The Appeal

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ing at the mouth from the effects oi

"medicines" administered by the doctoz

deputed to look after their health in th

dungeons ot Santo city.

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to take wine at the invitation of a mem

ber of Heureaux's body guard and to die

almost instantly others have been mur

dered in the streets at night, and one

during carnival time was stabbed to the

heart with a dagger*, the mask of his as

sailant allowing him to get away uif

notlced and undetected. In Port-au

Prince a political exile was shot through

the heart by an unknown assailant, and

in Porto Rico a young journalist, whose

writings had become especially obnox

ious to Ills, was stabbed in the street,

although not killed. Hundreds of similar

cases can be cited as instances of the

cruelty and despotism 'of Lilis, his ene

mies declare.

The advisers of Lilis were few, andhis

while he would attentively listen to any

suggestion his friends would make, h*

generally used his own judgment and car

ried out his own plans and ideas with

out confiding the details of them to any

one. He was president of the- country

and managed its interests* in every de

partment. He ran congress to suit him

self. The supreme court of justice gave

Its verdicts in accordance with his pre

viously expressed wishes, and so did the

local tribunals. He created a divorce la-w

in defiance pf the clergy he managed the

army and navyf and tampered with the

commercial interests of the country, ruin

ing or enriching a business house at his

pleasure or caprice he was mixed up in

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

The Appeal. (1899). Saint Paul, Minn. ; Minneapolis, Minn. ; Chicago, Ill., 1899-11-11. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83016810/1899-11-11/ed-1/?sp=1

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: The Appeal, 1899-11-11.