New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-03-07
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by neede-wors, 10 ue'i7' - l. -
means OF increasing the rswatu u ,.'o'' u'
o.,sn, ,oil One and a ha!f to flco ao1o's po 0se'
!. rsnrssented as the average recomPense Oh goou
rorswomen engaged at plain sewing, ana thele are
xs-x, many who cannot, by faithful diligence, earn
,,o,e than dollar week, Out OF this miserable
FINANCE which VIII hardly provide comfortable
iodp;pgroom, thousands are obliged provide them
selves with such Doard, Lodging and Clcthlhs as
they have. Some are helped, perhaps, by father,
brother or other relative; but the mass are quite
as likely 10 be called 10 aid hed-ridden father or
mother as 10 receive any thing from others. Most
of them can DO nothing butthe one thing by which
they are now barely kept from starvation, and have
Of course no time 10 learn any thing else-so they
struggle and starve on.
The wor5; features OF this OF things are It's
hopclessness and It's constant tendency from bad 10
worse Small as are the earnings OF these seam
stresses, they constantly tend to diminish. Hun
ireds OF young women are daily attracted to the
Cities by vague hopes of doing better, or by the
allurements OF false friends; many are constantly
coming over from Europe; thousands are lett here
by sailor husbands or fathers, or brothers, to get
along as they can during their several protectors
absence on voyages; still more are lett destitute
By the sudden death Of those 10 whom they had
looked for support, by utter bankruptcy. or by flight
or Imprisonment on account OF CRIME. The re-
male population OF our City, as OF almost every
great City, considerably outnumbers the Male,
while employment, though deficient for both, Is
distributed in inverse ratio. There are thus many
more seams,resses or females wishing to be such,
than are required in that capacity-probabiy twice
as many as would find employment ct fair wages
Under these circumstances, nothing can prevent
low wages and constant tendency 10 lower. Inc
Clothing makers for the Southern Trade are gen
orally the target OF popular hostility on account OF
low wages, and there can be no doubt that many
of them are grpers But if theywere all the pures
philanhropists. they could not raise the wages OF
their seamstresses 10 any thing like living price
Necessity rests as heavily upon them as upon the
occupant of the most contracted garnet. They can
only live by their business so long as they can get
garments made here low enough TO enable them 10
pay cost, risk and charges and undersell the seam
stresses of some other section. II they were COM
peed 10 paw living wages for their work, they must
stop il altogether We must go behind them, there
fore TO reach the heart OF the evil we are con-
slderng.
But we must not enter deeply into the discussion
before us, lest we offend the exquisite tastes oil
many Of our readers by inculcaons which they
see fit TO despise as Fourlerism.' We will point
rather TO some immediate and obvious palllatives
for the evil contemplated. These are
l. 4 mideung of the fcld Of Female Employment.
All our stores mainly visited by Women should be
attended by Women. 1t is shame that fine,
hearty lads, who might clear fifty acres each OF
Western forest in short time, and have house,
a farm, a wife and boys about them IN the course
of ten wears should be hyed up IN hot saIesrooms,
handing down tapes and ribbons, and cramPng
heir genius over chintzes aud deIanes They
should know better; but, If they do not, our Wo-
men of Intelligence and means should take com
passion on their less fortunate sisters, and for their
sake refuse 10 trade where they cannot be waited
on by females.
> Young IVomea should be encouraged and aided
10 ,pi crate West In the newest States and the
Territories, there is deficiency OF Women, Just as
there is a superabundance here. They are needed
there for Teachers, Dress-makers Milliners, &c
to say nothing more. Many, who are in Cities
burthen on their relatives, would in Iowa be very
far from il, and al any rate would not long remain
under the paternal roof, unless wilfully. Now,
these cannot migrate alone but fathers brothers
who know any of the ways of getting living in
new country and who can barely live here, should
for their salles think of emgraiing Westward.
3. We must encourage Manufactures 10 The ut
most 10 gire employment 10 Uomcn. We speak
not merely Of Cloth making, though tina, gives enl-
ployment to many thousands Of Women and I'M
proves the condition of all, but the manufacture OF
Silk. silk Goods, Hosiery, Buttons, Brushes, Bon
nets. &c &c Each of these branches gives en-
peyment to hundreds OF Women at relatively good
wages who would be thrown back on the Needle
and the Broom. 10 increase reluctant idleness and
greatly depress Wages, il the Tariff were cut down
To mere Revenue standard This mist not be-
Neither must Manufactures be confined 10 the East
or the Old States; they must be attracted 10 the
| West (whher they new fast tendns) and diff
fused ever that vast and fruitful region, drawing
portion of our surplus Female population after them
Enough for to-day.
EDITORIAL CHANGE.-lt is announced in the
Nashville Wing that Mr.. C. C. Norycll will retire
in the course OF the ensuing month, from the edi-
toral charge OF tina. paper, and that Mr.. Allen A.
Hall will, thereafter, have entire and exclusive
control over rs columns.
r. Mr. Polks inaugural expressed from this City
Albany by The publishers OF the EVENING JOURNAL who
procured q copy from this office il arrived
chartered the steamboat Illinois, and reached Albany with