Show UCA TION AND LIBERTY ARE LACKING i iNic Nic Nicaraguans Naturally Are Ignorant and Have No Ne Ambition to Learn I LIBERTY is A P PHRASE RASE TO CONJURE WITH 1 Schools Created by Government Govern Governs ment Only for Purposes IP of MaKing NaRin a Bl Bluff ff I BY FREDERIC FREDERIO J. J HASKIN I t- t CORINTO May 20 I Who rho people of Nicaragua a. a victims of i misrule with of t k to 0 m many flY ny gen generations seventeen years 0 of f e I 1 as its t 5 f. f climax Imax have bavo reached that sad state f traveler wonders whether where the they or their bc beasts of burden have 0 the better lot in life Where there i sa submerged tenth in America in in Nicaragua Nica submerged ed nine l fi it is lis a have nave education Whatever What What- The Tho people no tv ever r of schools choos th rc are have been I cr treated crated created in order th that t the thc government flown lan language Jb use a lot of or high aJo bout o t edn education in n the thc republic Viva liber libertad tad long Jong Hy live liberty liberty liberty-is is a 2 to conjure with in n Nicaragua Lct et a leader shout it and thousands gather beneath his banner And yet little of true the masses l know about as it berty as those of Persia Persi A fair lair elee tio tion in Nicara Nicaragua a has bas never been known and until some one from the tho r. r outside guarantees it or until the tho nature na na- na- na ture of the Nicaraguan an politician changes none ever cr will be known Nothing rO hiD in iii the wa way of sa sanitation education edu edu- cation or governmental assistance has bas cv ever r conic como to them T They have havo a hun huu- ird times been drafted into the armies of of- t the rival rhoal revolutionary parties away from their homes and their work ork and the tho effect of all aU this may maybe maybe maybe be shown hown by tho the one significant i fact that the population tion of Ni Nicaragua ha hM- hM decreased more than one half in fifty A 84 t t Contrast nth ith tho tha lot t oL ti 1 masses mc th the condition f uhn easse classes las c Th They with with- Vat out exception n c 1 Well to fo o do dovery very cry often they Y are arc richi 1 The he- he poor peon must work vork n a whole da day for them thero for less th than n It If hb bb oik idt dt willing fo t take tako k the wa wage the alternative is star tar cation atu n. n And as is hundreds of thousands nc Uc lc always hungry no strike can over ever j secure better wa wages ea There has been one exception to this prosperity of oE the tho ruling classes e Dur- Dur I Jg the tho endless procession of revolutions that have and Nican Nicaragua Nica Nica- ha come gone one in n recruiting nave hare visited e cr every coffee coee fin finca a- a sugar ar pl plantation an ans mining village in In the reu republic lic in 8 sear ar c cof cot of ot men for tho the army It was case of take to the woods wod s or lC 0 e th tb tho army Under thos i condition I tn th coffee and sugar and abd th the eB I lot Ing men nen would have pa paid d d. d I for labor but it was not to ted ca with tho thc thore re result lt that th the coffee coffeo d don on orf tho trees tho the sugar cano cane i T 1 it its uncut tho the mineral continue place and industry in gen eD the ruined mined It is true that all aU time being caused losses to 1 tj con owning ruling class but but cessions always made up f fut ut t. t Me tte e Perhaps the saddest fan Nka- Nka whole situation n o of f the mail ig h. h is tho smiling and a borne nation with which come their pitiable lot Whet anything from sever ever having kic better or from a u. sort their good tood phy hy it is is' hard to is 18 a A nature under f their aro are a revelation relation in ct they thov deeply religious p pea peo o Pr principle ciple of f to violate jwo d word reli nJ morality with American ion is associated M e EDUCATION AND LIBERTY ARE LACKING Contin Continued d from pago 1 mind Except in the tho small percentage of i K hi h casto caste families marria marriage e fo all but a tor forgotten oUen rite rito The Tho church and the tho state each cach declare that marriage mar mar- rin riago ceremonies celebrated b by the theother theother theother other are arc n not t rood and the masses to- to li Vi l vc r them m both Zelaya Zela once boasted th that at 58 per pcr cent of tho the children of Nicaragua wore illegitimate Are Born Gamblers T. The Pf people Pl have the gambling gambling- spirit highly developed The Thoi buy lottery tickets every week if it they can get et a centavo they have hav cock fights hb just as often as the supply Of cocks will permit per mit they thoy play keno at all hours of th tho to day dM- and ni night night ann and Ni Nicaragua ara n is a 8 wido wide open place from rom Corinto and San Juan Junn del Sur Sue to and Grey Grey- town The children of Nicaragua are like Topsy opsy indeed There is no pretense of ot rearing they them they run a an all wild as 5 the pigs and chickens s and live livo wit with such indifference to 10 dirt that one begins to believe vc that man may become immune to all nU germs just ashe ab does to some Iome diseases J P. P i They Ther grov up in in ignorance live liyo wholly n a ban hand band to mouth existence from the cradle to the tho grave an and ultimately |