It may be admitted that of late, with the fomentation of a more accentuated nationalism by politicians seeking a _raison d'etre_, additional difficulties have been created in the way of naturalisation and the like incidents.

Still, when all is told of the average American citizen, _qua_ citizen, there is not much to tell.

The like is true throughout the English-speaking peoples, with inconsequential allowance for local color.

A definitive neutralisation of citizenship within the range of these English-speaking countries would scarcely ripple the surface of things as they are--in time of peace.
All of which has not touched the sore and sacred spot in the received scheme of citizenship and its rights and liabilities.

It is in the event of hostilities that the liabilities of the citizen at home come into the foreground, and it is as a source of patriotic grievance looking to warlike retaliation that the rights of the citizen abroad chiefly come into the case.
If, as was once, almost inaudibly, hinted by a well-regarded statesman, the national establishment should refuse to jeopardise the public peace for the safeguarding of the person and property of citizens who go out _in partes infidelium_ on their own private concerns, and should so leave them under the uncurbed jurisdiction of the authorities in those countries into which they have intruded, the result might in many cases be hardship to such individuals.