The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-07-29

way from the Rio Grande to Cape
Horn" And it asks:
"HOw are we to justify this slaugh-
ter of Nicaraguans? Nicaragua is
supposed to be an Independent ma
ton, as sovereign within her terri
tory as the United States. Undre in
ternatiOnal law, what right have we
to be there? Are we at war with
her? Have we annexed her that we
may kill her people as 'rebls' against
our rule? Or what?
"The wOrld-nOt just Americans
awaits an answer to these questions"
The Baltimore Sun, an independent
paper with strong Democratic sympa-
this, declares that Something is
wrong with a policy which finds
American forces engaged in this sort
of warfare with a backward people
with whom we are at peace and over
whose affairs we are not assumed to
exercise control" And in the Demo-
cratic New York Times we read:
'Plans have miscarried and expec-
tatiOns have been frustrated. After
Colonel StimsOn made his trip to Mic
aragua and succeeded i'll getting both
political factions to suspend HOSTILE
ties until after the next Presidential
election in Nicaragua, which was. to
be supervised by agents of the United
States Government, it was hoped and
believed that things would quiet down.
The only role assumed by our gov
ernment forces in Nicaragua was
that of a policeman. But events this
| week show that the lot of an inter
national policeman on foreign soil is
distinctly not a happy one.
''The unluckiest thing of all is UNI
dOubtedly the bad impression, even if
it is distorted away from the facts,
which will be created in all Central
and South America"
Pacific Workers Killed
What law excuses the presence of
American Marines on Nicaraguan
battle-fields, or of American bombing
planes for mass murder?" asks the
New York Nation, a liberal weekly.
President William Green of the Am
erican Federation of Labor discussed
the OcOtal incident with Secretary
Kellogg and put the Federation on
record as 'unalterably opposed to the
interference of the United States or
! any other government with the do
nestle difficulties of any country on
the American continent" And the
Nicaraguan delegates to the Pan
American Federation of Labor Con
gress at Washington declared that the
majority of the Nicaraguans slain at
Ocotal were pacific and long-suffer-
ing workers who have taken up arms
because they can not tolerate that
armed forces of a foreign nation
should rule their country"
On the other hand we find General
MOncado, commander-in-chief of the
Nicaragua Liberal forces in their
campaign against Diaz, placing the
blame for the loss of Nicaraguan
lives at Ocotal entirely on General
SandlnO's shoulders, "as he refused
to lay down his arms and return to
peaceful pursuits" General SANDING,
according to his former chief, "pre-
ferred to surround himself with ban
dts and assassins, creating disorder
in the Republic" President Diaz. the
dispatches inform us, regrets the cas-
ualtles among his people, but express
les confidence in the United States
Marines and is convinced that peace
and order can only be restored in Mic
aragua when SANDING and his follow
ers are either captured or killed. And
the Washington Post quotes DR.. Cas-
trlllO, a former Sacasso envoy to the
United States, as saying:
80 The Nlcaraguan people will -.ap-
prove this act of stern suppression of
0utlaWry. SANDING is an outlaw, pure
and simple. He is not engaged in
fighting for any revolutionary or
Liberal principle. He has, since the
dlgnified retirement of General Mon
cado, preyed alike on natives and for
eigners, threatened them with death
and the destruction of their proper
ties in case they failed to accede to
his demands"
In letter to President Green of
the American Federation of Labor.
Secretary of State Kellogg strongly
upholds the course of our Marines in
Nicaragua and declares that Gen.
Augusta Calderon SANDING and his
followers are nothing more than
common outlaws" After citing cases
to show that SANDING had become a
bandit, Secretary Kellogg concludes
his letter with the following para
graphs:
$50 far as this department is
aware, SANDING and his followers do
not have the support or approval of
any of the leaders of either of the
political parties in Nicaragua.
With the exception of the small
band which has been operating under
the leadership of SANDING. peace has
been effectually reestablished in Mic
aragua, and the United States Gov
eminent, in accordance with its prom
Use to the leaders of both political
parties in Nicaragua, plans to super
wise the elections of 1928 in that
country, in order that an opportunity
may be given to the Nicaraguan peo-
pie to freely indicate their choice for
President of Nicaragua during the
coming term
The Government of the United
States, altho uneasy over the pros
pect, is resolved to stand firmly on
It's Nicaraguan policy reports j. r
Essary in Washington dispatch to
the Baltimore Sun; and he tells rs
furthre that
1T proposes to proceed with the
dlsarmmg of rebelliOus elements in
the country, which it has put official
ly in the outlaw class.
IF American Marines must fiobt
to this end. they will be expected 70
tight as they did at OcOtal Saturday