Salvador Would Reject Our Protection; Her Sovereignty Must Not Be Shadowed

New York Times 100 years ago today, July 24, 1913:
President Melendez Cables That Her People Would Tolerate No Impairment for the Sake of Any Benefit.
By Cable to the Editor of the New York Times.
    LIBERTAD, Salvador, July 23.— Contestando su cable, manifiesto que el tratado a que se refiere imposibilitaria realizacion de proyectada union Centro-Americana que es el gran ideal de estos pueblos.
    Opinion Nacional rechazaria indudablemente la celebracion de tratados que, de cualquier modo, mensocaben nuestra soberania, pero si seria favorable estrechamiento de relaciones, sin mengua de su independencia ni de sus interests.
    CARLOS MELENDEZ,
    Presidente Salvador.

[Translation.]
    LIBERTAD, Salvador, July 23.— Replying to your cable, it is manifest that the treaty to which you refer [the Nicaraguan treaty] would make impossible the realization of the proposed Central-American Union, the great ideal of these countries.
    National opinion would undoubtedly refuse the ratification of treaties of whatever sort, which would impair our sovereignty, even though the binding of relations were favorable, without an injury to our independence or our interests.
    CARLOS MELENDEZ,
    President of Salvador.