Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1909-12-02


majority of the Central American re-
publics
There is now added the appeal
through the revolution, of a great
body of the Nicaraguan people
Two Americans who, this govern
ment is now convinced were officers
connected with the revolutionary
forces and therefore entitled to be
dealt with according to the enlighten-
ed practice Of civilized nations have
been killed by direct order of Presi-
dent Zelaya. Their execution is said
to have been preceded by barbarous
cruelties.
The consulate at Managua is now
officially reported to have been men
aced. There is thus sinister cul-
mination of an administration. also
characterized by a cruelty to its own
citizens, which, has, until the recent
outrage, found vent in the case of this
country in succession of petty an
noyances and indignities which many
months ago. made it impossible to ask
an American minister longer to reside
at Managua. From every point of
view it has evidently become difficult
for the United States further to delay
more active response to the appeals
so long made to its duty to its citi-
zens, to its dignity, TO Central Amer
ica, and to civilization.
The government of the United
States believes that the revolution
represents the ideals and the will of a
majority of people more faithfully
than does the government of Presi-
dent Zelaya and that the revolution
AIRY party's peaceable control is we'll
nigh as extensive as that hitherto
so sternly attempted by the govern
ment at Managua.
! There is now added the fact as
officially reported from more than
one quarter, that there are already
indications of a rising in the western
provinces in favor of a presidential
candidate intimately associated with
the old regime. In this it is easy to
see new elements tending toward a
condition of anarchy which leaves no
responsible source to which the gov
ernment of the United States could
lock for reparation for the killing OF
Messrs. Cannon and GrOce, Or indeed
for the protection which must be as
sured American citizens and Ameri
can interests in Nicaragua.
"Under these circumstances. the
president no longer feels for the gov
ernment of President Zelaya that re
spect that confidence which woult
make appropriate hereafter the main
tenance of regular diplomatic relation
implying the will and the ability tt
respect and assure what is due from
one state to another.
THE government OF Nicaragua
which you have hitherto represented
is hereby notified, as will also be the
leaders of the revolution, that the
government of the United States vii
hold strictly accountable for the pro
lection of American life and property
the factions de facto in control of the
eastern and western portions of the
republic of Nicaragua.
."As for the reparation, found due
after careful consideration, for the
killing of Messrs. Cannon and Groce
the government of the United State:
would be loathe to impose upon tht
innancnf Of Ninoro q
heavy burden for the acts of regime
forced upon them, or to exact from ;
succeeding government, if it have
quite different policies, the imposition
of such a burden. Into the question
of ultimate reparation there must en-
ter the question of the existence a
Managua of government capable o
responding to demands. There mus
ever be also the question of how fa
it is possible to reach those actual,
responsible and those who perpe
trated the tortures reported to have
preceded the execution if these b'
verified and the question whether thu
government be one entirely disasSo
ciated from the present intolerabl'
conditions and worthy to be trusted Il
make impossible a recurrence of sucl
acts, in which the president, as
friend of your country as he is als'
of the other republics of Centra
America, might be disposed to hav'
indemnity confined to what was reas
onably due the relatives of the de
ceased and punitive only in so far a
the punishment might fall wher
; really due.
"In pursuance of this policy tn
government of the United States will
; temporarily withhold its demand TO
reparation in the meanwhile takin
such steps as it deems wise and prop
er to protect the American citizen
and interests.
; ITO insure the future protection o
7 legitimate American interests, il
consideration of the interests of tn
majority of the Central American re
publics and in the hope of makini
more effective the friendly Offices e1
erted under the Washington conven
tions, the government of the Unite
States reserves for further considera
: tion at the proper time the question
: of STIMULATING also that the consti
tutional government of Nicaragua
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