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Show CENTRAL AMERICAN TREATIES. Tho United States appears to bo taking tak-ing hold in good earnest of tho affairs of tho Central American republics. We have crealcd a new nation on the Isthmus for our own purposes, because wc had to havo the control of the canal zone if wc built the Isthmian canal at all. Next wo look hold of Nicaragua, to -no great advantage lo oursolves, to tho country, or to (he party in whoso interest wc interfered. Then wo took hold of Honduras, guaranteeing guar-anteeing tho Morgan loan of $10,000,-000, $10,000,-000, which necessitates a sort of protectorate pro-tectorate for" that country, if tho treaty is ratified. This treaty has been reported re-ported favorably to the Scnaio at the present session, and is likely to be agreed lo. Our moneyed men have obtained concessions in Guatemala, which virtually vir-tually turn that country over to them. The Clark syndicate has the complete, exclusive right, not, only to do all the mining in Guatemala, but. as explained by the secretary of (his syndicate; We have tho rlsht to oporate mines of every kind utid description; the right lo buy and sell aud manufacture all kinds of mining machinery; to oreel and operate electric light, and power plantH, and to sell to municipalities electric light and power; the right also to construct roads, wharves, tunnels, ships, telegraph and telephone Hues, aud sell such service to the public; to ileal in all kinds of limber, to cultivate and sell frulln aud all kinds of' farm products. In conduct banks and even to publish newspapers and magazines maga-zines everywhere in the republic. Following that came the announcement announce-ment of the obtaining by the Morgan syndicate of all the oil rights in Guatemala, Guate-mala, which may, in fact, be merely a chauge of base of the Standard Oil company to get away from fhe antitrust anti-trust law and the Supreme Court decision de-cision in the United States. Nicaragua comes forward again with a proposed treaty, providing for the rcfuuding of the debt of that republic, repub-lic, tho dispatches j'esterday morning lolling of the sending of that treaty by President Taft to the Senate, with his urgent. . request for immediate favorable- action upon that and the Jlou durns treaty. So that the United Slates is doinf, vers well indeed in its guiding of llu 'eutra American States. Tho auflu ence. of this Nation upon thoso republics repub-lics will evidently be controlling, just as it ought to be; aud it is quite possible pos-sible that, after a while, Great Britain will bo willing to give up her Hon-dunin Hon-dunin possessions, and possibly the Island of Jamaica, to go in the nest with the other dependencies of the United States in Central America. |