Show WHAT W. W W. W ASTOR BOUGHT It has always been one of or the principles prin of or William Waldorf aldor Astor that his money was his own and he lie could bu buy with it what ho wanted and It was nobody's s business It may inay be nobody's business And yet et anybody may ask him how he lie likes what he be last lait bought Since he expatriated himself and became became be be- came caIne a citizen of Gr Great t Britain and a n servile subject of ot King Edward of England Eng land he has been trying with his great wealth wealth gathered gathered from rentals In New NewYork York York York-to to buy his way Into the English nobility Into society it was easy But lInt a title seemed be be- ond even e the measure of or his bis cash willingness So he tried another tack He bought the tho of an English frigate captured a century ago by a the tho American navy nan And he be gave that flag to the British nation His gold undid what holy heroism had ball pUshed D By his own rule he lie had hall a right to todo todo do so D By his bIs own rule he lie may mar be asked what he thinks of the tho view Englishmen take of his action The They have ha laughed at him before The They despise him now They bought ought Benedict Dene lct Arnold once and use used him But they never ner-er received him The They never treated him as an equal equal equal-be- be because cause he wasn't an equal He was a traitor and not all an th tho gold they gave ga him could efface that stain And Aud this Ulan mann wh who makes es commerce of the battie battle bat bat- tle tie flag of his native land lan and then makes spectacular display of presentIng presenting presenting present present- ing it to the country that lost It in bitter fight rates with WIlh them Just a littie little little lit lit- tle tie lower than Benedict Arnold rank ranked d' d with their grandfathers That is what William VillIam Waldorf Astor has bought with his money And It is i's isto is isto isto to be hoped he likes the tho b bargain |