Minneapolis spokesman

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laed. Disgruntled. they built a

lire under him and hla ouster waa

the reault.

Th* former Haitian preaident

had a record of autocratic tyranny

in governing hie people. He did all

the thinge over which revolution*

have come about throughout the

year*; he auppreaaed the freedom

of the pre** and the right of assem

bly; he auppreaaed free speech, and

in addition to the rapidly woraen-

Ing economic aetup, allowed the de

bacle of wholeaale graft and politi

cal corruption in high placea to get

out of hand.

Contrary to public opinion,

only a comparative handful In

Haiti aa in Liberia where the Re

publican form of government ia

claimed, are allowed to vote. The

great maaaea don't even know

what a ballot look* like.

Th* policy of th* leadership ia

to keep them Ignorant, poor and

hnngry while taking the fruit*

of their labor for personal en

richment.

The aamo thing happen* daily

in Georgia, Miaaisaippi, Alabama,

Arkansas, Louisiana and other

southern state*, Miaaisaippi in

particular.

The ignorance of both the back*

woods Negro and poor white in ap

palling and should call for a Con

gressional investigation into the

graft and corruption that keep a

augment of the population almost

a century behind the times.

The common people are slow to

move; although agitation some

times stirs them into unreasoning

mob anger in which assassinations,

murders, looting and pillaging is

the net result.

The reason nothing has been done

is that these people don’t know that

they were actually bom equal, that

they, in the words of Jefferson,

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

Minneapolis spokesman. (1946). Minneapolis, Minn., 1946-02-01. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83025247/1946-02-01/ed-1/?sp=4

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Minneapolis spokesman, 1946-02-01.