New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-07-05
LETTERS FR?N TIE PEOPLE.
"PECUNIARY DEPENDENTS"


To the Edftor or The Tribune
SIR: In your very handsome notice. as far as Miss
Mexican is concerned, of her lecture on Social SCI
ence you take it seems to u.s. position Oh Iati ao-
surtlity. When you speak of Woman as the sup
ported class" you barely indicate one great reason
why she has been or has not been. taken care OF
in the past and utterly ignore another aspect OF TINS
many-sided question, in which the words sup
ported and dependent" have small application
Mans selishness tenderness and greed has Darreu
IN Woman door after door which opens for him to
ease and wealth. His eyes are gradually anonted
20 see that he stands between her and fortune and,
when sufficient number Of men have been selt-con-
victed. doubtless we shall have legislation that will
in some way remove the time-honored difficulties
from her path So much for the women who are
struggling, praying, dying, that they may have their
honest share of the words work, their part IN thas
business which you so aptly say they do not under
stand They are at least logical enough TO fail to under
stand why for the same work performed III store OF
school keeping they paid from onehaf to onehlrd
the wages OF men. When mans logic shall carry MIN
to equal OF vision his sense Of justice VIII doubt
less concede to equal services share for share Of their
money worth.
hat tho great sserhood, and wfehood and motherhood
OF tho world, the vast majority Of who 1--we in
their quiet homes what money worth, what scale Of
OF prices shall their work and their wages The
crops gathered IN in substantial dollars His
wife, who mend scOur bake make the beds, and
ali herself" has for her share Of the profits the
OF money sFgu. - ste NJ ~ s,s,oP ~ 49,, ,,tn
supporting Inc comfort, tHe existence OI Tue Nhoe
family upon her unremlttng loil There Is no mo,
ucy equivalent FOR her busy hours Business would
demand that for the butter the bread-making the wash
ing aud ironing the sewing and mendng she should at
least put money her But, save the fine alchemy
which rransmutos these tOug hours into golden harmO-
MES Of heart and life, rocompense has she none we
know of farmers daughters women VINO might De earn
ING their few hundreds least in tending store OrschoO
who are necessary part OF the great farms achn'
upportcd veriy by theirsfathers and brothers, and
little money for clothes, trip TO town now and then
dealt out from the masculine pocket Are they
that they stay Their quick, unhsinesske perceptions
recognize that hired labor can III their places and that
discomfort and must result should they take their
hands from the pillow. You must teach man Justice or
woman selhshuess you can remedy these conditions
And these very girls read the THE WEEKLY TRIBUNE,
know as much about the Alabama caims as their broth
do have as competent JUDGMENT ON the great 9nes
inject would study as closely the gold quotations and
the sales OF Government bopds Agpl t9es gre intel
icctual women who can make their ten dollars page
when they choose to put pen to paper Destiny, acct
dent choice has made them the nisresses OF house
lods-not OF the Jelyby order They may have troops
Of Weraned servants, or they may rejoice IN tha u0l
quitous female who goes out 70 general h9uSework IA
pansable There are speclateS IN housekeeping when
no woman refinement ever will delegate to servant
The avendered OF the linenclose the dainty
details OF china ana glass 1he rntSu p ty SnDes
need least the watehfu eye OF the mistress not her
careful hands -, a.,
Women should needs be good lawgvers aud rulers for
household is only n miniature state-an absolute mon
archy upon whose code OF traditions the Fifteenth OF Five
IIuudredth Amendment must be improYlsed AZ u mo-
ments notice sometimes And the mistress OF the house
not only Judge, but execatloneT inc morning hoHE
consumed In dlsehaTgng an @ Is S9f ts sss
neyer-eiding. still beginning training must go on Who
shall compute the value OF these unreeorded these un
ritten hours They have their money WORTH which she
knows full we'll But she chooses rather 10 coin them into
solid substantial comfort for husband and father were
IN possibe 10 fix scale OF values for these busy mo-
mouts OF "a we'll ordered life II is possible she might nor
accent A. She Is not trained, you see, TO business
tavfH NJ Dfice
tose She loves and works for Possibly she contents he
self 10 Rs w o Sm ~ that political ndeFend
encs an anomaly and impOssbility Is certainly 10 beg
the question: srS So yay necessary to the webeng OF their
homes granted they may leave them Tor M onr 10 VOTE
how can they be voted for How can they be spared
from these never ending duties 20 CO. we VIII say TO Con-
eress Again absurdity, dear TRIBusE Does the
is ocomotiye 70 go Congress He seeks whose
70 the public service And all up and down the land there
are women, whose lives have not tue lmpeIaure uuues
hnse time whose thoughts their own. In the econo-
ME- OF nature nothing If LOST so IN the political world.
oan instead OF being wasted in aims vague aud vain,
are brought 20 bear on the great questions whch aeet
tndi We take no note you TRIBUNE OF those hui
man butterflies, who possibly as COO has nade ontter
ss may have their part play In the world TO dance IN
lie sunshine rejoice eyes and perish misera6y
Of starvation when Their SUTs s 1be women OF the SAM
Commissron the women who carried Oh the war are
- Yo once asked dear TRInIEE. constitutional con-
venton on this very subject II they vote us into war
viii they 90 to light Tho question palned US az the
me pains US still Did you forget then, how 0raSely the
Snmen of the North carried on the war How the mag
eto current of their care their toll their I0retnought
nd streained down 20 the farthest point our
reacbedf Their work In held and hospital ana the
Dagmncent wave of substantial snpples shat pousee
Weapons for womanly hands, magnetic. solid snhelens
ast Yonr eyes the land aud note tne long 1es VI
teaeherA reconsructing the South more surely
han military governor Congregational ensetmeht Eau
Ia These brave little pioneers, who carried ,1e COPY
ooh I'M tho very dust OF the cannon, ana WINE AIss
around them, taught the peaceful A. %
5ges fhe pIow share for the pothook MS seii
enco auickened stimulated by thor aOS s So s;s Sc
who has guided hand and cleared ms Dra9i s ~
S.a,, b, N he knows hiss voice, no Weigus ~
l an the broad land she has reaeenaed
MON h All these weary years fon wiz nUs an conia re-
~ ssy,nS abe is represented by hin-whAt sn abS
y gs her courage her wisdom, her ueVotioh ana
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