Haiti: Its dawn of progress after years in a night of revolution

ONE OF THE MAIN STREETS OF PORT-AU-PRINCE
J. DRYDEN KUSER
BOSTON RICHARD G. BADGER THE GORHAM PRESS
Copyright, 1921, by J. Dryden Kuser
All Rights Reserved Made in the United States of America The Gorham Press, Boston, U. S. A.
TO MY WIFE BROOKE RUSSELL KUSER THE SOURCE OF MY ORIGINAL INTEREST IN HAITI AND A NEVER-TIRING AID IN THE PRESENT WORK.

Haiti is a country of rapidly changing conditions. Like others, emerging from revolution and disorder to peace and the pursuits of peace, it finds its possibilities unlimited. Furthermore, under the Haitian-American treaty, part of the government is being run by the Haitians themselves in the three departments: executive, legislative and judicial; and a portion is controlled by the United States, including the military. In such a two-party control, there is naturally friction and this causes frequent and changing disagreements.
Whereas in January, 1920, the bandit trouble was serious, I have just found, during a brief November trip, that this has ceased to be an active danger. In its place there has arisen, not a military worry, but a political one. Haitian agitators, supported by ill-advised Americans, have spread propaganda favoring the withdrawal of the United States from Haiti. Included in this propaganda have been the absurd accusations against the marines of cruelty toward the natives.
The question of any cruelty or unnecessary killings has been conclusively disproven by the findings of a Court of Inquiry sent to Haiti, and which has recently published its findings. As to the withdrawal of the United States from Haiti—such a course would be a menace to the world and a sad neglect of duty by the United States. Any American acquainted with Haitian conditions will agree that the marines would scarcely have boarded the American ships before the entire country would be in a state of civil war, the lives and property of foreigners endangered, and the possibility of Haiti paying off her foreign debt would be lost.