The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-08-23
Proposition Is Not New.

rope and buy bob-taiIed counts and lords
for their daughters"
Proposition Is Not New.
Washington, however. was aroused in
1907, and again in 1903. by Representative
A. J. SABBATH, of Illinois. He proposed
to check its evil by taxing dOweries man.
ufactured for foreign consumption along
the same line as Representative Bowdle $
BILL Furnishing as a crime, or at least as a
misdemeanor. any fortune hunting not
pursued in the home market
And one must not forget Robert l..
Henry member of Congress from Texas.
who made the halls Of legislation ring
with his lmpassioned speeches on the
''mongrel mixture OF wealth and titles.
1t was to him, as TO the others. as IL is
now TO Representative Bowdle, the most
serious and corrupting aspect OF the
times
How terrible in its-eonseqUences, eating
at the very vitals OF national prosperity,
undermining the foundations Of a mighty
government, How terrible. II true. How
humiIiating to American manhood. as
wei! as American enterprise. seemingly
unable to cope with European masculin-
ity in its pursuit of the American heiress.
How doubly humiliating TO American
womanhood thus publicly exposed as in
capable of acquiring European matri-
monial prizes by beauty, fascination or
talent-only by purchase in the money
market! How humiliating, II true!
story with Two Sides.
In the seething cauldron of such fierce
denunciation, the things we call facts are
issuing forth only as a slender. feeble
stream. seeking TO emerge and md the
light May I. then, in timid protest. be-
gin by calling attention 10 the recently
widowed Mrs. Joseph Chamberlain, who
was Mary Endicott. OF Boston. the
daughter Of a Judge Of the Massachusetts
Supreme Court and Secretary OF War in
Grover Cleveland's first Cabinet? The
Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain was
millionaire-not in American dollars, but
in English pounds. II he was not an
earl or a duke. II was because he didn't
care enough about II to demand IL He
was in his day OF power more powerful
than all the earls and dukes in the Brit
Ish empire. More than one Of them has
waited in his ante-chamber seeking an
audience and craving some gift Of ONCE
carrying with II actual authority and
prestige. Joseph Chamberlain married a
comparatively penniIess American girl,
and she, by her splendid old ancestry of
brainy Puritans, distinguished in the his
tory of her native land, actually elevated
her British husband to a social consider
alton he had never enjoyed before in
England. He gave something like a mil
lion dollars. we'll invested. 10 his wife TO
spend as pin money. Many a time he
declared that this marriage was his best
gift from Life.
Case OF Anna Robinson.
But the earls and dukes in Great Brit
ain who have married American girls
Uncle Sans dollars have gone over to
purchase them, so l hear the Washington
Representative cry out eXultantly. Yes,
in some cases, with numerous legal for
malities tying up the property in the
United States, where il remains TO pay
taxes here and safely out OF the reach
of the British peer. And some OF the Yam
kee girls have manipulated shrewdly
enough to call forth admiration in Wall
street
Anna Robinson, for example, who is on
Bowdle's list Of guilty
peeresses OF American birth. Miss Robin
son has a fortune, a legacy from a South
African millionaire OF British citizenship.
She used II to become Countess Of Ross
lyn But, having acquired the title, with
its many pleasing prerogatives to a wom-
an-the privilege of adjoining the hair
with a beJeweled coronet. putting a
painted one on the door Of the motor car
and engraving one on the note paper and
quickly embarked on the
ship of social delights, with no room on
board for her husband, the earl. He was
left stranded, high and dry, away from
even a sight of the fortune A tidy little
divorce has kept him there ever since.
Some Consolation Seen.
When there is another Duchess OF Ar
gyle to take her place with her husband
in a ducal role. the most glorified among
all the dukes not Of pure royal blood, she
will, be an unpretentious American. who
took no money into the Argyle family,
Aimee Lawrence, the daughter Of New
York man not in its millionaire class.
The old Duke OF Argyle died the other
lay, famous for his learning. his vast
possessions. and his common sense. His
widow, now the Dowager Duchess Of Ar
zyIe, was no less a parsonage than Prin-
cess Louise, the daughter Of Queen Vic
toria. The new duke is a bachelor. and
there will be no actual duchess until his
brother, Douglass Campbell, succeeds him
with his wife formerly Aimee Lawrence. |
No other duchess will be able to hold
4 candle to her in exalted relationship |
md honor. And no sleuthing Representa- |
live could say that she paid for 1t in any |
other coin but love.
Two ShOwgIrls Were Happy.
Lord Francis PeIham-Clinton Hope, |
brother and heir of the Duke OF New |
castle. took Miss May Yohe from the !
vaudeville stage, bestowed upon her the |
famous Hope diamond. one of the largest |
IN the world. with various other ap-
oendages OF wealth and honor. That she |
will not be the future Duchess Of New |
,astle is not the fault of the future duke |
Miss Frances Belmont, OF the Florodora |
whom Lord Ashburton has |
made peeress. is still adjoining her hus-
bands palatial home and enjoying the
revenues OF his 1000 acres; while Miss