The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-08-27

, in domestic life could not happen at
| all in South Carolina. 1t 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 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 mems womenkind"
tsome Northern people call US barba-
rians because we shoot the seducer
and lynch the rapist. If the Cali
fornia men had our customs, Dlggs
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-
Quilted almost without the jury leaV-
| ing the box. The unwritten law, as
il 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 nave
been punished. The more I think
about the Diggs-Caminetti case, the
more outraged I grow at the state OF
morals and society which not only
permits such crimes against civlllza-
ton, but encourages them. am too
much Of a savage myself to think up
on such things with calmness and
eouanimity. However, this case IS
now being tried, and, perhaps, l
ought not to comment on it. But l
am speaking as I do, not for the pur-
pose of influencing the jury, or pub
lie opinion for or against the men
who are indicted. I am only using
the case to illustrate the argument
I am making on the demoralizing ef-
fects of woman suffrage and easy di-
vorces.
Among our very rich people IN
America degeneration and bestiality
have gone so far that swapping wives
is a common practice. Family life is
no longer what it ought to be, and
the watering places and hotel resorts
in the mountains afford opportunities
for getting acquainted with other
mems wives and other women's hus-
bands. Lust takes the place OF love,
with the result that divorce is soon
arranged and the swap Is perfected
under the forms Of law. The women
are Just as bad as the men and di-
yorce their husbands on any slight
pretext, If they come across man
they like better, who makes love to
them.
A most disgraceful and mortifying
fact which every American must
blush for is to see how the American
millionaires are buying their daugh-
ters titled husbands. Some count,
baron, or lord, no matter how much
of a debauchee and scoundrel he may
be, is looked up by the rich father
and purchased in the open market
, just as he would purchase horse or
, stallion. The women submit to
legal prostitution for time. Then
the titled debauchee, whose relatives
have sneered at the plebian wife all
r along, are relieved Of her presence.
!, A divorce follows and the unnatural
, alliance between money and scoun-
9 drelism is ended. Oh! the shame OF
, it, but that is the way modern society
. is progressing. God save the mark!
To me such people seem to be 60
ing straight to hell, and I am no
stickler for religion. / only abhor
from the bottom Of my soul the de-
!, gredation and rottenness now becom-
ing too common in society.
, Warns Against Weakness.
) The danger, II danger there be, in
: giving women the ballot at all is in
creased by the cowardice Of public
| men everywhere. Politicians the
2 world over have always had a keen
: eye to see which way they think the
? people are going; and it seems to me
= that the men politicians are trying
: to make peace with the women poll
2 tfcians and get on their good SIDE
: while it is fair weather. I noticed in
Z SATURDAYS paper that the headlines
= threatened dire consequences here
5 after to any public man who dared
Y oppose the demand for woman suf.
= frage now. I am afraid some Of the
= weakened men will be Influenced
! in their attitude on this momentous
subject by this fear. No man, who is
y man worth standing in shoe leath.
q er, will be Influenced by any such
I motive, and only towards will yield
= their convictions and vote to give the
women the ballot unless they believe
honestly that it is for the best inter
+ ests of the women and Of the coun'
2 try. The history of the world Is full
! Of "crazes", or what they now cal
obsessions. The crusades are an IL
7 lustration Of what I mean.
!, Peter, the Hermit, fanatlca.
monk who was very eloquent, arous'
: ed the religious feryor Of the Chris
r tians in Western Europe to such a
5 pitch that hundreds Of thousands en-
listed for the Holy War against the
Infdels. No doubt this fervor was
necessary to prevent the Crescent
, from supplanting the Cross. 1t was
like two storms coming from oppo-
site directions AMI meeting. The
Sarace ~s oveTrar Egypt and North
ern Al lea, and crossed the Strait OF
, Gibraltar into Spain. They crossed
, Spain md invaded France, and were
only b-aten back by Charles Martel
who d"feated them at the battle OF
the tours. It was six centuries be-