2 and dogmatic as ever to dwell upon the opinions enunciated by OF THE machives that high functionary.
The President denies that he has uttered an emphatic No, because he has not been pestered for it, as he says in his special letter; he also denies that he has decided to send an envoy to Washington; but he does not deny the crux of the question which is that insinuations. or whatever they are called have been made touching on the establishment of the naval base in Golfo Dulce.
Now, if the President of the Republic had from the beginning fulfilled his duty which he owes even to grumblers by informing the public, without this Sphinxlike my stery, of the truth of things, the press would not have found it necessary to be making conjectures nor to be launching prematüre opinions in order to find out what was really going on.
The press has fulfilled its duty by trying to have the truth publicly told without subterfuge of any kind.
The affair in question does not belong exclusively to the high immortal gods who govern the country but belongs to the domain of public opinion, since it has to do with the dearest national interests.
If those high in power had deigned from the beginning to stoop to humble mortals and communicate to them the secret of their mysteries, this profane press would have confined itself to publishing abroad the voice of the oracles without committing the sacrilege which it has committed of passing judgment upon the hieratic silence of the priests.
However, we are entirely satisfied; our efforts have cost us something, bu we have attained the object which we had in view: the Sphinx has finally spoken.