The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-09-02
OUR EUROPEAN BUDGET
Marquis of Queensberry Renounces Eng
land and May Become an Ameri-
can---Illness Reveals the HumiI-
ity of the Pope

LONDON, Aug Ito the West,
to the West, to the Land of the Free!"
So might have sung the Marquis of
Queensberry today as he took his seat
in the train, carrying him from Euston
to board the Mauritania on her way
tC America.
His lordship is off to seek his for
tune. In his own words, he wants
chance which the Old World will not
or cannot give him. He is sick" of
It all on this side-sick of the title,
which he finds an empty vanity; sick
of the whole House of Lords; sick OF
the conditions under which he cannot
make enough money for his require
ments and signing for new worlds to
conquer.
81 want something to do. All ask
for is a chance, and If l find that
chance in America l shall become an
American citizen" said the marquis to
your correspondent as he stood on the
Euston platform.
Percy Sholto Douglas, ninth Marquis
of Queensterry, Viscount Drumlanrig,
Laron Douglas and Baronet of Nova
Scotia, is now in his forty-third year.
He is married and has three children,
two boys, who were at the station to
gna hin, on oDd a civil
Lord Queensberry was clad in a
CHEAP looking blue flannel suit and
last seasons straw hat. He did not
appear to be the happiest of mortals-
in fact, he was not. On the contrary,
he was very disgruntled parsonage.
Pm leaving England, perhaps, for
good" said the marquis to the CORE
spondent, who met him on the way to
his train. 81 am sick and tired of
everything here, and am off to Amer
lea. l might as well go there as any
where else, and in the United States
shall at least have chance of getting
something to do"
Lord Queensberry had evidently
made up his mind to emigrate at
the last moment-indeed, he acknowl-
4 edged that he had only last night
I reached a decision to sail today.
81 shall stop in New YORK for time
at any rate" said the marquis, so as
to have a look around and see what is
doing. l don't know how long | shall
stay there. 1t all depends on what
turns up. Anyhow, l cannot be worse
OFF there than l am here.
IF can get on my feet in America
shall become an American citizen and
send for my boys" pointing to his heir,
Lord Douglas Of Hawk, aged IS, and
Lord Cecil Douglas, two years young
er, both manly looking, wellset-uE
! lads.
The only other person at the station
to see Lord Queensberry off was a
friend named Proctor, a member of
the stock exchange.
Apparently, the drop which caused
Lord Queensberry's cup of dissatisfac-
ton to brim over was the spectacle"
presented by the House of Lords dur
ing the English constitutional crisis
The marquis is not a member of the
House His Scottish peerage does not
entitle him to a seat at Westminster,
and his fellow peers of Scotland have
never considered it incumbent upon
them to elect him to sit as a repre-
sentative peer.
His criticisms, however, are none
the less Lungent on that account
: 81 saw the whole trouble coming
years ago" he told me, land the peers
have only themselves to blame for it.
| If they had reformed themselves, as
they ought to have done ten years ago.
the House of Lords would now have
been in such a strong position that
nothing could have moved it,
] 81 haven't a seat in the upper House
because l am a Radical l am at the
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and Scotland is entirely Radical-yet
they can't find room for me at West
minister. They won't elect me, yet
,plebeians with money can get in"
The marquis instanced several peers
Of relatively recent creation, who GER
tainly have money, but who are gen
orally supposed to have earned their
Donors ny talent and industry.
"Why, only the other day" contin-
ued the Marquis of Queensberry, they
dragged rich old man out of an asy-
lum and gave him seat in the House
of Lords"
When asked his name, the marquis
mentioned a fnancier, who was Great
ed a baron six years ago, whose worst