The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-12-12

Ueu. SnOulu ESIFdud De named as
president or dictator, on the strength
of his victory, however, it will avail
the people little. 1t viii be only an
exchange of tyrants. Estrada has a
record quite as black as that of Zelaya
He, is one of the cheap nobility of the
country, an ignoble breed held up on
the shoulders of alien mOnopolists.
Nicaragua's only hope lies in the cleo
ton Of some strong man from the
plebian class, a man strong enough to
resist the advances of foreign fortune
hunters. If the FIVE Central American
States could be banded into a confed-
eracy and a government firmly estab-
llshed, it would rival Mexico. Before
that can be done. such leaders as Cab
rera, Figaroa, Bonilla, Iglesias, and
Morales viii have to be banlshed. They
are the ones whose selfish ambitions
bring about the intrigues and the tur-
MOL. I know most of these men per-
sonally and my knowledge of them is
that they are murderers, without heart
or conscience.
American Intervention Needed.
Without Washington, a Bolivar, a
Maxine Jerez or a Morazan Juarez to
bring internal peace to the country,
Nicaraguans will have to look to the
world and preferably to the United
States for salvation. American inter
ference, stopping the bloodshed, putting
the country on firm basis and super
vising its internal affairs would bring
happiness to hundreds of thousands and
promote the development of a country
the wealth of which is as yet unappre-
ciated at home or abroad.
Execution of Americans.
The shooting of Leroy Cannon should
not be the main reason for American
intervention, however. | have met
Cannon several times and Ills Nicara-
guam record is not one of which Amer
leans can be proud. If those now in
terested in his death would look up
the records in the case they would see
that his execution was not uncalled for.
LIE Roy Cannon, at the outbreak of
the war with Honduras three years ago,
owned hacienda and rubber farm in
Nicaragua and was making good head
way financially under the Zelaya gov
eminent. He had also a civil commits
sioner. During this war he betrayed the
trust that was placed in him for money
and became a spy. He was captured
and brought before Zeleya, who order
ed him tried. He was given trial found
and guilty, being caught with the
goods, and sentenced to death.
An American interceded in his be-
half and Zelaya pardoned him. AS his
property was confscated, Zelaya gave
him from his own pocket $4,000 in
American gold and ordered him to
leave the country This he did going
to Guatemala, where he met Lee Christ
mas and Cabrera. These men furnish
ed him with men and arms and be re-
turned to Nicaragua, being the leader
of several raids wherein people were
/ killed.
One more he was taken, having been
wounded in an engagement in the
mountains in which a German was in
command of the federal forces. l was
present at the time The federalists,
who were picked Leonese machete
men, clamored for his life and that of
Christmas, who was also taken and it
was all that the commander could do
to save their lives.
These two men were allowed to es-
cape this time and one returned to Qua
tCHtdld NHSIt Ht II tue captain OI tue
body guard of Cabrera ana the other
went to Salvador and was given a posi-
ton as director of police for a large
department.
One day | was visiting the latter in
| his office when in came a boy soldier
about fifteen years old. He complain
. ed of i'll treatment at the hands of his
sergeant but in place of justice he re-
ceived a blow from the fist of the di-
rector. which SEM him spinning. while
curses and kicks followed the blow. I
ventured to ask why he treated the kid
this way and the director replied with
apparent pride, ''That is the way to
treat these dogs -
u felt like kicking him but as I
was there on service it would have
/ injured my cause had I done so.
The present trouble in Nicaragua Is
not only the outcome of the ambition
Of Estrada but there Is behind it thu.
jealousy of that tyranical dictator in
Guatemala. Estrada Cabrera, who
wishes to dethrone Zeleva in order 10
place a man of his choice there who
viii not interfere when he wishes TO
/ pillage that poor war-worn country call
ed Honduras. For this purpose has he
/ lent his men his munitions Of war He
1 it is and MS arch conspirator who en-
( courage the depradations on the north
/ western frontier of Nicaragua and Hon
/ duras by the Salvadorenos. This is the
man who has placed his choice for the
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