New-York tribune., 1918-06-24

haged to any extent. 1t would have
been impossible to deceive the popula
/ t'on or the Allied ministers, because
| the Germans had been so open about
/ their ideas prior to the sudden change
IN 1917, which swept their tool, Con
| zalez, out of office.
About this time some visitors from
the United States told Tinoco about
country and how alt German owned
property was being seized.
You interest me-" Tinoco is alleged
to have said to these Americans. Tell
me Just how this thing is worked"
And that is just how Tinoco is finan-
cling himself now, which is n rather
grim joke on the Germans. However
Tinoco may fall anyhow, in which case
it is pretty good bet that whoever
be friendly to the Germans.
In this connection comes up the in
teresting point that the United States,
III refusing to recognize Tinoco, also
refuses to recognize the Congress of
Costa Rica. We're this not so, the
American State Department could not
ignore the protesting resolution,
adopted by a vote Of % to 3 by the
Congress of Costa Rica, against the
kica, Stewart Johnson, in stating tina
the United States could never recog-
nize Tinoco.
If the vote of % to 3, which might be
termed an Endorsement of Tinoco. or
construed as vote of confidence sim
liar to those sometimes resortcd to by
the cabinets of Great Britain and
france, is ignored as of no merit by
the American State Department, then
surely the declaration of war against
Germany, passed by the Costa Rican
congress by vote OF 20 to II, would
be ignored.
SO that if the United States rccoe-
Hizes some new government which sue
ceeds Ilnoco, it will recognize a gov.
ernment that-all the acts of Tinoco
ADMINISTRATION being considered null
and VOID as acts of an illegal govern
ment-ls at peace with Germany, not
even having severed diplomatic rela-
tions.
Unless there is bad bunglng of the
cards BY the Germans, if they get some
wiling tool, perhaps Gonzales himself,
INTO office after the oblging American
they may resume their little game of
getting ready to aid Germany after the
war even II they arc not able to en-
oarTass the Allies during the war.
Letters from Quesada
a few quotations from letters
written to Gonzalez while he was
President by his minister to thas is comns mne
try, Castro Quesada, may be Of inter
est as illustrative of the trouble Con
zalez might make for the United
States. incidentally, a curious feat
ure OF the, friendship of the Adminis-
tratlon for Gonzalez is that it was far
from recprocated by Gonzalez and his
munster while in power. 1t is alleged
n,, "a letters sent Gonzalez by Castro
XueSaoa mat ne gave information to
1915 with view to aiding in the de-
1eat OF Wilson. He speaks of Sccrc
sing" az" Ian
;. This was in regard to the boundary
olspute between Costa Rica and Pan
anna. re denounces Chamorro. Presi-
gent OF Nicaragua, in connection with
.ne Nlcaraguan treaty which this gov
eminent negotiated with Chamorro
while American marines were nuar,
tered at the Nicaraguan capital.
o ms last is not strange, for Castro
Quesada was lieutenant of the noto-
f,ous Ielaya, of revolutionary fame in
the faction bitterly opposed to cha.
MORO. The United States protected
onamorro, which perhaps accounts for
Quesada's attitude toward this coun-
1ry but not for the attitude of the
State Department toward Ouesada. II II
WI be recalled that Quesada had no
trouble IN getting friendly audience
with the President for Gonza]ez al
though the President turned deaf car
to friends of Tinoco, even of snch
prominence as Senator Swanson. who
IS "A prominent Administration mem
Der of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee; Senator Ransdell nf
louisiana, another strong Administers.
tion Democrat, and Samuel Inter
myer.
U. S. Minister Called idiot"
The following extract from a letter
or Quesada to President Gonzalez, un-
der date of December 2, 1916-little
more than month before Ganzalez
fled the country-is interesting in view
OF the fact that this country did then
ana sun maintains marines at Mica
ragua's capital to protect Chammora:
u do not care to delay any longer
giving you my opinion relative to the
fresh complications we are destined
to sec ourselves subject to on Account
of the presidency of Chammora. Na.
turally we must agree that this gen
tleman bears us the worse i'll in the
world. and did it depend on him he
would stir up q lot Of trouble for MS
Fortunately for us the internal situa-
tIon with nm is very serious, for. in
addition to the fact that he is without
Q dollar, he has numerous foes in his
own country whose hatred of him is 80
intense that not even the popularity
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