SOCIAL AND POLITICAL INFLUENCE OF THE UNITED STATES IN CENTRAL AMERICA.
Some opposition exists, chiefly on the part of adherents of the democratic party in the United States, to the policy of intervention by the government at Washington, in the internal affairs of Central America.
In like manner, the so called liberal party in the Central American republics, rejects interference by the United States, denouncing as traitors those who, either secretly or openly, are favorable thereto. The liberals regard with distrust the protestations of the White House, and have no faith in the declarations of Root and other statesmen as to the benevolent intentions of the United States. Those declarations are said to be but cloaks to cover cunning on the part of the would be conqueror, and made for the purpose of lulling the intended victim to sleep.
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Which view is the correct one and who are the patriots?
Is the resistance of the democratic party in the United States, just and civilizing; and, reciprocally, is the attitude of the liberal party in the republics of Central America, likewise just and civilizing?