Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-04-12
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tshliIaonE Of thToats wO' 0aYgl TOR civil rights
no U0u,aH named"
An inspection of the report of the
Superintendent Of Public Instruction
for TIE. great State of Illinois discloses
these interesting statistics:
Highest monthly wages paid to male :
Highest monthly 5Tages paid 70 female
Lowest monthly wages paid to male ;. =
r.5Jee 5Ses6s1 wages paid to fa1nale
ASs59gs tsaeReTa montnly wages pela 70 maze $40
ASS5ss tsSe6eTsa. 1noti'ig ....i. ~.- paw. 9sls
In Indiana Il is no better. Take La
porte county for example In the
Primary Schools the average compen-
sation for males is 81 ,S8 per diem; for
females, S1,06 In the High SChoe Is
the men get 81, As per day, and the wO-
man 81 81. These figures are Official,
being taken from the last report Of
out State Superintendent
Wewere never accused of. being ia
uatieal on the subject of woman s
rights :" but We cannot avoid feeling
an honest indignation at woman s
wrongs. The spectacle of an army OF
Iion-hearfed women and girls nObly
fighting the battle of life in the school
rooms must challenge the admiration
of every lover of the true and heroic.
As a class they yield to none in COur-
age and usefulness; they are the chosen
gestals who feed and trim the lamps
of knowledge on the altaFs of learning.
Their lot is not an easy one. Teachings
most laboFious and wasting business
--ah IN for uunrunm
who Is finer-nerVed and Of frazier body.
Nothing can be more truly grand and
affecting than to behold a young girl, q
friendless stranger. .perchance, her sen
sitive nature unused to the blows and
coldness of this rough world, taking
command of half hundred children
governing them with a firm gentleness.
and developing their minds with eX-
cellent instruction in everything
braveIy and conscientiOusIy discharg-
ing her duty. Who can imagine the
cares. yexRtiOns and anxieties which
must have harFassed her There are
hundreds of such herOines In our land;
the thousands, of all ages, who are to-
day training the rising generations,
have all passed through much the
same ordeal. And yet we pay these
Z
pittance Of 81 ,06 per day, while into
the stronger vessel we drop 81 ,S8.
Wherefore this discrimination
/ discrimination as insulting as it Is in
iuuitous? We know of but one apollo
gy attempted to be made for 1t; it is
sometimes urged that the services of
females are less valuable. We viii not
stop to consider this mean and ground
] 4. -
tables of the Superintendent show that
last year nearly 3400 lady teachers
we're licensed for this State. Win it
be pretended that the County Exam
iners have violated the sacred trust re-
posed in them by placing half the
children of Indiana In incompetent
hands2 IF they are not fully as capa-
bic as men they should not be allowed
to hear recitation. The fact is, they
are Just as well qualified for their pro
fession as the ''lOrds of creation In
the primary schools, especially, we be-
lieYe they are doing a better services
because they engage IN the work more
lovingly and eneTgetieallg. 5r
The blunt truth Is, that this Odious
discrimination is made aud enforced
against woman on the ground Of sex a.
lone. we Commune 90 WIsnnOlQ JUS
tice from her just because we eau. II
is the coWaRdly outrage which the
strong perpetrates on the weak. Help
less as sheis, trammeled and manscled
by the usages ofsociety, confined by
cruel custom, and oftimes by Law, to q
narrow feld of employment, we add to
her burdens and multiply her dificul-
ties By atroeiously rObbing her of a
part Of the wages which she fairly earns
IN one of the new spheres Of labor open
to her.
This is what the boasted civilization
Of the 10Th century does for the best
part of its bumani5yl
What woman needs is not the as
cription of sOnuets to her lovliness,
neither the cheap batteries of gallauts,
OF even the homage Of good men, but
simple, eveu-handed JUsTIOE-that en-
lightened and righteous public opinion
which will decree that woman per-
forming the work of man, and doing
it as well, shall be entitled to and re-
ceive the same pay.-LapoTte (Lnd.)
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