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 GATEWAY TO THE CITY OE SANTO DOMINGO 



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Near the river gate is a sturdy ruin, made up of two square towers joined by a central 

 block. Black and roofless, in spite of the squalor of its surroundings, it still proclaims the 

 time when it was "the magnifical and priricelyke house" of Christopher Columbus. 



turn to a state of quiet. And so today 

 the Dominicans, realizing that the .Mon- 

 roe Doctrine is determined to afford them 

 protection from their own excesses, their 

 own bitter passions and blind purposes, 

 have accepted the inevitable and have se- 

 cured the blessings of peace from with- 

 out when they could not attain that end 

 themselves. It is a reluctant acquiescence 

 the} 7 yield, but a wholesome one, none the 

 less. 



It has not been without effort or with- 

 out expense, nor yet without the actual 

 sacrifice of blood and life that our coun- 

 try has stepped in to play the role of Good 

 Samaritan to the peoples of Santo Do- 

 mingo, Haiti, and Nicaragua, who had 

 lost the blessings of peace and were un- 

 able to regain them. In Haiti alone we 

 lost one officer and six marines and had a 

 number wounded. How much in money 

 it has cost has not been ascertained offi- 

 cially, but the usual estimate is that it 

 costs $1,000 a year to support an Ameri- 

 can soldier in the tropics, and thousands 

 of them have been sent down there. Of 



course, the bulk of this would have been 

 spent whether such help was rendered or 

 not, for the Marine Corps is maintained 

 even though it sees no active service. 



our country's coeoniae achievements 



But out of it is growing results of 

 which a nation which covets no territory, 

 which seeks only its own security and the 

 welfare of its unfortunate neighbors, may 

 well be proud. 



In Porto Rico we have reduced the 

 death rate from 45 per 1,000 to 19 per 

 1,000, and a beginning along the same 

 lines is being made in these new fields of 

 American altruistic endeavor. In Porto 

 Rico wages have increased from 16 cents 

 to 75 cents, and stable conditions show 

 encouraging results in the same direction 

 in our new ward lands. In Porto Rico 

 the school attendance jumped from 20 

 per cent to more than 85, and these new 

 wards are trying to follow in Porto 

 Rico's path. 



Wherever America has gone, whether 

 to Cuba, whether to Panama, whether to 



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