The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-02
They Have Changed Their Tune.

Inc tone OF the EnytlSh ITeSS mas unuer-
gone change with respect to the Lord
Sackville West incident since the Presi-
dent peremptorily refused to further rec
ognze Lord Sackville as the representative
OF Great Britain in this country. When
Lord SacSville's indiscreet and meddlesome
letter was made public most of the English
! journals condemned Lord Sackville, and
lntimated that he ad committed blunder
for which there was no excuse, and that
the English government could hardly do
otherwise than recall him. AS soon as the
| President had refused to have any further
relations with him, however, they began to
excuse LORD Sackville and to abuse the
President.
What did they expect? Did they think
that the President would overlook Lord
Sackville's conduct and continue to receive
him as Great Britain's representatives If
they did, they have found out their mistake
The English government was given an
| opportunity to recall its minister, but it
showed no disposition to do SO, although it
admitted that he had been guilty of an
| inexcusable blunder. There was only one
course left for the President to pursue, and
! that was to tell Lord Sackville that he
would have no further communication with
| him.
| The English government must have
known that the Pr siden5 would pursue the
course he did, and if it had wanted to do
50 it could have saved its minister from
being Inundated 1t must have had
very poor opinion OF the President if it
thought that he would permit the scandalou
and insulting conduct tf Lord Sackville to
pass unnoticed
Some of the English journals insist that
if the American minister TO England had
committed an act similar to that to which
| Lord Sackville pleads guilty it would have
| attracted no attention il that country.
They did not say that until after the Presi-
dent had severed all official relations with
| Lord Sackville The fact chat their tone
was very different before the President
acted is pretty good evidence that our min
lister to England, ii he had meddled in
| England's affairs in the way that Lord
| Sackville meddlei in those of this country,
would not have been given n chance to
return home of his own accord. He would
have been handed his passport at once
The truth is the President did just what
was right, and just what the American poo
pie expected him to do, If he had hesitated,
or displayed a spirit of vacilation, he would
have been condemned from one cad of the
country to the other. The republican press
would have jeored him for lacking the spirit
and courage Of genuine American, and the
| democratic press would not have had any
good reason for defending him.
Lord Sackville stopped to question the
| integrity of the President and to insult the
American people. He did what the repre-
sentative of no foreign government has
| right to do and he was dealt with properly
and in the way he deserved. The English
press may comment on tue matter in what
ever way it pleeses What it says is
matter of comparative Indifference to the
people of this country.
The action of the President in the Lord
| Sackville West matter will teach the En-
| glish government one thing, however, a 4,
| that is, that if it doesn't want it's represen-
tative in this country snubbed it must send
diplomat here who knows how to mind
| his own business.