El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-05-25
By FREDERIC J. HASKIN

In 1907 the Washington convention was
entered into. and the peace couIl q
CartagO esta bllshed- SlUIinBs OF -
latter body barely had Deguh WueH
Zelaya put his troops aboard the MOI
OtOmbO. a dilapidated gunDOat. dIu
sent them up to AcaJutla 10 lhfaIS
Salvador. He had as his any e1 .Ipa 80
dent AlfarO. while Cabrera supper lSu
president FigUerOa at this luncture. II
was upon this occasion that Lhs IN
Vaders went to SOnsOnate, carry ing d
gatling gun on a flat car, with the IeLe
aviator Johnny Moissant, as us Ope4
atOr, negotiated a forced loan AT the
bank and fled back to the MonotoInDO
upon the approach Of the SalVauOI can
IN the Honduran revolution Of 1901
Manuel BOnilla was in power, the same
BOnilla who is now president ne SS
cided he wanted to stay In ONCE 4OE
SIN wears. so ne heightened his term.
the constitution TO the contrary not
WithstGnding- Then Zelaya came IntO
the situation as the champion OF CON
stltutiOnal government IN Hels ~
ing state. Neither he nor Estrada "a
brera liked Manuel BOnlila DeCausS
neither could control him, ana eacn
wanted creature or MS owl Il. 1870 -
HOnduran presidency BOnllla cdLIeu
Salvador to his assistance, but AeIays
won out He decided that ne W@htSo
Sierra as president. he being one OF tne
two men who had been president IN
Honduras without being compelled %
resort to force TO keep himself IN o.
flee for the term Of four years CABRERA
wanted another man by the name OF
AIias A compromise was Lnally Ell
fected by choosing Miguel Il DaELIa,
who. in turn. was OverthroWn IN LS4A
by the man he succeeded. Manuel Bo-
Is Backing Another Revolt.
1t is asserted in some quarters Uhal
the prospective revolution in Honduras,
OF which Policarpo BONITA, ano11 .'5l
former president Of the republic, IS Ihe
reputed instigatOr, IS receiving the
backing Of Guatemala There are pre-
dictiCns that he viii be succesS1ul. anu
that fl viii result in Estrada Cabrera
having a hand in HOnduran affairs
while POlcarpO runs THONGS, II )
only fair, however. 10 state that this
is only a rumOr-
thOat there is seldom any revolutionary
movement that occurs IN Central
America TO which the doughty pres1-
dent Of Guatemala does not bear a
more or less intimate relation. He is
d man who loves power, and IN the
days Of Zelaya was particularly 1eal-
Gus Of the conflicting ambitions OF that
distatOr- Nor is this all Guatemala
has mad its troubles with Mexico Time
and again acts have been committed
by Guatemala that might nave led TO
war but for the shrewd game played
by Cabrera
on the whole. to call Guatemala a re-
public is just about as great a misuse
OF the term as TO call the United states
an absolute monarchy. To speak OF
lberty's existence there IS about as
much OF a fiction as the story OF the
Quetzal. a bird OF rare plumage which
IS said to have stopped singing when
the cOnquerOrs came 10 Guatemala, and
which the indians say viii never sing
gain until the cOnQuerOrs leave No
candid observer can believe that real
republic could succeed In Guatemala
today and many OF them wonder fl IL
would not be better to have only one
ruler. with only one set grafters, and
only one revolution brewing at a time
than to have things as they now
exist.