Omaha daily bee

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him out of his job, so there must be an element

of sincerity in his attitude.

A larse oercentase of the Dominicans, then,

welcome the American Intervention and accept it

in a good spirit They recognize that aome

atrnnser nowrr must restore confidence in law

and government and initiate the reconstruction of

the country. They are not, however, looking

toward annexation. Most of them will not hear

of this. They are willing for us to help them

because they trust the altruism of our motive

and, the good faith of our professions.

It is easy to prove that the Dominicans are

a lazy, disorderly people, and also hard to to aet

how they could be anything else under present

conditions. As in most small Latin-American

countries, there are just two native classes the

very rich and the very poor. The upper class

here is laid to consist of not more than twenty

large families. These hold all the political of

fieri and own nearly all the land. They are

wealthy, intelligent' and well educated. Every

law ia designed to benefit tnem. mere is scarcely

any tax on land because they own it, but there

art two or thret taxea on everything else. Po

litical salaries are large and numerous, and many

of the political berth! include no duties at all.

In addition to this, graft in political office was,

until tht Americans came, the customary and

accepted thing.

So the upper Class might oe aescrioea aa seii

lah and enrrunt and necessarily so. There is

not much Inducement for a Dominican adminis

tration to Initiate reforms when at any time some

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

Omaha daily bee. (1917). Omaha [Neb.], 1917-04-05. US/DR Newspaper Timeline. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn99021999/1917-04-05/ed-1/?sp=6

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Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Omaha daily bee, 1917-04-05.