People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-03-16

on the American Flag at Long Range.
Whlle there is the greatest evidence
that the masses of the people of this
country stand as a unit for the old
flag, such can not be said for the
classes. The removal of William
Waldorf Astor from this coun-
try to England was the first shock.
Then came the refusal of Thomas F.
Bayard to take any other position I'M
der the Cleveland administration than
that of AMBASSADOR to England. Bay
ard is the man who said that he would
not consent to his daughters marriage
with an American, and he is now get
ting the other two married off to
sprigs OF nobility.
The New York Press shows up some
of the inside workings of the Ameri-
can embassy. In a recent issue it
says:
flames Roosevelt Roosevelt, the
gentleman who became our first secre-
tary of embassy at London under
such dramatic circumstances recently,
is the one who figures in the last NOR
sci of gossip that is retailed in the
drawing rooms of New York's exclu-
sives 1t would appear that the in
evltable William Waldorf Astor and
Ambassador Thomas +. Bayard are
involved, and the occasion of it is a
difficulty of a somewhat novel nature
in diplomatic circles.
For some weeks past the American
ambassador has been embarrassed by
the authoritative attitude assumed by
Mr.. Astor, through his purchased Or
gans, on matters connected with the
United States. For instance, MIR
Aston promulgated the assertion that
our revolutionary war was case of
the English defeating themselves
that singular campaign in which we
English had to beat ourselves and to
get France to help US to do it - Then
there were illusions TO Lincoln dia-
metrically oppo sed to what Mr.. Bay
ard had said in a speech. But the
Astor put his foot in it badly when
MS organ declared; The lot, then,
that is commonly called the lot of the
poor, is not, as su b, a fit subject of
any commiseratioB. 1t is declared
that when this was repeated to John
Burns and other labor members of
Parliament they refused to believe it
to have emanated from the Yankees
sheet until they saw the utterance in
print However, Mr.. AStor is not &C.
cepted in England as a political factor
and the matter was passed over until
some critics questioned the utterances
of Mr.. Bayard concerning the merits OF
American institutions by repeating
some OF Mr.. Astor's language in refu-
tation. Thus Mr.. Bayari came to
be embarrassed, as noted, by the things
put forth by his millionaire country
man.
But even this state of affairs could
be overlooked, since Mr.. Astor is no
in England in an official capacity, al
is Mr. Bayard. But when several con
demnations of America were said 4
have come from the embassy, through
the natural confusion resu ting from
the fact that Mr.. Astor's relative il
next to the highest authority in it
there was slight difficulty.
According to the New York end o
the story, Mr.. Bayard represented t,
Mr. Roosevelt that It might re we'll i
Mr.. Astor confined his denunciation o
things American within narrower lin
its. Not that there was anything lik
an estrangement, for Mr.. Bayard i
too cOurtly, too diplomatic and too oil,
politician to give offense to any one
He simply called attention to the fac
that as Mr.. Aston was getting deplora
bly, unpopular with the American col
ony it might be well if he refraine,
from connecting himself with the EN-
bassy as intimately as he had been dc
ing and thus spare the official ther
from tao necessity OF disavowing him
as it were. 1t was delicate position
for our ambassador to be in, particu
larly as he had to deal with relativ
Of the man who had brought upo
himself all the condemnation. For
may be remarked parenthetically tina
the New York land owner is positivel
astonishing England by what h
causes to be published about his ow
country.
Now, according to the New Yor
end of the story, it would seem tina
the AstorS do not agree among then
selves about everything, and that Nj
Roosevelt sides with that half of tn
family which does not coincide wit
William Waldorf 1t seems that
went to the length of saying that q
long as MIR. Astor Outlined hisremark
and articles denunciatory of Americ
to his papers and spoke as Briton q
rs private individual it might be &