The Republican journal., 1869-06-10

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lay their heads. These women have to go up
on a dry crust of bread all day, and many
others lay their sleepIess heads upon the pill
low and ask our Heavenly Father if there is
no sympathy left for poor women. One
other unfortunate told me that She had to sew
boots and shoes for twenty cents day and
travel three miles to get this work | have
often travelled around to these mansions of
ours seeking for work. but the mistresecs
would not see me, and have had to 90 to
the station house and get something to eat
there, and ! thank God for it. We ask of
you, wealthy gentlemen, that we Get little
homes where we can rear our children, and
worship God and develop that spiritual ma
ture, and make ourselves what God intended
us to be-
THE SOCIAL EVIL.
Mrs DR.. Hathaway said that the question
must be considered, not only with regard to
them, but in regard to the welfare of the State
We have a disease fatal to society in the form
Of this moral complaint. Friends. it is com
ing UP into the elegant houses Of the city
Not only the poor woman suffers but the rich
also suffer from this disease. Now, the ques-
ton is, whether we could not get these little
homes on cheap scale. Let the State build
n hundred homes, worth S400. and I would
suggest that a laundry he established at these
houses. We then would have an agent in
town who would receive orders Each wo-
man could earn three or four dollars a day bv
washing at seveny-five cents or Il dollar a
dozen. Now there are men who come into
the city and take clothes out by contract and
then divide il among the farmers daughters
and wives Of New Hampshire for instance,
who do the work ch"apy, just for pocket
money. These do not know that they are
Sf1rNInO women hhr,4 If tbaJr 1J t,nI
would torego the little amounts they receive
If the State would give $50, 900, and put it in
proper hands, the scheme would be success
tul. In Chicago they have the cooperative
houses built, where the inmates do the work
obtained for them, and they also have times
of recreation.
TIE STATE Is REALLY TOO POOR.
Mr.. Stephen Foster a member oft "Wo-
mems League said that he was acquainted
with the financial condition of the State, and
1t was in debt to the amount OF $1,000. 900,
and that an agent has gone to Europe with
some of the bonds to pay the debt. He was,
however, sure that something would GROW out
Of this meeting beneficial to the working
women Ii is said to the women. 60 West =
hut how are they TO go? I
sECEDE
Mrs. Bigelow-Get up \ company and 90
on foot. [Applause.l If the women will Sc
cede from the factories, the owners will 90
down. [Applause.]
TIE OTHER SIDE.
Professor Wcthcrcll, editor Of the Cultiva-
tor, was the mex! speaker. He said that he
had been told that the wages OF coat-makers
We're from $40 to $50 4 week, and right OPP
pusite his office there was 4 SIGN hanging out
asking for these coat-makels, 50 he thought
there We're two kinds OF facts If there are
coat-makerS working for 81 cents a garment,
when they can oct all the way from $40 to
$50 a week, he wanted to know why they did
it. 1t might be said that all could not Get it,
but when the fact came out that those who did
not get that amount We're not able for the
work, who is to blame The city is full of
women from the country, and they say, ''Oh !
Lwould rather live here on bare subsistence
than go back into the country, rs it is so dull
there" whose fault is it that there is so much
competition? He thought that the threaten
"ss which hn ha1 board oainst capital would
not avail much. If these women would 90
into domestic families, instead or making
shirts at sin cents, they would lo better Even
in his printing office some OF the girs make
2l0,15 per week, and they only work from
eight in the morning till @iy 1T night Let
every woman, therefore, learn to DO some
the convention at Halifax did in 1851, when
the women said that unless they cot what they
wanted they would stop populating the globe
But il women only learn to do something they
will never have to marry like the woman
down at Washington the other day, who said
that if she could not get a situation she would
have to, marry, and if she dll obtain il She
would not Laughter
TIE OTHER SIDE ANSWERED.
Mis- Jennie Collins Naioress and lecturer)
said, the men come there and if they had
driven COW and turned n grindstonc they
say they are laborng men. Laughter. Here
at the last meeting, continued the lady, our
statements were doubted-hey were saia to
be eNaogerations. But they are true; and if
the women dared to come here and lay open
their lives instead of the accounts being eX-
aggeratons they would harrow up your souls.
What the gentleman has said about the wages
is true. Women for custom work receive
from Sl4 to S2l a week. But what encour-
agemeni have women to become as perfect as
that. There are not many men in the United
States who can afford to pay that amount Of
wages Men who call for this kind of work
are few, but when Il merchant tailor has the
custom have never known them TO hesitate
to pay for it. But these few are not what the
working women depend upon; it is upon the
public generally; upon the iaDorlng man ami
the farmer Miss Collins further went on to
refer to the bad school system there was in
the country that looked ouly to the giving Of
girls the law Of polarity and equilibrium
rather than a common and good education.
She also contrasted tavorably for the old
countries the way in which the men there use
their wives, and the manner in which they
are taken care of there, like 50 many dolls.
THE RACE DYING ouT-INFANTICIDE.
Mrs. Daniels said If it is true that women
would prefer starvation to labor in the houses
is there not something radically wrong with
the mistress as well as with the maid? Ap-
plause 1t seems singular the report that
comes from this state us well as from others,
that women would gladly 90 into the kitchens
if they would get decent treatment, OF such
home as our grandmothers and mothers have
to them who did their work. We have no
such men or women as the Revolution gave
us This labor movement which the women
are taking to heart strikes deeper then you
have any idea. 1t strikes at the evil which
is robbing the nation of its strength. Child
rem are the reserve power of a nation, and to-
day in many an American house the children
arc being murdered. Yes, murdered in cold
blood. [Appause.l And who sets the ex-
ample the maid or the mistress? Applause
We find it necessary to strike deep in order
to arouse public opinion. Iremember Emcr-