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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Struck by the force of the historical
references quoted in It a* to tbs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-
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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
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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
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a*t worn** I have arer known wwre
Norlharn women and good women,
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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
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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.
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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
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"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*
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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.”
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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
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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.
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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,
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