The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1868-01-18

all their training which will return to walOw in the
mire from which they originally sprung.
Taking up the cry some European Glass; and repeat
it here is another feature unworthy of the American
woman. It should be borne in mind that America IS
the child of labor and that when labor is degraded the
graves of the dead are desecrated. We do not mean
that women should labor when their position places
them beyond the necessity of but that they shall not
ape the arocrats Of Europe by seeking to degrade and
enslave those whom chance fortune has placed be-
meath them The American woman Is in position
superior to that of the poor emgrant girl who tolls in
her kitchen. She knew what it was to struggle
for existence, where poverty crime and woman
nobody. To see her gray-haired parents weep above
their leveed homestead and their only daughter sailing
away to the hope of the oppressed "-America-an
themselves going to the workhouse until Mary could
enough to bring them all to the land of plenty Did
the woman of America know that while she Tolls in
luxury upstairs poor Bridget in the kitchen weeping
and counting her dollars until she has saved enough to
send something home to her father and mother in Ire
land-did she know this surely she would not trample
her fal heart by publishing No Irish need apply
at the end of her advertisement for Girl wanted!'
It is the duty-we say it plainly, the duty-of the
the American to reach down from her high posi-
ton, and help the lowly instead of making the angels
weep" by the merciless stretch of authority.
Women of America, you cannot expect that the peas
ant girls of Ireland be advanced in the Sciences
accomplished the daughters of your land. We
do not close eyes to the fact that where there
many of our countrywomen whose lot is labor, there
necessarily be faults among them They may
not all be advanced in French cookery Professor
Blot, and many must have the fangs to human
y but wedo assert and defy contradiction that generally
speaking they pure in their lives and honest
and upright any other class of working girls in the
world. Why, then, shall they be singled out for petty
insult and annoyance, unless through prejudcial mo-
tves Our country has been dashed and crucfed, for
hundred years. by the power that sought to
sink you, Of America, into the EARTH by enslav-
ing your mothers and people have been prosecuted
but, thank God, not willingly enslaved; their schools
demolished and the schoolmasters hunted like wolves
This from generation to generation while your country
for eighty years has been fourshng and your people
owning master but God.
Do not then, lay the hand of tyranny the poor
emgrant girl, but pity her and help to make her life
bearable You read of the mothers and daughters of
old who sacrificed life for God and country and you
place these heroines in your temple nches while in the
kitchens of America real herones, who deyot
ing life and happiness to the support of parents and
kindred who reside in far-of land
Women of America, it is yours to ennobe labor and
help the honest working girl who tolls for miserable
pttanceto preserve the whiteness of her SOUL above
the painted courtesan who aunts herfnery-he emblem
of her shame and degradation the face the world
We appeal to you noble womans nature and the
blessings of freedom which, unless you have seen
people whipped from their homes by the hand of the
tyrant you scarcely Appreciation think kindly of
the working girl and encourage her to preserve the