Nicaragua and American Intervention (Continued from page 462) need for the influence of the politically advanced nations on the politically backward ones is firmly rooted in deep conviction. If I have criticised sometimes the American policy in Nicaragua, I have done so on the ground that it has not protected the Nicaraguan people from abuses of power with the same energy that it has defended the stability of bad Governments, such as those of Chamorro and Diaz. The Department of State offers the defense that it neither can nor should act against the sovereignty of the republic; but the misfortunes of the Nicaraguan people are worthy of some consideration; and if we were not allowed to crown with laurels of victory the costly triumph achieved by the Constitutionalist army, watch should be kept so that our adversaries might no longer invade the rights of a weakened and disarmed people. Although it is said that nations can develop in isolation, history does not support the statement. Vestiges of lost civilizations-in India, Persia, and Egypt-enlightened Greece and Rome. Sparks of the light stamped upon by the barbarians remained in the religious orders of the Middle Ages and relighted the torch of civilization for Europe and America. So the more developed republics transmit their laws and their democratic habits to those that are still in their infancy. Nicaragua gained independence, but republican habits were foreign to us. Monarchical and absolutist roots had penetrated deeply into Nicaraguan society. Nicaraguan society. We must learn from others the ways of republicanism and liberty. Such were the ideas that brought about the surrender of the Constitutionalist arms. We rest upon the promise of Henry L. Stimson, made in the name of the United States. The honor of the United States we consider a sufficient guaranty. When the United States carries out its pledge and safeguards the establishment of a fairly elected representative administration, the gain will be twofold: It will strengthen constitutional government throughout Central America, and it will revive in all Latin America confidence in the disinterested purpose and good faith of the United States. On a Highly Desirable State (Continued from page 466) I did manage to assemble a good man, piecing him together with scraps from my reader, the Temperance Catechism, and the admonitions of my teachers. He was frugal in all matters save industry. It was his special pride that he had worked for fifty years without a vacation. The first dollar he ever earned was framed and hung above the desk where he was to be found six days a week, an hour before his clerks arrived in the morning. When he spoke, which was not often, it was to quote moral maxims: "Honesty is the best policy;" "Waste not, want not;" "Take care of the pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves." Any suit of clothes was satisfactory if it was black; and his socks were three for a quarter. He was superintendent of the Sunday school, and not niggardly toward church and mission funds. He voted the straight Republican ticket. He was a little dry, but not a bad fellow at all. Has he any place in the modern scene? Well, the President is undeniably popular. How closely does that image, evolved twenty-five years ago, fit Mr. Coolidge? But Mr. Coolidge smokes cigars and likes vaudeville. If moral standards were immutable and one interdiction as good as another, he is a sinner; otherwise, the man who has seen "Abie's Irish Rose" a dozen times without apparent ill effects may begin to question the validity of other prohibitions. And that won't do. 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Yet here it stands with a drink in its hand and confusion in its heart. Muddled! And twenty good years ahead; work to be done; and life asking to be lived. Ascetism might do. It might do very well. It is in the American tradition. But moral perfection Not another word about it, except to insist that it is an issue along with prohibition, larger than prohibition. Both have to be dealt with. Where shall we begin? A first-rate beginning, it seems to me is a frank confession of fundamental belief by a wet leader, along the lines suggested in an earlier part of this article. Is there a wet who can take a drink without fear of damnation and without undue concern for m-1 p-n? What is James W. Wadsworth doing with his time these days? 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