The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1868-02-08
woman--HeT Wrongs, Work, Wages and
Vnta.


Gail Hamilton has issued another of her
characteristic volumes under the title of
"Woman's Wrongs" Her views On this
matter, which she has made speciality, are
at least entitled to consideration, and the
piquancy With which they are always pre-
s5nted makes them readable. We quote
from the San:
In any community the character OK either
sex may be inferred from that Of the other
The very laws that bear 30 uniustly on wo-
man represent MOI only mans thought or
woman, but woman's thoughts OF herself. III
the women OF Massachusetts, or Of New
York, or of any state where there are Eniust
laws, sho1ld rise in a body as women and
demand the repeal Of those laws, they would
be repealed. Strong as are love Of power,
and the might OF brute force, and the greed
OF gain, there Is no man and no law thar can
stand out against the concentrated will Of
women. Ii IL because the mass of women
do not know what the laws are, or do not
care, that the laws stand. The Improvement
in laws respecting women since the women's
rights agitati IN commenced, shc-s hat can
be done even BY q few women witnoat the
ballot. This no more initiates against the
men bat, IL true, il shows that, when either
sex votes, the other does in gome sense vote
with it. 4. IL not tbe legislators alone, it's
the woman's rights women who have been at
work repeating old laws and enacting new.
Let the women OF America make up their
lninds what laws they want, and they will
have them, and may laugh at the ballot.
BousEwoRK AND sUFFEE-lSG woxEN.
-~where is the sense in a won ans starving
because she has no food IN her hands, when
Q woman i starving by her side because she
has ho hands fcF her f0odg | feel indignant
when hear these multiplied stories Of whole
-Sle dsstituSion- | am disposed to saw 10
f9ssc women If yo1 choose 70 stay at home
ard perish, rather than 70 into your neigh
bars kitchen and supply your wants, d. 90
but az not appeal 70 those for pity from
whom y0o refuse eRPls0y lis;iAs4 l know there
are many who are tied TO their own MIetched
homes; but IL those who are unincnmberel
would resort 10 the kitchens Of the rich, ID
would relieve the stress Of competition those
who remaIn would command better price
fof taeiE labor, and starvation would be
Permanently stopped. do not say this be-
cause housework Is woman's sphere, but be-
cnnse 10 " honest work that calls her. and
any honest Work IN her power II better than
starvation, and more diguIHed than com
plant and outcry.
\ WOMEN AZ CLERKS IN sroREs.
What can the ballot 40 towards equa.izinr
wees, where work IL already equalired with
71ug .-aKes, es " rot nnfrequeutIy
80 there are shcns Of the same sort
" Ou HzS-g, Fes---- Gs' --N5lefAs' an UrTu,
and fenaie clerks 10 another, whore the for
mer work fewer hours and receive hirber
~ wages than the latter. There 10 q wrong. an
! injustice, bus the law cannot interfere. II
! cannot force haberdasher to pay ten dol
I lars Tor service which he can secure for six.
Z Moreover the question of female clerkship is
I NOS jet settled. There are conscientious,
: intelligent and obliging shopkeepers who say
that female clerks are not satisfactory.
Their strength II not equal to toe draughts
: made upon IL. They are not able Il. stand
. . 20 long ~ clerks are required 20 stand, and
= nave not the patience, the civility, the tact
tnat male clerks have. do not know how
this 70 only say these things are alleged
~ TUE SCHOOL TEACHERS QUESTION
a think, the women Uf q country village
"A were 70 decide by vote whether the school
! mistress in Summer should have as much I
"A month as the schoolmaster in winter, the mo
A. Eney corning from their own. thak ii. has
g bands purses, they would vote No, IL abou
IL the same proportion a. men now vote its |
\. " partly because women have not suffcien
"A spiritsto stand up for one another 10 any e.
d. TENT. WoAaen's love OF men to 40 muc
stronger than their love Of justioe, that the
erd would 20 wrong with men, rather than righ
svl against them. So far as this Is the result 3
A. lA false seducation, 70 Gqsl-is-thy y-law-tAou
al mine teachings, It ID 70 be depreestsd. y
"a fAr ID IL the natural arrangement OF thingI
Is. 10 ~ beneAciai. Certainly 10 wouId be On
N laniteps uinsB which would array the tw
" sexes against each other. Kwodid, in fac
IN be- practically impossible, foE tho idea under
49, iying tfe relationship AZ the tEo sexes is Eh
iaess o. unisys thai Of ihdiSidnaIs Of eithe
sex il separation, and this instinct or unit
* vii viii go ~ nv RlR ~ .s women workin
often work wfOng