Evening journal., 1915-08-19

from Shanghai reports of the perni-
cious activity of certain Germans in
that region. apparently bent on en-
broiling the United States with Great
Britain, we ventured to remark:
The Sun has no desire to advise
the German Government, but Il feels
itself constrained to admonish in
friendly way the representatives of
that government here that any at
tempt to create discord between the
United States and Great Britain will
be resented. SO We feel that there
are some Germans nearer Washing
ton than Shanghai who can profit by
this advice"
Since. that warning proofs have ac-
cumulated of the systematic activity
Government, official or quasi-official,
in the attempt to organize German
American" sentiment for concerted
political action to produce in this
neutral country results favorable to
the cause of that belligerent and un-
favorable to the cause of the Allies,
particularly Great Britain. This evil
dence of organized endeavor, center
ing at the German Embassy. has cui-
minated in the amazing correspon-
dence now brought to light by our
neighbor, the World.
The chief endeavor of the foreign
sewers of the seeds of treason is now
to influence the vote of American cit
liens and members of the American
Congress against the declared policy
of the American Government
with regard to the export Of
munitions Of war This policy has
been stated with incompatible clear
ness. and its basis in international
law and in national right has been
demonstrated with unanswerable
force in Secretary Lansing's reply to
the Austro- Hungarian protest. The
evidence of German official particiDa-
ton in an organized attempt to in
tuence the American vote for pro-
German military advantage is already
a hundred times stronger than that
which impelled President Cleveland.
in October of 1SS& to instruct Secre-
tary Bayard to send TO Lord Sackville,
the British Minister at Washington,
the subjoined communication
MY Lord: The President of the
United States has instructed me to
inform you that for good and suhi-
cient causes, which are known to
yourself, and have been duly brought
to the knowledge of your Government.
he has. with great regret, become
convinced that it would be incom-
patible with the best interests and
detrimental to the good relations of
both Governments that you should
any longer hold your present official
position in the United States. and that
according to the Government of her
Britanic Majesty will without delay
be informed of this determination. in
order that another channel may be es-
tablished for the transmission of such
communications as may be found de-
sirable by the two Governments for
the transaction of their business.
Whenever it is your pleasure 10
depart from the United States I am
instructed to furnish you with he
usual facilities. and with that view
now beg leave to enclose a passport
in the customary form"
And Sackville-West's "unpardonable
conduct" as described by President
Cleveland in his message to Congress
a couple of months later. was Inter
ference by advice and counsel with
the suffrages of American citizens IN
the very crisis of the Presidential
election then near at hand.
No sower of the seeds of treason
was poor Lord Sackville. nor we're
there sewers of the seeds of treason
in the Ministerial family dwelling in
his legation; yet Sackvlle got his
passports and Sackville went