The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-04-16
SINGLED OUT
FOR INSULT
What the Attitude of Huerta
Has Reen Toward the
United States
OFFICIAL STATEMENT
BY THE PRESIDENT

Repeated Offenses Against the Right
and Dignity of United States in
Contrast to the Treatment of Other
Governments.
WASHINGTON, April 16.-The fol
lowing is the complete official statement
issued at Washington yesterday as re-
.rescnting the views of President Will
son and the administrations
"In discussions in official circles in
Washington of the present Mexican sit
uatlon the following points have been
very much dwelt upon: 1t has been
pointed out that, in considering the
present somewhat delicate situation in
Mexico the unpleasant incident at Tam
pico must not be thought of alone.
For some time past the de facto gov
eminent of Mexico has seemed to think
mere apologies sufficient when the
rights of American citizens or the Dig
nifty of the government of the United
States were involved, and has appar-
emily made no attempt at either rep
aration or the effective correction of
the serious derelictions of its civil and
military officers.
| Immediately after the incident at
IampicO an orderly from one of the
ships of the United States in the har-
Dor of Vera Cruz, who had been sent
ashore to the postoffice for the ships
mail, and was in uniform and who had
the official mail bag on his back, was
arrested and put in jail by the local
authorities. He was subsequently, re-
lp1SpH al b,,,a
tlicted upon the officer who had arrest
ed him; but it was significant that an
i orderly from the fleet of the United
/ States was picked out from the many
i persons constantly going ashore on
i various errands from the various ships
in the harbor representing several ma
tions.
Most serious of all, the officials in
charge of the telegraph Office at Mexico
City presumed to withhold an official
dispatch of the government of the Unit
ed States to it's embassy at Mexico
City until it should have been sent tC
the censor and his permission received
TO deliver it, and gave the dispatch into
the hands of the charge 'affaires OF
I the United States only upon his per
sonal and emphatic demand, he having
4 in the meantime, learned through Other
channelS that ulSpatch mai been sem
him which he had not received.
1t cannot but strike anyone wht
has watched the course of events il
Mexico as significant that untoward in
cidents such as these have not occurred
in any case where representatives. @
| other governments were concerned, bu
only in dealings with representatives o
the United States, and there was N
: occasion for other governments to cal
| attention to such matters or to ask fo
l apologies.
''These repeated offenses against tn
United States, offenses not duplicate
=. with regard to the representatives o
other governments. have necessaril
made the impression that the govern
: ment of the United States was single
4 out for manifestations of ill-will an
contempt.
Il "'The authorities of the state d,
II partment feel confident that when tn
| seriousness and the cumulative effect q
L these incidents is made evident to til
i governments Of Mexico, that govern
ment will see the propriety and the N
Il essity of giving such evidences of il
Il desire to repudiate and correct the>
| things as will be not only be satisfa
tory to the government of the Unite
l States, but also an evidence to the re-
II of the world as an entire change
Il attitude. There can be no loss to II
II dignity of the de facto government
Il Mexico in recognizing in the fullest d
gree the claims of a great soverei4
/ government to its respect.