The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1885-04-02
Movement ON Foot to Overthrow the Gov.
ernment of Honduras and Form an
Alliance-Oniy q Matter of Time.
Sketch of Barrios' Lie.

NKw YORK, March 80 President Mar.
CO Aurelio Soto, of the republic Of Honduras,
lives in an elegant home at No s East
Eighty-fourth street, this city. He is still
young, having bean minister of foreign af-
fairs of Guatemala at twenty five and presi-
dent Of Honduras at twenty-eight years of
age. Apparently, he is not over forty now.
and his only desire, outside Of his own large
and interesting family, seems to lie in the
advancement Of the happiness and civiliza-
tion of his naive countrymen. When shown
in Washington dispatch the allegation that
he was engaged in movement to overthrow
the government of Honduras, and to form
an alliance Of the people of that country
with Nicaragua, Costa Rica and San Saliva
dor against Gen. Barrios, Mr.. Soto said:
mo, it is not true that am in any wav
connected with, the revolution which General
Barrois has instituted in Central America.
New York is rather distant point from
which to conduct movement of that kind in
Central America. have received kilograms
from my friends, however, who, knowing
my sympathies with the people of my native
land, have asked me to go there and assist
them. 1t is impossible to say now what l
will do. I am waiting for fuller advices by
mail, and it will depend upon them whether
I go or stay. There are enough inaccuracies
in the dispatch you have shown me to war
rant something of statement of the case
from myself -
Gen. Barrios, as you know, has issued q
decree declaring himself as head of the
United Pepublics, but Nicaragua, Costa
Rica and '3an Salvador have declared against
the decree, and drawn up an alliance to op-
pose him The only government which has
accepted it is Honduras, but the feeling of
the people, even there, is against him; their
heart is with their sister republics. His
strength with the government of that re-
public rests in his influence over Gen Lewis
Bogran."
-. ''WAl Gen. Barrios' revolution be a sue
cessr =, 10
"No; he win ruin Guatemala in his foolish
ent terprise, and probably finish up by being
overthrown himself. He is said to have an
amy of fifteen or twenty thousand, but San
Salvador, of which DR.. Zaldivar is president,
can raise that many men itself Ultimately
the countries Of Central America will un.
doubtedly be united, but it can not be done
hy the sword, and General Barrios will dis
cover when it is too late how great mistake
he has made"
"Barrios' scheme is not new. The five re-
publics were subject to Spain until about
sixty years ago, when they established an
Independent confederacy, which was dissolved
in 1889. Other unions, more or less intimate,
were afterward formed, only to be broken in
turn, and no further back than 1875 negotia.
6ons we're fruitlessly conducted to accom-
plishl what Barrios is now attempting by
force Of arms. His violent policy can obvi.
ously lead only to waste and bloodshed, for
the other republics are diligently preparing
to resist the Guatenalan invasion and it is
not at all likely that Mexico will sit quietly
by and permit'su carvings on among her
next door neighbors.
"a number of motives are assigned to
Barrios in his present project. One is that
he covets the plethoric treasury of Nicar-
aqua, and the fair prospects thst country has
Of being made sfil richer by large bounty
for the right Of way across her territory for
a ship canal If Barrios could now obtain
possession of Nicaragua, he would receive
the benefit of whatever gain there would 10 I
to that country through the construction of |
the canal 1t is most probable that this is
but one Of the rich results he aims to obtain
by becoming. tho dictator Of the whole coun- I
try.
"For many reasons the United States have |
an equal interest with Mex leo in bringing
his campaign promptly to halt"