The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1909-12-09

the Nicaraguan president to treat
with the state department. calls FOR
a stirring special message to con-
gress. asking for the seizure of this
republic This would be the first step
i'm a new governmental policy embrace
! ing the ultimate seizure of the reins
of government i'm all the Central AM
crican republics and the restoring OF
order and establishment of one pro-
tectorate.
Opposition from the powers could
come from only two sources, Japan
! and Germany Germany's interests. ii
cure possession of the canal route for
mcrly contemplated by the United
states. The story has been whisper
ed that Zelaya knows this To be true
and already has profited to the extent
of two millions. Japan, it is said,
while acting independently of Ger
many. is aiding i'm stirring up strife
in the Central American republics In
the hope of Gripping the work of
! Uncle Sam on the Panama canal. a
crisis has been reached and il is APP
parent that one bold stroke would
settle the Central American question
! forever and put an end to the bloody
outragcs which have stained the pages
of this countrys history Germany and
Japan cannot object to the United
state insisting on the payment of
indemnity for her murdered sons and
if Zelaya continues to refuse these
powers cannot object if America in
tcrvenes.
1t will be recalled that the trouble
+, with Spain originated in exactly the
same manner as the present quarrel
with Nicaragua. Precisely the same
conditions prevail as obtained when
Cevera's fleet was blown To atoms.
Men who read the future by the
events of the past are beginning to
ask whether it would not be an hui
manitarian move on the part of the
United States to step into the quarrel
among the Central American republics,
put an end TO the bloody revolutions
and establish protectorate.
In Cuba, il will be recalled, the
people were oppressed by the Spanish
government. Conditions were so de-
plorable that no civilized nation could
look on without blushng. Murder, RAJ
pine and pillage made the suffering is
land an object of world wide pity.
Today the same conditions prevail i'm
! Nicaragua. Under the dcspotic rule
OF the tyrant Zelaya the Nicaraguan
people are even more helpless than the
native Cubans before the Spanish Am
erican war. Zelaya has forced his
people to pay constant tribute to en-
rich his private fortune. While main
tanning the semblance OF republic.
| he has ruled without mercy The In
dams, half breeds and creoles. ignor-
ant of their own power. have suffered
i'm silence. Finally they turned on
their monarch and today are forcing
the war 10 the very gates of the pail
ace.
AS before the Spanish American war
the sympathies of the United States
had been directed to the Cubans
From pulpit and platform and i'm the
press of the nation the people had
heard the story Of wrong. The public
was fired by desire to see Cuba free.
and when war was declared the ap-
plause for Uncle Sans move was al
most universal. Today the sympa-
thies of the American people are with
the native Nicaraguans and the re-
volt toward zelaya has been becoming
more bitter ever since the stories of
his rObberies and oppression were told
for the first time
1t will also be remembered that
the Spanish government was unable
to cope with the situation i'm Cuba and
this is the exact situation in Nicara-
qua. Then came the overtures forl
peace on the part OF Spain just as
the offer OF zelaya has been. made
The next move in this parallel easel
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