Show CRUEL WAR IS OVER The cruel war In Central America is over oer With one hand Nicaragua has whipped Honduras and Salvador Salador and peace looms in the Immediate future It is the fashion to speak slightingly of the Central and South American wars but it Is s a fact that sometimes somebody is hurt in one of or them Of course this does not happen always or oven even often but the tho generals who take part in them and once in a while the private run an of having their coat tails shot off The Tue war that is now practically end ended ended ended ed was as more than usually disastrous There were all ail told something like a thousand casualties Two hundred men were killed during the capture by the NIcaraguans 1 of the Honduran capital and as many more were wounded This bears some resemblance to real war warWe warWe warWe We have very little right to laugh at atthe atthe the Central Americans for in this one battle more men were killed than dur during durInS during ing InS our war with Spain That Is as far faras faras as the American forces force were concerned A feature of the war that will vIll strike most of us as a amazing is the fact that the principal contenders Nicaragua and Honduras had to fight revolution revolutionists at home while they the were carrying on the conflict with each other There Is not an ounce of t r patriotism In a ton tonof tonof tonof of South Americans if I this is a fair sample of the way they love loe their re respective countries At the very ery time when all the fighting men should have hare been beon banded together regardless of politics or personal ambitions for the general welfare many were found ready r ady to engage in the revolutions It is difficult to imagine a punishment fitting for traitors of or that caliber To stand them up against a wall and shoot them would seem to be letting them off too lightly But we may find some excuse for them perhaps In the recollection that the men who now head the republics the men under whose direction the war was carried on probably gained their high position as the result of fraud treachery and trickery So as Individuals they are not entitled to sympathy |