36 character, having acquaintance with our nationalities, and free from all immoderate or unlawful ambitions in a word, men of recognized probity of character.
Just because the social conditions of the Central American nations is so difficult, it is not everyone who could serve as an intermediary between those nations and the government of the United States. believe that it would be less difficult to find a diplomat capable of arranging differences between France and the United States, than, for example, between this country and Nicaragua. In our country various personal cliques are active and hostile; each has its fetich which, as a general rule, is some ignorant, ambitious military man; passions are unbridled and private interests are continually thrown into the balance of public affairs. As truth is not always spoken, and he who utters it is frequently calumniated, the diplomat would be unable to determine the man of high character if he listened only to politicians and party leaders.
Would it not certainly be a calamity to our countries, and even to the United States, if the representatives of the government at Washington should encourage and protect militarism and administrative corruption in Central America, as has sometimes occurred, always, let us hope, by mistake?
Vice and corruption can create nothing good, either for the weak or the stronger people. This is a truth so pervading that there is hardly one of the ruinous jobs of Zelaya régime, but has had United States, German, English or Italian beneficiaries. The Zelayists, in their