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where women, old men, children

sat crouched all day in the bril

liant sun before a pile of pitiful

wares. With luck they might earn

50 cents before they would place

their empty baskets on their heads

and plod barefoot the many weary

miles back to their thatched mud

huts in the distant hills.'

I met men who earned $8 $10

a month in stores or warehouses

or fields, laboring for foreign

masters.

"It was better before the Amer

icans came," I was told.

I learned that when U. S. Ma

rines finally quit Haiti in 1933

after an 18-year stay, the Ameri

can economic grip was already

firm on the land.

Five U. S. Firms Own Everything

Five big American firms own

whatever is worth owning: Stand

ard Fruit, National Bank, Hail

road Haitian American Sugar Co.

(HAr300) and the Agricultural

Development Society (iSHACDA).

A few years ago an American en

gineering fen, J. G. White

Co. squandered Haitian funds to

build roads that are already al

most impassable.

The SHACDA did the most dam

age when it came in with an un

successful wartime experiment in

producing rubber-bearing plants

and sisal, rope fibre. It rented 50

percent of all arable land, evicting

the peasants, tearing down their

fruit and mahogany trees.

Run entirely by Americans, it

left Haiti a $5,000,000 debt. Its

removal of trees contributed to the

land's erosion. Returning peasants

find that huts "and their whole

means of life were gone.

world we have to struggle and

fight for it. So let us watch as

well as pray and fight as well as

watch.

A Constant Reader

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How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

Hartford chronicle. (1946). Hartford, Conn., 1946-05-25. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn92051342/1946-05-25/ed-1/?sp=6

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Hartford chronicle, 1946-05-25.