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Show DEFINE II. S. POLICY "; IN LATINREPUBLICS State Department Officials Say Constitutional Govern-ment Govern-ment Will Be Fostered.' ADDRESS TO NICARAGUA American Life and Property 1 Win Be Fully. Protected; Men a Denounced. flj WASHINGTON". Sept 17. The policy of the United States !n its relatione with revolution-torn little, neighbors In Con-' Con-' tral America and the West Indies is do- ' fined in an instruction from the state . ' department embodied in a note presentod ( hy Minister Weltzel to the Nlcaraguan ' government, the text of -which was made public today" by Acting Secretary of State "Wilson. The communication Is expected to, cre-1 cre-1 ate a profound sensation in Latln-Araer-lea. for while it. was addressed to Jlca'-ragua, Jlca'-ragua, It will be recognized as a general warning. , ' America's purpose, the Instruction de- i , clares. Is to foster true constitutional government and freo elections, and to this end stronir moral support will bo given nstabllshed governments against ' revolutions based upon the selfish de- signs of would-bc despots and not upon auv principle or popular demand. Force i -will be used If necessary Mn maintainors maintain-ors Ins: free communication with and to pro-tect pro-tect American ministers and legations. This pollcv already ha? been adopted In ?in Domingo, Panama nnd Honduras. -I To Protect Americans. Minister Wcltzel was directed to pre- d nt his Instructions officially to the . Nlcaraguan government and unofficially 1 f to the revolutionists In that country and to make it public as an authorized dec- lntlon of policy. , i The Instruction In part follows: The policy of tho government of , the United States In the present m Nlcaraguan - disturbance is to take the necessary measures for adequate l legation guard at Managua, to keep , open communications and to protect i Amoriean life and property I In discountenancing Zelayn, whose t regime of barbarity and corruption , , was ended by the Nicaragua:! nation J after a bloody war, the government' of tlte United States opposed not only 3 tho Individual but the system, . and this government could not coun- , tenance any movement to restore the sumo destructive regime. Tho goy-V goy-V rrnment of the United States will i dlHcountcnance any revival of .e- U lavalsm and will lend Us strpng ' moral support to the cause ot lega ly constituted pood government tor the benefit of the people of Nicaragua, whom it has long sought to aid In r their Just aspiration toward pcaco ;, and prosperity under constitutional and orderly government. 1 Has.Moral Mandate, : Under the Washington conventions, the United States has a moral man-dat man-dat to exert Its influence for the preservation of tho general peace of i Central America, which Is scriously i menaced by tho present uprising, and to this end all the Central American ! republics win find means of valuable 1 co-opcratlon. ' ' Describing General Mena and tho con- 1 ditlons which brought about intervention, I Mr. Wilson said to the Nlcaraguan gov- , r-rnmenf. ' Denounces General' Mena. The revolt of General Mena is in flagrant violation of his solemn prom-le's prom-le's to his own government and to the American minister and of the ; Dawson agreement by which he was solemnly bound, and his attempt to overturn the government of his coun-try coun-try for purely selfish purposes and 1 without even the pretense of con- tending for a principle, make the pres-r pres-r cnt rebellion in origin the most inex- 1 cuablp In the annals of Central America. The nature and methods of the present disturbances. Indeed, place . them In the category of anarchy rather It than ordinary revolution. , Severe Indictment. '. Th reported character of those who ' promptlv joined Mena. together with ' his uncivilized and ravage action In j breaking armistices, maltreating mes- ' ftngers. violating his word of honor. i torturing peaceable citizens to exact 1 j contributions and, abovo all. In the 1 ruthless bombardment of the city of Managua, with the deliberate destruo- Hon of Innocent life and property and the killing of women and children and sick in th hoBpltals and cruel , and barbarous slaughter of hundreds reported at Leon, g-.vc to the Mena ' revolt the attributes of the abhorrent and Intolerable Zelayn regime. i Mr. Wilson shovs that the planting and j banking and Industrial interests had ap- i pealed to the United States for protection 4 and that the lives of American diplomats and American men, women and children. 1 private citizens, were actually under Are J In Managua. 1 It Is i-hown in the -corrcsppndenco that !5 thr- minister of foreign affairs of Nlca- j ragua asked, for the - Intervention of the ;( United Slates. That minister said sub- stnntlally that Ills- government did not 1 have troops? enough (o protect foreigners , and officially Informed Mr. Wilson as fol- I "In consccpicnce my government desires ( that the government of the United States J guarantee with Its force security for the I property of American citizens In Nlcu- nigua and that they extend this protcc- I tlon to all the inhabitants of the rcpub- ii hi-1' |