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gan to misuse it. Both peoples showed

from the first an utter lack of capacity for

orderly self-government. The “Black Re

public” of Haiti quickly degenerated into

an absurd burlesque of France. The

government sedulously copied French poli

tical forms; and the republic was some

times styled a kingdom, sometimes an

empire. One of the rulers of Haiti

especially distinguished himself by creat

ing a whole nobility headed by four

princes and fifty-nine dukes; innumerable

marquises, counts and barons completed

the pompous galaxy that surrounded the

“imperial” throne. Meanwhile Haiti it

self went to rack and ruin. An endless

succession of black and mulatto “generals”

at the head of tatterdemalion “armies”

fought ferociously for the spoils of office

and kept the land plunged in a horrid

and interminable anarchy. Revolution suc

ceeded revolution and in those senseless

civil wars the fine, well-constructed towns

that the French had left were destroyed

and replaced by squalid shacks, and the

broad plantations and shaded highroads of

the countryside again became bush and

forest.

In the Spanish-speaking Dominican Re

public no colonial prosperity was destroyed

because the eastern part of the island had

only a sparse population of ranchers and

herdsmen and no agriculture worth the

name; but in the course of time things

grew worse even there. To begin with,

shortly after the Dominican Republic had

expelled the Spaniards the Haitians con

quered it and ruled it for many years.

What the Haitians did to their own coun

try suggests how they ruled the Domini-

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

The mirror. (1922). Stillwater, Minn., 1922-05-18. US/DR Newspaper Timeline. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn90060762/1922-05-18/ed-1/?sp=1

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: The mirror, 1922-05-18.