Southwest Washington labor press

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icans are slowly creating plentetlons‘

and turning the people into dey leg

boron, continuing it though the Inn-1

tines have left. Beau-e d the sparse}

populetion, there wlll he lend left;

however, for independent femlngi

for some years to come. 1

Sole Fete In Store For Halt} _ 1

“Haiti is densely populated. Much

of the land is mountainous or arid.

Farming is primitive. Marketing is

badly organized. But the people own

the land themselves and if trained in

good methods of farming and mar

keting and if the arid plains were ir

rigated and owned then by small

Farmers, Haiti could become prosper

;ous, and the people retain their eco

nomic and social independence.

“Haitisns long had a law against

foreigners owning lend. They had re-‘

numbered their former slavery.‘

Americans occupied Held in 1916 end

changed this lsw. Americna-ownsd

plantations were soon stsrted but

blights came in cotton and fruit, and

the suger was badly msnsged, and

local judges, who were not controlled

by the American marines, refused to

recognise the new law of foreign

ownership.

“The blight in cotton in now being

overcome, auger ie better managed,

end the owners of the pineapple plen

tetione ere hopeful. There in e belie!

current, too, thet the local judgee

will be circumvented. Still another

law will be peeled which will ellow

eeey foreclosure of fem mortgegee

when the prevailing high intereet

money in unpeid. A: e result, Holti

willgotheroedorftheothercoun

trice. Since illiteracy is higher, the

people simpler, the populetion den

ser, and good lend owner, the result

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

Southwest Washington labor press. (1925). Hoquiam, Wash., 1925-02-20. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn88087163/1925-02-20/ed-1/?sp=4

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Southwest Washington labor press, 1925-02-20.