HOUSE OF MARLBOROUGH.

NZ Truth, Issue 98, 4 May 1907, Page 8

HOUSE OF MARLBOROUGH.

A Corrupt Crowd.

Churchill, the Prize Pimp.

Lord Randolph Churchill.

The Vanderbilts Record.

Now that the Duke, and Duchess of Marlborough have, separated, an article written by' an American, W. iC. Brann, at the time of tibeir marriage becomes ' highly interesting. He said m part:— "And who the devil are the 1 Duke of Marlborough and Miss Vanderbilt, that Me world should hold its breath while they make elaborate p reparation to contribute,, each to the misery of/ the other— to share the same fciead and board? The Duke- is the lineal descendant of old John Church,/liil, and Sarah Jennings, two of the / most dusrepivtaible ducks that ever disgraced the earth. ' ''John utilised the virtue of his sistex to -break into the British 'nobility,' fawned at the feet of her princely paramour so long as he had the power to promote his fortunes, then turned traitor and; sold his services to William 111., ;by whom ', he was ever regarded, witfc suspicion' and •treated with contempt. Like Sextus iTarquinius and Benedict Arnold, he was a soldier of some; .ability ; 'but HE WAS MORE SHAMELESS than the one and morei .corrupt than the other. Arnold woe Id not have profited by a sister's prostitution, nor Sextus have 'soiled 1 his hands jWith • ihe srnall T wage •of • a common soldier. "John Churchill, founder- of theHouse of r<larlborpuig;h, was the boss Tweed of his time, the prize pimp 'of his day and generation. As a. traitor, he was the peer of Judas. Iscariot, and he has been equalled m shameless dishonesty only by his lineal descendants. The only, assurance we have that the latter were not bastards is to be found ""in the fact•they were one 1 and all stamped- from': head to heel with the Marlborough meanness! It is another case of the evil men do living after them, while the good is interred with their bones. "Sarah Jennings, -his wife, was eminently worthy or so mean a mate. She was a kind of unholy cross be- . tween Z a nthippe and Sycorax, the BEST HATED OLD HEIFER m all England. Too cold blooded to play the prostitute herself, she was content to tend door and share m the profits of her sister-in-law's shame. . The fiance of \ Miss Vanderbllt is descended from this impure source through a long line of titled cuckolds and shameless pimps, and now stands on the ragged edge of poverty, bartering to parvenues, for bread, an empty Dukedom, .bought -.with a female relative's dishonor. ! . Tlic late 1 Lord Randolph Churchill, uncle .61 the present Duke, was imtfuestionably the best of the lot ; but he demonstrated of what material he was made when he failed to rip the White liver out of Prince Collars and Cuffs when he caught that Royal Popinjay, 'flagrante delicto' with 'Lady' Churchill, at Windsor Castle— when he accepted ihe foul 1.-awd warm from the embrace of that titled nincompoop and permitted her to continue' to bear , his name. The father of the present Duke, and his predecessor m the title, was universally conceded to be ,THE MOST CONTEMPTIBLE CUR m all Christendom. He had more than the vices of the original Churchill, and none of his supposed (Virtues. He succeeded m wedding a respectable woman, but she was compelled to leave him because of general cussedness. He thaH sold his rfcitle to a dizzy New York music iieachar, who had managed to catch a sucker and bump his head for several million. He ran through with 'Lil Hammersly's boodle, was carried to the grave with a nameless disease, and left a begg-.rdly title to his particularly stuoid son, who is W torietihft it to tno r/ttttftorbiitef

Such m brief is the origin and .history of the 'great' House of Marll>orousi. The present Duke is said to. be somewhat better than his degraded progenitors. Poverty makes even -dukes humble. When a 'nobleman' is unable to buy so much as a yellow pot to put m his boudoir he is aPt to strike a moderate gait!; but he is' a Churchill, and an evil, tree cannot bring forth good fruit.' In appearance :.he is a tough of the toughs. He has a head like a bowery bouncer and THE MUG OF. AN APE who has .inlet with -an accident. When he. gets his. grip on the Vanderbjlt. gold it is dollars to dough nuts he will use it as did -his unlamented fa^ier the millions of the gay Lil Hammer sley, who paid for the privilege of. being, kicked and cuffed by a genuine British 'nobleman' m Blenheim Palace. "And the Vanderbilts? • Two hundred years ago an ignorant Hollander squatter on a patch of land at Plat Bush, .L.1./ and. engaged m the laudable, enterprise of raising cabbages, while his better half added an , occasional ■ florin to the family board by 'peddling fish. that ]time the name was taken on the instalment plan, being written Van Der Bilt. Old Bilt fbegat a son named Jacob, who followed m the footsteps ' of lids father, and was poor without being proud. He was also A GROWER. OF, CABBAGES, and his gude wife not above peddling sprats from door to door, and filinp: the proceeds away m her ample yarn stocking. ' In the course of four generations the Van Der Bilts had accumulated .sufficient ; boodle to buy ' a small ferry boat, sand begun at once to 'float on to "fortune. . The. name was . coupled up Ito save stationery and writing, for I none realised better than they that (economy is the rdad to wealth. By •workojig Iflce the old Harry ' and ispending never a cent, and by the j rise., in' land values, m and around iNew York, Ihe Vanderbilts became wealthy: ..enough to exchange barter m • shinmjr>s and • sprats for deals m ■ railroad stocks-^-to purchase a coromet • to offset' the 'very ancient and .'flsMike smell,' which has so long .clung to the descendants of old Aris. ; Miss Consuelo is the daughter of ! William K. Vandeabilt, lively -old ''bird who was recently, divorced from his wife. Such is the lineage of the. young lady who is about to puri chase a . descendant of old Judas 'Iscaiiot Churchill, and Sarah Jennings. She is a LONG, GAUNT. SKINNY YOUNG j v FEMALE, . . ■' ' ; whose . face would frighten any ! animal but a pauper Duke out for jthe ,'dpugh.' Her muscular aims, ; stub nose, and big feet proclaim her plebeian origin, while if the countenance be a true index to the intellect she, is a mental equal, of a half 'baked ' Chinese idol. If sihe . had been born with a silver spoon-in her mouth, it is doubtful if she could secure a position m the second row of the ballet on her shape, or . a place m a steam laundry, by her intelligence. But Miss Consuelo is an American. Were she the descendant of a Bowery tough, as homely as a hedge hog, and as stupid as a Cleveland .Democrat, she would be infinitely too good for the best man that ever bore the title of 'Duke of Marlborough. She will doubtless wish a thousand times that instead of WEDDING THE "JOOK," she had followed the example of the female ~ ancestors — married some sturdy young Dutch farmer, and peddled fish. After the glamor and glitter have worn away, she will wonder if the 1 game is worth the candle. She will look at the scorbutic subject Of an old- woman, and compare him with the % sovereigns of her native land, and wish to God that she could lose' him." It is remarkable how Brann. m that last , sentence, forecast the event which has just taken J place. The v separation of the Marlboroughs promises to uncover a scandal which will shake rotten Royalty, from centre to eirdumteftne*/