The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 20, 1914, Page 1

this liquor pr want to big ques And that ters will MORE THAN 45,000 Paid Copies Daily a VOLUME 16. | | | | WILSON PUTS ), ON WAR TALK! / WASHINGTON, April 20.—A_re-yelapse without yielding There was markable statement by President/no Indication that he Intended to Wilson to the Washington corre- Afraid of Patriotism | spondents was the central feature; The president added he was un-| of the Mexican situation today,/easy because he was afraid the) pending the reading of the prest-/ United States was | being engulfed | dent's more formal addres to con-|in a wave of patriotism which would gress at 3 p. m. | engender an enthusiasm (pr war. In his talk with the newspaper-| He was not enthusiastic for war, | men, the president deprecated the he said, but he did intend that j feeling he said he discovered that | America’s honor and dignity should the U. S. and’ Mexico were on the| be respected, regardiess of cost verge of war | However, said the chief executive, | e situation need not lead to war. U. S. Is Mexico's Friend a This was not true, he declared The United States, he remarked, | Americans are the Mexicans’| has often enforced its demands by | friends. blockades, and has even bombarded | The only issue is between Wash-|and destroyed towns without form-| ington and 9 person who calls him-/ ally de self provisional president of Mex- ico. It was not, he sald, to make but heer laring war. | | | Can Handle Huert | ] ‘This encouraged the president to| | believe that after congress had au-| | to prevent war that such vast prep-| thorized them, he could take steps | rations have been made, and, if|to drive Huerta from his position of , handled “firmly and promptly,” he defiance without a declaration of | | | did not believe the situation would | hostilities. lead to war. He impressed the newspaper Huerta Won't Yield | men that he did not want them It was announced that, so far as| to get the impression that there relations between the administra- any intention of fighting tion and Huerta were concerned,| the Mexican people. | The events of a day, or an | hour, he said, might change the situation. the situation was unchanged. Huerta permitted the time named in President Wilson's ultimatum to! LW.W. TO START: 1j STRIKE AGAINST A MEXICAN WAR NEW YORK, April 20—That there will be a general strike WASHINGTON T0 BE CALLED UPON FOR VOLUNTEERS, WASHINGTON, D. C., April 20. | Regardless of the fact that the dip: oe eee reeset le |lomatic branch of the government United States and Mexico, and | bas been exerting every effort for a | year past to avert war with Mexico, the declaration of war |finds every department of both “Better b traitor to your |@rmy and navy ready for an im-| country than a traitor to your | mediate struggle class,” he said. “If war seems | certain the Workers will simply fold their arms and there will that the United Mine Workers of America will join it, was de- clared here today by Wm. D. Haywood, the |. W. W. leader. imminent | At a conference of Gen. Wood,| |ehief of staff, Maj. Gen. Wother 7 |spoon and Gen. Hugh Scott, it was be no war, decided it would be necessary to put an army of 500,000 men in the field in the event Carranza and | Villa unite with Huerta In the de-| RUSH TROOPS IN )fense of Mexico. | There are approximately 42,000 | men in the federal army, including 117,000 lcoast artillery national | militia, and the first call will be for 200,000 volunteers, making an army | of 460,000 available. Under the eall for volunteers Washington would be| looked to for men, ILLINOIS READY TO SEND 175,000 SPRINGFIELD, ML, April 20. a statement issued here today, G SAN DIEGO, April 20.—Two companies of coast artillery left Ft. Rosecrans at 5 a. m., bound for the Mexican border. The 115th company direct to Tijuana, whe | was pitched early today, | The 28th company left by au- | tomobile for Tecate. 1 Five powerful military aero- | planes were being packed to- day for shipment at the U. S. In aviation camp here. They n OV are expected to be used for |Kdward I, Dunne announced that scouting purposes along the | Iilinols would send 175,000 men to the front in event of war, opinion, in a letter PRESIDENT T FIRST REAL ACTION PHOTO IN MEXICAN TROUBLE of oblem, now—what about it? tell you what WE think tion ‘s just what we want business editorial be published. FAIR TONIGHT; writing It’s a mighty Every one has his own opinion We want Many of the best of the let LIGHT HE STAR proposes to let its readers in on This We don't YOUR O R FROST; TUESDAY FAIR; GENTLE WESTERLY BREEZ The Seattle Star HE STAR has mailed $5 checks to the two Next Satur winners of last week's contest day we'll mail two more checks, one for $5 to the person who writes the best letter telling why Washington should be voted “dry”—another to the author of the best letter telling why the state Mail should go “wet.” Keep your letters short them to the “Wet and Dry” editor. THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS NO. 47 idger going aboard his flagship, Arkansas, at Old Point, just before she sailed for Tampico. The lower picture shows Admiral C. J. Badger and, at his left, Admiral B. A. Fiske, on the dock at Old Point before the f sailed. 5TH BRIGADE WILL BE FIRST ONES TO LAND GALVESTON, Tex., April 20. —The Fifth brigade will be the first troops to touch Mex- jean soll. Orders for the brigade to embark on trans- ports tomorrow were recei today. All troops In the second di- vision now on a practice hike to Houston, have been re- called. Following the departure of the Fifth brigade passenger steamers will be used to trans- Port the troops. rear Admiral TROOPS ABOARD HOUSTON, Tex., April 20.— All troops at Galveston were ordered on board the transport: today, The Fifth brigade was en route to join them. The Fourth and Sixth brigades, on the march, will reach Texas City from* here Wednesday noon, FORTIFY BORDER SAN DIEGO, April 20.—Mex- ican troops at Tecate, just across the line from here, are today completing trenches and fortifications. The force there is being added to daily, accord- ing to reports. Scores of Mexi- cans are leaving here today for their own country. MASS ARTILLERY WASHINGTON, April 20.— Secretary of War Garrison to- day ordered Gen. Bliss at El Paso to concentrate two companies of artillery to be held In readiness to act as the van- guard for an invasion of Mex- ico, if the president should de- cide on such a step. The Tilikums of Elttaes a committee ded by r Allen, is planning the organization of Junior Tilikums, a booster juve { nile club. | | 8 tATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, APRIL 20, 10 CET ONT 1914. ONE CENT ELLS CONGRESS HE WANTS Wt SEATTLE ASKS QUESTIONS! CITY ELECTRIC WITH WAR SPIRIT, BUT IT’S A REASONING SPIRIT The air today is electric with the spirit of war But it is a cautious, reasoning spirit, asking questions. This modern spirit finds ex- pression In Otto A, Case, secre- tary of the Commercial Club and formerly colonel of the Second infantry, W. N. G. Listen! “It a man dares to insult me,” said Case today, “and re fuses to apologize, I will give him a thrashing or get thrashed trying But, having thrashed my enemy, | will not steal his watch or hia land, or his money. ‘Lam in pretty close touch with the militiamen of this city and eta and most of them feel as I do. Case, who retired from the na- tional guard three years ago, after 17 years of service, yes- terday asked Adjt. Gen, Maurice Thompson to place him on the active Het He was colonel of the Second at the time of his retirement. “T hope,” he went on, “that if we must go to war with Mexico we will make it a war of honor and not a war of conquest, “Huerta is a murderer and an outlaw. We so regard him of- ficlally We cannot hold the Mexican people responsible for the insults offered our sailors and our flag by this murderous irresponsib! We cannot hold the Mexiean government respon sible, for we do not recognize that there is a Mexican govern- ment If, however, the Mexican peo: ple ¢annot control this individ ual, Huerta, then we must, for the protection of the lives and property of Americans and for- | will be called on if a general eigners in Mexico. call for troops is made,” said | ‘I asked to be placed on the | Major Maurice W, Thompson, active list because the state for | who will be adjutant general of 17 years gave me training which, | the state militia after May 1. in a time of crisis, might prove | “While, in case of war, the valuable to the nation and be- | guardsmen may not go to Mex- cause I feel sure that President | ico, they will certainly be mo- | Wilson and congress will not | bilized. If the call comes, it will | ask us to participate in a dis | find the Washington national honorable war guard in splendid condition and | It I know the spirit of the | at full peace strength, which is | young men of this country, they | more than half war strength | | will refuse to fight for an un- | “We have one regiment of in- | righteous cause. The time has fantry—the Second—one ma- passed when the young Ameri- | chine gun company, a troop of | can will respond without ques- | valry, and the coast artillery | tion to the call to arms. We | reserves,” | want to know why.” There was no rush to enlist “The entire national guard | at the recruiting stations. ed upon the when he issued commandant ing at anchor in leave immedia executed and the pulled up anchor and withdrew be yond the three-mile A slight demonstration departure American harbor |companied the | vessel. ‘The lying peacefully HUERTA ORDERS AMERICAN VESSEL OUT OF VERA CRUZ WASHINGTON, —Dictator Huerta added fresh {n-| done nothing to cause sult to the list of indignities heap-| enmity, | United at Vera }der an American merchant ship ly-| y. 0.|the order to depart came and had | the act of | D. C., April States today | et: | order to the|@ Cruz to or-| | RECRUITING OFFICE BUSY NEW YORK, April 20.—Five | || hundred men were crowded | | about the recruiting office here | | when {t opened today. Most of | them had been in line all night. | ° that harbor to The order was American vessel limit from the was jin exchange for 1° hour's work each when evening. Phone Biliott $64.—Adv, of Energot) man ean recure a $100 eraft at anchor NWS & jately. | tract the attention of the whole population to their significance and such KAINS AND NDS fe jf WASHINGTON, April 20.—President Wilson, in an ad- dress this afternoon to both houses of congress, assembled, asked that he be permitted to use the army and navy to work out, in his own way, the downfall of President Huerta, of Mexico. 4 This permission, it is conceded, will be granted immedi- Wilson hopes to accomplish his ends without bloodshed. Huerta’s final refusal to make amends by saluting the Stars and Stripes for his insults to the United States has made it necessary for this nation to back up its demands by — force of arms, It is regarded as most likely that a blockade of the entire Mexican coast line will be established, and that marines will be landed at Tampico, and possibly other ports. i This, it is admitted, will constitute an act of war. Wheth- er or not Huerta will declare war is not known. If he does ~ not, the marines probably will hold the towns until the arrival of an army of invasion. The president's address follows : “Gentiemen of the Congre: It is my duty to call to your atten. — tion a situation which has arisen'in our dealings with Gen. Victoriano Huerta at Mexico City which for ection, to -ask- and co-operation in acting upon it. ag “On the ninth of April, a paym aster of the United States ship Dol- phin landed at Iturbide bridge land ing, at Tampico, with a whal . and boat's crew to take off certain supplies needed by the ship, while engaged in loading the boat w: arrested by an officer squad of men of the army of Gen. Huerta. NONE OF THE MEN WERE ARMED; BOAT FLEW FLAG OF UNITED STATES “Neither the paymaster, nor any one of the boat's crew was ai “Two of the men were in the boat when the arrest took place, were obliged to | it and submit to be taken Into cutsody, nding that the boat carried, both at her bow and at her stern, the flag of the United State: : “The officer who made the arrest was proceeding upon one of the streets of the town with his prisoners, when met by an officer of higher authority, who ordered him to return to the landing and await orders; and within an hour and a half from the time of the arrest, orders were received from the commander of the Huertistas’ forces for the rel ier of the paymaster and his men. The release was followed by apo! a from the commander and later by an expression of regret by Gen. Huer — ta himeelf. “Huerta urged that martial law obtained at the time at Tampico; that orders had been issued that none should be allowed to land at Iture bide bridge, and that our sailors had no right to land there. “Our naval commanders at the port had not been notified of any such prohibition, and even if they had been, the only justifiable course open to the local authoriti n to request the paymaster and his crew to withdraw, and to lodge a protest with the commanding” officer of the fleet. INCIDENT CANNOT BE REGARDED AS TRIVIAL OFFENSE, HE SAYS 4 “Admiral Mayo regarded the arrest as so great an affront that he was not satisfied with the apologies offered, but demanded that the flag of the United States be saluted with special ceremony by the military commander of the port. “The incident cannot be regarded as a trivial one, especially as two of the men arrested were taken from the boat itself—that is to say, from territory of the United States, but had it stood by itself it might have been attributed to the ignorance or arrogance of a single officer, “Unfortunately, it was not an isolated case. “A series of incidents have recently occurred which cannot but ere- ate the impression that representatives of Gen. Huerta were willing to go out of their way to show disregard for the dignity and rights of this government, and felt safe in doing what they pleased, making free to show in many ways their irritation and contemp' “A few days after the incident at Tampico, an orderly from the United States ship Minnesota was arrested in Vera Cruz, while ashore in uniform to obtain the ship's mail and was for a time thrown in jail. “An official dispatch from this government to its embassy in Mex- ico City was withheld by the authorities of the telegraphic peremptorily demanded by our charge d'affaires in person. “Subsequent explanation and demands for apologies did not and could not alter the popular impression which it is possible it had been the object of the Huertista authorities to create—that the government of the United States was being singled out, and might be singled out with impunity, for slights and affronts in retaliation for its refusal to recognize the pretensions of Gen. Huerta to be regarded as the conati- tutional provisional president of Mexico. NECESSARY, HE SAYS, FOR HUERTA TO PUBLICLY CONFESS HIS WRONG “It was necessary that the apologies of Gen. Huerta and his repre- sentatives should go much further; that they should be such as to at- as to impress upon Gen. Huerta himself the necessity of seeing to it that no further occasion for explanations and professed regrets should arise. “| therefore felt it my duty to sustain Admiral Mayo In the whole of his demand and 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 Huertistas. “Such a salute Huerta has refused. |! have come to ask your ap- proval and support in the course | now propose to pursue. “This government can, | earnestly hope, in no circumstances be forced into war with the people of Mexico, Mexico is torn by civil strife, WE WOULD ONLY BE FIGHTING HUERTA, HE DECLARES “If an armed conflict should unhappily come as a result of his atthe tude of personal resentment toward this government, we should be fighting only Gen. Huerta and those who adhere to him. “But | earnestly hope war is not now in question. | believe # speak for the American people when | say we don’t desire to control the affairs of our sister republic. Our feeling for the people of Mexico is one of deep and genuine friendship. “No doubt | could do what is necessary to enforce respect for our government without recourse to congress, and yet not exceed my ers as president, but | don't wish to act in a matter possibly of so grave _ consequences except in close conference and co-operation with both house! “| have come to ask your approval that | should use the armed forces of the United States in such ways and to such ex- tent as may be necessary to obtain from Gen, Huerta and his ad- herents the fullest recognition of the rights and dignity of the United States, even amidst the distressing conditions now un- happily obtaining in Mexico,