Photograph by Harriet Chalmers Adams 

 ON THEIR WAY FROM SCHOOL: SANTO DOMINGO CITY, SANTO DOMINGO 



The inhabitants of Santo Domingo City well may be a proud people. For, in the words 

 of Ober : "What other city of America can boast as its one-time citizens a great discoverer 

 like Columbus, a fifteenth century humanitarian like Las Casas, a monster of depravity like 

 Ovando, and a quartette of conquerors like Velasquez, who subjugated Cuba; Cortez, who 

 conquered Mexico ; Balboa, the explorer of Darien, discoverer of the Pacific, and Pizarro, 

 who stole the treasures of Peru?" 



Santo Domingo, Porto Rico, Nicaragua, 

 the Philippines, or Haiti, the welfare of 

 the people has been her first concern ; and 

 while all colonial history shows that the 

 tares of evil are never absent from the 

 wheat of good, our nation's record of 

 help given where most needed is one that 

 well may challenge our admiration and 

 quicken our patriotism. 



The success in Santo Domingan cus- 

 toms administration and debt amortiza- 

 tion led to another experiment along the 

 same line a few years later. Nicaragua 

 became revolution-torn, resulting in the 

 overthrow of Zelaya and the conversion 

 of the country from an unspeakable des- 

 potism into one of ruinous anarchy. 

 Rival factions issued fiat money as freely 

 as tap water flows from a spigot. The 

 treasury was bankrupt, interest was in 



default, foreign creditors were threaten- 

 ing through their governments to collect 

 their debts with gunboats and cruisers, 

 and there was not enough money to be 

 had by the party in power even to pay 

 salaries, much less soldiers' wages. 



HELPING NICARAGUA ESCAPL THE THROES 

 OF CHRONIC REVOLUTION 



In its insecure tenure under these con- 

 ditions, the party in power was only too 

 willing to save itself, and incidentally the 

 country, by appealing to the United 

 States and by offering to make itself an 

 instrumentality in American hands for 

 the rejuvenation of the nation. The 

 United States accepted the opportunity, 

 and a treaty was entered into giving this 

 country control of Nicaraguan finances 

 and the right to intervene in the interest 



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