Iowa news. [volume] (Dubuque, Upper Mississippi Lead Mines, Wisconsin Territory) 1837-1841, 1838-01-13

The following advertisement is copied from the
Philadelphia Public Ledger, to show to our west
readers, the situation of the industrious, vtu
oua and respectable poor females in the east-ia
that land of plenty Landed for its charity and boz
lnevoence, and to afford them an opportunity to
contrast the condition of that class OF people with
the same in our country, in order that they may
properly appreciate the blessings Of the great the
glorious. the happy West. The picture drawn is
appalling to thu feelings of humanity, and has re-
lceivcd the attention of men whose sole business
heretofore been making calculations on matters Of
finance, and counting their thousands we hope
hat this beginning will be followed up by some
thing farther to relieve them than the mere sympa-
thy of the people If the industrious females that
are suffering there, for want of employment and
from the low prices of their labor were scattered
through the wide west, they would no longer need
the aid of the community for support. The prices
of sewing here are five times high in the east
Nsnd as for female servants, they are seldom to be-
had--their wages from 8 to ten dollars month.
To the Public.
"Woman, by the law of her being, is excluded
\ from paths n which coarser man might make Il
llivelihood-and by the custom OF society is obliged
10 accept less than half OF what the most stupid of
the other sex can earn, as compensation for her
unremtted ,eil.''--FELTUs
| ga coumo, slave. in the States Of Virginia,
Tennessee and kentucky, is much better compen-
sued for his labor by his necessary food, clothing,
lodging, aud medicines, than many respectable mo-
theirs and daughters III this city, VITO apply them
selves diligently to their work, two hours for evsy
occupied by the negto in his masters service"
l. REV. EZRA STILES ELY.
| Whereas, there are in this City and Liberties,
great numbers ofrespectable females (mauy of whom
have heretofore lived in ease and afluence,) de-
pending OH their industry TO. support, whose wages
even when fully employed, inadequate for tina,
purpose, particularly if burdened with one or more
Icaildren; and whereas, they thus frequ.niy
reduced to msndicity; and sometimes 60 borrow
the impressive language OF All eminent physician
in New York, corroborated by the testimony of Mr.
Wyman, police masiatrale,) ''are lost to virtue,
fom the absolute impossibli,y Of procuring the ne
cessarss Of life by honest iadustry''
| And whereas, this is state of things revolving
to every ceiling of religion and humanity, and de-
handing an investigation to ascertain whether j,
be susceptible oiremedv or mitigation.
| There lore, the subscribers recommend 10 havs a
Town Meeting of The citizeus, held at the county
Court House, Thursday evening, the 18th OF
December, at half past o'c'ock, to take into
sideration this interesting subject.
| The average price Of making coarse shirts, is Ii
Or IL cents: nine per week are many as an ex-
pert woman can make, W :. ing twelve or thirteen
hours per day, unincumbsrea with chldfcn. If
sha have Or two OF these, she cannot make more
than 8, I, OF g. Suppose eight shirts at II cents;
It is per week So cents, ing, after paying her
rent, 46 cents per week, Or 81 cents per day for
fool, clothing, fuel, Candles soap, &c. loT herself
and children. But large portion Of the shirts arc
made for 10 and and sometimes for cents; a
smaller number at Is, II, and lo4 cents. Those
Inflated women ara, moreover, frequently unem-
ploysd, Or but partially employed. Whoever duly
considers these facts, mus! be horrosstruck at ths
masses ofmisery and wretcheahsss that cannot iai!
to ariss from this state of things, III wealthy com
munil pFiding itself on its benavolence and chaliy
l 1t is, then, wonderful, that 50 large proportion
of tn: CT door poor i'll 1880, (tae time of the last
csnsds Of them,) was composed Of ndIst iols wo,
}msn, unable, we repeat, ''to procure the nccessa
res OF li. by honest ndustf,!' OF 5AJ oul-doo
paupers, III that yen, thee wore A = females, o
whom l4S were seamsirasses, 81 washer women
% spoilers, 10 shoe-b:ndeIs, --2iS. or the 43s
406 were widows.
, Mathew Carey, Charles Chalncey,
Matthew Bevah Elihu Chauncey,
Matthew e. Raistop, Charles Wheeler,
Jamss Martin, John r Vogdes,
N. Biddle, Richard S. Smith,
Joseph K. Chandler, Bull White,
William ID. Lewis, William Crary,
j. p. Norris, Thomas A. Budd,
J. J. Vamderkemp, John William Wallace
J. X. Ingersol, Robert Tolaud,
LIT. Col. Sam. Miller, A. II. Lewis,
Philadelphia, Nov. %, 1897.