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Show STATEMENT FROM PRESIDENT .Following is the official statement is-led is-led as representing the views of Dresident Wilson and the administra-ion administra-ion on Mexico: "In discussions in official circles in Washington of the present Mexican jltuation the following points have )een ver much dwelt upon: "It has been pointed out that, In tonsidering the present somewhat '.elicate situation in Mexico, the uu-jleasant uu-jleasant incident at Tampico must not jo thought of alone. For some time last the de facto government of Mex-eo Mex-eo has seemed to think mere apolo-fies apolo-fies sufficient when the rights of American citizens or the dignity of :hn government of the United States ffwre involved and has apparently made no attempt at either reparation i the effective correction of the seri-nis seri-nis derelictions of its civil and miliary mili-ary officers. Orderly Placed In Jail. "Immediately after the incident dt rat-ipico r.n orderly from one of the i.b.lps of the United States in the har-or har-or of Vera Cruz, who had been sent shore to the post office for the ship's ail, and who was in uniform and no had the official mail bag on his jack, was arrested and put into jail y the local authorities. He was sub-tequently sub-tequently released and a nominal pun-shment pun-shment was inflicted upon the officer who arrested him, bur. it was significant signifi-cant that an orderly from the fleet of the United States was picked out from the many persons constantly going go-ing shore on various errands, from the various ships in the harbor, representing rep-resenting several nations. Official Dispatch Withheld. "Most serious of all, Ihe officials In charge of the telegraph office at Mexico Mex-ico City presumed to withhold an official offi-cial dispatch of the government of the United States to its embassy at Mexico Mex-ico City, until It should have been sent to the censor and bis permission ! received to deliver it, and gave the j dispatch into the hands of the chargi d'affaires of the United Slates only ,ion his personal and emphatic demand, de-mand, he having in the meantin-.j ! earned through other channels that u dispatch had been sent him which I ne had not received. ' United States Singled Ojt. : "It cannot but strike anyone who j has watched the coursa of events in j iiexico as significant that untoward incidents Such e.i these have not occurred oc-curred in any nase where representatives representa-tives of other governments were concerned, con-cerned, but only in dealings with representatives rep-resentatives of the United States, and that there has been no occasion for other governments to call attention to such matters or to ask for apologies. "These repeated offenses against the rights and dignity of the United States, offenses 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 contempt." con-tempt." Many PreceUoms for Action. The president feels that he has am-pi am-pi authority for the preparatory measures meas-ures he has adopted. President McKinley went so far as to send an expedition to Peking during dur-ing the Boxer revolt. In 1S51 the United States sloop of war Dale visited the island of Johanna Johan-na and under threat of bombarding the town obtained $1,000 as a measure of redress for the unlawful imprisonment imprison-ment of the captain of mi American whaler. In 1SC3 Hie Pembroke, a small American Amer-ican steamer, was fired upon by Japanese Jap-anese shore batteries. The American minister demanded redress for the insult in-sult to the American flag, and the commander of the United States warship war-ship Wyoming opened fire on the responsible re-sponsible Japanese authorities. Example Set by Seward. Secretary of State Seward in an official of-ficial note made the following statement, state-ment, apropos of this incident: "When the injury involves nl?o an insult -o the flag of the United States the drrnand for satisfaction must be imperative, and the United States naval force at Japan may not only be used to protect the legation and any of the citizens cf the United State3 there resident but the Tycoon is to be informed in-formed 'that the United States will as they shall find occasion, send additional addi-tional forces to maintain the foregoing forego-ing demands.' " What President Wilson is doing is in line with the recorded precedents. He has remonstrated and satisfaction has been ref'-sed. lie is about to make a naval fimonstratiop. .As Jefferson Jef-ferson said, ft: en an act "(3 considered an act of war and n ver f.-.iicd to produce pro-duce It in the case of a n-,i,e:i able L-, make wr." |