The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-11-23
ELAYA DESPISES US
DICTATOR NEGLnCTs NO 0PrOR- TUNITY TO SHOW CoNTEMPT.
shrewd, Psssionate, wslfuI and Ty- rannicsl, He Regards . Prime Fight Between Men
 as Dexrndfng.


 If there Is one thing on earth that President zelaya of Nicarasue de- | spises 1t Is an American. says The New York World. He makes nd secret of it, either. He neglects no oppottuunity of impresslng upon them that they are not wanted. His motto is: America for Latin Americana" and when anybody sug- sests the benefits to be derived from closer intercourse with the United States, he points sarcastically to Pan- anna. Porto Rico and Cuba.
 zelaya belongs to the real aristoc- racy of Central America. He Is a man of about 60. of pure castililan blood, "a Spaniard through and through. 4 good friend. but a reient- less foe. with warm heart and a quick temper. which. once aroused. makes him devil incarnate.
 He was given the finest education Nicaragua could afford. and then, at IA. was sent to Europe. He studded at La Sorbonne. in Paris, and visited other European universities. At 2s he returned to his native land, . man or great attachments. Knowledge and energy. He knew no restraint, and gave his passions full play. Tn colder clifnes he would have been considered a debauchee. but American nor ais cannot be measured by the same standards as those of Anglo Saxon aces. so he was merely recognized as e leader by the p1easure-ioving sports" and high rollers of Managua.
 A Patriot in His Way.
 In his own way Zaiaya is a patriot He loves his country and It's customs and traditions. and he really considers that the introduction of American methods of government would be some thing In the nature of a defiiement. He knows that his fellow -countrymen are not capable of seif-government and that they probably never will be un- less God makes them all over again. In this he has the support of all the best and most conservative men in his country
 It Is the same all through Central America, the people cannot govern themseives, they must be ruled but they want to be ruled by men of their own race and religion, and not by un- sympathetic strangers.
 This is the secret of zelaya's power just as 1t was of Castr o's. and is still of the wonderful influence of the per- petual President of Mexico Porfirio Diaz. where Zelaya raises the cry of Yankee absorption" thousands of Latin Americans from Peru to Mexico will flock to his standard. He Is a man of endless resources, and will fight to e finish.
 Zeiaya raised himself to the presi. dency of Nicaragua by something like a trick. It was a three-cornered fight, one of the candidates being Jose Sam tos, another being Zelaya. Their conn bined votes overwhelmed the third competitor, and zelaya became Presi- dent. He has been President for some sixteen years. If white man opposes = l~ taA . him by the ankle to a negro, and i throws him into a dungeon.
 Revolutions against his authority there have been. but then revolutions are the national sport of Latin Amer l ican peoples. They could no more do without them than Americans could without baseball. No one in Central America except foreign merchants hav- ing investments there can understand why the United States can enter Into the spirit of the thing and let Latin- Americans settle their quafrels be- tween themselves.
 Honduras, Salvador and Guatemala have their own revolutionary parties, and the rebels of one country taink nothing of going over the border and using the territory of the neighborinE nation as a base rom which to attack their own Government. This leads to all sorts of international c3mpIica- tions, and made necessary the estab- lishment of special arbitration court between the various Central American repubIlcse to which all suca disputes could be referred.
 shooting of Americana.
 Now, Zelaya has got pretty big revolution 3n his hands. It will bear comparison with the uprising led by Mates against Castro. and to compli- cate matters further two Americans have been shot after the rough and ready methods In vogue down there.
 Of course. if the Americans were caught red-handed in disguise with dy- namite in their possession. Zeiaya would have been justified in shooting them as spies engaged in an attempt to hlow up Nicaraguan warships; but