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World Survey Volume 1; American Volume. Interchurch World America

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Author: Interchurch World America
Page Count: 104 pages
Published Date: 01 Mar 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
Type: PDF
ISBN: 9781130926538
Download Link: World Survey Volume 1; American Volume
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...the lower classes, especially in Haiti. There is no such thing as modesty among the blacks of the interior. It is to such surroundings that America is sending thousands of her young marines. The Island of Santo Domingo-Haiti which Columbus christened Hispaniola (Little Spain) lies between Cuba and Porto Rico with an area of nearly 30,000 square miles. Santo Domingo occupies the eastern two-thirds of the Island and Haiti the western third. Haiti, the Black Republic, with its smaller territory has an estimated population of 2,500,000, as compared with Santo Domingo's 750,000. Santo Domingo's greater progressiveness is evident in the fact that her foreign commerce for 1916 totalled $33,000,000; while that of Haiti for 1913 was only $17,000,000. The Island of Santo Domingo-Haiti is one of the richest, most beautiful and healthful of the West Indies, but has for a century been among the worst governed. It has many harbors and rivers and its climate is modified by lofty mountain ranges that contain rich minerals. Because of threatened international complications due to the long unpaid obligations of the two republics, the United States has for some years exercised a protectorate, administering the customs and policing the two countries with a force of marines. FEW SCHOOL BUILDINGS NOT a half dozen school buildings have ever been erected in all Santo Domingo. Such schools as exist are housed in residences, old monasteries or other converted structures. These provisions are wholly inadequate to meet the situation. Santo Domingo under American urging now spends $1,000,000 annually for education while Haiti with her three times greater population and need spends only $300,000. A Haitian school teacher unable to sign his salary warrant was not a whit embarrassed at th...

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