The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1914-04-16
PRESIDENT CITES
MANY INSTANCES
FLEET SAILS FROM NORFOLK TO
FORCE RECOGNITION OF
NATIONS HONOR.
TIRED OF MERE APOLOGIES"
Huerta Will Salute the American FIao
Or the Fleet Will Seize Vera Cruz
And Tampico-What Happens After
wards Depends on Huerta.
-PRESlDENT WILSON.
TIRED OF MERE APOLOGIES"

Washinton, April 15.-"Huerta will
salute the American flag, or the At
lantic fl at will seize Vera Cruz and
Tampico. What happens afterward
depends on Huerta."
That is President Wilson's determi-
nation Leaders in Cong ress with
whom he conferred today agreed there
was ample precedent for such action.
Not only the Tampico incident, but
a long series of indienlties offered to
the United States to the conspicuous
exclusion of other foreign nations rep
resented in Mexico, has convinced the
President and his advisers that the
United States has been singled cut f,r
manifestations of lI-wil and con-
tempt"
Washington, April 15-The follow
ing official statement was issued to-
day as representing the views of
President Wilson and the administra-
tion:
In discussions in official circles in
Washington of the present Mexican
situation, the following points have
been very much dwelt upon:
1T has been pointed out that, in
considering the present somewhat del
icate situation in Mexico, the unpleas-
ant incident at Tampico must not he
thought of alone. For some time past
the defacto government Of Mexico has
seemed to think mere apologies suffi-
cient when the rights of American
citizens or the dignity of the govern
ment of the United States was involv-
ed and has apparently made no at
tempt at either reparation of the e.
fective correction of the serious dere
GERS.
Immediately after the incident at
Tampico an orderly from one of :he
ships of the United States in the har-
Dor Of Vera Cruz, who had been sent
ashore to the postoffice for the shops
mail and who was in uniform and who
had the official mail bag on his back
was arrested and put into Jail by the
local authorities. He was subsequent
ly released and nominal punishment
inflicted upon the officer who had
arrested him, but it is significant tn 1t
an orderly from the fleet of the Uni
ted States was picked out from the
many persons constantly going ashore
on various errands from the various
ships in the harbor representing sew
eral nations.
Most serious of all, the officials in
charge Of the telegraph office at Mex
leo City presumed to WITHHOLD an Off
United States to it's embassy at Mex
leo City until it should have been
sent to the censor and his permission
received to deliver it, and gave the
dispatch ino the hands of the charge
d'affairs of the United States only
upon his personal and emphatic de-
mand he having, in the meantime,
learned through other channels that
a dispatch had been sent him which
he had not received.
TT cannot but strike any one who
has watched the courg of events in
Mexico as significant that untoward
incidents such as these have not oc-
Cured in any case where represen-
tatives of other governments were
concerned, but only in dealings with
representatives of the United States,
and that there has been no occasion
for other governments to call atten-
ton to such matters or to ask for
apologies.
These repeated offenses against
the rights and dignity of the United
States, offenses not duplicated with re-
gard to the representative OF other
governments, have necessarily made
the impression that the United States
was singled out for manifestations of