Seldom do the guns of U. S. forts, north or south, fire salutes to a Negro. Yet last week the guns of Fort Jay, Governor's Island banged out 21 times for a Negro sailing up New York Harbor. The Negro was His Excellency Stenio Vincent, President of Haiti, in the U. S. to talk business with President Roosevelt.
Only three things bring a Haitian President to the U. S.: 1) to borrow money; 2) to get the U. S. marines out of Haiti; 3) to have U. S. Financial Adviser-General Receiver of Haitian Customs, Sidney De...
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