Minneapolis spokesman

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black, mulatto, or light octoroon.

I’m not excusing President Elie

Lescot and the rest of Haiti’s of

ficial family for appeasing Dixie

when I point out that more than

$10,000,000 of American sugar trust

cash is invested in Haiti. The

American dollars that control the

country are, in turn, controlled by

sugar trust outfits like the Haitian

Agricultural Corporation and the

Haitian American Development

Company.

Both of these corporations are

among the old Big Stick imperialist

outfits that gained a foothold in

Latin America, with the assistance

of United States marines who shot

and murdered rebellious colored

peoples under the gentle guidance

of that old firebag, President Theo

dore Roosevelt.

Both of them, along with United

Fruit, Standard Oil, and other giant

American trusts, hate the Good

Neighbor policy because it means

paying wages of more than a quar

ter a day to colored workers. It

means that they’ll have to stop their

policy of giving some cream to na

tive aristocrats—like many of the

Haitian mulattoes who acted as

their straw bosses over the rest of

the people.

But the peoples of Latin America

will maintain their tradition of

equality and fraternity whatever

the funny business that may be

pulled by corporations and govern

ments.

Equality comes easy to them; was

it not the Negroes and Indians who,

time after time, forced the wishy

washy white aristocracy to keep on

fighting for independence against

imperial Spain when the aristocrats

sought compromises that would

have benefited them but would

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St. Paul recorder · St. Paul, Minn. · March 31, 194431 de marzo de 1944 · See the original pageVer la página original

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Minneapolis spokesman. (1944). Minneapolis, Minn., 1944-03-31. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83025247/1944-03-31/ed-1/?sp=5

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Minneapolis spokesman, 1944-03-31.