St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1860-01-12

strength to measure A log and tell how
MUCH lnnbersit will make. or to examine
it and eve an intelligent opinion as to
wfet'ar IT'D a@so1antl lt>,.sa & Z ousandao f
women have the ability to do this; and
do actussiy make such computations to
aid their male friends IN their bust
ne2s. Why, then, sheuld 1.-THE disgrace
full for woman to be commissioned to do
what thousands do now without u com
mission
his office is ant like that of Sheriff.
It does not, necessarily, bring the holder
into contact with rufians. 1t requires no
exercise Of brute force and has nothing
conn, cted with il which would disgrace
the most delicate lady i'll the State. Not
one nan !n five hundred would object to
any wemau doing tie ro,k Of y Surveyor
General. They are only shocked at her
receiving the hon>r and en,oiuments.
The ign Of Might over Right is not
yet at an end in this world and under it,
man, in the might Of his phyical strength,
has so ordered its affairs that all occupa
ii rs which pay, fall to his share. Instead
CT making 9 just use Of his hair.coyered
face AND ox~muscles, ;nd t.k;n. the
W 'rld's roug' heavy work as his share,
leaving to woman exclusively such em
Payments as her teebler frame make
suitable for her alone, and sharing with
her that class Of business which parvakc
of the natures Of both extrenes---he has
monop' Lied everything lie mas made
himself lord of the se,::ate, cham er, and
COOK 'room-st'r-,s Ike J. turkey.cock in
me pu,~~':c walks If life, and crows like a
ualtau. rooster over the domestic hearth.
Lie manages navics and measures tape
builds houses and makes bonnets-makes
railroads and ribbons--sclls stocks and
satin slippers advertises himself as the
manufacturer Of dynastics and oil talit S
steam engines and whalebo.e -bustles
locomotives and ladies' hair pins. Moth
ing is too ctIeninate for a great, brawnv
man to do, provided it pays; and no work
is too la' orious, too ,neuia), for woman,
provided 1t does ~nt pay. 4 woman may
tell trees, and cut thcm into say logs or
hrcwood she may build fence; plough
mow; drive "xen; 10 any drudgery th1t
clrcumsta ecs seem to require anu there
Is no trouble about it, provided she d. not
'"S tie same wages man would get for
the work. How much mans work do
woEseu perl.rul in Cur frontier lite, with
ONT shocking any body's scnsibilities :?
So long as she does it in subordinate
position, it is all very well; but he no"
a woman a*rires to use her ON hands md
brains for her own benefit, she aust cu-
$: gage in only such avocat;ons as his serene
highness-that n,agn:fccntanims], man~~
has assigned to her l
Mcn pirate about "womat,'s sphere -
We would ast like to know where it is
" The domestic HEARTH is the usual dee
milton; but The house o! bondage" woald
he a better answer. So far as we know
the laws OF the States OF this Union, there
Is not wo'nan-excert old maids and
Widows who has right to bring por-
ter i;,to the hall OF the house, OF which
she fanc;es she is mistress, to carry her
trunk out Of it; or a right IT, her own
child. M@n has constituted himself abso~
Lutte legal master, not only Of her person,
bat If all her clothes, even to the old
gloy>s, as we'll as the pots, kettles, and
pans, and every otl,:r article of household
iarn.t%re down to the nutmeg crater. ANY
!!usba"d in America has the legal right
to hir, Lis wife out aud collect her wages.
They have made the appearance Of laws
binding themselves to support their wives;
but they are laws without penalty or any
provision for their enforcement; and un-
der them, thousands Of men of wealth
keep their wives so that they may we'll
envy the COOK who has her six dollars a
month, and feels tina, it is her own. s..
30 far as we are concerned personally,
we are not candidate for any office. For
as we are now the North Western pioneer
printer, editor, aud publisher Of these
United States, we arc satisfied; hut We