The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1913-08-22

or public opinion for or against tie
men who are indicted. l am only US
ing the case to illustrate the argu-
n1ent l am making on the demoraliz-
ing effects of woman suffrage and
Easy divorces.
Among our very rich people in
America degeneration and bestiality
have gone so far that swapping wives
i sa 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 nus
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-
vorce their husbands on any slight
pretext, if they come across man
they like better who makes love to
then.
A most iisgraceGul and mortifying
fac1 which every American must blush
for is to see how the American mil
lionaires are buying their daughters
titled husbands. Some count, baron,
or lord, no matter now much of de-
bauchee and scoundrel he may be, is
looked up by the rich father and pur-
chased ir the open market just as he
would purchase horse or stallion.
The women submit to legal prostiJu-
ton for a time. Then the titled de-
bauchee, whose relatives have sneered
at the plebeian wife all,along, are re-
lieved Of her presence. A divorce fol-
lows and the unnatural alliance be-
tween money and scoundrelism is end
ed Oh! the shame of it, but that is
the way modern society is progress
ing. God save the mark!
To me such people seem to be go
ing straight to hell, and I am no
stickler for religion. I 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, if danger there be, in
giving women the ballot at all is in
creased by the cowardice of public
men everywhere. Politicians the world
over nave always had a keen eye to
see which way they think the people
az eoing; and it seems to me that the
: men politicians are trying to make
peace with the women politicians and
get on their good side now while it is
fair weather. 1 noticed in Saturdays
paper that tEe headlines threatened
dire consequences hereafter to any
puLlic man who dared oppose the de-
mand for woman suffrage now. am
afraid some Of the wcak-kneed men
Will he influenced IL their attitude on
this momentous subjc.., by this fear.
No man, Who is a man worth stand
ing in shoe leather, will be Influenced
by any such motive and only towards
will yield heir cC7vlrl:ons and vote
to give the women the ballot unless
they believe honestly that it is for the
best interests of the women and Of
the country. The history of the world
is full of "crazes," or what they now
call obsessions. The crusades are an
illustration of what l mean.
Peter, the Hermit a fanatical monk
who was very eloquent, aroused the
religious fervor of the Christians in
Western Europe to such a pitch that
hundreds of thousands enlisted for
the Holy War against the Infdels. No
doubt this fervor was necessary to
prevent the Crescent from supplant-
ing the Cross. 1t was like two storms
coming from opposite directions and
meeting. The Saracens overran Egypt
and Northern Africa, and crossed the
Strait of Gibraltar into Spain. They
crossed Spain and invaded France,
and were only beaten back by Charles
Martel, who defeated them at the bat
tie of the Tours. 1t was six centuries
before the Moors were expelled from
the Spanish Peninsula and compelled
to return to Africa
Later when the Turks had conquer
ed Constantinople the followers Of the
Crescent overran Southeastern Europe
up to the walls of Vienna, where the
rising tide of Mohammedanism was
only stopped by John Sobieski.
The recent war in the Balkans has
wrested almost all of that peninsula
from the Turks, but there was os lit
lie Christianity, patriotism and sense
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