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' > miwunsrEECH Kunici m mini mm mm niniat SEES NATIONS DECAY 8en1or 8«i»t<)r Score* Woman Suf- fra*©—-Say* Counl ry Need* Good Mothers More Than Purifier* of Politic*—Touches on Divorce Evil and Caminetti-DiRBS ('awe. For the first time sinoe the Illness which almost caused his death, Sena tor Tillman Monday delivered a real speech In the Senate In open session. There was a good attendance on the floor and in the galleries. The sub ject of the speech and vigorous man ner In Its delivery (although the Sen ator reatl, from the manuscript which he had previously dictated) Interest ed the audience greatly and consti tuted a welcome diversion from the tedium of the tariff debate. Com ment In Washington was that the speech sounded exactly like the Till man of old. While Senator Tillman was ex plain!!** South Carolina’s attitude towards divorce In contrast with that of her neighbors, Senator Overman, of North Carolina. Interrupted to ex plain that the previous looseness of the divorce law in his State has been corrected. Senator Bacon undertook to make a statement with reference to Georgia, whereupon Senator Till man down, remarking that he would let Mr Baron make the speech. This sarcasm had its effect In checking in terruptlon and Senator Tillman re sumed the thread of his fiery dls course, which was In full as follows Mr President A few days ago I asked permission of the Senste to In sert In the Record and to have print *d ae a public dorum*al an article entitled "The Mission of Woman. ' by Dr. Alfrsd Taylor Bledsoe When the Record appeared the next morn lag It waa found that the article In question contained what many Sena tor thought was an unkind and un Just reference to Northern women I had not read the entire article before eubmlttlag it to tbs Senate 1 had reed only the first pert and was Struck by the force of the historical references quoted in It a* to tbs reuse of the decay sad fall of I fslt that the art trie was <>p portuns 'uat at this time and that was why I wanted it gtvrn rlrrula o V r rote met country A rhlef t*n#t and pr--freestrw *-«|oearies are ef the school la which be wa* and directed and held hack hr wee chisel roes respect and rw* e'-we the wtedete of thsdv see lorn Old f-»r women, and to him a good n "a *b* word! rush.ng along man. wherever aed under whai- »r. r |>« n meil bolter skelter, going to ths circumstances She might live, w >• a d v|l. »«» to apeak we ronurn In aplrtt aaperior being, a sort of dl» ;.l'rj"The old order rhangwth. yielding whose high and htfiy purpose on place to the new. and the transition* earth waa to bear, to rear and to | are so startling that they hurt ua mould man Into ths Image of his cruelly Maker. In aadneaa. not In ang'T. ho saw, or thought he saw. Northern women surrendering their divinity and high privilege* for mere human rights, and as an honoat man. true to the training he had received from hla own mother and to the Ideals which that training had engendered, he kindly, but firmly, spoke his senti ments. The article first appeared In print in 1871, In the October number of the Southern Review, one of the the broade*t and most scholarly i>e- rlodlcals of Its day. It was the lineal descendant of the once famous Der' Bow's Review. From 1846 until the close of the civil war this later maga- azl-no was a leading exponent of the hopes and aspirations of the South; and when it, mortally wounded, as It were, by the ewllapse and fall of the Southern Confederacy, suspended publication shortly after the end of the war, the Southern Review was founded to take its place. Dr. Bled soe was dMosen editor of the new pe riodical. and It was his review of the then new published ‘‘History of Morals,’’ by I>ecky, which led him to write “The Mission of Woman". The last chapter of Becky’s history is a very brilliant and profound exposi tion of the condition, social rights and political privileges of wo men in ail ages. The criticism as it appeared in the Southern Review had been reprinted in pam phlet form by some admirer of Dr B'edao*; and Senator Johnson, of Alabama, mow. alaa' gone from u 1 * to his long r<stlng place.! and h.t'l rorne Into possenlon of a copy II' showed It to me and a-*k»*d me f" have It printed aa a public document I glanced through It hurriedly and was so forcibly impreaeed by the .» i thor'a apt application of Beck' * facta to the question of woman auf frage. divorce and materialism new •o apparent everywhere that I asked to have it printed In ’he K«" ord as well a* a public document for I thought H could not be glv n t.. i wide publlcl’y becauae the coun'rT nweds educating along the«*e l!n.-« more than any other Juat at t' • time IHiy of the t arpe*bagger Put levky • Mlato-r waa only ' > w<a»!on of The V *ao>n of W man '. The real reaa»>n ' >r tta te c written »aa u n 1<> u *, t r ■!: » t’.r p r at. e cndl'.. n < ' Sout' rrn « »* ’hat time Aa Sena’ora will rrm«-n. Tackles MufTrage laaur. 1 am led to make a few remarks on woman suffrage, although it U a dangerous topic to handle Just at this time I flatter myself, however, that my well-known reverence for good women will shield me from being mlaun lerstood. The Idea Is fast be coming a practical issue, and Sena tors will realize ttie importance of our obtaining as much accurate In formation in regard to it as the na ture of the subject will permit. Much value data could be obtained in States where the experiment is now being tried. Vital statistics sh*uld by all means be gathered in those States where woman suffrage already obtains. We ought to have records made of the birth rate, death rate, divorces and other things affecting the every-day social life of the peo ple, which would in a hundred years, say, show us whether female suf frage has affected these things inju riously or not. In Rome, when the manner and customs with regard to women began to change and they were given more privileges than they had ever enjoy ed before, divorcee were so largely Increased that free love became the rule- the birth rate correspondingly decreased, at Becky’s History shows Now it is a beautiful dream that fe male suffraire will purify politic*, be cause our Ideals of women are so high, and we regard them so abso lutely as th» sources of goodness and purity, that we can not conceive of their not elevating and helping an> thing they touch Hut the vital an 1 important thuig for us to con-'der lr •he effect on women t hem«elve« We hail better endure the eV'.N of CO- rup’:on In poiiticx aril deh.iu'),er\ In uir government rather than hmc about a (ondltlon whhh will ni.r a i't and dim the luster of ft.- v • rlo i- womanhood »ith whoh *• have he, om** ar, u«t' m.ed all , ' ■ *.« Wr r«n net'er afford t i< grade 1 and ''ad wonien To t>- th n ever ln< reaa tig d'-gr- • aa In raae In Rome a on id • > - a o rd » > une.-eake* V * fr nal k n ’hat baF'aa alike the • k'll ef I«*al latlr tha iieat*r’ , » o' •epklartw tha atavSIa iacor* of a fa'*« eipe.llanry and the bmte • trrngth of a etatu’e Tie knot wc tie hold* faster than the fabled Dord'an Knot" of antlrjultv , Inge nultv ran n«t unfasten n»r force de atroy It The akeleton flngera of d« ath alonk« can loose It Not the South t'arollna Way. >Vo In South Carolina do not b** lievo In the modern Idea so prevalent In this day anytime of permitting a man to marry a woman in her youth and beauty, and then, when her neck begins to grow skinny and shrunken, her face sallow and splotched, and her eyes’ dim, to search out among his women acquaintances some young and buxom girl who suits his lustful eyes better and straightway set to work systematically to treat his old wife so that she, in self-defence am' to maintain her self-respect, seeks a divorce to get rid of him. There have been glaring cases of this kind of world-wide notoriety wherever the divorce evil flourishes. When we contrast tills type of man and woman with the glorious picture drawn by Burns, these men who have souls are bound to recoil from the one type and bow down and worship the other. Best you have forgotten the verses I will recite them for you: “John Anderson, my jo, John, When we were first sequent, Your locks were like the raven, Your bnnie brow was brent; But now your brow is held, John, Your locks are like the snaw, But blessings on your frosty pow, John Anderson, no jo. John \nderson. rn> jo. John, \\ rt 'dam ■ ' I;e hill the^lr li.-r, An I moire a cant o- Wo . o 11.i 1 v» 1'ai • \" a u o maun ’ o? ?• \ i,d hand n h a - And - loop th.'g'.tl,* ' John V: dor-, n. • !a\ bd.n. unit h' t down Jo a i ; c ' ,• • h.• r ,• TV* 1*t* 'r* *»• ■**. ;b»«1 4rtC'*4#Uo* prwdO'rtd 4 ter 1u*trat*<j h» th• r..>‘ m «'ua Dice* < amir, ctti if* r n ' a 11 f ■* r n i * Th a rtAUrt » .Ih •t.l. h «ll» '•, r* are obtain •»,! In Reno let to that place being a**Ii-otrtd a* lb** on** to carry the two respectable glrln from Sacramento, and the promise to marry th«*«e wo men after divorce* were obtained no doubt had much to do with overcom ing their scruples Such a tragedy In domestic life could not happen at all in South Carolina It could not hajipen anywhere in the South, even in those States where divorces are obtained, and I say it in no boast ing spirit. Northern View of I s. . We have bad women in South Car olina and through the South. But the habits of our people and their customs, ■ inherited from our fore fathers. all make it dangerous to “monkey with men’r, w r omenkljid’’. Some Northern people call us barba rians because we shoot the seducer and lynch the rapist. If the Cali fornia men had our customs, Diggs and Caminetti would not be alive now, because they would have been shot like dogs, and the fathers of the girls they have ruined would be ac quitted almost without the jury leav ing the box. The unwritten law, as it has been called, is the best law to protect woman’s virtue that I ever tieard of, though there have been abuses of it and men at times have gone scot-free who ought to have been punished. The more I think about the Diggs-Caminetti case, th** more outraged I grow at the state f 'f morals and society which not only permits such crim*^ against c'viliza- tlon, but encour.ig's them I am too much of a savage n,\ -elf *<> thmk up ,** ! o* » * T ' v *' , 4«fwwt•* ’' * W*r**.'. rtf r. l*rt 'r -t» <9 aa 4 h baa bww* , • »11. ar• ii t v .•*.our* ' f,,.# lb# M.Ki't war*' aip^irt,' tha lApanlah PwfilnauU and <•< to ratum to Afrpa lj»tar whan the Turk* had enn- querad Conat*ntlnop|a tha follower# of tha Craacent ovarran ttouthraa ern Ktiropa up to tha walla of \ icnna. where tha rising tide of Mofaainme- danlam was only stopp'd by John Soblesk! Tlie recent war in tha Balkans has wrested almost all of that pen insula from the Turks, but here was. so little Christianity, patriotism and sense among the allied nationalities that racial and religious prejudice and hatreds brought on a patrici lal strife among themselves. Children’s Lives Sacrificed. In one of the crusades the chil dren were crazed by the priests and tens of thousands of them gathered and began to march towards the- East. What they could do after they got there never seemed to enter their minds at all. They were simply lun atics frenzied with the religious idea. f’irst and last, historians tell us that upwards of one million, one- hundred thousand people perished.. The pitiful story is told that five shiploads of these children who start ed for Palestine were sold into slav ery to the infidels by their so-called Christian leaders. The rest of the children di'-d from exposure and starvation. It may not he worth while to re call those things, and I only mention them for the purpose of directing at tention to the dangerous force* which are being set in m"’i"n by "ti s it h t 1 ei|u;u it: i v ti 1 • w 1 t • n g " ;gbt net • t b (' s I ti c I 11, who are prea, hitig and ag:t tt- 't woman's rights am aw ire th.it in t'ng i ng« wi'h calmm-s and H <U> l \ iT t v i - ■ ft -e i -i * ri'-d. and pe-baps. I 1 . • ' ‘O';, ttlent Ot, • I. .1' ! an 1 v. i h I Put I in. -p'-aking n- I b n*t ' t k, e pur of • rtiene;ng the *ury of pub ap; <• i' i- » in. r u * * I thin ,ik ng a o ■ -« I l , r. • • ' l \ .1 ' l g:\Pg w i all :t!!» 1 1 ur t' Tbi- “■ mg. one v , ♦ * s f | • • v * r \ n ;' t' ♦ • -; a :t • :. < th** > r' jou p. | e , f 1 be w,.r: 1 I11. '.king iv' .' 11 •• r ' ir I \ e <- b ,i -.i ' • r U 'te-rt Put !• -p • s good M I 1 ' :t v • \ »■r■ * • » '1 ■ k * R ’ * ■ . 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Jolnwi th»tn In rwq jewnnf that it b* •rpungwd from tha Recti ri 1 w lab •d to avoid avrn thw appearante of harboring mean thought or unrhart t*bla *cnt!m*«Ct» toward the woman of th* North Home of th« very fin a*t worn** I have arer known wwre Norlharn women and good women, thank God are not confined to any awctlon of our great country They ara to bw found everywhere in the United Rtatr# and they will be the greatest factors in saving our rtviU tat'.on from degeneration and de- atrurtlon The expunging of the artlr!*’ from the Record did not prevent tt« reach tng every part of the United States for the copies containing P had ('••**n raalled before tt,»« action of the Sen- ats ordering It to be expunged and counternmndlng the order for It to tw> printed aa a public document h.id been taken Comment* more or lean vl’rlollc, and Borne of tin m wholly unjuat and unfair, have come to me through the mall I have been astounded to see how much ignorance has been shown. Some of the most scholarly Northern magazines and periodicals. TTktf the Independent, whoso editors oughOo'be ashamed of their ignor ance, discuss “The Mission of Wo man” as though it had just appeared. Instead of having been published for ty odd years ago. I have received a number of requests for copies of •The Mission of Woman and I am sorry that the Senate refused to have It printed as a public document, be cause the action of the Senate ex punging it from the permanent Re cord only attracted attention to it more and caused people to be curious to see what had stirred up all the row in Washington. Further Explanation. I have investigated the matter ful ly, and feel that in justice both to Dr. Bledsoe and to myself I ought to make a further statement. He was a profound scholar, a courteous gen tleman and a Godly man; and I feel that it is due his memory to explain fully how the article came to be writ ten, and under what circumstances it was given publicity. Dr. Bledsoe died In 1877. So nothing that has been, or will be, said about “The Mission of Woman” here or else where, will affect him in the slight est." TYe haa gone, "somewhere past the annset and the night,” to a land where wordly praises can not please nor worldly censures wound or crush. Bat I want to clear his memory and his name from any suspicion of sec tional narrowness of any kind, and all of narrowness and bigotry the women of any part of Ihrir han'la m *r»h *: Ir.l lb** »rrt«-.t blarka to th* **''!■ an ! ’ r«- t ,1 h"W thry J 1 t ’ r ill rrtr wav t»'<'i>m<• a I >atb«"m** r*-g "ti of hoB oua icght* aii,i aouh'N " • Xf »r rim j lota Thua uti irr th* i**ii«-r»b p 1 Thad St*v*na and oth*r» th* N r’h *rn fanatl'# •o«*l 'h* »**•! a- ! hv II'I th* harv**t of *vlla b**«ftD to ■ flpm Tti* Koulti pr<**tr»t* and ! blading at *v*ry p<>r* b*r pa»t a hop*l*aa m*rri"ry of t>*^t*r 'Im*t ’ *r j praarnt a alough of d«-a, on i at. I *r futur* a h;d**ou« nlgtitmar* 'h* Stiuih I aay. w*a !lt*rab> »albo» ng In violence rorr jptlon. hoiifa’s and polltlial d*bftinhfrT It « aa p I 'jl Th* great South, "than whuli no »«lr«r Und brt'h flrt'd n po.'t K :n. fuM an I thing* unhoN Nb prooft \> ry a o' whom ('"ubl rmil or wtltf. ami toui'' of t h *' rn not ttirt-o g*-niTat lona r»‘ movivi from the Jungl'"* of Afrl a cont roll**,) our BogUlat un-a. wbi!" utiito aioimdrelft and Uiicvoa f-otn tbo North ruled the negroes and rob bed our people through them M.m> of the magl-Uratei and Judges were liegroea The States colleges and uuhersities of tho South, inainlained by taxation, wore controlled by trus tees elected by the negro Begisla- turea. Carpet baggers, scalawags, and negroes were among these trus tees, and Dr. Bledsoe and other Southerners like him were ready to cry out: “Icabod, thy glory has de parted forever.” At the thought of women any where, especially of the South, en tering this monstrous and filthy arena, Dr. Bledsoe’s chivalrous, sen sitive spirit recoiled with horror. He pointed to the women of the North not for what they were, but for what they might become, and would be come, and would become if they per sisted in their determination to aban don the sphere in which God had placed them. He lifted the kindly fiuger of warning; lie drew the knightly sword of protection; lie did not level the brutal pike of censure and condemnation. His scholarly mind appreciated the cause of the rottenness of imperial Rome, and be lieving that history repeats itself, he trembled for his country. I know from experience how hard it is for old men to adopt new notions, to accept new ideals. Visions are for young men; old men must “dream dreams", ’ and cling to their tradi tions. They dislike to be rudely awakened, and are ever holding back against innovations and changes The world moves forwards, ever forward, because the young men will seek to progress. It Is the ideal civilization or condition In society when the two f »"!!'.• " . 1 f " * 1 * • p. '»■« b » 1 !l . V X ru • . * r ::. * 1' ■ m- u, , - • ■ ■■ k I ! • . :.«• ’ rl* i I It.* IUII"I ft I’mv 1 km • t !.* ' b '• a* •- ■ n t;.«- p»r’ x 1 f"r " «' up II »X ' •• P AU.i Si* KuSiftlid. wurr* .oLM-rift U-tn • in"r * *’ ri>ux * > In'r»-n< b* 1 t b * n an > » h*r* *!*♦• n ''a • ■* int ry | •..' I . Y >• iX 1 "!•; * tba’ » I ft' V r r 1 - •- » n ink fur tb*- m*-fi » i x • * i- .-••i *»m ihuuxt H ♦• 'ti* r U.u n, «(* ! u u r v «n d I h* < i ■ i n ’ r \ will b 11 •• t ■ i • • Hi »n .1 h*- 1 ••'(••i! "k ' x ' b ••i'*' ! !.•■« In »p "f ii '. lb*' tb' 'r 1 .'"- .in 1 t,.iv.' g"\ t-rti' ! I ' • .1 . !« ua i .'. u' «• i lb* "1 • 1 baft U' a r* a’b't 1- a pm > pr-'M . i«t ■ g ' I a r' g bt an 1 'Lal I !.<• S' at i ui . in. '> r tills right "ii :ts rl N*.tt)'r tb" aufTrag*-tt"s n > .1 • ’ *. I ’ * tl■ »t n n* f i / ♦ • n h • r tlit y ’ r A fi > • . » • i • :. . * t a * a' ; * r .i' • a 1 !»- • i • v a ! a v • • r ' • t t i ! !, * r ■ ■ a n j • > ,. * ’ r K* '<• ' * * r n 4'' • a ’ i r ;•»* W a • II.» V * . » *••• ’ < m 1 n ! * • ; a * ! ’. at a ’ r * t a a an ! * h » v .n t ' ’ ‘ IV p». S*r.) • ••"'b*r »•" '•' mu ' .•1 r i • u ».n a* ' * • b»t"r'.fti",v tf!: « l("U.<< r«p l.v d* ■ .x' <-■! »' 1 r*ftfc 1 ' ' t'* u !*tr»"*ft i ' t b r « r' ! T! • r " r * ' 'an »»' • v r . * 1 u * J th a* '!»!'•..'•• ■ n I ’ «• 1 • )*;•*’. t.t or. x 1 » u.f-. ai, 1 t>' c><"1 » 'tm-n I d " r. >' n '•ftn a tj 1 » •! * < ti m*n 1 !i.*aii v.r' . . v a „ . > v < * • - u' . 1 g •' 1' II. ai K"p rosi-n t at t \ •■ 11 • tk '! v i > r S' .' h ' U' V i .• in * . I l ' i , ' "th sT. u -nils their ma-rubino •.> input h:/ ii- .-i.r riin^ld'T or soom t" pa> an ! it gar 1 to tb" "fT"<'t of ["di’ii s "ii wnimui. but I simuTfly l)"li"'" that tbo U'-'dulm-ss and g""dm>' "f w "man \iii> invtTsely as tlif f\t« nt of li**r participation in politi'-s I |e li"V" she will improve polities, hut. ultimately, policies will destroy Iht as we know lier and love her. and \i lii'ii our good women are no longer to he found, and we have lost the breed, the doom of the Republic is near. It may be contended that informa tion such as I have described would be partial and fragmentary, and that any conclusions based on it would, therefore, contain a large factor of uncertainty. That may or may not be true. But there is at l«ast one subject about which mathematically exact knowledge can be obtained. The number of divorces granted in a State with woman suffrage and the birth rate may be compared with the number in the same State before equal suffrage was adopted, and the relation between the two phenomena inferred. I thank God that my lot w*e cast in a State where there is no such thing as divorce. To get married in South Carolina is the easiest thing imaginable. To get “unmarried” is impossible. “Once married, always married," is the rule. Biterally and exactly we believe that “for better or for worse, in poverty and in wealth, In sickness and in health, till death do them part,” they twain are one. It is true that, If life together be comes unbearable, a man and wife may separate and live apart; but even then the bonds that bind them are only attached, not legally brok* M ; '.'.1 f r;< M t \\ . T c r * ■ - tr : r r t * •- i ai. d A" ;b dr» bind ap • •d raw of W'ubl huh' wil'd" roun o' dmri'stii' < onfidence. forcee are eqnallsed. and the yoonf en. In So nth Carolina we tie n mat •'Iftlr 1 nU|u* d ** I '' \ .»"••• >• .’ n • .i r " i a ’ .t ii it Stn?• i •• • lift' d''<•* n 't p>'rm ' ■ao f"rm N >r' ti ' n r " ■ •. ,i Si.i'* » ' r. ' ir r r ■ ,i n ’ t bt-iii ft '. 1 "n i. • Hal gr. - Stat. la a bu."!' '.a • i a’! - !"* »-v a ' . r 1 > ' n. :t i !*■•,. ! a .'.-r • t "o bo «n ’’ ii. u rg"d I t a rs -;i b-i I" aii ! ’ 1 • •ar and un b r 'b" I • -- i;" I'- ;i.11r 11 - ab:n> I onr" again "V"r cir "v t’-.t* 'ruita and ""W"i- poac". bivp and affuntinn. ny and contfntiupnt. I ta g Si nators - pardon fur having dlgrusned. But a> I was g",ng on to say, statis'lrs on the number of di- vorces granted in Statqp where wo- meu b.ave the vote would he very val uable. It would enable us to see the connection between woman suffrage and family life. It appears to me that the relation between “votes for women” and divorce, if not one of cause and effect, is at least one of mutual acceleration. I am no pessi mist; but I am enough of a scientist to accept the truth wherever I find it, be it pleasant or unpleasant, and I have nad history to no purpose if it has not taught me that the purity and stability of the family has in ail age been the surest bulwark of the State. It has ever been that when the marriage relation became inse cure, and women quitted their own sphere to enter that of man, the de cay and fall of States followed. So often has this happened that I must believe that the one set of events is the result of the other. I have, there fore. sounded this feeble note of worning. As Hannibal gazed mourn fully on the bloody head of his broth er, Hasdrubal, and prophetically ex claimed, “Carthage, I see thy fate,” so I, looking at the growing craze of woman suffrage and the rapid in- in number of divorces granted in this country, sadly think, if I do not say. "America, thy race is almost run un less something is done to check thy headlong ifteed.” 'x ! * » i ■ V ** ftr. ! •,•• « • 1 . p ' » • 1 p ■. ' r b ft * 1 ’ n pi«t »» b* » "ii' I ', ■ ix «’ t": -i 7 • •• » pr I’ ,iii"n '. • 1 * tit > !*b* . ■ b"« ’ a •• *• . . ' a' ■ 1 • ft'' r. g ar* r •• I •• x ! ' t * • - ; m ‘ ft»- ft n. • » 'i r a ' ' ri. i » t • »«• P *t a’. 'a" r- •t » r k •* 11 t *• a a : Hitt n Rtl I.H >4 It 4 ♦ — \4 tt<> \4 a» ••* Mrr Knr»-ft l*1r-«a<tlng (••»- Mrr« y r- ' 1 I, ■n !• an! i • •> h 'i 'A i »- » i • 1.." i I. • • a ! m •. y H * ' i 1 ! I . • .1 f 1 • i' ' T - -:i V -tb k • ■ r # "r "•n tb" !" ' i 1 :i I ■ ■ i ■ g rue rum' ft ':i .1' i \ Will II* \gftlll-t Hi'.lkll"-' i.n i 1 • in .! t! b ill"! .It ail i- i nw ar !!• •• "f p B' ; <- ibilitu :a:is th" i T' i I ■. : i r » .ii- "K'n • ' "r> a wrld "\" r ' b.iv" h'a;i\- bad a k""n . to «• c wbi'h way the) think tl" pi-npl" ar" .<diig . and it s""ins to ni" that tl.e i: "ii p'ditj'ians ar" trying to make pi nee with the women poli ticians and gt*t on their good sid" while It is fair watiier. I noticed in Saturday's paper that the headlines threatened dire consequences here after to any public man who dared oppose the demand for woman suf frage now. I am afraid some of the weak-kneed men will be influenced In their attitude on tills momentous subject by this fear. N'o man, who is a man worth standing in shoe leath er, will be influenced by any such motive, and only cowards will yield their convictions aad vote to give the women the ballot unless they believe honestly that it Is for the h#st inter ests of the women and of the coun try. The history of the world is full of “crazes ’, or what they now call obsessions. The crusades are an il lustration of what I mean. Peter, the Hermit, a fanatical monk who was very eloquent, aroils- ed the religious fervor of the Chris tians in Western Europe to such a pifeh that hundreds of thousands en listed for the Holy War against the Infidels. No doubt this fervor was necessary to prevent the Crescent from supplanting the Cross. It was like two storms coming from oppo site direction* and meeting The Saracena overran Egypt and North ern Africa, and crossed the Strait of Gibraltar into Spain. They crossed ft * • •* i t *.«• t .■ .ix* :' a • < ,i ' r i . f ♦ • r '• r " A | ' A ■ « ' -a u 'r ' h• \ W > \ ' r ft a • . * a , . N • • vi"'! b' r v* , rk '• g i. i i• ,i. r ,i' i 'ii Fr.i h k . ■ ti »' ■ • • I I ’ 1 ■« sill 1 • t 1 t" k .1 !,*■ r if • 1 * • . 'i r. • r . a - b b;:i. V. b. II M s fl» * n '-t .i rt "■! hoi!." ’.•■r b j-b.i:. t a as w.ii'.ng jw-t "Ut-i !»* r'.»* t!«> 1 • r. a:i ! sfiirt* d ;ifi"r h'-r S' " cu’r in h.i’.i i b r* •• blinks, but f"ll "ii h' r k to • s ' xbaus’** ! D"r.son rushed up a rn! w ith"ut a word, tir ni two sil')’ S. "Uh< t of w hirh w oiild I i.iv" bin n fa- tnl. pl.) sirians s.t>. De nson lias not b"tn rapt ure. ♦— Negro Kills Georgia Man. J. C. Marehmon, a farmer, was shot and killed at Greenville, C.a . Wednesday by Falter Brewster, a ne gro, whom Marehman was bringing ♦o Greenville for trial on a trivial charge. Brewster jumped from Marchmon’s buggy, rushed into a negro's house by the roadside and procured a shotgun. Ho chased Marehmon around the house for sev eral minutes finally killing him. across th# Ohio River from Wheal- 9paln and Invaded France, aad vers'ing, W Vs. Train IMts Auto. Karl F. Taylor wrts killed near Newton, N. C., Wednesday when a train hit his automobile, in which he had attempted to get across the track. Mr. Taylor was coming home from Blowing Rock in a small car. Witnesses say that he was not racing, hut had curtains and windshield up. He was struck and hurled thirty feet upon a pile of crossties and had his skull crushed. » Kills Wife at Breakfast. Frantic because he had heard un founded reports reflecting on his wife’s character, John Marshall Wed nesday morning fired five bullets Into her body as they sat at the breakfast tsble in their home at Martin’s Ferry, o t