The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-07-20
The Social Evil.

"Does the editor of the Independent know that thousands of
women in New York are so i'll paid that it is impossible
that is the wordPossIBLE for them to live through the
year without resorting to prostitution ?-BOston Voice.
Yes The editor of the Independent knows it very well,
and is trying to contribute his share towards remedy Ninety
nine in hundred who to such trade for their
daily bread literally driven such sedegradaton solely
through the amentabe lack of honest reputable and
nerative employments Give hundred women, the
poorer and most Ignorant class chance to their living
in an honorable and the will their
honor at the of working themselves to half
starvation half pay In the instances exceedingly
in ten thousand in the community at large
in which women by natural constitution graviate through
choice a of infamy Such sights few
nights ago during Saturday nights through the hauns
of vice in this city, soennly confirmed long settled
opinion that the prevalent public opinion which restricts poor
and dependent within few and crowded
empoymens is the greatest of all existing cruetes against
society! There ought be at this thousand
sentiment closes against the entire And what the
only key that these locks? In judgement it
the ballot in womes hand This journal has brought itself
into much criticism within the last few years for its advocacy
of womans suffrage But since the Saturday nights trip
which have mentioned have resolved to advocate
mans suffrage perslstent more obsnatey and more
uncompromisingly than Dainty people living at the
top of society who take any pains the bottom
who do great sentmentay but very little practically
towards eevang their degraded fellowbeings who think
that women to quite questionable therefore
nady like all such people, if they would take the trouble
to and for themselves such of sin and
shame fell under eyes, to hearts sckenng might
possibly be induced their canng against the only
possible remedy In this country it is the wokingmans
ballot that enables him his living. Take away his
ballot and clutch at his wages So too IS the working
woan's ballot that is yet for her decent living.
Keeping the ballot away from women in the past has sent
thousands and of thousands pollution and DEATH Not
only therefore, in the of womans citizenship but of
woman's wages and of womans honor demand womans
suffrage Good people who mistakenly oppose of
the bencen reforms known in the history of human
charya reform sacredly Christian the sending of
foreign missionaries heather landsa reform vital and in
dspensable to public morality and domestic happiness
reform which is the bright consummate flower of all the
reforms of modern mes-will by and by in its day of
victory look back with regret and confusion at their unac
countabe opposition it in the period of its struggesIhe
Independent
Without pronouncng the question of "woman suf
frage" has long been painfully evident that the payment
and general of working and working girls
very far indeed from what they ought to be- Have our
rulers and politicians sacred and proane neither hearts
conscences in this matter ?-EDs. l. r. 49,