The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-06-22

but when we once get outside these classes, woman
becomes the accommodation again, for planting the
corn and suffering from the general rudeness.
When civilization will reach perfection there will
be no suffering in the State. Until it does reach
perfection, we must expect to find the weak tram
pied on by the strong. That there is suffering in
these United States, Notwithstanding the advanced
position in true civilization, which is general happi
ness-cannot be denied Notwithstanding, also,
that woman occupies more pleasant and enviable
position in the favored land than has been accorded
to her in any other nation, still there are women
even here suffering and pning beneath the weight
Of heartless system. IT'S true that they are not
trampled into the dust beneath the moccasin of the
Indian, the Yorkshire clog, but they pressed
slowly and unrelentingly, by our incomplete Chris
tian civilization without exciting that general hor
ror which woman's condition beneath the iron heel
of barbarsm excites
The class known as the working girls" in
midst is an illustration of our text. Were those
"working girls'' in Borioboolagha some Reverend
Missionary would excite the country with their suf
ferngs, and the in Justice Of the system that pales
their cheeks and makes them prematurely old; and
the Christian ladies in every household in the land
their own flesh and blood, and suffering at their
very DOORS there is no romance in coming to their
relief Take the girls who work in the stores for
three or four dollars week, who walk beneath
the summer sun, and through the biting winds of
winter, and work their long and weary hours for
their miserable pittance. Many have parents to sup
port, and after returning to their cheerless homes
from their daily toll must work for themselves
til the midnight bells chime sad and lonely their
weary souls, like the requiem of their happy days.
What wonder that so many choose the road to ruin
to escape the slow torture of life of il-remune
rated labor.
Talk of the heroism and the strength of those
who live in luxury and resist the voice of the
tempter. Talk of the courage that faces death on
the battlefield! knowing that fame will trumpet
it's deeds to the four winds But the real heroines,
unhonored and unsung, are those pale-faced, hum
bly-dressed working girls, who out their lives
in dingy shops, blanching their cheeks and seam
ing their brows, and all for what ?--To keep the
whiteness of their souls! And how does the world
reward them for their heroism? By showing more
respect to vice when welapparelled than to virtue
plainly clad
Go into your street cars, public places of amuse-
ments or any other resorts where fashion most does
congregate, that pale, genteel girl, dressed in
calico. She has worked ten or twelve hours, and
is weary. She looks half ashamed, for there are no
sympathetic looks for her. She stands, of course,
for not one of the two dozen well dressed gents (?)
who not gentlemen, will rise because they have
respect for honest poverty, she is not lady for
she is not dressed in silks and, therefore, she can
stand. Soon there comes lady into the car
she must be a lady for she is highly
ornamented Velvet, lace, diamonds and paint,
all speak for her. Her countenance has as
sumed that bold vouptuous expression that vice
stamps on the faces of her votares. A dozen
gen who are not gentlemen, rise to give her seat,