HAITIAN CHAOS IS CAUSED BY EXPLOITATION
HAITIAN CHAOS IS CAUSED BY EXPLOITATION "Carpetbaggers" Are at Root of Disturbances Sen. Blaine Charges [Special to The Progressive] WASHINGTON — The presence in Haiti of "a lot of carpet-baggers...
...I asked ! why...
...La Follette's last campaign...
...Blaine Charges [Special to The Progressive] WASHINGTON — The presence in Haiti of "a lot of carpet-baggers is at the root of the recent disturbances In that island...
...It would not take very long to Investigate the insults that have been given to the natives of Haiti by American officers down there which, as a matter cf fact, precipitated the recent trouble in Haiti...
...He has other agents in Haiti...
...Natives Driven Off "As a result, the natives bringing 50 or 60 cents worth of produce to the market at Port au Prince and other market centers of Haiti are driven off the highways...
...The accuracy, the Industry and the honesty of that man has left a heritage, mountain high, greatev than can be estimated in dollars...
...Russell...
...course, it will be denied that Doctor '¦ Freeman is the President's agent: but , Dr...
...A man who can pass on...
...He has Gen...
...they must take to the gutters along the roads...
...He answered that he was so bull headed that If he could not have his way, there was nothing doing...
...His answer was substantially as follows: "No...
...It does not take very long to de- ; termine what is the matter in Haiti...
...He | was always well known and respected In that county...
...A TRIBUTE TO OLD BOB [Joliet, 111...
...It is a reform of Americans In Haiti...
...I well remember when the rialroads, the lumbermen and Matt Carpenter, had entire control of Wisconsin...
...The truoble in Haiti is that there are I a lot of carpetbaggers there who are ; living upon the toll and misery of the j Haitian people...
...That was wonderful testimony to come from an opponent, commending ^g|BJVhrUtffl «8*ttt torn flit* >¦«*« on the firing front...
...alter such a career, with the admiration of his friends and the respect of his opponents, certainly, within a few generations, will be spoken of la the sauir breath with Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln...
...Millions of dollars for highways the Haitians can not use...
...The trouble in Haiti is the United States itself...
...Is there anything, pertaining to his public record or citizenship to cast any reflections...
...Freeman and put him at the head of the Agricultural Instl- I tute...
...Yet in Haiti the natives either go on foot or ride on burros, the native transportation systems of the Haitian people...
...Those agents are all there at the present time, every one of them...
...23.]—Being a native of Wisconsin, perhaps keeps me closer In touch with the state, her men and affairs than otherwise would have been...
...Officers in Haiti ''The President has officers in Haiti...
...The President has an agent as well in the person of a Doctor Freeman...
...La Follette honest...
...It would not take very much investigation to ascertain that those carpetbaggers in Haiti are expending practically the entire Haitian customs receipts, to a large extent expending the income of the Haitian government in building highways across that republic for the benefit of a few American naval and military officers, in order that they might be able to drive their automobiles over those highways...
...The President himsell has It within his power to correct ail the evils which now exist in Haiti...
...Probe Not Needed 'It would not take very long to investigate that situation...
...In my opinion that is the course that the proposed resolution approves...
...Mildly I expressed ray choice, and why, j but found my host opposed...
...I myself observed a highway in that little Republic, a highway built over mountains towering six or seven thousand feet high, the like of which Is found only in the Rocky Mountain region of our own country, cosilng perhaps $150,000 to $250,000 a mile...
...He said: "The President Is elected, and he Is elected with the assumption on the part of the people that he has some intelligence himself and that It is not always necessary to substitute the intelligence of a commission for that of the President...
...8o I cannot see any reason or excuse for appropriating $50,000 to be turned over to the President with which to make an investigation to justify the perpetuation of American occupation of Haiti...
...The President is responsible...
...Freeman is in Haiti because the j State Department told Haiti that they j must take Dr...
...Naturally the conflict was mentioned...
...The President himself has the power to bring about reform in that republic The necessary reform is not a reform of the Haitian people...
...May the good work go on and may The Progressive reach every home in our land.—W...
...he has admirals, or some one holding high rank In the Navy, has officers of the Marine Corps, lie has officers of the gendarmerie of Haiti, over which the President lias control...
...That 1 i sexactly the situation that confronts us...
...they have gone Into his office when locked, examined his files and floruminti, hiv* Ann* yu game in his home and otherwise searched for evidence of duplicity but have never been able to find anything there or lh public records to use against him...
...H. Donaldson...
...I said, "Uncle Frank, la Mr...
...Senator Blaine contended that a new commission to study this problem was entirely unnecessary, inasmuch as the President could obtain full information from the American officials already in Haiti...
...I also remember well when Robert M. La Follette Sr., came Into public life...
...Senator Blaine charged, in opposing the resolution reported favorably from the Foreign Relations Committee, appropriating $50,000 for a presidential inquiry into the Haitian situation...
...j "There are men like Dr...
...Freeman, i who Is at the head of what is known ' as the Technique Institute, who draws j a handsome salary out of the treasury ; of the republic of Haiti, who receives his expenses and maintains himself as a sort of king in a foreign land, and who is hated by the Haitian people, as he ought to be hated by the Haitian people...
...It would not take very long to investigate the situation concerning General Russell...
...Far better if these millions were spent on schools and for the eradication of disease in the interior...
...I was his guest, during Mr...
...Frank Aiken moved, when a boy, with his parents into La Crosse county, enlisted and served in the civil war...
...He may have made mistakes but he was always honest and usually right...
...Of course if he lacks information or the intelligence, then it may be necessary to appoint an agent or a commission to act as a sort of substitute for the President...
...He has left It, not ooty to m own and this nation, but to coming generations and the world...
...It does not take a $50,000 commission to determine what is the matter in Haiti...
...Those people nre not prepared for that type of highway any more than we were prepared for such highways 100 years ago...
Vol. 1 • February 1930 • No. 9
