The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-12-12

shocked at the immorsllities introduced
by strangers, i. 9. Northern people, in
TO Washington, which has been so trans
formed by these vandals, that native
born gentleman can no longer sell his
own baby, when it gets old enough, in
order TO crafty his lady friend with
drive behind a pair of fast horses. As
she is ga law unto herself,8 and her fine
lady airs make her monarch of NIL she
surveys, II is u wonder that other wo-
men initiate her, and that very few
snch do much TO disorganize the work
ing force ola department?
There is yet another class of APP
pointees-the lady who must see the
clerk for whom she Is recording or copy
ing, and who, when he comes, strikes a
Saint Agnes attitude, folds her hands
meekly, draws her lips to a ''pruneS
prism, and potato" quicker, turns mp her
eyes like duck in a thunder storm, or
a Juvenile bovine in the net of becom-
ing veal, makes a pun and an impress
sion, or several puns and as many i'm
presSionS, grows witty, tells the unfOF-
innate man TINT she dreamed last night
she was mRrried 10 hun, is selE-satisfiei
and subsidies in n simper, while there is
no one with the nerve and authority TO
order her out of the room, and see that
she never returns.
In the same bureau, where YOU will
find the assortment described, and this
II most VI LueLn, lnere Is, perhaps, a
majority of the female clerks with
whose dizziness and demeRnor it would
be difficult to find fiiult--women work
ing like horses, scarce taking time for
lunch, making books of records second
to none, and copies of important papers
with wonderful rapidity and correct
ness; some of them doing precisely the
same kind of work, and as much Of IT,,
as men at salaries of 3, 200, 81, 400, and
81 600 Per Annum. while they get 500.
At the end of the month all get equal
pay. Their chances of promotion are
the same, and special favors ara for
those who have done the least work.
What wonder that the experiment is
thought by many to be failure?
II is for the people to say, whether in
huential men shall close their door
against honorable women by making
these places accessible to women of bad
character and of no character. VIII
they pay men double or treble salaries
for doing whnt women can do quite ms
well, and will do for n compensation so
much lowerT Will they not sustain
heads of departments against that type
of Congressional influence which ear
rieS corruption of the worst kind into
the departments, and makes govern
ment offices places of designation, or
excludes honorable women from hon
orable and suitable employment? The
exclusion of women from these places
will not improve the morals of the city
or The country, while their emDloyinent
in them, under proper regulations,
could not fail to exercise a most benefi-
Cial influence. There are thousands of
women perfectly able and willing to
perform the duties OF any first or SEQ
oud class clerEship here; thousands
who by the war have been de- lived of
their former means of support, and len
with fnuTies dependent upon them;
and 1t is mean and Cowardly for the
government to set the example OF driy-
ing such from class of occupations
well suited to their capacity, as the
shortest way OF disposing of abuses for
which government officials are respon-
sible. ,r JANE g. SwIssHELM.
WASHINGTON, Nov. Is, 1865.