was lying in state in the 

 cathedral, when a military 

 company Avas drawn up and 

 commanded to fire into the 

 coffin, which they did with 

 riddling effect. In still an- 

 other case no leading citi- 

 zens were shot and a reign 

 of terror surpassing even 

 past performances was in- 

 augurated. 



This in its turn resulted 

 in the storming of the 

 French legation, where 

 President Guillaume Sam, 

 who had ordered the exe- 

 cution of these people, had 

 taken refuge. He was 

 dragged out ; his body was 

 drawn and quartered and 

 dragged through the streets. 



Before this latest out- 

 break, which was in July, 

 191 5, there had been nu- 

 merous threats of interven- 

 tion, Germany and France 

 at one time acting jointly in 

 their representations. But 

 this outbreak, which had 

 followed repeated efforts 

 on the part of the Wash- 

 ington Government to find 

 a remedy short of interven- 

 tion, was the straw that 

 broke the patience of the 

 United States and led it, 

 both for its own safety and 

 the protection of the Hai- 

 tian people and the foreign- 

 ers domiciled there, to in- 

 tervene. 



THE NEW ORDER IN HAITI 



A new President, Tudre 

 Dartiguenave, was elected 

 with the approval of the American au- 

 thorities, and the United States stands 

 behind his government. In return Haiti 

 has entered into a treaty with the United 

 States, which has been ratified by both 

 countries, embodying the principles of 

 the Dominican and 2\ T icaraguan receiver- 

 ships, together with some new features. 



By this treaty the United States prac- 

 tically underwrites -a loan of sufficient 

 amount to settle all the legitimate debts 

 of the country and to finance the begin- 

 ning of its development, opening up its 



,*• 



STATUE OE DESSALINES, ERECTED 1904 



"Then came Dessalines, who, when he had cleared the 

 island of the French, caused himself to be crowned as 

 Emperor of Haiti under the title of Jacques I. His reign, 

 marked as it was by extraordinary debaucheries, was very 

 short, for after he had been two years upon the throne he 

 was happily assassinated." — Sir Frederick Treves. 



mines, putting its agriculture on a solid 

 basis, and otherwise preparing to make it 

 the region of plenty that nature has 

 equipped it to be. 



But the treaty goes further than those 

 with Santo Domingo and Nicaragua. It 

 provides for an American-officered con- 

 stabulary which shall have control of the 

 peace of the country and the regulation 

 of all matters pertaining to arms and 

 ammunition. Furthermore, it provides 

 for the appointment of a sanitary engi- 

 neer whose recommendations, as ap- 



1/3 



