| Show MR ASTOR AND HIS MONEY WILLIAM WILLIA WALDORF has sent word to the country from which he receives a dally daily income of that its government and society are not to his liking and that hereafter he ha wishes to be regarded as a citizen of london we know of no law but the moral law of gratitude to interfere with william waldorf astor or any other american plutocrat in renouncing allegiance to this country so 80 far as the person or genius of these men are concerned the country would never miss them in mr astor actors Is cue case particularly particulars is this true we doubt if f from his entire life a single abot could be cited from which his country his state or his bis neighbors have received an iota of substantial benefit the best energies of his bis existence have been spent in fluttering about under gilded chandeliers chand aliers among the gauzy butterfly denizens of new york him self the gauziest gauz iest of them all his hie business is that of a collector of rents there to is nothing in his business ex istance but rents it has been estimated that pass through his accounts daily as net proceeds and it la is virtually an aggregate of the tributes paid by producers in the way of rents and all of this ponderous income which was not required to keep himself and family dressed and entertained has gone for the purchase of more ten cements that he might collect more rents he never was known to dispose of a foot of land it has been a tradition in the family to buy everything in eight that required no labor or risk to make it valuable and to sell nothing this sort of an occupation has not rendered the astor family especially valuable to this country for the good it has derived or may derive from their genius for making money butin but in the wealth they have accumulated it has some interest and when the head of the household declares that he be has done with the united states the people from whom he has achieved his vast riches are naturally interested in the question whether his money toe has turned english this country can afford to pay a reasonable tribute to its anglo maniace to get rid of them but it would not take may of the a aday day sort to make the tax a rather serious 0 one ne for business but to conclude the subject there Is ia only one moral to be drawn from actors announcement of removal from america it is that property that will retarn an income of a jay day is too much for anji ang one man to be allowed to possess compatibly with ther the general welfare |
