The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1909-05-17
THE CASE AGAINST zELAYA.
Refuses to Execute Ncarsguan Laws In
tho Interests OF Aliens.

/ tno IntoTe3te OF Aliens.
To TEE EDITOR OF TIE SuN-Sir. Grin
60 In q letter to TIE Sun SCOTS at tbs
State Department -bristling with sunboa,s
aud hostile overtures and hints OF red
mouthed ultlmatums' to redress the sriey.
snces Of an American company asking
damages against Nicaragua for a wounded
rainbow" He suggests that 1t Is only
because Nicaragua Ia feeble that this coun.
try presumes TO interrupt Zeiaya's govern.
ing his own people In his own way"
These notions are widely held and dis
pose the American people to scrutipIzs
very carefully the use Of force against tn,
Central Americans. 1t Is clearly seen thai
u punishment ID to fall 1t will fall not on the
wrongdoers but on the innocent. among
whom are to be found always in these
daye OF irrepresslble adventure Americans
who. while they may be chasing rainbows,
are undoubtedly extending our foreign
trade. The Emery company Is demanding
Z million dollars for the wrong OF which il
complains: II Is quite probable that the
forced payment Of 100000 would bring
Nicaragua to a financial standstill and
compel the exodus Of the Americans who
now remain.
The question at issue is not OF leaving
Zelaya to govern his own people In his own
way Uut VI hb ihihB Jul ptOplb justly.
that Is, according to the laws not OF the
United States but OF Nicaragua. IL ia not
q question Of territorial ACKNOWLEDGMENT
or q interfering, in the domestic affairs q
nor Is II q question Of an unfriendly and
unge1erous bearing toward any Contra!
american psopis. The wre.ehed Central
any quarter an Intervention which would
curb the despotism and rapacity OF their
rulers. The question y simply Of the
American Executives to treat this nation 10
the persons OF it's adventurous citizens.
whether they are rainbow chasers or wholly
n nsiPSia a9S Sni@af II i Surely II a f afee so s nd
that toward our citizens at least these
Executives shall allow the free and honest
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Clear oe.,EH Why The feeble 5 nation should BE- es.
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Mexico or Brazil or Argentina. May, AK
what would hapPen In the State Depart.
ton Of the laws Of. England to offend an f.
zeleya? Would americans not ask only.
'N The 0 laws q The Central American State,
are good. The French code is everywhere,
and behind 1t are the constitutions with a
liberty Sfsptjs's sqausiity. property. Judicial ire sde M
and freedom from monopolies.. Had. he
Executive Of Nicaragua obeyed his laws
there woIld !, Dc N ne nE Emery case because
other concession infringing the guarantee
Of equality or the use Of things Of common
This whole matter is in confusion in The
popular mind as well as in the diplomatic
mind because 2 sound principle e. inter
e ees sGa'f e the aaY isss sfsa p sep thsss oe %'.nsas
under the Spanish constitutions. Persons
complaining Of patent abuses Of guaranteed
s diss u at sSs e ess I ~ am &c faaaS Ssar 1as where sf@s.
ciaions VIGOROUSLY fouted. The result
3 ha' ns esdS r Prs sad 1sst ss dsisT e. an ani 2msriesn
citizen . msnif estly illegal concession. An
injured American complaiping to Mash
ington IL told. TO exhaust his. remedies In
or maybe he wins without relief. Tbs
President when appealed to to allow the
judgment OF the court TO take effect answers
to Washington. and that It would be rasfnous
II. as In the Burrell case. heavy damages
for breach OF contract were imposed
particular At Bluefeids to-day. where a mo.
nopoly Of, navigation and Of the export Of
nanas Is arbitrarily upheld in defiance
Of the courts, and where at this moment q
hundred planters are in jail and q gunboat
and $50 soldiers are patrolling the district
to compel obedience to the concession.
state Departmept Y Of course NO, con-
Central America in degrading bondage to
the needy Presidents and American, con-
cessionaries until a just principle OF inter-
Such : principle Is 70 be found in the rub
Of equity that he who seeks equity must
come with clean hands. 1t is q principle
always invoked In our courts in monopoly
lnston were made to understand that, they
must prove that their, CONTRACTS, and con-
tutio OF the country Of which they ROM
plain, and that the hands Of the holder Of a
illegal contract or concession
are conclusiveiy unclean, light would soon
break over Central America. The trafic
~mouopolies and concessions would stop
1t once and the complaints would dNindle
away. In the few cases In which Intervention
would take place there would be no popu.
ar misapprehension a to aggression or
ndlRnity. An AMERICAN Resident.
New VppH May