No. 315. friendly assurances, the Government of Salvador would find it convenient to induce Lieutenant Colonel Abraham Perdomo Herrera, a member of the General Staff of the Salvadorian Army, to cease his nightly harangues of the uneducated populace at the street corners of this city, to whom, for a week past, he has been making fiery anti American speeches, inciting the people to rise in their might against what he maliciously calls Yankee Imperialism. Simply as a contrast, to point out to Doctor Martínez Suárez how different matters of this kind work out in some other countries, remarked that if an officer of the United States Army, or, for that matter, an officer of the army of any of the Powers, would stand on street corners and incite the populace to take up arms against a friendly nation, there would be no delay in bringing such a person before a general court martial, and, upon conviction, he would be disciplined accordingly, and added that did not understand how the Government of Salvador could for a moment either sanction or condone the reprehensible conduct of this army officer.
In reply Doctor Martínez Suárez said to me that the Government was keeping a close watch on Colonel Perdomo, but that as it had been observed that his arguments had produced no visible effect upon any one, his influence would have no weight with the classes whom he wished to incite, and that, hence, Colonel Perdomo would cease his propaganda for the want of patronage.
Nevertheless, held that it devolved upon the Government of Salvador to put a stop to the