The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1914-04-24

Subsequent explanations and
formal apologies did not
and could not alter the popu-
lar impression, which it is posi-
BILE it had been the object OF the
Huertista authorities to create,
that the Government OF the Unit
ed States was being singled out
and might be singled out with
IMMUNITY, for Sights and atforts
in retaliation for its refusal to
recognize the pretensions OF Gen.
eral Huerta to be regarded as
the Constitutional Provisional
President of the Republic to
Mexico.
1.-The manifest danger Of such
a situation was that such offense
might grow from bad to worse
until something happened OF so
gross and intolerable sort as to
lead directly and inevitably to
armed conflict.
''It was necessary that the ap-
ologies of General Huerta amp
his representative should go
much further, that they should
be such as to attact the attention
of the whole population to their
significance, and such as to I'M
press upon General kHuerta HIM
self the necessity of seeing to 1t
that no further occasion for ex-
plantations and professed regrets
should arise.
Il, therefore, felt it my duty
to sustain Admiral Mayo in the
whole of his demand and to insist
that the flag of the United States
should be saluted in such a way
as to indicate a new spirit and
attitude on the part of the Huer-
tistas.
''Such a salute General Huerta
has refused, and have come to
ask your approval and support
in the course l now purpose to
pursue.
This Government can, | ear
nestly hope, in no circumstances
be forced into war with the
people of Mexico. Mexico is
torn by civil strife. If are to
accept the tests of its own Con-
stitution, it has no government.
General Huerta has set his pow
err up in the city of Mexico, such
as it is, without right and by
methods for which there can be
no justification. Only part of
the country is under his control.
IF armed conflict should I'M
happily come as a result of his
attitude of personal resentment
toward this Government, we
should be fighting only General
Huerta and those who adhere to
him and give him their support,
and our object would be only to
restore to the people of the dis
tracted republic the opportunity
to set up again their own laws
and their own Government.
but | earnestly hope that
war is not now IN question. l
believe that | speak for the
American people when | say
that we do not desire to control
to any degree the affairs of our
sister republic.
''Our feeling for the people of
Mexico is one of deep and gen
uine friendship, and everything
that we have so far done or re-
Trained from doing has proceed
ed from our desire to help them,
not to hinder or embarrass them.
The present situation need
have none of the grave compli-
cations of interference if we deal
with it promptly, firmly and
wisely.
81, therefore, come to ask your
approval that | should use the
armed forces of the United Stat
es in such ways and to such an
extent as may be necessary to
obtain from General Huerta and
his adherents the fullest recogni-
ton of the rights and dignity of
the United States, even amidst
the distressing conditions now un-
happily obtaining the Mexico.
There can in what we do be
no thought of aggression or OF
selfish ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
eve seek to maintain the dig
nifty and authority of the United
States only because we wish al
ways to keep our great influence
unimpaired for the uses of liber-
ty, both in the United States and
wherever else it may be employ
ed for the benefit of mankind. !"