VERA LADY CATHCART

Hokitika Guardian, 15 April 1926, Page 3

VERA LADY CATHCART

NEWSPAPER TIRADE. NEW YORK, Fob. 19. On behalf of Yera Countess Cath-c-art. the Federal Court to-day was tasked for a writ of habeas corpus byMr Arthur Cat-field Hayes, counsel engaged by a number of New York women. As the application cannot be argued before Tuesday, the deportation of the. countess is necessarily delayed. Meanwhile counsel is trying to secure, her release from -Ellis Island on bond. 'The whole affair is still exciting a prodigious amount of discussion right throughout the country. The tone of much of this discussion is reflected in an amusing outburst in this morning’s New York American, which in its biggest print: declare*: "The- plain fact- of the matter is that the Government is getting into the hands of a tot of meddling old maids—dull, obstinate, self-opinionat-ed old maid- of the kind tlicit tortured women as witches in Salem, held them under w.-nlter hi dirty ponds in ducking stools, or made unforlunate women, some of them innocent, wear I scarlet, letters upon their breasts.” ” We have in this country a Government of tyrannical, puritanical, perse-cution-spying. keyholc-]x?eping. uimia nbailing. man-hating, messing, interfering oil lossils. sticking their blue noses into everybody's business. These stiffnecked. strait-laced, narrow-eyed hypocrites. with their inhibitions, prohibitions and expulsions are trying to eonduet the whole country on the longlaced lines of a sectarian Suudav sehool picnic. For refreshment we aro allowed weak lemonade and sodden doughnuts; for entertainment we can sing some such appropriate hymn as, ”\\ o want, til he horn again.” As for lreedom. ii- has down the country. Only those whose minds are moulded in the same contracted channels as the minds of our political mentors and masters are allowed to go or to come, to speak, think or act.” Lady Cut heart, when she gave her dailv interview this morning, was found amid a heap of AOft letters. Some of them contained offers of marriage, others promised to place at her disposal large sums of money for her tight against deportation. One was from Mike McTigue. the prizefighter.

The countess declared that when she once got back to Britain she would "make it hot ” for divorced Americans who wished to travel there.

Lady Craven (wife of the. co-respon-dent in the Callu-art diverse suit) left New York last night to join tier husband in .Montreal. At the station she was intercepted by 12 disabled American war veterans, who recited an address expressing. ” Our resentment at the official action which has caused Lord Craven, a disabled veteran who lost a leg in the war and who is American on his mother's side, so much embarrassment and inflicted so much suffering on his wife and mother.”