The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-04-22
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MEXICAN De FACTO GOVERNMENT
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Administration Outlines Studied In.
dignities Heaped Upon American
Flag, and Announces Determine
ton to See Flag Saluted by Those
Who Have Debased it.

The position of the administration
in regards to the demand made upon
Mexico for a salute to the flag, as e1-
planned by President Wilson Wednes-
day to members of the Senate and
House committees on foreign affairs,
and as it was subsequently reviewed
in the notes sent to all foreign gov
ernments, is described in a statement
which was prepared by high admin
istration officials. The statement fol-
lows:
'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 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
alopogies 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 correction Of the Sc
rious derelictions of its civil and mil
itary 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 post Office 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. He was sub
seouently released and nominal
punishment inflicted upon the officer
who had arrested him, but it was sig
nifcant that an orderly from the
feet of the United States was picked
out from the many persons constantly
going ashore on the 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
Mexico City presumed to withhold an
official 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 it, and gave the
dispatch into the hands Of the charge
d'affaires 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.
"It can not but strike any one 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-
lives Cl OIuSI SOfClAncAI "SAS wa
cerned, but only with 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 Offences against
the rights and dignity of the United
States, offences not duplicated with
regard to the representatives Of other
governments, have, necessarily, made
the impression that the government
OF the United States was singled out
for manifestations Of ill-will and con-
tempt.
"The authorities Of the State de-
partment feel confident that when
the seriousness and the effects. OF
these actions is made evident to the
Mexican government, that they Will
see the propriety of giving evidences
of it's desire to correct these things.
There can be no loss to the dignity OF
the de facto government in Mexico
in recognizing in the fullest degree
the claims Of a great sovereign gov