The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-29
WILL APPLY MORE "PRESsURE."
Britain Determined to Collect the In
demnity Demanded.

LONDON, April 2S.-The following semi
official note was issued from the Foreign
Office, this evening: up to now, nothing
has been officially received regarding the
course of events in Nicaragua. No notifca-
tion has been received of the landing of
blue jackets, as stated in the press dis
patches. The absence of Information is
believed to be due to the fact that the
telegraph lines have been cut. Up to this
evening, the Admiralty is without informa-
tion. No anxiety is felt as to the outcome
of the Earl of Kimberley's decided atti-
tude. There is not the slightest doubt that
Nicaragua will accede to the British de-
mands. Whatever may be the extent of the
pressure required to bring about this result
the government will not hesitate to apply
it,
that most Englishmen feel some regret that
we have been driven to take strong meas
ures against remote little South Ameri-
can republic. The only consolation that we
can discover is that we really could not
help ourselves. The truth appears to be
that the Nicaraguan government is thinking
quite as much about what would be good
for itself as what would be best thing for
Nicaragua Now that Admiral Stephensons
forces are in command at Corinto, it may
be hoped that the Nicaraguan government
Will ind itself in position to make the
concessions required by the ultimatum
The Sunday Times contrasts the display
of activity by the government against Mica
ragua with the weakness and vacillation
SHOWN on other occasions when the British
flag was insulted. On more than one oc-
casion the paper says, Great Britain has
eaten humble pie, and it asks: would the
Foreign Office have shown like energy and
decision had Nicaragua been a power of
the first magnitude instead OF a small, weak
and helpless state?"
The Graphic says: 1.-THE world is indebted
to Nicaragua for supplying an object lesson
ping to seize, we pay ourselves in another
way that was not unforeseen by the author
tiles. President Jackson, in 1894, laid down
that it was well-settled principle where
one nation owed another a debt which it
contracted to pay, the creditor nation might
seize sqfficient property belonging to the
debtor nation or it's subjects without giving
just cause for war;
The Daily News says: THE President of
Nicaragua has sent out a protest against
the occupation of Corinto. He bewails the
smallness and weakness of his state, but it
is not conquest that is sought. We are
simply holding the port security for
compliance of our just demands. This is
matter in which small state has taken
mean advantage of it's smallness to put
itself persistently in the wrong.
The Standard remarks: Not shot has
been fired. President Zelaya contented him
self with protesting against what he calls
an outrage against international law. We
do not need to point out the amusing ir-
relevance of such an appeal from such a
quarter. President Zelaya Is trying to win
the applause of the rabble by a display OF
cheap valor to show that he is determined
to yield to nothing but overwhelming COM
pulsion. He has played his game, how
Il
Nfcaraguans surely understand the situa-
ton, or they must be taught. The farce is
becoming tiresome- They must give in i'm
mediately or take the consequences"
In leader this morning, the Times says:
The devotion of the Central American re-
publics to justice when she commands
them, as they allege, not to pay, is extraor-
binary; when she orders them TO pay it
is much less marked. The reply of the
Nicaragua Minister of Foreign Affairs to
the British ultimatum, makes action inn
perative. Nicaragua must see that all her
attempts to work upon the susceptibilities
of the United States, in regard to British
aggressions are doomed to disappointment
Throughout this unpleasant complication the
attitude a President Cleveand's govern
ment appears to have been most friendly
and correct. In spite of the efforts of
some American papers to create i'll feeling
one may believe that the American people
cordially indorse the action of their gov
ernment. In that fact we may see a fresh
indication that some closer connection of
the policies of the two great Anglo-Saxon
peoples may yet prove something more
than a dream"
The Telegraph says: "The policy of Mica
ragua is tainted with the low cunning and
gambling morality of these South Ameri-
can regions, and it has naturally been
baffled.''
The Chronicle says: Sooner or later
Nicaragua will pass up and beg pardon. In
the action of Congress in regard to Vene-
zuela, We have beautiful American pre-
cedent for our present action"