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Show PRESIDENT HAS DREADJF WAR United States Issue Is With Huerta Not With the Mexican People. ONLY JUSTICE WANTED Repeated Offenses Must Be Cut Off Full Recognition Must be Granted. Washington, April 20 President Wilson told tho Washington- correspondents corre-spondents today not to got the impression im-pression that the United States was going to have war with Mexico. He pointed out that under no clrcum-stinces clrcum-stinces would th United States fight the Mexican people; that It was their friend. Mr. Wilson said he was going to congress to tell of a special situation and to ask approval of plans to meet this special situation. He declared the Issue was only one between the United States and a man, who calls himself president of Mexico, but whom the United States had never recognized as entitled to that right. The president said the intention of the United States was to help tho people of Mexico and that he had gotten a feeling of uneasiness when he found tho newspapers this morning morn-ing fired with enthusiasm for war. President Wants Justice. Mr. Wilson declared ho did not want war, but justice, and that ho did not consider such acts of reprisal as are planned, acts of war, but measures short of war, sustained by the Greytown precedent, for one. The president said that, in reality, he was going to congress on an occasion oc-casion for which, strictly speaking, it was not necessary to ask authority, author-ity, but It was his desire to have the full-co-operation and thought and pur. pose of congress. Mr. Wilson said that the executive could take steps which would fall short of a declaration declara-tion of war. Has Not Lost Patience. Tho president emphasized that he had not lost his patience with Mexico, Mex-ico, for to lose patience seemed to him an act of weakness on the part of a person strong enough o do as he ought, but that he felt such incidents as recent ones might go from bad to worse and eventually bring about a stato of conflict. The president added that he thought it was wise in the Interests of peace to cut off these repeated offenses at an early stage. Events of the day, the president indicated, in-dicated, such as a final acceptance from Huerta, might alter his plans and he added that even tho course of action by the navy was dependent on circumstances from hour to hour. When the president was asked the OHnaaMMimBKiaBnaBiBsnMa direct question if the purpose of his action was to bring about the ellml-nation ellml-nation of Huerta, he replied that the Tampico incident did not involve that question. He replied that the United States merely wanted full recognition of its dignity and such a recognition as would constitute a guarantee that such Incidents as the one at Tamulco would not occur again, Tho president announced that he had his message ready, that It was about a thousand words long and would take about ten minutes to read, Ho declined to give out copies of It In advance, as has been the custom, saying he wanted to keep it under advisement to the last minute. He 'M arranged, however, to have copies giv- IJ en out at the capitol simultaneously with his delivery. The president revealed that foreign diplomats at Mexico City had been using their good offices with Huerta i in an effort to induce him to ac-cede, ac-cede, but that no representations had been made to this government In any way by other nations. Il |