The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-04-06

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the authority of the Appointment Clerk
of the Department, says there is no such
person as "Hgnnah Tyler" employed
anywhere about the Department.. "The
popular opinion is that said Hannah
is some disappointed male of1ice.seeker,
who fully believes il no ladies were In
Office he would be drawing 81 600 from
the same place." If this be true and
the base creature could BIO found out,
he ought TO stretch hemp, for man
who from such motive could thus
SANDER virtuous and helpless women
by wholesale, deserves no better end.
We quote portion of the letter:
will ask this nicely discriminating
"Hannnh" If it is at all probable that
our senators and representatives are
likely to assert i'll so public manner,
as they must if they keep in office, n
fondness for improper women? The
records OF the office are public; every
one knows who wishes to know who
appointed and keeps in position lady
clerks. Does any one suppose that our
representative men thus publicly pro-
tect ana publish crime? Certainly, as
general thing, they are men of common
sense, and such course as "Hannah
y ISt 4t"SS w" II III IASIAL "Ouhl It.
quire class of men not only without
moral standing, but with too little sense
to try and appear to have, when they
appoint ''those whose personal beauty
and their laxity of morals'' arc their
only recommendation.
1 hardly believe that United States
senators will in this manner court the
public attention to such women.
The assertion, too, that men as
clerks "are subject to an examination
which women are not" shows either
utter Ignorance of official proceedings,
or n determination to misrepresent
facts. Not one gentleman in six is ex-
amined at all, but appointed, set at
simple work, and promoted as he shows
ability and becomes acquainted with
his duties. The same method with
lady clerks is observed, only their pro-
motion means simPly-mOre difficult
work: gentlemen's-larger pay.
Might l ask this nicely discriminate
ing, discriminating" Hannah" what eX
animation ladies should pass to see if
they arc competent to WELD huge pair
of shears to cut off coupons? And if,
after an apprenticeship at this, she has
not so deformcd her hand as to lose
the use of it (which has been the case),
and she is promoted to a copyist, ought
she TO be pnt cut of the building, if
| she is gOOd-iOoking, agreeable, willing
and competent to do the work for
about one-half what Mr.. Hannah
would get for it, if she was not there?
Our very economical and discrimi-
mating public never thought our faith
ers', husbands and brothers, personal
advantages" any reason why they
should not be sacrificed i'll war, leaving
orphans and widows, beautiful, accom-
plished, delicatcly reared, and peuni-
less, to beg for positions to earn 5000
year and be abused like II common va
| " he low CliEo 0nninto1 nG1iRa.
seeker who would gladly take their
| positions. And the families OF such
men as old Commodore Cnssin, OF Lake
CEamplnin memory; OF Colonel Har-
din, who fell pierced with a hundred
Indian arrows at Palo Alto brave Gen.
Plummer, who died on the battle field
Of Shiioh-suCh mon do not often leave
fortunes, but these and hundreds more
| to whom the public owe SO much, have
| left lady members of their families
wives and duuGhterS-exCellent Christ
| ian women, to toll away their life for
just sufficient money to keep the wolf
from their little ones, and barely that.
and receive i'll return the seedlings OF
such misrepresentation :ts this
Since General Spinner has urged up
on Congress the necessity of paying his
lady clerks according TO Tho work they
perform, various have been the insin-
uations of bis wishing to "Set more
money for his fIVOriteS."
| would only like to show the public
IA roomOf General Spinners' GavoritesC)-
| would take you down i'll the base
mcnt-thc cellar under four stories. We
would knock upon door kept locked,
ard upon which is the notice. mo clerk
admitted after 81 a. NJ" We would go
into II low, damp, hall-lighted room, or
cellar basement, where some sixty la
dies are employed, but Ills silent as a
church vault. You may stay there all
a nd NJ l0,Y Il
except as the chief clerk gives lnstruc-
tiOns; not even If the lady near you is
an acquaintance, will she moro than
| raise her eyes for moment, and nod;
for while their attention is attracted,
should they pass counterfeit, or make
a miscount, the difference is deducted
from their salary. Yet L know that
some OF these ladies are excellent. ac-
cOmPlished persons, OF undoubted hon
eSty; but, unless this rule N|as enforced,
some would be careless. SO one hun
dred, sometimes more, is occasionally
deducted from their pay. They are
| careful.
On the floor above you can SEQ some
hundreds OF gentlemen merely copying
| letters in book, talking, reading the
| papers, Sc, and receiving twelve, Gour-
| teen and sixteen hundred dollars, and
there is never Il dollar deducted from
his pay to mike him careful! The fact
that ladies axe sitting side by side With
gentlemen, performing exactly the
same duties, writing often in the same
books, one after the other, the ladies
| receiving 5000, the gentleman from
| $1,000 TO 81 500 per nnnum, is a fact in
disputablo and unGcniublo. But l
doUot no: rather than disappointed Of
flee seekers should 20 back home in the
uncomfortable frame of mind of our
vIlitiCr, Hannah Tyler" some OF the
noble, selEdcnyirS women OF the
Treasury will resign III his favor. he.
lieve i:IiSht myself do So, and not con-
slider my loss ifresparnble.