( Translatim. Editorial from La República, September 2, 1913: THE STATES In the Noticiero we find the following declarations of the President. For several days various papers have been talking of negotiations pending between Costa Rica and the United States with regard to a naval station on Golfo Dulce.
It is said that proposals have been made; that the President of Costa Rica has uttered an emphatic No; and that the Government has decided to send an Envoy Extraordinary to Washington and is busy comparing the strength of character and other merits of possible candidates for the post. All this chatter is inopportune. have not been tormented into uttering an emphatic No, nor have considered sending an extraordinary mission to the Unite ed States of America, and am busying myself not at all with weighing and comparing characters and diplomat. ic merits.
The friendship of the United States towards Costa Rica has always been loyal; and it is not well that we should repay it with suspicions of intrusion and depredation.
To stir up patriotic sentiments is a fitting task and sometimes necessary; but at times it al so embitters the relations between peoples without any result other than that of embittering them unexpectedly.
Circumspection is never more in order than in the treatment of international relations; and not only the Government should bear in mind this reflection but also the press, which, to a certain extent, may be considered the echo of the opinion of the country.
Ricardo Jiménez. La República is the paper which has given the most prominence to this affair; and it therefore behooves us as fretful and