The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1869-06-02

| ask 69os our heavenly Father, II there
no sympathy left for poor woman. On
other unfortunate told me that she had t
sew boots and shoes for twenty five cents
day, and travel three miles to get this work
| We ask you, wealthy men, that we get littl
homes where we can rear our children an
worship God, and develop that spiritual M
ture, and make ourselves what God inten
6ed US to be. 4
THE SOCIAL EVIL
Mrs. Doctor Hathaway said that the ques
| ton must be considered, not only with re
gard to them, but in regard TO the welfar
OF the State. We have 3 disease fatal t
society in the form of this moral complaint
Friends, 1t Is coming up into the eleean
houses OF the city. Not only the poor wo
man suffers, but the rich also suffer from
this disease. Now, the question is, wheth
er we could not get these little homes on
cheap scale. Let the State build hundreC
homes, worth S400, and ! would sugges
that laundry be established at these hou
ses. We then would have an agent In tow
who would receive orders. Now there ARE
men who come into our city and take clothe,
out by contract, and then divide it among
the farmers daughters and wives of New
Hampshire, for instance, who do the WOrl
cheap, Just for pocket money. These ID
not know that they starving pCor womer
here, If they did they would forego the littl,
amounts they receive. ..
THE STATE Is REALLY TOO POOR.
MIR. Stephen Foster, member of the
"Woman's League, said he was acquainted
with the financial condition of the State
and II was In debt to the amount of So, 900.
OO0, and that an agent hs gone to Europe
With some of the bonds to pay the debt
He was sure, however, that something ben.
encial 70 the working women would grow
out OF this meeting.
THR OTHER SIDE,
Prof. Wetherell, editor of the Cultivator.
was the next speaker. He said that he had
been told that the wages of coat makers
were from $40 to $50 q week. and right
opposite his oftice was sign hanging out,
asking for these coat makers, 30 he thought
there were two kinds of facts. IF there are
coat makers working for 81 cents gar.
ment, when they can get all the way from
$40 to $50 week, he wanted to know why
they did it. 1t might be said that all could
not get 1t, but when the fact came out that
those who did not get that amount were
not able for the work, who is to blame p
The city Is full of women from the country.
and they say, ooh! would rather live
here on bare subsistence than 20 back into
the country, as it is so dull there, (" whose
fault IS it that there is so much competitioni
He thought that the threatenilgs which he
had heard against capital would not avail
much. II these women would 90 INTO do.
mestic families, instead of making shirts at
six cents, they would do better. Even in
printing offices some of the girls make Sl0-
20 per week, and they only work from 8 in
the morning till at night. Let every Wo-
man, therefore, learn to do something well,
instead of threatening capital. as the Con.
Vention at Halifax did in 1854, when the
women said that unless they got what they
wanted they would stop pOpulating the
globe. But If women only learn 10 do
something they viii never have TO marry.
TIE OTHER SIDE ANSWERED.
Miss Jennie Collins (taiIoress and lectu-
rer) said that men came there and If tbevhad
driven COW or turned 8 grindstone, they
say they are laboring men. daughter. =
Here at the last Stmeeting Continued the lady)
our statements were doubted-they were said
to be exaggerations. But they are true /;
and If the women dared TO come here and
lay open their lives instead of the accounts
being exaggerations they would harrow up
your souls. What the gentleman has said
about the wages is true. Women for Gus.
tom work receive from $I4 to $2I week.
But what encouragement have women to
become as perfect as that, There are not
many men in the United States who can af-
ford to pay that amount of wages. Men
who call for this kind of work are few, but
when merchant tailor has the custom. I
have never known them to hesitate to pay
for 1t. But these few are not what the
working women depend upon it lie upon
the public generally; upon the laboring man
and the farmer. Miss Collins went on to
In he kuN
the country that looked only to the giving
of girls the law of polarity and of equilibri-
um rather than 3 common and good educa-
ton She also contrasted faYorably 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 SO
many dolls. 49,
TIE RACE DYING oUT-nFANTICDE-
Mrs. Daniels said: If il is true that Wo-
men would prefer starvation to labor in the
houses, Is there not something radically
wrong with the mistress Is well as with
the maidf (Applause.l 1t seems singular
the report that comes from this State q
well as from others. that women would
gladly go into the kitchens If they would
get decent treatment, or such Q home a. our
grandmotheFs and mothers gave 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 "a.
king 20 heart strikes deeper thAn' you have
any idea. Il strikes ct the evil which IL
robbing the nation of its strength. We find
1t necessary TO strike deep In order to arouse
public opinion. remember Emerson say
ing that this question viii require al the
strength we can command. The fOundS-
ton OF the home circle Is broken with the
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home is taken from It by the mistress and
not the maid. [Applause. Where do you
ind the old homestead and the sons and
daughters gathered together around the fam
lily board as was in Olden tlmel The rea-
son that the girls do not go into the homes
OF the wealthy Is because the mislresseg arc
incapable of governing their households,
and IN fact incapable of being woman or
mother, and until children are allowed TO
live, instead of being kicked out of the
world-untl this evil of your nation Is rem
edled, viii it sink deeper and deeper, and
still deeper into degradation and misery
In Olden times found woman of harmony
and beauty, who knew all the work from
the gaEret to the cellar. She bore her hus.
band children, and bore such men and Wo'
men as made the American nation. ZAP
plause. But what il It 70 dayf We would
nave OneCcn6 sY8bem lnIrOooceo knLO the
schools, not only TO teach young people 10
marry, but how to become fathers and
mothers [ApplAuse. The League 70 which
belong have shut out, as far as may be, all
fine women of LEISURE We knew IL they
got in it would be to take the handle of the
organ and grind It to some other tune than
that which beAeflts women. lApplause.1
~ q, A sPEon1KN CLERGYMAN. -F..rr
Mrs. Thayer gave an account of how she
was looked down upon while she held = att
uation as a servant girl by her old school
mates who had got up higher into the world
than she. In . clergymAnis family where
where she was stopping no consideration
was shown to her. She was expected 10
get up at FIVE O'Clock In the morning In the
winter and make the ifres and the room
was then 80 cold that the ladies came down
in their ShaWls. The trials OF another
young lady friend Of hers who went upon
the stage were again recounted. Another
instance Eaa then given Of the low prices of
which the working women Of the country
complain. She thought The condition Of
the working classes elaimed the sympathy
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