The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1914-04-16
CITES LONG LIST
. OF INDICN|T|ES
President Issues Statement
on Mexican Situation.
DECLARES HE IS FOR PEACE

But Chief Executive Asserts United
States Cannot Be Treated With
Contempt by the De Facto Govern.
| ment at Mexico City of Which Hu-
| erta Is the Head.
Washington, April 16.-The follow
ing official statement was issued as
! representing the views of President
Wilson and the administration:
"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
delicate situation in Mexico, the un-
pleasant incident at Tampico must
not be thought of alone For some
time past the de facto government of
Mexico has seemed to think mere
apologies sufficient when the rights
of Americans or the dignity of the
| government of the United States
were involved and apparently has
made no attempt at either reparation
or the effective correction of the seri-
Gus derelictions of it's civil and mill
tary officers.
| Immediately after the incident at
Tampico 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 who was In uniform and
who had the official mail bag on his
| back, was arrested and put into Jail
by the local authorities.
| Significant Fact Pointed Out.
| "He was subsequently released and
a nominal punishment inflicted upon
the officer who had arrested him, but
/ it was significant that an orderly
from the fleet of the United States
sons going ashore on various errands,
| from the various ships in the harbor,
representing several nations.
| Most serious of all the officials in
charge of the telegraph Office at Mex
| leo City presumed to withhold an Of
fetal dispatch of the government of
| the United States to its embassy at
Mexico City until it should have been
sent to the censor and his permission
received to deliver 1t, and gave the
dispatch into the hands of the charge
daffaires of the United States only
upon his personal and emphatic de-
mand, he having In the meantime
learned through other channels that
dispatch had been sent him which
he had not received
1T cannot but strike any one who
has watched the course of events in
Mexico as significant that untoward
incidents such as these have not &C.
Cured in any case where representa-
tives of other governments were con.
cerned, but only in dealings with rep
resentatives 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.
Treated Us With Contempt.
These repeated offenses against
the rights and dignity OF the United
States, offenses not duplicated with
regard to the representatives of 9th.
er governments, have necessarily
made the impression that the govern
ment of the United States was singled
out for manifestations Of iii will and
contempt.
The authorities of the state de-
partment feel confident that when
the seriousness and the cumulative
effect of these incidents is made evil
dent to the government of Mexico
that government will see the pro.
priety and the necessity of giving
such evidences of its desire to repu.
date and correct these things as
will be not only satisfactory 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 dig.
nifty of the de facto government in
Mexico in recognizing in the fullest