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TILLMAN'S SPEECH KLiniEi 111 mini states SENATE IONDAT SEES NATIONS DECAY 8eni<»r Senator Scores Woman Suf frage—Says Country Needs Good Mothers More Than Purifiers of Politics—Touches on Divorce Evil and Caminetti-Diggs Case. For the first time slnoe the Illness which almost caused his death, Sena tor Tillman Monday delivered a real speech in -the Senate in open session. There w|is 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 read 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 plaining 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 Bacon make the speech This sarcasm bad Its effect In checking In terruptlon and Senator Tillman re sumed the thread of his fiery dis course, which was In full as follows Mr Preeldent A few days ago I asked permission of the Senate to In sert In the Record and to have print ed as a public document an article entitled "The Mission of Woman. ‘ by Dr. Alfred Taylor Bledsoe When the Record appeared the next morn Ing It was found that the article In j question contained what many Sena tor thought was sn unkind and un Jnst refsreocs to Northern women 1 had not read the entire article te-fore submitting It to the Senate I had read only tke first part and was struck by the force of the historical referaarea quoted In It as to the. ratiae of the decay and fall of Rom'- | 1 felt that the artirlr • as 'err np portune 'ust at this time ant that was why I wanted It (Iren circuit I tlon In the Record and printed a* s public document • >n dls-o'rr'ng the altitude of n.y !»ro*hrr *«-ha' ri to ward It. whlih I an re^wlllr see a a* I natural If pot JuMIflaM*- I prompt!* Joined them In requesting that It be erpunged from the Record I w lah | ad lo a»o11 even the appearance of' harboring mean thought or unrharl table sentiments toward the women 1 of the North Home of the very fin- eat women I have ever known were Northern women and good women thank God are not confined to any section of our great country They are to be found everywhere in the United States an4 they will be the greatest factors in saving our c tvill 1 istlon from degeneration and de struction The eapunglug of the article from the Record did not prevent It* reach Ing every part of the United States, for the copies containing it had h**en mailed before the action of the Sen ate ordering It to be expunged and countermanding the order for It to printed ns a public document h.id been taken Comments more or less vitriolic, and some of them wholly un'iint and unfair, have come to me through the mall. I have been astounded to gee how much ignorance has been allow n Some of the most scholarly Northern magazines and periodicals, llko the Independent, whoso editors ought to ho 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. He has gone, "somewhere past the sunset 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 above all of narrowneee and bigotry towards tbs women of any part of our common country A chief unrt of tbo nchool In which he wns i wnn chivalrous reepert and reve'.-n^e f >r women, nnd lo him n go.*.| *• mnn, wherever aad under whaGv'r clrcutnsUncee she might live, was a superior being, n nort of dlv i.fy whose high nnd holy purpose on earth was to bear, to rear and to mould man Into the Image of his Maker. In sadness, not In anger, lie saw, or thought he saw, Northern women surrendering their divinity and high privileges for mere human rights, and as an honest man, true to the training he had received from his 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 broadest and most scholarly pe riodicals of its day. It was the lineal descendant of the once famous De- Bow’s Review. From 1 846 until the close of the civil war this later maga- azino was a leading exppnent of the hopes and aspirations of the South; and when It, mortally wounded, as It were, by the cellapso 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 dhoson editor of the new pe riodical. nnd 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 I.ecky’s history Is a very brilliant and profound expos! tlon of the condition, social rights and political privileges of wo men In all ages. The criticism as It appeared In the Soutlurri Review had Uoen reprinted In pant phlet form by some admirer of Dr D'edsoe; and Senator Johnson, of Alabama, i now. alas’ gone from u* to his long resting place, i and h e! come Into possesion of a copy IG showed It to me and asked me to have It printed as a public do< timer.t I glanced through It hurre-dly and was so forcibly Impresaed by the .i i thnr * apt application of I.«*ck' * facta to the question «f woman suf frage. divorce and materialism, now • o apparent every where that I ask*-d to have It printed in ’be !(••• ord a» well aa a public document for 1 thought It could not be glv-n t.>o wide publl cl'y because the rout)"* nweda educating along these l!n<-« rn« re than any other just at th • time I>ay of the < arpelhacver Put le.ky « Mltforv was or.!* 1 " •• wrja'on of The M •■. n o' W man The real re»»..t, ’ ,r Hi tnd progreaelve visionaries are conn •eI|e<t and directed and held back bv the wisdom of tbalr aowlnra Old n.e* see the world rushing along , P* ll-iiiell. belter skelter, going lo th# d' vI!. so to speak, we mourn In spirit ["The old order changeth. yielding place to the new." and the transitions j am so startling that they hurt us ; cruelly Tackles Suffrage Issue. I am led to make a few remarks on woman suffrage, although It la a dangerous topic to handle Just at this time. I flatter piyself, however, that my well-known reverence for good women will shield me from being mlsun lerstood. The Idea Is fast be coming a practical Issue, and Sena tors will realize the 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 shauld 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, divorce® were so largely increased that free love became the rule- the birth rate correspondingly derreased, at I.ecky's History shows Now it is a beautiful dream that fe male suffrage will purify politb a. be cause our Ideals of women are sn high, ami we regard them so abso lutely as th® sources of gixxlness and purity, that we c.m tint cnme|\e of their tint elvvatltig and he'pni* an\ thing t b • > touch I’-uf the \r.tl an 1 Important th.iin for ua to cni.i.ler 1* ■I, fe. t on * omen • 1.• i \ i had better endure (!..« ev in' rup’.nn In po::’ •• <• an S !h* r\ it. nir government r.»ther than ‘ r • • .thou' a con d it 1. n w t : b » ! ' v r ;». a 1 • T i: ! d! n: t h * 1 ; * ’ r ' ' h • . rt" n » man bn • I »1 • h w* • * hoe be. OtT«* a' ' u«' - d a d ' > ■ » W r an ' 1 ’ **r a ffn r I • 1 i • ■ tetrad***! and corrupt p" ;• 1- g-a 1r 1 at.J at wnn.*r. T b< th ‘n e . a r jm r*-** • g G-*- * aa In ra*#> :n R nic » ■ I r-Tu r,al knot that bafflea ailk* th# • k'll of Iwcal logic th# d#xt#r , .tT of •orhtwtrv th# nimbi# fln*#r# of a fal## ••xp* <ll#ncy and th# brut# strength of a slatui# The knot »•> Ho holda faster than th# fabled "Gordian Knot" of antlqultv . Inge nutty can not unfasten nor force de stroy It The skeleton Angers of death alone can loose It Not the South Carolina Way. We in South Carolina do not be lleve In the modern Idea so prevalent in this day and time 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 faco 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 this 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. Lest you have forgotten the verses I will recite them for you: "John Anderson, my jo, John, When we were first acquent, Your locks wvre like the raven, Your bottle brow was brent; Hut now your brow i- held. John, Your locks tire like the snaw. Hut bbssings on your frosty pow, John Ander-on. n > jo. John \ndorson. it \ jo. lolin, Y\ # ' ' a m ; ' h**4t t' or. A i 1 m 11 ' a ' a '.' • ! ,i . 'i \\ O . o : Ala:- . • N A W e u A 1! • ' * ■ 1 n V 1 ‘ r * . < v. ft-. r ,» . • T E ’ m ' i . ** .a. t » T l ♦ * * -4 * S * k . V • - \ ' * ' # ♦ ft j # r _ ^ ' ” i r r • 1 • i' ►' ! !■ •P'- » 1 Th# 1#mor*;: i* 1 ! tn and con## lu#rt <Wnr1«Mon #h' h ha* b##« produ>#d b? th# d »or « «*vll. ar# 11- lustraiqd h> th# notorlou* IMgga Camlfi#tti aTa r In ' allf trnla Th# ease with which divorce* am obtain #d In Reno 1# 1 to that plac# being selected hs the one to carry the two reH[Ht< table girls frotn stai ramento, and the promise to marry tht»se wo men after divorces were obtained no doubt had much to do with overcom ing their scruples Such a tragedy In domestic lift* could not happen at all in South Carolina. It could not happen anywhere In the South, even in those States where divorces are obtained, and I say it in no boast ing spirit. Northern View of Us. We have bad women ip South Car olina and through the South. Rut the habits of our people and their customs, inherited from out fore fathers, all make it dangerous to "monkey with men’r. womenkind”. 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 bis>n 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 heard 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, the more outraged I grow at the s*at<* of ’nopals and society which not only permits such crino-w against c'viliza tlon. but encoitr t;o s them 1 am too u ucn ' T » S 1 ■ 'i t : 1 * v . ’ -a • ♦ n k . »• 1.1 r t ■ t . - [>• l k ' 1 , „ . # . ;■ tibin a - a v a a • •If *o f ca' a. n - f c 1 1 I p.' ®! k Up - s ant a-e I- a • • A • «k • • f.# x» w *1 'r * i . r I » i a * aw n ; f f» f ., ti *. ••a aft ■ r - .; • ” *• » I • ! *'. a .1 I • », ' * «- . * • a I . • i ■. * ' ■ • • r * • > * # a ’ ’ . * .r. a • • • t. r * .• ' ” p I ■*•- » >’ 1 • • ■ % it' • ‘ »«'i • r 1 • ’ * x • r' .» ’ • 1 ’ x - , . ■ ; «r-' a * \ ' x a 1 * f • *-. r -I ‘ '» ’ • \ r ‘ «»■*, V • t • A 1 '»#. a .. . , k ” • .V ’ » • x * • • * rV - • f . ■ ‘ r » a ‘ x . 1 • a’ ’ f a » 'a • *” ■ a a « t x ■ ‘ »• A ’ • • fit ’ .Tl » .t» u n P 1 Me ! » 1 • • p r ! * * • * I A- - ' • ► * j, • a ■ # A • S * • ' e ...f. 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Nh groe* v. ry '< a o' wtiom could real or write and some of them n,»t three generations re tnevt‘«1 from the jungbs of A'rba controlled our I.igDla'uri «. wliile white scoundrels and th.>■'<■* f:om the North ruled the negroes and rob bed our people through them M.m> of the magistrates and Judges w.re iiegroe# The States colleges and unl' ersit i< 8 i'f the South, maintained ’ v ttixation. were controlled by trus '*’••• t. ' ! r ' X 1 1 'r » ' rtw lUllot A UntAr-gr 1 k : ' A,e * ’ Slop I* • t) 1 N e • tl«m • than sn :. tie pa*’ » 'jst ':•■:'■«< r X t e p' p. »s t* ' * h Kt. g at. 1 w x rx mot # rt ro.i.* . i in’ w ti#r# x *x t, ■ ’ • • * * A ■ • X X ’ h f s • » o i. w r > * •xtic ’ x 1 ■1 a ’ • • a • x » - lo-n w . g ■# ’ • ’he • . t t, »e r# g’ >u» « 'he a .-men ask hr t' 'hem e » X [1 t h o Jg ' It n. at # ' u u r > at. J ! t.# • . u ’ r » f:»Ve to ’ t » t a tel f>e t e st x ,1 it » ’ 1 t.es it; »p ’e . ' a • he ! 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He lifted the kindly finger of warning; he 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 forces are equalised, and the young b*-lu’vp she w ilLImprove politics, but. ultimately, politics will destroy h.-r as we know her and love her, and when our good women are no longer to be 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 wae cast in a State where thqre 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,” la the rule. Literally 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 st/etched. not legally brok en. In So nth Carolina we tie • mat- ciinfidcncc. uy and conw-ntmvmt. I te g S*'.ators - pardon for having digrevd. Hut ax 1 was go.ng on to say, vt.itis' , s on the number of di von * s granted in Stat^p where wo men have the vote would be 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 hn\e n ad history to no purpose if it has not taught me that the purity and stability of the family has in all age been the surest bulwark of the State. It lias 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 fal! of States followed. So often has this happened that T must believe that the one set of events is the result of the other. I have, there fore, sounded this feeble note of worninc. As Hannibal gazed mourn fully on the bloody head of his broth er, Hasdrubal, and prophetically ex claimed, "Cprthage, 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, aadly think, if I do not say, "America, thy race ds almost run un less something ia done to check thy headlong i£eed.” • ye to s> c whi* h w ay rh*-v think th# pf<ipb• arf -i wig: and it sffms to tue that the : • ti poliw. i.ins are trying to make piace with the women poli ticians and get on their good side while it is fair weather. I noticed in Saturdays 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 he influenced In their attitude on this momentous subject by this fear. No 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 asd vote to give the women the ballot unless they believe honestly that tt 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, arous ed the religious fervor of the Chris tians in Western Europe to such a pitch that hundreds of thousands en- Ibtcd 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 directions and meeting. The Saracens overran Egypt and North ern Africa, and crossed the Strait of Gibraltar into Spain. They crossed Spain and Invaded France, and vara onl* b#at#n N*rk by , 'bs'’## M»rt#J. who <i#fi*atrd them st < v # of th# tours H was sli cr ’ur.## be fore th# Moors w#re expelled frota th# Hp»nl»h Peninsula and compelled to return to Africa Later when th# Turk* had con quered Constantinople the followers of the Crescent overran Southeastern Europe up to the walls of Vienna, where the rising tide of Mohamme danism was only stoppi d by John Sobleskl. The recent war in the 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 tiiat racial and religious prejudice and hatreds brought on a patrici ial 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 aftef they got there never seemed to enter their minds at all. They were simply lun atics frenzied with the religious idea. First and last, historians tall 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-calb’d Christian leaders. The rest of the children di*-d from exposure and starvation. 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Brewster jumped from Marchmon’s buggy, rushed into a negro's house by the roadside and procured a shotgun. Ho chased Marchmon around the house for sev eral minutes finally killing him. Train Hts Auto, Karl F. Taylor was 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, but 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 fie had heard un founded reports reflecting on his wife’s character, John Marshall Wed nesday morning fired five bullet* into her body as they sat at the breakfaat table In their home at Martin’s Ferry, acroaa the Ohio River from Wheel ing, W. Va.