The age-herald., 1900-07-13

Astor. If the expatriated American read
 that second letter he blushed, if he had
 power to blush.
 This correspondence was published, and
 1t attracted the attention of the Probate
 Judge of Baldwin County. The Judge took
 occasion to speak to Judge Austill on the
 subject. Judge Austill observed that neither
 he nor any one Of those interested had ever
 been able to ascertain the cause of the
 Pail Mall Gazette's persistent misrepre-
 sentation of the Dauphin Island undertak-
 ing. The Judge of Baldwin County stated
 the cause at once. On record in his office
 were powers of attorney to certain man
 giving him authority to represent in Eng
 land the interests of persons named in a
 scheme to build railroad along the op-
 posite shore of Mobile bay and build port
 at Navy Cove. The name of the attorney
 was Rothwell, the same Rothwell who had
 written the original slanderous story for the mining and engineering publication in Chicagoi Certified copies of the papers In
 the Probate office of Baldwin County were
 secured. One copy was sent to MT Astor in London, and another to the investors in New York who had refused to sanction an l action at law in the English courts against MT. Astor
 To the thoughtful mind it seems odd 1 enough that almost every newspaper in America and perhaps millions of Americans
 delight to denounce MT. William Waldorf I Astor. The one yellow" journal of this 1 country which has done more than all the rest, save one other of like color, to de-
 bauch, degrade and disgrace American hut gram" from London, probably written in
 New York, telling of some personal move-
 ments of MT. Astor, and asserting that, Tt is openly declared here that the Prince Of | Wales, who is the supreme arbiter of Eng
 fish society, has cut him"
 One can understand that the social down. l fall of MT. Astor, or anything else that 1 might annoy him without infiicting physical | injury or causing him domestic sorrow, | would carry comfort to certain good men l in Mobile and elsewhere who suffered be- l cause of the Dauphin Island libels in the l Pall Mall Gazette; but 1t almost surpasses belief that the general public of America 1 can find joy in the statement that the Prince of Wales had cut MT. Astor in so- l cety. Who the devil cares what the Prince
 of Wales or anybody else does to MT. Astor in English society! Why should self-re- | specting Americans care what MT. Astor
 doesl Why should American newspaper writers make praying jackasses of them
 selves about MT. Astor and his doings! Why should we seek to make a nation of l cads of ourselves because one millionaire l cad choose to bootlick British aristocracy 1 Why should we concern ourselves whether l MT. Astor betake himself to "deah hold | Hengland' the devil, or elsewhither! | Since MT. William Waldorf Astor prefers | to eXpatriate himself, to be a subject of l the British Queen rather than a subject of New York "boodlers;' prefers trying to
 buy his way to the companionship of titled
 snobs rather than to be an honest, manly,
 self-respecting American citizen, why, in
 the name of all the gods at once let him go
 his way!
 Assuredly, there are no genuine Ameri-
 cans desirous of keeping amongst them | selves any man, be he an Astor or beggar,
 who prefers to dwell in some other land