New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-06-18
EMPLOYMENT FOR WOMEN.

EMPLOYMENT FOR WOMEN.
We have not given 80 much space sformeryterecent
r,overneuts in favor Of Womsns Rights, no, because
tbs. movement has lost either importaneeor favor in orr
ewes but simply because r.! to print newspaper
and cannot afford nearly so much for the twentieth
iteration of truth IS We accorded TO its original utter
apce Hereafter We only publish SO much Of those
proceeGng as is essential fair history OF tie times
intending such suggestions ofReform as are substantially
novel or else particularly adapted to some existing
eIigcncy
The point of view in which the radical vcousness Of
the present position Of Woman appears TO US most
striking is that of Employment To De denied the
Risht of Suffrage may be Al ideal grievance, (though
the source and support Of Others that are ste-ny prac
tcs) While our interest in and attention 70 Costume
b.. not been sufficient 10 enable US to decide with any
confidence on the merits OF Bloomerism. But that
yo. man OF twenty with -Urt OF aptitude 1r work
can almost always md ready employment mat all bring
him ten to thirty dollars per month above bis board,
while his sister equally willing energetic and efficient.
can with far more difficulty find work that will yield her
half 80 much-this is and chronic injustice
which sceptcsm cannot gainsay nor eyity dissolve in
riGcue What has Conservatism 10 offer respecting
II What should Christianity mpel US TO do
To tel our hundreds of thousands Of poor Young Wo
men who are constantly looking this way and that for
opportunities honorable and comfortable v-
Ing that the end Of their existence is to be good wives
AID mothers, is to insult them most stupidity! What
prospect have they, or the half Of them to become
wives at all while so many men spurn the restraints
Of marriage and riot in dissolute pleasures, and when
so many thousands after thousands Of young men
are lured away by the still increasing spirit Of al
venture to California Central America &c. &c.' It's
decree Of Fate that very large portion Of the Young
Women Of our older and more eastery States must re-
nain single while necessity and sefrepect alike forbid
that they shall eat the bread Of ideness They may II
comely purchase short Of guilty and debasing
luxury BY the surrender Of al virtue all of de-
cency all intercourse with reputable society all trust in
God and hope of Heaven and if the Father Of Evil
had arranged matters on purpose to drive as many as
possible this horrible alternative, he could hardly have
improved much the Social influences and usages which
LOW surround the fendess daughters OF the Poor Even
tbs is but limited resource for very brief season
and still the fact recurs that the great majority of our
Young Women must, for number of years at all events,
earn their bread by independent industry. How shall
they and at what
Neede-vork has hitherto been the main resource of
the Thousands disqualified by decacy OF nurture or fra
giy of muscle for rough housework, and needle-~ork
il now at its last gasp. We shall be careful not again
TO run into hornets nest by speaking Discriminatory of
Sewing Machines; but, speaking generally We may
say-what no one who has looked into the matter will
denythat the needle is to be consigned to the
lumber room wherein our grandmothers' great WHEEL
little wheel loom and swifts are silently mOul-
deriDg Twenty years may elapse 0hOugh We think
not half 80 many wiz before the revolution will have
been completed but the sewing of long, straight seam
L., l..
anacbronm and the ingerplied needle, though it may
be retained few years longer for buttonholes and such
fancy work has but a short lease left That ever gar
ment or shoe ewed entirely by hand without the
aid Of machinery will be told as marvel to our grand
children and received by them with wondering incre
duty.
The stau quo, therefore, with regard TO Womsns POI
ston is simply impossible. She must advance or sink
back into a state Of Oriental debasement and abect
dependence. a wider scope must be accorded to her
faculties she might better have been born without
them. Society must either secure her opportunity of
earning On independent subsistence shield her from
famine and shame with the protecting though degrading
mantle of Polygamy and virtual Slavery.
The movements Of our time therefore, looking 10
wider sphere Of Industrial training aud effort for Wo-
man, are impelled by terrible necessity Place is
uGoc TOT III vi hItlslf suOp Oh
mechanic behind the counter of the merchant &C. be-
cause she cannot otherwise exist in the equivOca posi-
ton TO which Western Civilization has raised her
Unless che is to be the substantial equal Of Man out OF
wedlOck, she cannot be bis equal in that relation II
she must marry live, she will soon be constrained to
marry whoever will insure her a living any re.
qnirement on her part Of fitness or sympathy in the
Aton must be regarded as absurd and mprsctcable
fsstidiousness This point attained the assumption
that lie WHO support half dozen wives has perfect
moral and should have unebstructed legal right TO
marry ths, number, is not to be resisted. Nay: as
sumirg Marriage TO be the sole condition wherein WO-
may live usefuly and worthily the polygamist be-
public benefsctor, especially Of the dependent
sex. The WOmans Movement" of our day, thought
fully considered is in spite Of the vagaries Of Of
It's advocates essentially conservave-a change Of po-
Eton vital though Doiseless change in the IN
dustral and social elements Of Wom,ns allotted sphere
ard IS such should be regarded and respected.
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