Your letter of the 20th just received. I wish to ask a careful reading of Ex-Secretary of State Robert Lansing's letter to Senator McCormick and his "Haitian Committee", published in part in the daily papers of the country, last week. That letter makes it clear, to my mind, that while there may have been good reason or reasons for temporary American occupation and intervention in Haiti prior to and during the world war, these reasons in the main, have not existed since the world war. There appears to be absolutely nothing to fully justify the continuance of the southern Democratic misrule in that little island country; more, there does not seem to be any real legal grounds upon which to base the action of our government in doing what it has done in Haiti, since the war. One cannot read all the testimony that has been published, touching both sides of the Haitian question, without feeling a great sense of shame for our government's part in the Haitian affair before, during and since the world war. This has become a burning question with the thoughtful, intelligent Afro-American, indeed with the masses of my people. We feel that steps of the southern Democratic Wilson administration in this Haitian matter, especially since Senator Harding in more than one campaign speech, gave to the country at large, the belief that in event of his elevation to the presidency, he would see to it that the American-Haitian scandal would be wiped out. Order has been restored in Haiti, and there is no further danger of encroachment by European powers. The slight and other disturbances there, for four or five years past, have been the direct result of the miserable southern DemocraricDemocratic misrule and domination of the natives of that country. I have followed this thing closely for several years, like hundreds of others of my race, and others, and want to ask you to take time and get in close touch with all phases of the matter and do what I know you are capable of doing, to help our government do its clear duty in the matter.