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Acl oi March
3.
1874.
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§
U.
S.
TO QUIT SAN DOMINGO
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{
President
Wilson
has
directed
that
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sters
be
taken
to
withdraw
American
|
control
over
affairs
of government
of
|
the
republic
of
Saanto Domingo.
‘‘Tha
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restorition of public
order
and
the pro-
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tection
of life
and
property
have
been
substantially
achizved,”
says
Rear
Ad-
|
miral
Snowden,
military
Goyv=rnor
of
;
the
repuablic,
in
a
proclamation
to
its
|
people.
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American
participation
in
Dominicao
affairs bzgan
in 1907
wnzn
& e inaoility
of
taz2
littiz
r2public
to
make
intzarest
payments
01 i 3 nacdad
deb:
for2sha
dowed
European
intervention.
To safe-
guard
th» Monroz doctrine
oudr
goverio-
|
ment
entered
into
a treaty
with
Santo
|
Domingo, giving
us
the right to
nane
a
receiver—to-eollee:
the
customs
duties
in
the
republic.
Tt
was
agreel
also
that
the
public debt
woiid
not b 2 increased
without
the
apprcval
of
our
govern-
menft.
;
Revolutionary
disturbanc2
ia
1915,
|
however,
increased
the
debt
and
the
]
treaty
was
thus
violated.
Following
|
their
refusal
to enter
into
a
new
treaty
the
U.
S.
government,
in
accordance
'
with its treaty rights,
landad
marines
at
Santo
Domingoin November
1916
and
|
assumed
friendly control of their govern-
|
ment.
Our naval force there
grew until
|
it
now numbers
about
2200
officers
and
|
men.
?
"Under
American
administration
the
|
finances
of the country
were
placed
on
a
|
stable
basis,
great
improvements
were
|
brought
about.
in public
woiks and
par-
!
ticular
attention
was
devoted.to
sanita-
|
tion and public health.
During the
war
our
marines
in
Santo
Domingo
-cleaned
out the bandits
who
made
frequent
raias
on
the cities
and kept
the
people
in
ter-
ro:.
The
gross
revenues
of
the
republic
under
our
management
increased
from
$4,000,000
in
1916
to over
$7,500,000
in
1919.
The
educational
system
has
been
completely
reorganized
and
during
thz
past
our
ears
se
00l
attendance
in
creased
from
18,000
to
100,000
pupils.
Before turning
over
direction
of
the
government
Admiral
Snowden
will
ap-
point
a
commission
of
representative
Dominican
ecitizens,
with
an
/merican
technical
adviser
to
formul
te
amend-
ments
to
their
constitution
and
draft
new
election
laws.
These
wiil
be
sub-
ject to
approval
of the
military
govern-
ment,
a
constitutional
convention
and
the
national
congress
of
the
republic,
respectively.
Our government
took over
similar
control
of
Haiti,
which
is situ-
ated
on the
same
island
with Santo
Do-
mingo,
but
conditions
there
have
not
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JANUALRY
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Story
Os An Artist’s
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Her
Struggling
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‘The Story:
Joan Templeton
is the wife of. Ned 'l‘pmpivton.
a struggling
young
American
ariist
in
Paris.
They
are in bad
financial straits and the husband,
Ned, succumbs
to hunger,
Joan,
his wife,
chooses
the
"‘easiest
way
’
‘o gain
money.
acting
on the advice
of
the
threatening
landlord.
Returned
to Amert-?&JO’an
one day
meats
a
weaithy
man,
named
James
Cartwright,
in the
hall to her busband’s
studio, and
recognizes
him
as
the
man
ro
whom
she
had
sold
herself in
Paris
in order
to obtain
money
for herself
and
Ned.
Zarcwright
learns
who she
is,
and being desirous
of procuring
her husban<
as
husband
for his own daughter,
Helen offers Joan
a large sum of money
if she will give him
up.
Joan
protests
that in spite of
what
she did in Paris,
her love for
Ned
is
genuine.
Later
both
Ned and
Helen
lcarn the truth
of what transpired
in Paris
and
Helen
gives
up Ned,
while the artist
returns
to his wife.
convinced
that her
love is true.
Beginning Monday Evening:
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Red
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