2. What do many of the Americans in Haiti think of Haitians, and how do they (Americans) treat them (Haitians)?

The Americans believe that the Haitians are unfit to govern themselves. They believe that the Haitians are both incapable of advancement, and steadily retrograding into barbarism. The Americans dismiss the main contradiction to this theory, Port-au-Prince, a well kept, beautiful little city; for they believe they are responsible for making it so, not the Haitians. This is of course not true, as the Haitian Government had paved the whole city. One white American who conducts one of the biggest mercantile businesses in Haiti contradicted his fellow American's beliefs claiming Haiti makes more soap per capita than any country in the world.

Another thing believed about the Haitians is that they are congenitally and habitually lazy. The truth is Haitians are not lazy at all, just primitive. Women will walk eight miles with a bundle of produce on her head for as little as a dollar, and though Americans see this as pointless they must not confuse it with laziness. The Haitians are also accused of being ignorant and degraded. All of these false beliefs stem from propaganda. The only accusation about the Haitians that is slightly true is the ignorant, and that is simply because most Haitians are illiterate.

During the five years of American occupation only three things were advanced. The Improvement of the public hospital at Port-au-Prince; enforcement of rules and modern sanitation; and the building of the great road from Port-au-Prince to Cape Haitian.