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Last week as President Borno, of Haiti, heard the combined U. S. fleet boom out the full presidential salute of 21 guns in his honor Brigadier General John H. Russell, U. S. High Commissioner of Haiti, quietly sent his annual report to Secretary of State Kellogg at Washington. Praise he gave to President Borno's administration; his report on the judicial system was less favorable, more revealing. "Trials by jury" he said, "are farcical. The jury is always opposed to the government. . . " The customs receipts had increased, he reported, under U. S. supervision. Meanwhile at the Haitian border, Negro...
Puzzled U. S. citizens pondered. The Department of State had said: "Haiti is a sovereign republic." Thus, the U. S. expressed its inability to persuade President Borno to allow Senator King to enter on his tour of investigation. But, citizens argued, a U. S. High Commissioner passes judgment on President Borno's administration, the U. S. controls Haiti's customs, one-time U. S. marines command Haiti's gendarmerie...
Forwith, Secretary of State Kellogg, after a consultation with Haitian Minister Hannibal Price, cabled President Borno that his objections to Mr. King are an affront to the U. S. Senate and a discredit to Haiti. Perhaps, said Secretary Kellogg, Mr. King might lose his hostility if allowed to visit Haiti. Within an hour President Borno cabled back that under no circumstances would he allow Mr. King to land on his shores. "Mr. King's utterances," said the Negro President, "are a personal insult to me and to my people...
...King had said last year in the Senate that Louis Borno was illegally elected President of Haiti. Technically, Mr. King is right; but the U. S. has been backing the Borno government...
...very manner in which President Borno of the Republic of Haiti administered his firm rebuke to Senator King must reassure the forces of security and of prosperity. Nor has the staunch helmsman of our ship of state obscured the issue by expressing an opinion. It has been made clear that such had manners as Senator King displayed are not to be tolerated. Senatorial interference with the noble work that is being done by Secretary Kellog and his marines might lead, if allowed to proceed unchastened, to all manner of trouble. President Coolidge by his stern, courageous shonce, and the Transcript...