Clarksville evening chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn) 1886-1890, 1888-11-03
Jondon Press Comments.

LONDON, Nov. 3-Ihe London Standard,
commenting on the Sackville affair, says:
"'Everybody in England is agreed that we
have Just received deliberate affront from
the government of the United States. Now,
there are various ways of encountering an
insult, but whatever mode of treating it be
adopted the offended party ought at least to
make it apparent that his conduct is not iu-
spred by timidity or want of spirit If he
fails to do this he naturally becomes a
favorite butt of all those il-conditioned per-
sons who love to exhibit their insolence
when they can do it without fear Of retalia-
tion.
What ought to be the response OF Great
Britain to the curt and summary expulsion
of Lord Sackville from Washington ought
we to turn our cheek to the smiter and to
send another ambassador across the Atlantic
and to treat the letter of Mr. Secretary Bay
ard and the act of Mr.. Cleveland with con-
temptous indifference 1t is rather strong
proposal to suggest that our good natured
federation of American presidential exigen-
cies should go to the extent of allowing the
qneen's representative to be treated III the
face of the whole world in an offensive and
insolent manner.
lit will not be for our advantage to ac-
quire a character for tamely putting up
with affronts and contumely which other
states would not suffer for an instant
Writing in the most tranquil temper we are
forced to say that Lord Salisbury will
either have to devise some means of giving
expression to the displeasure of this country,
or he will fall below what is expected of him
and what is due to the honor Of his sovereign
and his nation. Whether Mr.. Phelps be or
be not left here in peace. some expedient
must be discovered for conveying to the
government and people of the United States
our sense of the unfriendliness and unman-
nerliness of their conduct. Unless this be
done what man of ordinary spirit can be ex-
pected to accept the post of representative OF
the cabinet of St Jaiaes at Washington
"Who will care to be the successor of
Lord Sackville il the outrageous affront to
which he has been subjected be treated as Of
no consequence What, too, would be
thought in Canada, in Australia, in India,
even if we were disposed to permit our
selves to be insulted with impunityi 1t is
necessary to remember that we cannot afford
30 do so.n
The Chronicle says: 1--WE are still waiting
to learn what her majesty's government
proposes to do with the insult offered to our
minister, and through him to this country
Diplomatic relations between the two coun-
tries have, in the rudest possible manner,
been severed by the action of President
Cleveland If President Cleveland is of the
opinion that it eonsorts with his dignified
position to abase himself and his country
before the O'Reillys, Collins and other Irish
demagogues, and to reserve his rudeness for
accredited diplomatists of friendly powers,
il is not British business TO attempt his con
version, but it is our duty to resent insult
put upon us as promptly as it was offered"
The Daily News says: 'We hear much
vague abuse of American politicians, but the
misfortune of America is that her citizens
are not political enough. When the mass OF
people abandon politics to those who make
of it a profession or game, the result may
not be jobbery or corruption, which are far
less common in the United States than
hasty bookmakers have asserted, but GER
tainly destroys the moral perspective Of
publ" men. - that such frifieS as the ten