Photograph by Harriet Chalmers Adams 

 STREET SCENE: SANTO DOMINGO CITY, THE CAPITAL. 



"Still, in spite of it all, Santo Domingo remains one of the most fascinating and inspir- 

 ing cities in these waters. . . . To walk through its highways and its alleys is to turn 

 over the pages of an old missal illumined with faded gilt and precious colors, the incense- 

 perfumed leaves of which are patched with shreds of gutter journals and interbound with 

 gaudy prints, ballad sheets, and play bills." — Treves. 



of peace during the life of the compact. 

 Controlling' the finances after the Santo 

 Domingan plan, the United States ar- 

 ranged a new loan, most of it to be spent 

 in refunding the debts of Nicaragua and 

 the remainder in making certain internal 

 improvements necessary to the progress 

 of the country. 



Here, again, the plan worked beauti- 

 fully as long as hydra-headed revolution 

 remained under cover. Trouble broke 

 out again, however, and only the presence 

 of American marines has served to keep 

 the peace. The "outs" are bitterly against 

 the role being played by the United 

 States; but Nicaragua is being rejuve- 

 nated, in spite of every handicap that 

 their state of mind entails. 



This rejuvenation consists in the plac- 

 ing of the country on a stable financial 

 basis, both with respect to foreign credit 

 and internal investments, the lowering of 

 the death rate through sanitary work, the 

 extension of education through the open- 

 ing of new schools, and the development 

 of the country through financial arrange- 

 ments for the construction of a railroad 



from the west to the east coast, the dredg- 

 ing of the rivers, etc. 



That this all amounts to armed inter- 

 vention no one can deny. But both in 

 Santo Domingo and Nicaragua the step 

 was taken because necessity impelled it. 

 Unless the United States was to be forced 

 to abandon the Monroe Doctrine, it had 

 either to deprive other countries of their 

 remedies or else intervene itself. 



But it was and is an intervention only 

 to discharge our international duty to the 

 countries of Europe under the Monroe 

 Doctrine and to rescue the countries in 

 which we intervened from this hopeless 

 morass of perpetual bloodshed and their 

 people from the quicksands of unending 

 riot. 



If conditions were bad in Santo Do- 

 mingo when the United States undertook 

 to help the country back to peace and 

 prosperity, they were worse in Nicaragua 

 when we assumed the role of guardian. 

 But even in Nicaragua they were mild 

 indeed as compared with those obtaining 

 in Haiti when our country finally stepped 

 in there. 



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