2ficial declarations but by the exercise, jointly with the other neighbouring countries, of immediate action for the restoration of the constitutional authorities. But in its present form, it has only served to create a habit of abjection and renouncement within our political class, which from day to day enervates the moral status of the individual citizen, lessening the comprehension of his rights, reducing his capacity to defend them, and weakening his sense of patriotism. On the other hand, the theory of non recognition leads to a strengthening of the revolutionary tendence of the losing party, with the undoubted object of rendering powerless the hands of those who have triumphed in the civil struggle, and the introducticr of the system of solution through a third party, chosen under approval of Washington.
Thus, in the result, non recognition, rather than being a factor for peace, as was its object, constitutes THE a factor for war.
ARCHIVE The employment of special agents has been, and continues to be, a positive failure, as much by their ignorance of our idiosyncracy and of our ways, as by their failure to act like disinterested mediators governed by equity and prudence, but they appear as diplomats of force only interested in returning to their country with the good news of having solved the discord, no matter how inadequately for the cause of peace and the necessities of our peoples.
And this is natural.
Among the special agents the ruling motive is to fulfil their mission and win promotion in their diplomatic career.
The justice or national convenience of the arrangement are matters of detail.
Supervision of elections has consisted in ignoring imposition and fraud on one side, and in discovering and denouncing it on the other. In the result it has been a useless and discredited proceeding.
Warships and marines put into practice a series of notorious acts