Arizona republican., 1914-04-18
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of the Associated Press hut we suspect that there is the story of yesterday morning of the agreed upon adjustment or the Ta1npico incident The MeNieans will fire salute and the Americans wifi sire salute according the reported stipula- lions nf 'ear. With th" rolling away of the smoke and the dying rcverberations of the cannon fire the animosy between the republics will entirely dis sipated No International complications since organized into nations was ever so al,surdy removed
 Paraphr7sing the old rhyme:
 .If the trouble was so done for
 Whatever was it begun for?"
 We informed by the same dispatches that th. warshiis which fe1 erishly ordered from widely separated points Mexican ports have been halted and turned back to their posts Again We are reminded that
 The King of France marched up the hin
 With thirty thousand men,
 And then marched down again"
 The mirage of war passed away when the of peace struck it at the right angle. Those of who thought vision of chalice flowing with i,-I-lood have discovered the gory tents 0 be nothing but grape juice.
 How happily has it all been settled We scratch tine Mexican back and the MexicanS scratch Surely. this beats grim and srisy In the rip bling atmosphere in motion by the concrssion the mutual s;utes, Stars and Stripes and the Mexican tri-coor waVe and dance saily. We hear no and of the ominous flap ping of war tlags The Prince of Peace" smiles broadly over ai the while the doves build and lay their eggs in his back hair
 But this pleasant way is the conventional way of settling these things. On the instant that the news that Admiral Mayo had ordered the federal commander Tampico t" salute the flag, experts Washington began to search for prece- dents and they trumphantly declared that they had at last found one. though il admitted that It was not quite all fours with the Tampico affair The nearest approach to that was an incident that occurred during the civil war. Confederate shore batteries reeklessly fired upon British warshp. The British commander word that the insult ,o the Union Jack would be wiped in one of only two ways by the firing by the bat teres of peaceful salute the flag: the other, the wiping by the guns of the warshp of the offending batteries There were cables then and tn. commander could not wait communicate with the foreign office Probably he would not have taken the trouble to communicate if he could The thing had to be settled there and then. The con fedrates realizing the they had committed and which was made more apparent hy the threatening guns of the warshp, were inclined to barley; they would fire a salute if the warship would reply Hi kind. The British commander objected on the aroupd that a salute by him woCld be equivalent ,o recognition of the confederacy, act beyond 5is jurisdiction He was only authorized to aN enge n- s,ts to his flag He gave shore batteries cer- tain minutes to fire the peaceful salute There was no further time for negotiations and the salute was fired
 This precedent which was lvdly seized upon by the Washington experts, is now according to the Associated Press about to he disregarded Tn us most essential part. We think the Associated Press must have been misinformed by some enemy os the administration