Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1909-12-02
CENTRAL AMERICA
MUST BEHAVE
No Further Attacks on the
Americans Viii Be
Tolerated
UNCLE SANS ULTIMATUM
Nicaraguan Charge d'Affairs
Given Passport With Love
Letter for Zelaya.

Letter for Zelaya.
Washington, Dec. 2.-The troop
ship Prairie with about seven hundred
marines aboard for Panama and pos
sibly for service in Nicaragua receiy-
ed orders to sail from Philadelphia
this afternoon
Scathinq Rebuke.
Washington. Dec. 2.-An ultimatum
was given yesterday by the United
States to the Nicaraguan government
in a note which accompanied pass
ports was delivered by Secretary
of State Knox to Felipe Rodriguez,
charge d'affairs of the Nicaraguan
legation and has caused great rejcic-
ing among the sympathizers OF the
Nicaraguan insurrectiOnists. The
strength of the note and its personal
tone are subjects of comment in
diplomatic circles. 1t is generally
recognized that the United States has
decided that the time has come to
put an end TO further attacks on
American life and interests in Cen
trail America. The fact that President
Ielaya is apparently to be held per
sonally responsible for the shooting
Of Groce and Cannon adds a sting to
tho matter concealed in the vigorous
note of Secretary Knox and is set as
a warning to Central American re-
publics that they must behave and
that the United States intends the
family Of western republics to live
harmoniously. The Knox document
is one of the most scathing issued
from the state department for many
years and is believed by diplomats to
be epochal.
Senor Rodriguez Flustered.
Washington, Dec. 2.-The neWspa-
per men who visited the Nicaragua
legation last night were not permit
ted to doubt that Secretary Knox's
ultimatum had fallen upon the COM
placepcy of Senor Rodriguez with
profound effect. Senor Rodriguez in
person met the visitors at the door
and his protestations of amazement
at the action of the state department
were delivered in torrent of mingled
English and Spanish to the accom-
paniment floating down the stairway
of sounds indicating sthat the Nicar-
,aguanS on the floor above were en-
deavoring to forget all international
complications.
4Nn
Washington, d. c., Dec. 2.-The first
step of the United States toward back
ing up the declaration of Secretary
Knox regarding the Nicaraguan stu
alton was taken today when the secre
tary of navy sent urgent orders tc
commanders of the cruisers Tlabama
and the gunboat Yorktown, now al
Magdalena Bay, Lower California, tt
proceed forthwith to Corinto, on the
Pacific coast of Nicaragua
Rear Admiral to Command.
Washington, Dec. Rear Admira
William w. Kimball left Washington
today for Philadelphia to take pass
age on the Prairie. 1t is believed
that he will take command of the
naval forces operating against Nicar
aqua He will probably proceed t(
Corinto.
The Knox Letter.
Following is the text of Secretar!
KnoX's letter:
Department of State, Washington
December l, 1909:
"Sir-Since the Washington con
vention of 1907 it is notorious tha
President Zelaya has almost continu
ously kept Central America in ten
sion of turmoil, that he has repeated.
and flagrantly violated the provisions
of the convention, and by banefu
influence on Honduras, whose neutral
ity the conventions were to assure
has sought to discredit those sacret
international obligations to the grea
detriment of Costa Rica, Salvador ant
Guatemala, whose government
meanwhile appear to have been able
patiently to strive for the loyal sup
port of the engagements SO solemn.
undertaken at Washington under th'
auspices of the United States and o
Mexico.
1T is equally matter of common
knowledge that under the reign 0
President Zelaya, republican institu
tions have ceased in Nicaragua to ez
ist except in name; that public opin
ion and the press have been throttle'
and that prison has been the rewar'
of any tendency to real patriotism
This impels me to abstain from un
necessary discussion of the painful de
tails of a regime which unfortunatel
has been a blot upon the history 0
Nicaragua and encouragement to
group of republics whose aspiration
need only the opportunity to free an
honest government.
In view of the interests OF the I'm
ted States and of its relation to tn
Washington conventions, appea
against this situation has long sine