Bisbee daily review., 1904-09-15
THE MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY"

A COON hs.
 MT. William Waldorf Astor arrived | in New York yesterday to visit the nome of his ancestors. says the New | York World. There was not a hu- man being at the dock to welcome him In that respect the heaviest property owner in the second greatest city of the world was infinitely poorer than many an immigrant who had barely enough money to satisfy the not too ex- acting conditions of the Federal stat utes.
 Many years ago MT. Astor shook the dust of New York from his feet and took up his residence in England. Not content with this semi-expatria- tion, he eventually became natural ized British subject and forsook all al | legiance to the country that had given his ancestors the opportunity to rise | from obscurity and poverty to princely wealth and power. Subsequently he undertook to explain his voluntary ex- patriation in his own London newspa- per, asserting that he had been driven from his own country by the abuse heaped upon himself and family by the New York press.
 Theoretically it is no worse for an American to become an English sub- ject than for an Englishman to be- come an American. Thousands of Americans spend their lives in Flu rope and nobody thinks the worse of them for It. Only a few days ago Henry James, the novelist, arrived in New York on his first visit to the United States in twenty years. The greeting extended to Mir. James by the newspapers was remarkable for it's warmth and cordiality.
 Why should there be so much differ ence between the feeling manifested toward MT. Astor and that manifested toward Mir James? Perhaps it is z matter O. motive.
 MT. James ives abroad because he is convinced tha. he can do his worl better in England and in France thar in the United States. But MT Astol in becoming British subject had nc such motives. He turned his back oI , America, tossed aside the theories O democratic government and reverted
 to the institutions of aristocracy ant
 caste to gratify ambitions that Amer
 cans have always held Tn mean esteem F The mere fact that he chooses t 2 spend his New York revenues in Eng
 land is nothing. If he likes Londo
 society better than New York societ
 he is not alone in his preferences. Blu the American people have a strong il
 stinct of resentment against any ma | born under the American flag who b' f trays a contempt for the things tha
 the flag represents. They have bee
 taught to believe that in spite of an
 defects in government. and in spit
 of what Mir. Kipling chooses to ca I. the "blood-raw" conditions of Amer ,f can life. the principles of a repIbl are the best of all principles, and th
 privilege of being an American citize 2. is the Sreatest of all privileges. - They never forgive one of the
 breed who crusbes these things CO ', temptuously under his heel and seel
 alliances that the fathers of the R
 public shed their blood to shatter.
 That is the reason why American - think so poorly of Mir Astor, who {
 former office holder in America ont
 took his oath to support the Constit tior of the United States. Edwal r. Everett Hale wrote "The Man Wit st out a Country" as lesson in patriC
 ism in time of war. It has its lesst
 in time os peace as well, and the T To turn of MT. Astor. who is no longer { ,d American and is only patronized ,d Epglishmen, is not without its nor 70 for the youth of the country.