Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1868-12-04

representing those of the husband ant
wife respectively. Woman has herr
all the variety of persuit she can desire
I have not heard of her preaching OF
practicing law or medicine, but really
do not see what should hinder, if she
desire it.
Well, what is the effect of this intro
duction Of WON IN into all the bushes,
and work of men ? Simply, the uni
versal degradation of men and women,
too. When I look around me here,
and see men working for franc day,
simply because women can be procured
to do his work for half franc, il
strikes me, that rs man, l have some
intererest in the settlement of this
questiones concerning woman's labor
in America. The whole laboring popn-
lation of Switzerland are in the hands
of the capitalist, simply because the
service of men and women is inter
changeable.
Let the women of Switzerland be
subtracted to-day from the laboring
force of the country, in those fields
never invaded by women i'll America,
and the number OF lahorers is reduced
| to a point where labor can have word
as to what shall be its price. Let
woman's labor be substracted 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, ceasing to be beasts of burden,
would gradually make human homes OF
those novels and chatlets which are now
the indiscriminate shelters of chickens
and children-of creatures who have
few differences greater than that which
is apparent in the number of their legs
The laboring classes have gained
nothing and lost everything, by putting,
Unfortunately, into every field OF
labor, the laborof their women. They
have lost and untold amount of money
by it, They cannot lift a finger toward
obtaining an advance of wages. Labor
is so plenty, and has such immediate
needs, that it must take just what it
is offered it, and it can get no more. Ii
the legislation of Switzerland conld,
and wonld, pass a law shutting women
ont of those fields of employment al
ways and alone occupied by men in
America, it would do more for inereas-
ing the power and prosperity of the
working class of Switzerland, and for
the elevation of the women who are
now only drudges and slaves of physi-
cal toll, than they could possibly do by
any other act.
1t is proved here, beyond question,
that the practical cbliteration of what
we know in America as woman sphere
is the practical obliteration of the
power of both man and woman to fix
the price of their own labor. When
only men do mems work. then they can
have word to spy rs to what shall be
their compensation. Then their Labor
commands money, because it cannot be
replaced replaced by that which is
cheaper, Ii strike among certain
class OF laborers in Springfield should
occur, and the places of the strikers
could at once be flied with laborer'
from Hartford, they of course would
be without power The same would bt
the result if the laboring power o.
Springfield should be doubled. The
price of labor will go down always and
everywhere with the increased supply
and the greater the supply the more
entirely is the advantage in the hands
of the buyer.
If their were not q natural sphere O
labor for woman, it would be her tru'
policy to establish one arbitrary. BY
having a sphere and holding to it, She
increases her power to protect herself
and mans power to protect both him
self and her. So soon she makes hel
labor interchangeable with that of /
man she reduces herself and the mar
with whom she is associated to helpless
instruments of him who employs them
I believe this proposition is not only
demonstrate, but is thoroughly dem
onstrated, not only in Switzerland, blu
in nearly all of continental Europe.
The American laboring man, no mat