Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-11
WAR FOR THE RIGHT
Editor SeIva Says the Honduras
People Were Forced to Fight.
DEsP0T is IN CONTROL
Zelaya to Central America What Diaz
is to Mexico.
STRIKE FOR PERSONAL REASONS
More Than 10000 Nicaraguans Said
to Have Been Exiled-Do Not
Want Intervention.
;TRIKE FOR PERSONAL REASONS

ing that he voices the sentiment of 10000
Nfcaraguan exiles who have been driven
from their country by the tyranny of Car
los Zelaya, it's president, Silvio Selva, a
newspaper eritor at Managua, new res.d-
ing here, says that every true American
should use his influence to prevent President
Roosevelt from intervening to bring about
peace between Honduras and Nicaragua
THE Honduras people are really fighting
the battles of the eXiled and prosecuted
Nicaraguans," declares Senior Selva. THE
Nicaraguans are fighting because they are
compelled to do SO by the despot who con-
trolls the government. Both countries have
all the land they want. Zelaya is trying to
be in Central America what Diaz is in Mex
leo. He wants to conquer all of Central
America and place himself at the head Of its
government. He went to war with Hon.
duraS purely for reasons of personal ambi-
ton. If he conquers that country he will
rule it as he has Nicaragua, and will then
attempt other conquests.
Flocking to Honduras.
Thousands of Nicaraguans are aocking
to Honduras from all parts of Central
America and are joining the Honduranians
in the fight against their own president.
They consider 1t war for Nicaragua and
its deEverance. More than 20 coo Nicara-
guans have been exiled by Zelaya. He has
eXiled them fer writing against the govern
ment and when they refused to serve in the
army; he has made them voluntary exiles
by confiscating their property, throwing
them in Jail and so frightening them upon
their release that they fled from the coun-
try: he has been known to exile some of the
leading men of the country because they
would net indorse his proclamatons and use
their influence with the people in his be-
half .
Gen Otiz was exiled fourteen years ago
because he was successful in the war
with Honduras that the people called him
their greatest general. Zelaya feared his
popularity and forced him to leave the
country.
In Power Fifteen Years.
'Zelaya has been in power fifteen years.
'1n 1903 Zelaya had Gen. Hitherto Castro
and Col. Anacleto Guandique arrested and
charged with an attempt to dynamite his
military headquarters. They were inno-
cent men. but Zelaya hated them and wish
ed to get rid of them. He also wanted VIC
Tins to show the people his power and to
intimidate others who might be in his way.
He had them tried by court-ma rtial
which he appointed. and he is known to
have told Castro before the court-martial
that Castro should die. He dictated the
sentence of the court-martial and ordered
the two men to ascend the scaffold and be
shot. Afterward he had their bodies burn
ed in public square. Today one can see
Gen. Cast1o's daughter a raving maniac
going through the streets of Managua, and
can hear her weeping for her dead father.
She witnessed the shooting of Castro and
saw them burn his body. There is no in
sane asylum in the country. and she is
cared for by friends and relatives.
Election Every Four Years.
THE constitution of Nicaragua provides
that there shall be an election every four
years But there is no election because
| there is no constitution. Zelaya has done
away with the constitution and elects him
self. Sometimes he calls an election and
sometimes he does not. When there is an
election it is farce. He keeps in power
with his army, which intimidates the peo-
pie. Lelaya was without a cent when he
became president. Today he is a million
aire. He is the head of every monopoly in
| the country. He is rich and everybody
knows how he got rich The country is
| rotten from one end to the other with cor
ruption
Want No Intervention.
"The people of Central America hone
that the United States will not intervene.
we know that if this government says the
war must stop it will stop at once, but we
are hoping hostilities will not end at this
time. We want to see Zelaya taken from
power. We. the 10000 exiles, who make I'D
about IL per cent of the male population of
the country. want to return to Nicaragua
and live with our friends and relatives in
our old homes. We have been driven out
ana nave wandered over all Central Amer
lea. we would come to the United States
in greater numbers, but it is hard to learn
the language and get work There are not
more than thirty Nicaraguans in the United
States. The rest are scattered from one
end of Central America to the other"
Senior Selva says he was eXiled because
he published criticisms of Zelaya in his
paper. He had to flee for his life.