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Show CURSED BY . AMBITIOUS P0L11ICIAIIS Nicaragua's Great Natural Wealth Undeveloped B cause of Revolutions. IN0THER WAR NOW ' SEEMS UNAVOIDABLE rhe Masses Dare Not SpeaK Above a Whisper for Fear of Greedy Tyrants. BY FBBDBBJO - HAJUCIN MANAGUA, Niearagna, June 84- With U people pitiably poor, lta territory still bleeding from the unhealed un-healed wounds of war and lta flnaneea still showing the bright of Z1X,,m aad revolution, the politicians of Nicaragua, Nica-ragua, bnt lately agreed " Pf muat be maintained at all bararda, are bow again playing that peculiar game of Latin-American politiet whose uiual While they are doing thia the American Amer-ican government ia atnving to pr veut them from flving at each othera i throata again. Through the state department de-partment aad Minister Northeott the t'nited PUtea Is urging upon the pou-tieiana pou-tieiana in Nicaragua tho absoluta necessity ne-cessity of ainking their personal am-' am-' bitions for the welfare of their eoua-' eoua-' try, and ia striving to eeenre the ratification rat-ification of a treaty which will enable en-able American bankers to secure themselves them-selves in furnishing funda for the' pay-meat pay-meat of the republic's foreign loans, for the rehabilitation of ita flnaacee, the eonetruetion of internal improve-menta improve-menta and the development of ita re-sou re-sou tree. . , The provisional president, Juan E-trada. E-trada. appointed last wiater and nt that time aecepUbloto all sides, haa been forced out of office and has gone to New Orleans, presumably for the purpose vof financing another revolution. revolu-tion. Two Other Candidates. . It Is definitely known that an offer has been made to one of the big foreign for-eign interests in Niearafraa to give it certain valuable concessions if it will furnish the funda for the proaeentioa of the war. Meanwhile there nre two other rivals for the preaidency two who were , alliea until their ambitiona .'unflictml, nine which time they have been bitter enemiee, aad bo one knows now soon their differences may precipitate pre-cipitate another outbreak. While all of thia haa been happening happen-ing the American consul at Managua haa been retired from the eervire. He jliaagrees with the Ameriean minister Oicr the policy of the United Statee (ovarii Nicaragua.. He waa the close personal friend of Juan Kstrada, the proviaional president, presi-dent, and asserts that the. United States ought to support Estrada, even after he had apparently broken his - ppimlso to Minister Dawson that he would not be n candidate for re-election to the preaidency. Sleeked Conservative Oontraaa. la Its multiplicity of plots and counter plota, of intriguee aad double dealings, of broken agreements aad subordination of the general welfare iu personal ambition, the atorjr of Nic-nragua Nic-nragua represents a climax la Latin-American Latin-American politics. Immediately after the eloaa of the revolution in which F.atrada waa the ' victor the state department dispatched the American minister to Panama, Thomas - C. Dawson, to Nicaragua, with orders to patch up some eon of agreement which would make possible a lasting peace. Daweoa had proven bis ability in this direction elsewhere., When he arrived in Managua he called all the leaders of th revolution revolu-tion together and in a conference with them it waa decided that Kstrada hould be made the provisional president presi-dent of the republic for a term of two rears, upon the definite understanding under-standing that he ahould aot be a candidate can-didate for reelection. It waa also ' agreed that a congress tbould ' be elected and that it should constitute a convention for the adoption of a ronatitntion which ahould be aubjeet to the approval of the rroviaionnl president. Kstrada was a liberal, but ia hia revolution waa allied with the eoBservativea. Ia tha election of roa-greasmen, roa-greasmen, which waa aot by popular vote, aa Americana know it, a practically prac-tically unanimous conservative eoa greea waa selected. Estrada Forgot Promina. When the constitution was completed it eontained a clause providing for the reunion of church nnd etate, a iropoaitioji wholly unsatisfactory to the liberals and alao to President F.e-trada. F.e-trada. Another clanae limited the elee-. elee-. - orate and practically insured the election elec-tion of General Chamorro aa president at the first regular election. With these elnuaes in it, Estrada refused to approve the constitution and sent congress con-gress home. Another con greea was then chosen, and thia also waa 'of a conservative complexion, but as friendly to the political po-litical aspirations of General Menu aa the other one had been to those of General Chamorro. This eoagreaa brought In a constitution which. . hould . it go into effect, would glve-reneral glve-reneral Mena every advantage in the presidential race that the former one had givu to Chamorro. ' In tha mean-' time, it is aaserted, Estrada devel--ped. or reeuaritated, ' an ambition to neceed himself nnd waa forgetful of Ms promise to the United Mates in :bt reapeet. Deciding to thwart the political ambitiona am-bitiona of General Mena, who was then minister of war. Kstrada removed all of the offerers of the army who had been appoioted by Meaa, aad, as commander in chief, nppointed a new set of officers who wrra friendly to him. Army Loyal to Mena, ' He thereafter ordered tha -arrest of . Mena. hut the aoldtera were loyal to oi the orneem appointed by Mma and re-(Coatinurd re-(Coatinurd on page 4.) CURSED BY AMBITIOUS POLITICIANS (Continued frost page 1.) fused t take orders from tboaa appointed ap-pointed bv Estrada. With the array loyal to Mena.'and with aa immediate rbance of recruiting another army friendly to him, there waa little left far Estrada to do but accept tha inevitable and raaign. Jr'rom that time n things have beea in a very chaotic condition. Minister Northeott has been keeping tha state drpartateat carefully advised aa to the morenaata of all tha different intercut! and it is confessed that tba outlook for peace is aona too bright. It ia eon ceded oa. all aides that but for tha restraining re-straining hnnd of tha United States there would ba a revolution is a few weeka at most, aad there ara many who believe it will coma ia spite of tha ef-forta ef-forta of the state department to preserve pre-serve peace. No one ia able to forecast tba developments of the next ail months. What effect all of these conflicting ambitions nay havg npoa tha welfare of tha republic it is hard to say. One of tha possible complication nav be the failure of tha United States senate to ratify tha treaty, and that Nicaragua, already war ridden, would And itself in a worse atate then ever before. Pity for tha Masses. Its foreign loans are heavy and Its creditors insistent, and tha stats department depart-ment is fearful that unless the treaty goes through there mar be complications complica-tions with other government should thev decide to enforce the immediate pavraent of these debts. today is such aa to awakes the ntmost pitv for the masses of its people. After seventeen seven-teen years of Zelavaism, which was only worse than conditions which went be fore, all but the favored few became so poor that fhey might well envy even the proverbial church mouse. To end the regime of Zelaya another revolution was necessary, and this has accentuated the novertv strickea conditions of the people until todav, with undeveloped wealth all about then, they are all but starving. What adds to the pathos of all this 1 the evidence one sees on everv hand of he good natt-re with which the masses hear their afflictions. After centuries of trrnnnv. under which thev eould call nothing their nwn and might he shot evea for crooking a Anger, one would expect them to he a gloomy, morose, and aa embittered lot. People Reconciled to Misery. On the contrary oae geldom gees a more genial and good natured people than he meets in Nicaragua. Thev seem to hav become reconciled k poverty pov-erty and dirt and go about with smiling fares in spite of it all. Nicaragua ia perhaps the richest in natural resources of any of the f'entral American republics, and it "l,W:,the largest. But in spite of all this it hi the poorest la available assets. The cause is aot far to aeek. There aever has beea a time in many loag years that the people have aot been the football in the e-ame played bv the politicians. Bevolotinaa have auceeeded one another so rapidly that'the ordinary individual has not cared mneh in which armv he was i ighting. A remarkable illustration of this is a storv of the last revolulioa. A lot of trnone were guarding soma prisoners pris-oners aear Managua. They got tired of doing guard duty and deserted. The prisoners, preferring to be such, rather than to be in the field, did aot try to escape. The government requested them to go and search out and bring back the deeertere, which they did. The Nicaraguan government haa laid ambitious plans for tha expenditure of the ten or fifteen million dollars which it hopes to get through the good offices of the United States government. U. 8. to Prevent Grift. . Tt is expected to utilise a part of It to build a railroad from the capital to the east coast, or at least from Lake Nicaragua to the Atlantic. Pome coa-tend coa-tend that it ought to go to a point called Rama, while others say that It must be built te Monkey Point. Built to the latter lat-ter place it would open np aa entirely new banana region. Todav the entire country east of Lake Nicaragua, with the exception of a narrow atrip along the Atlantic, ia practically a primeval forest Ailed with -the finest hardwoods ia the world. There mahogany is much cheaper than cedar. Ia addition to the forests there are mineral, deposits of great range and value. Another portion of tha loan will-be devoted to the improvement of the capital capi-tal eity, and atill another part of it will he used for the rehabilitation of the railroad from Corinto to Granada. It is asserted by aome that the majority of the people of Nicaragua, acquainted with the tendency of the men who con stitute the government to nae everything every-thing poesible for their own, are op-posed op-posed to the loan. On the other haad the I'nited States departmeat of state declares that it will aee to it that do portion of the funds received through the loan ia diverted from Its proper ehaaaela. |