The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1868-11-25

ply because the service Of men and wolneu
are interchangeable. .
Let the women Of Switzerland be sub.
tracted to-day from the iaboring forces Of
the country, 10 those fields never invaded
by women in America, and the number of
laborers is reduced to point where labor
can have a word to say as to what shall be
its price. Let women's labor be subtract.
ed from those fields and the wages of men
would be trebled at once, the laboring class
would receive third more for the work
done than it receives now, and the women.
ceaslng to be beasts Of burden, would gra-
duality make human homes of those novels
and chalets which are now the indiscrimi-
nate shelters OF chickens and children--uf
creatures who have few differences greater
than that which is apparent in the number
Of their legs.
9"lhe laboriug classes have gained moth
ing and lost everything. by putting, indis-
criminately, into every field o. labor, the
labor OF thelr women. They have lost an
untold amount Of money by it. They have
lost all their power by it. They cannot lit
finger towards obtaining an advance of
wages. Labor is so plenty, and has such
immediate needs, that it must take lust
what is offered it, and it can get no more.
II the legislation of Switzerland could. and
would pass law shutting women out of
those fields Of employment always and
alone occupied by men in America. il
would do more for increasing the power and
prosperity Of the working classes OF Swift
zerland. and forthe elevation Of the wo,nen
who. are now ohiY drudges and slaves of
physical toll, than they could possibly do
by any other act.
:" 1t IS proved here. beyond a question.
that the prsctical oblteration of what we
know in America as 'womens sphere is the
practical obliteration OF the power Of both
4 man and woman to fix the price of their
Town labor. When Only men do mems
work, then they can have word TO saw as
TO what shall be their compensation. Then
they can combine. Then their labor COM
mands money because il cannot be reDlac-
sd by that which is cheaper. II strike
among a certain class of aborers in Spring.
field should occur, and the places OF The
strikers could at once be filed by laborers
from Hartford, they would Of course be
without power. The same would be the
result if the laboriDg power of Springfield
should. be doubled. The price of labor will
go down always and everywhere with the
increased supply, aud the greater the sup
ply the more entirely is the advantage in
the hands of the buyer. =.,
81" II there were not natural sphere If.
labor Tor woman, it would be her true poli-
cy to establish one arbitrarily. BY having
sphere and holding to it. she increases
her power to protect herself, and mans
power to protect both himself and her. So
soon as she makes her labor interchange
able with that OF man, she reduces herself
and the man with whom she is associated
to helpless instruments of him who employs
them. believe this proposition is not on
ly demoDstrasle. but is thoroughly demon
strated, not only in Switzerland, but in
nearly all Of continental Europe. -
"Tbe American laboring man, no matter
what department Of labor may engage him,
is ten times the man that the Swiss laborec
is. The Swiss works slowly, lazily, inef.
| HCttDttys tha'S hSftE sctn SWIILeF mere,
at work for wages, who could not do. under
sufficient motives, twice the work he was
doing, and twice shat he was expected by
his employer to do. There is no need of
women here in those fields Of industry usu-
ally assigned ain America to men. The
men Of Switzerland can do the cut dour
work Of Switzerland, and ought to do il.
|, is the occupation Of their fields Of labor
by women that has sent SO many OF them
into the armies Of other nations. and made
the Swiss mercenary' reproach and by!
word. Its the chespening Of their labor
/ by women that has made them the helpless,
hnpeless tools Of their employers. As man
fares 50 iares woman. Though their
spheres may be distinct, their lot is indi.