Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-11-01
BRITISH COMMENT.
Expressions of the London Press
Cleveland Comes Ont Creditably.

Expressions OF the London Press.
Cleveland Comes Ont Creditabiy.
LONDON, October 31.-The Daily News
says: Lord Sackville may be congratu-
lated upon having involved his country
in the most serious Misunderstanding
with America that has occurred since the
settlement of the Alabama claims.
There was not much in the letter
but he might at least have
held his tongue afterward. He has sue
ceeded in making bad worse, and has
deepened the impression, previously
very slight, that he intended to charge
the American Government with insin-
cerity in international dealings. That is
an accusation which, even if true, no
high-spirited people would endure from
the representative of foreign power.
The Neaos regrets Mr.. Bayard's appar-
ent lack of courtesy. 1t thinks Lord
Salisbury has shown want of judgment.
He ought to have acted promptly. No
one, it says, except Mr.. Cleveland,
emerges from the quarrel very creditably.
The Standard says: The text of Mr..
Bayard's letter forbids all further hope
that the object Of the United States
Government was not to do an offensive
thing in q most offensive way. Mr..
Cleveland lss {. .,ne to our Minister what
British craftsmanship would hesitate,
save for grave cause, to do to representa-
tive of the smallest State in the world.
He degraded our Minister before ex-
pelling him.
The Standard hints as to whether the
affair does not involve rendering to Minis
ter Phelps his passports, although it says
it would be sorry to lose so excellent q
guest.
The Pail Mall Gazette says: If Secre.
tary Bayard's rebuke of Lord Sackville
fails to convince the Irish voters that
President Cleveland can be relied upon
to check John Bull as much
as any other man, We do not
see what there is left for him to dc
short of placing Lord Sackville under
arrest and escorting him to the frontier.
How silly it all Isl How much the
Americans will despise themselves for il
when the election fever is over!
The Times says: A more ridiculous
spectacle has rarely been witnessed thar
the flurried and unmannerly haste with
which America has endeavored to pu
q slight upon England before the
latter could deal with the matter
one way or another. Mr.. Bayard has ha(
the satisfaction of proving to the worlt
that he can be as contemptuously disre
gardful of the decencies of internationa
intercourse, and the dignity Of the natiol
he represents, as Mr. Blaine himself.
The Globe says: The uncourteous an
nouncement might create very strained
relations between the two countries
Fortunately it's true character is recog
nized on both sides. Lord Sackville hal
been subjected to t1nmannerly treatment
by both Mr.. Bayard and President Cleve
land If the Minister comes back i
will be simply because Mr.. Cleveland
ambition to be elected President secon,
time sosrs far above the requirements Q
international courtesy and good will.
The Daily Telegraph says. We con
slider ourselves far too much the friend
of America to enjoy the spectacle of it
government driven by an ignoble trio
and an election howl, to heave goo
manners and great principles overboar
and adopt course which In private Lii
would be called by painful names.
The 81. James Gazette says: As Lcr
Sackville is technically wrong, Englan
cannot resent the affront which Nj
Bayard has put upon it. Englishme
can only pity american statesmen f'
the strange things they do in order
Oblige caucuses.