santo domingo. joseph fabins and william casno, who definitely would have made more money, had the united states an ex-ed santo domingo. they were developers, as it were. as mark twain's book, "the gilded age" reminds us, business men of that type were often referred to as corrupt, even dismissed as corrupt. this was working against the project as well. the fact that babcock was involved in the project. he went down and investigated santo domingo and negotiated the treaty for an ex-ation, and worked closely with fabins and casno. this, of course, was used against him, against the project as this was all some kind of corrupt conspiracy to work a deal. racism was involved as well. many people felt well, we already have a very serious racial problem in the united states, in the south. do we want to take on another area that is predominantly black and try to deal with that in addition? a black mixed race population. even the champion of african-american rights, charles sumner, exhibited a kind of racism in his opposition. sumner said the tropics were ideally suited for blacks, the united states ought not to