The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1913-09-03
written for the United Press.)

by Burton N. StandlSn.
Written for the United Press)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.-"Pitchforl
Ben" Tillman has Joined the ''com,
backs The aged South Carolina so
Ion, whose picturesque language an(
vitriolic power of invective earned hin
his nick name, has been in poor healtl
for four years. He hasn't once during
that time shown flashes of his old time
vigor in debate.
But the other day "Pitchfork Ben
cut loose again. He equalled all past
records for vivid language in speaking
his little say on womans suffrage and
comparing the present times to the
days of decadent Rome.
1T appears to me-" the senator re-
marked, that the relation between
votes for women and divorce, if not
one of cause and effect, is at least one
of mutual acceleration. / am no pes
simist, but l am enough of a scientist
to accept the truth whenever | find it,
be it pleasant or unpleasant, and l
have read history to no purpose If 1t
has not taught me that the purity and
stability of the family has in all ages
been the surest bulwark of the state.
1t has ever been that when marriage
relation became insecure and women
quilted their own sphere to enter that
of man, the decay and fall of states
followed.
"a most disgraceful and notifying
fact which every American must blush
for is to see how the American mill
lionaires are buying their daughters
titled husbands. Some count, baron or
lord, no matter how much a debauche
and scoundrel he may be, is looked up
by the rich father and purchased in
the open market
ITO me such people seem to be going
to hell, and / am no stickler
for religion" Some speech.
Has Sporting PrOcliyities.
Once a session house democrats ane
carry their partisan fight
to the baseball diamond. The game
furnishes Washington newspaper par
agraphers with plenty of material for
weeks. Now comes the announcement
from the senate that the staid and ell
lerly statesmen have challenged the
juniors in the house to a golf cham |
match. The senate already |
las a fourishing golf club, and the |
beauty about it is that there are titles
or every member Senator Gallinger,
Who never had golf stick in his hand,
s honorary vice-president Vice-Pres
dent Marshall, who has actually play
dent. However, there are some hon
st to goodness golfers in the club
here is Senator OGorman, of New
'ork, president; Senator Cummins, of
owa, ranked as the senate champion;
follis, New Hampshire; Hitchcock,
Lippitt, Rhode Island;
salisbury, Delaware; Pittman, Neva-
a; Bristow. Kansas; Townsend, Mich
gan; Walsh, Montana, and Ransdell of
The only representative whom the
enators fear in their forthcoming
latch is Representative Oglesby. of
ew York, who covered the IS holes
n the difficult Chevy Chase links, in i,
I, which is mighty close to DOGGY
I'VE haven't set the date for the
latch yet" said Senator Salisbury, 7
out it's up to the house" 7
Would Protect Maple Sugar. IS
At least one member of the senate c
the United States has confessed his :
isdeeds. His name is Page. He
mes from Vermont He stood on the
nate floor on the afternoon when the
lgar tariff schedule was being dis
,sed of and pleaded for little more
objection for the maple sugar of his
ate.
81 plead guilty" he said hesitating-
''to having been an insidious lobby
here for the past five years, and
w it all goes for naught."
and republican members
ike nodded solemn1y. Then one by
e they chuckled For scarcely /
an among them had not accepted
I'm Page of Vermont, along in March
any one of these past five. seasons
sugaring-off," a box of the finest
iple sugar that ever reached the
initial Zach hoy was nackad full Of i