Evening star., 1926-09-18

problems. He sums up the situation
in these words:
The present policy of the Amer
lean Department of State has been
expressed as follows:
THE encouragement of independ-
ent. orderly constitutional govern
ment, enabling these countries to
stand as equals amongst the nations
of the world. enjoying political peace
and economic prosperity. The method
of achieving this excellent ideal of
peace has included. and apparently
still includes. the enforcement of a
policy of holding the recognition of
the United States as something given
a government in Central America
only if it has come to power without
stain. political or moral"
And. according to the State De-
partment, under both Secretaries
Hughes and kellogg, that let's Pres
ldent Chamorro out. Yet he is
still in.
The perpetual wars I'm Nicaragua
have been waged between the in
habitants of two rival cities
Granada of the Conservatives and
Leon of the liberals. No political
VI.
general one of personal or party
rivalry for Office. For 80 years after
the independence from Spain. the
Conservatives We're in power They
include the landed prOprietors and
merchants and the clericals. The
Liberals are the workers. But the
Liberal headquarters are in Leon,
where they claim to cultivate learn
Ing and produce the lawyers and the
few other understandable high
brows of the country. Conservatives
point to their Catholic University in
Granada.
From 1899 to 1910 Dictator lose
Santos Zelaya, s president. was not
content to rule his own country alone,
but needs meddle with his neighbors
of Central America and even of Mex
icO. He was a disturber of the peace
and an international nuisance until
the United States, at the request of
the Conservatives, interviewed and
supported Conservatives in overturn-
ing !. Zelaya. That required some
1000 Marines. and subsequently,, at
the request of the Conservative gov
ernment. a force of 100 Marines was
left to preserve order. At first they
were expected to stay only a few
months, but as expressed by the au-
thor of THE Rainbow Countries, -
then a peace settled down upon
Nicaragua; a peace unbfoken for the
next 13 years" American rockies
who had gone there in 1912 came out
in 1925 aged and experienced veter-
ans. but there was Nicaraguan peace
while they were there; that's why the
people urged them to stay. 1t took
100 American Marines to control the
70S.000 Nicaraguans-such fighters
are those Latins.
Nicaragua was the innocent by
stander when Secretary of State Knox
invented the phrase dollar diplo-
macy"
The dollar diplomacy consisted, so
far as Nicaragua was concerned. In
our inducing Great Britain to with
draw her claims to right to NEEDLE
Herewith, under the Clayton Bulwer
treaty, and our paying Nicaragua
81. 900 900 cash for the exclusive right
ever to build an interoceanic canal
across her territory. our aid in reduc'
Ing her interest rate on foreign bonds
to per cent in place of 6 and our
lending private capital TO the amount
of 81 SOC, 900 to esta blish a bank there
and encouraging other capital to in.
vest in internal improvements. Mica
ragua has given no& other special
concessions aside from the canal right
which is well paid for. We have had
no Marines there for year-nor any
other force-and we desire to with
draw that army" of 100 doing police
duty. just 121s years earlier than the
Nicaraguan government would con,
sent TO undertake it's own policing.
Downright. 1925. ts Paul V. Collins,