Haiti Commission Receives
Credit for Efficient Work

which Americans have achieved there
is creditable, and should be known to
the world" The Express also states as
to finances: Sidney La Rue, financial
adviser to the government, pointed out
that the public debt has been cut from
$l2 to $3.50 per capita since 1915, and
that internal revenues have increased
until they form half the national in
come. In earlier days Haiti relied all
most entirely upon customs collections.
The duties were high and trade often
was interrupted by arbitrary levies
which revolutionary leaders imposed"
I'm two weeks" records the South
Bend Tribune, 'the commission learned
that nothing but representative self
government would satisfy the HaitianS";
that witnesses demanded substitution
of civilian minister for the American
High Commissioner, a provisional re-
gime, to be followed by free election of
Legislature, which should choose a
American control" The Tribune con-
cludes: Roy is well fitted for the pro-
visional presidency. The fact that he
was chosen by the factions from among
five candidates speaks volumes" The
Rochester Times-U Union declares that
in any case, instead of dictatorship in
thinly disguised form. there will be a
relationship between Haiti and the
United States which respects the desires
OF the HaitianS to conduct their own
affairs
I'VE have had a real duty in Haiti,
and the majority of the population has
been lucky to have the protection of our
Marines" AYERS the youngstown Vindi-
Gator, while the Haverhill Gazette
thinks ut is possible that the power
represented by United States Marines
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the plan successfully in operation; that
'if this power is necessary, it will be
used for the good purpose Of restoring
Haiti to Haitians."
Thanks are due the commission" adj
v1seS the Providence journal, "for its
arduous laborS under striking dif1cul-
ties. The heat has been intense and
the opposition outspoken. But all's well
that ends well. For the time being q
peaceful adjustment has been made, and
1t seems as II High Comm sooner Rus
sell and all the Marines might soon
start for home. Whether the wings of
peace will long brood above the turbu-
lent republic Is another question. If
they don't, we shall be back again, ready
to resume our hard and thankless task"
'Mismanagems nt Of Haitian affairs
in the past few years" is charged by
the Chattanooga News, while the Peters
burg ProgresS-Index, emphasizing the
report by Gen. Russell of the Marine
Corps that "the Haitians are unfit for
self government" and that something
like per cent of the population can
read and write" holds that there is
every reason to believe that within a
short time Haitians themselves will be
calling upon the Government at Wash
ington to send Marines to restore order
and protect life.''
What Haiti resents in the American
system" asserts the Baltimore Sun, els
the fact of military occupation, the
presence of a swarm of technical ex-
perts paid by Haiti to deprive its own
ambitious citizens of opportunities and
sniff at them in return for the favor,
and the Disgusting of this system under
a pretense of native self-government
based on Tnade-in-America constitu-
ton and administered by a generally
hated puppet President