New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-10-06

clOthirE-dnd tnat, too' duopS P'Np
who have undertaken to clethe the world !
Are they TO struggle for life with the
women of a country in which rhe habit oil
marriage is passing away, and to such an
extent that. as TIE London Chronicle now
Informs t., the ceremony ofmIriage rare
" takes pace in the rural districts " until
he cradle has become as necci'Gry as re
ring!" Assuredly such cannot be the
case
Where. however,i 1t viii be asked, shall We
find 10 remedy for this awful state OF things
In answer we have TO say that nothing
could be easier than TO find an efficient rem
edy, for all that is needed is TO increase the
variety of employments for female labor
Women cannot plough, bat they can At
tend looms and spindles. They cannot fol-
low the harrow, but they can make flowers,
and they can make thousands of other
things that we now import from abroad,
the product of the female labor of other
nations. They cannot make roads, but
they would gladly employ themselves in
various Departments Of manufacture that
would tend to improve their modes of
thought and action, and they would now do
so, but that our present revenue system
is totally opposed to any enlargement of
the field for their employment. British
free trade. which we are cow in part en-
oying. looks to limiting the whole world,
outside of Great Britain, 10 the single
employment of agriculture, in which
women cannot here be occupied. The
consequence Of this Is that the labor
market for females is always overstocked,
AID wages are always low, except in those
few places in which. after repeated fall
ures and enormous losses, the loom and
the spindle have al length succeeded in
taking their places by the side Of the plough
and the harrow. Such is the case in Mas
sachusetts, whose extensive manufactures
give employment to large body Of that
class of society vhich-accor1ing to TIL.
Economist-sood British free trade author
ity-is elsewhere productive, viz.
young females. The editor of that journal
SAYS:
We recently had the privilege of inspecting erst.
class factory, driven by water power which had bean
reaed al large outlay of cspits where 4s0 girls,
psic 81 - per week, average and are Of almost al
nations, daily convert four tuns of raw cotton, worth
$50 into 80 co yards OF No Ii cotton sasetug, worth,
81 eerts per ARD, g. 100. Here "a daily projection
OF 1904 By a cisss Of inhabitants with which Nov.
YORK Is suTchargeo, and who produce nothing Toe
Mill Ia question yielded, lest year, q clear profit OF
$1,000 on ia whole cost ard outlay, and les gods ara
Of quality and price that can be- cold In Manchester,
EuslsDd, profit Il can defy the world In compe,i.
uon Suppose, by outlay Of 500 0O0, you take OUT
hom this popusi0noppresset City, Newly lrk,I 1000
eirs who consumers, and very miserable Ihxt
give them ths means OF earning 81 - per week la
nOst comfortable occupations, st which they pro-
oucng value OF S3OVO per day, would Ne tho wealth
o. New York per accumulate faster than II the
amount OF New YORK capital gers Invested 10 Wa
tern Bank or R4ilrosdl The result 10 sslfsviisnt The
Gb.olrts Of labor n tile Cfy for rar If judicoHs
oud far seiHg outlay g ePiie on hs pTt Of dsoA et0
control r. Is absolutely GlShJaL We arc continually
oinned with tho wrongs and opprail0ns OF the sewing
GIRL. Of thi. City. N.o eoqks c0hRd ph zach Other for
ne ptl va ard besf05sd By 1ii0rs and shirt
The prolonged and OSontta9 labor. VlsR drst.
class factory the dss5achusetEs plan, sud you hud
water, baths and every convenience la these, each
room Is occupied By yonng women, Who earn from %
b. So per above the amount she pays TOR that con-
vebiant Odgiug and board AID she Ia rcqu ed 10 esd
the threads Ut beautiful moving machine, 10 ight
ell ventilated and well EARNED room, surrounded oy
companions, who speedily become classified by con.
peniAy Of feelings aud sentiments rpened toto socs.
lies and a'sosias rs for mental improvement
rnent n leisure hours"
Such are the effects OF manufactures in
Massachusetts,, and such mi 5ht be the
{ fleets throughout the Union. and would
be so were it not that British free trade
compels the Capitalization OF manufactures
il Lowell, Lawrence, and other places ia
which vast wealth is enabled to withstand
the Efforts Of the people OF Manchester
and Leeds to secure to themselves the con-
troll Of the farmers Of the world. Under
the tariff Of 1872 manufactures were grad
ually extending themselves throughout the
country, and gradually making a market
for female labor that would otherwise have
been compelled to ind employment in our
cities, but under that of 1916 most of
the smaller establishments south and west
OF New England have been broken up. and
the people employed in them have been
turned out to aid in swelling the host Of
sewing women with whose wrongs and
oppression " the ear Of our neighbor is
constantly dinned" and with which it
will continue TO be " dinned" until he and
bis friends shall open their eyes to the
fact that so long as our taiIors, our bonnet
makers, our flower makers, and makers of
thousands Of other articles in common use
requiring female labor alone for their pro-
duction, shall continue TO be compelled to
compete with people who can hire cirls A.