The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1914-04-17
Huerta Must Salute Flag
Or Take the Consequences

WIN Lle previously announced pOllCyy
Of keeping foreign nations advised Of
all steps taken by the American gov
ernment in the Mexican situation. The
position Of the administration, as the
president explained it to members of
the senate and house committees on
foreign affairs, and as it was substan-
TALLY reviewed in the notes sent to all
foreign governments, is described in a
statement given out during the day.
The statement, which was prepared by
high administration officials, follows:
"In discussions in official circles in
Washington of the present Mexican
situation the following points have
been very much dwelt upon. It has
been pointed out tnat in considering
the present somewhat delicate situa-
tion in Mexico, the unpleasant Incl
dent at Tampico must not be thought
of alone. For some time past the de
facto government of Mexico has SEEM
ed to think mere apologies sufficient
when the rights Of American citizens
or the dignity Of the government Of
the United States were involved, and
has apparently made no attempt at
either reparation or the effective cor
rection of the serious derelictions Of
it's civil and military officers.
Immediately after the incident at
Tampico an orderly from one of the
SHIPS of the United States in the har-
bor Of Vera Cruz, who had been sent
ashore TO the ,posteace for tie ships
mail and who was in uniform and who
had the official mail bag on his back,
was arrested and put in';o jail by the
local authorities. He was subsequently
released and a nominal punishment
inflicted upon the officer who had ar
rested him, but it was significant that
an orderly from the fleet of the United
States was picked out from the many
DersoGs constantly going ashore on va
rious errands from the various ships
in the harbor representing several ma
tions.
Most serious of all, the officials in
charge OF the telegraph office a. Mex
leo City presumed to withhold an Of
fetal dispatch of the government OF
the United States to its embassy at
Mexico Ciy until it should have been
sent to the censor and his permission
received TO deliver it and gave the
dispatch into the hands Of the charge
daffaires of the Unired States only
upon his personal and emphatic de-
mand, he having, in the meantime,
learned through other channels thai
a dispatch had been sent him which
he mad net received.
Studied Insults.
"It can not but strike anyone who
has watched the course of events in
Mexico as significant that untoward
incidents such as these have not oc-
Cured in any case where representa-
tiyes of other governments were con-
cerned, but only in dealing with rep
resentatives of the United States, and
that there mas been no occasion for
other governments TO call attention to
such matters or to ask for apologies.
"These repeated offenses against the
rights and dignity Of the United States,
cffenses not duplicated with regard to
the representatives of other govern
ments, have necessarily made the i'm
preston that the government of the
United States was singled out for
manifestations of i'll will and con-
tempt.
"The authorities of the state depart
ment are confident that wnen the Sc
riousness and the cumulative effect Of
these incidents is made evident to the
government OF Mexico that the gov
ernment will see the propriety and the
necessity of giving such evidences Of
is desire to repudiate and correct
these things as will be not only salts
factory to the government Of the
United States, but also an evidence to
the rest of the world as an entire
change of attitude. There can be no
loss to the dignity Of the de facto
government in Mexico in recognizing
in the fullest degree the claims Of
great sovereign government TO its re-
spect."
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