HEIRESSES REBUKED

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 112, 2 May 1908, Page 4

HEIRESSES REBUKED

WIEKICAN OPPOSITION TO CORONETED BRIDEGROOMS. TAX ON TITLES. PEERS AS POULTRY. Ni'W York, January 28. Mr. M'rflavin, a picturesque lnsliVmci'ican member of Congress from Illinois, startled the House of Representa- ! tives at Washington to-day by a lie)'}' ■ peecli attacking the marriage ot American heiresses and foreigners. |„ view of the Vanderbilt-S/.cchc.uyi wedding yesterday, M-r. McGavin's criticisms lmve attracted unusual attention, although he solemnly disclaims any allusion lo any particular heiress or any inn titular foreigner. Jl v ?>rtys 11 mind only those foreigners who wear monocles, and those heiresses who have neither the disposition to do good nor tl„. ability to do harm. ... "11 niav not tie amis-." shouted Mi. Mel vio iu th" Ib'use of Itepicscnta- ,- . - 1,, inquire into the state ot the Mlllii ;„. What arc we coining to in vic« ~r these international marriages wheal have become so frequent between American heircsse* and tlie alleged nobility ol Europe'! "A JJiil luis hi'iMi intrmluwd lu U\> a Un "ii tin- dowries mid settlement* iucideuUl to lhcs<- maniacs. It is n-H niv purpose to iulvocaU' oi Hi'll. but 1 would inquire il Hu' present tariff schedules include dukes, calls, counts, and lords. ■■ I think it might be proper lor Jho Cu-loins oHiccrs to classify them, l.ke froL-s' legs, as : poultry, for it i- tl general opinion ill this counti\ that t'■ -v are "ef'tse. ~ . ■•'Mr. Chairman, we have prided oinsclves on the fact that, the years balance of trade is in our favour, but nowhere in Ihe summary can-be found a videreiice I" ->ieh » trade-thc purchase „i soiled and fraved .specimens ot the nidiilitv of Europe for a few millions ol Vnierican dollars wrung trom Ihe ."lambs' ill Wall Street, with a woman ' '"Every "(lay seem, to be l.argaii.-d:iy in New York, whether for ribbon or a pound of flesh. - My criticisms are directed against, those who have made, a mockery of the most sacred relations of life, women iw-lio are. unsatisfied unless they can become the 'Cbunt.oss Spaghetti or the ■Conntcss ■Macaroni.' "Hut I wish to utter one word m tribute for the true American women v',o liavc rejected the vile, lords, calls, ami ,-onnt- for the K>v» of an American ciiizen."