Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-17
RESENTS WILSON'S :
CALL FOR SALUTE
Mexican Consul Says Sending
Fleet to Tampico Is a
Colossal Bluff"

NEW YORK, April 17.-Presldent
Wilson'S action in sending the Attain
tic fleet 10 Tampico was character
lied yesterday as an Outrage" by
: Alfonso l.. Jiminez, the Mexican
vice-consul at New York. Senior
Jiminez declared that every man,
woman and child i'm Mexico, with an
ounce of decent blood in their veins,
would fight To the last if the United
States sent an army into Mexican
territory
/ The Yice-consul made his statement
at his office in the Whitehall building.
He Is acting consul general, pending
the arrival of his chief, who is ex-
pected today
How Can salute BE Expected
How can the United States expect
to be saluted by the Mexican govern
ment considering the fact that long
ago at the end OF the Madero regime,
! the United States refused to recog-
nize Huerta - was the question Senior
| Jiminez asked. He said it could not
! be answered. The action of the
| United States in sending all those
/ ships to Mexico is an outrage, and
| there is no excuse for it, he added
| "MeXicans and many people / met
| last night were amazed at the action
| of this government. The Tampico in
| cident was a thing that might have
| happened in any country under like
! conditions. Then all possible repara-
| tion was made; the sailors who We're
arrested were released. They had
I been victims of the blunder of a minor
| officer.
Huerta Not 10 Blame.
president Huerta cannot be every
where. and no doubt he would have
prevented the thing. But the idea of
demanding that MeXics fire salute
to the American flag when the United
States refused to salute back is mon
strous. How can President Wilson
demand a salute from a country he
does not recognize
IF President Huerta did order a
salute, and if the United States ac-
cepted il as an apology, would it not
mean the recognition of the Huerta
administration as the Mexican Gov
ernment?
Another thing is this, why should
not the United States respond to Mex
ico's salute? If | take off my hat to
a. man | expect him to return nv
salute. In the affairs of nations the
etiquette is the same as between men.
THE United States has been watch
ing for this opportunity to quarrel
with us. That is obvious to every
one who has watched the situation
| do not believe that Americans will
be in sympathy with any Interference
in our internal troubles. We are not
looking for international courtesy as
much as common decency in this
case.
Not a word was said about the
shooting of nine Americans about
three months ago in Tampico. where
they had been found smuggling arms
to the rebels Not a thing was done
in the Benton killing, and. indeed.
there have been many times when
this country had greater excuses for
intervening than the present one. But
nothing was done.
Attacks Villa Outrages.
Nothing was done by the United
States when Villa and the bandits
who make up his so-called army out
ragged the women of the towns they
passed through on their ravaging
campaigns, such as Torreon and
Durango; and nothing was done when
Villa robbed 700 Spaniards and then
drove them from Torreon. 1t is sur
prising that even these things did
not arouse Mr.. Wilson.
Now, it would be all right and
reasonable for the United States to
send big fleet to Japan, but the
sending ofhfty-seven vessels to Mex
leo is a colossal bluff. We have only
a few ships down there, good only
for harbor defense. We would not.
of course. think of resisting the
United States ships with our own.
but our army-well, that is different
Recalls French Exneriance
DO you remember what we gave
France? The French Intervention in
1861 cost lis 22,000 men, but it cost
France $4,000. and 900, 900, 900 francs.
Mr.. Wilson should read the history of
that Intervention before he acts too
hastily. We fought every inch of
the ground with the French, and, al
though We are at present internally
divided, we can raise an army of
100000 at least, so that we are COM
paratively better equipped now than
ever before.
we have had 100000 reserves
training four hours a day for the
past six months, and of our 1900, 900.
believe that every man, woman and
child with Mexican blood would fight
Men would rather see their wives and
children killed than to be hampered
by the United States. Women and
children will rise up and fight, / know,
against the brutality of a big power
like this.
II am certain that the men who
are now divided against one another
will join and take up arms in one
common cause. the defense of their
country against the attacks of the
United States