Editorial from El Noticiero, San José, Sept. 17th, 1912 The note from the Department of State in Washington to the Government of Nicaragua, which we publish in another place, constitutes, in our opinion, an occasion for just alarm and necessary reflection, We do not wish to analyze the events which have dragged our sister country into the grievous situation which such a despatch implies, nor to fix the responsibility, because this is not a suitable time for such a task. The document to which we refer indicates a condition which necessarily gives another direction to our ideas and forces our thoughts and our pen to a higher order of considerations.
The United States proclain themselves the arbiters of the destinies of Nicaragua lords of Central American life consider and pass judgment upon the events of its internal politics, take part in its domestic broils, apply the measure of their own private standard to the intimate discords of our peoples.
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clare that they will intervene in our differences and that from this day forward it will be necessary to apply to their Department of State for the solution of the problems of these countries, In order to pronounce this edict of interdiction against our nations, they invoke the treaties which Cen.
tral America signed five years ago in Washington, attributing to us a degree of subjection to their rule which with all the energy that lies in truth and right we refute, which Costa Rica does not accept, nor will accept so long as she may exist.
The Treaties of Washington committed to the jurisdiction of a purely native court the solution of all Central