Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1870-05-13

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NEGRO W0IlEN AND Politics..
The Democrats at the South occasionally
| succeed in getting "low-down niger to
vote their ticket, b,t the negro women are
all right every time. A letter from Jack
sonville, Fla, says: Election is over with
its strife and its corruptions. The Repub-
licans have won victory. 5 me few facts
| hare cleaned in relation TO it.. One man
talking pelitics in presence Of his wife, al
lowed it to leak out that he was gong ~,
vote the Democratic ticket. Womanike,
she said. "Now what you gwine to vote that
way fur" "Cors, in my judgment that's
the way and the right way" Sam. ysu
knows better You knows he is moi friend
to colored folks" "Tlat's all you knows
about it, ".Wall, Sam, if Won votes that
ticket shall Jest quit "No you won't
you got no monty" "Saru. hasn't wasl-
ed all winter for nothin', can tell YOU
The woman took measures to learn lns,
how sam voted, and the next day she was
missing, and he was threatening TO kill her
if he found her. Another man brought
home a bag Of -four and some other neces..
sariei, when The wife, suspectng something
wrong, asked, "What are these for p "0h,
Mr.. -- wants my vote" ''You old fool,
think gwine 10 let you vote as he says?
That thar -four shan't stay here and the
woman actually threw the flour into the
street, and walked beside her husband to
the POLLS with the corruptor on the other
side, talking large and lDud-but the wo-
man triumphed. These are not isolated
cases, but are given to show that the Re-
publlcan victories OF the South are owing
largely 10 the quicker instincts of women
for the right. 1t is certain that there is
much greater evidence that man may de-
generate and go down TO the level OF goril-
las, monkeys, and apes, than that he has
developed from them up TO bis present
state.
THE CLAIMS OF FEMALE LABOR What
are the duties and claims OF women who
are coming forward TO fill their places in
family and social life: and what are the in
stitutions we want to prepare them to do
these duties; especially, what is the place
| among them Of industrial schools? Fur.
certainly, the general reformation OF indus
| trial life IN our day psust also change home
life, whose accustomed industry lis of an
antlquated type, machinery and manuac-
! tories having lifted the work OF spinning
and weaving from its pressure on single
handed strength. Even the ordinary laun-
dry aud needewuik is transferred 10 large
public establishments; and, in proportion,
/ 10 I,l en- DO,
maud and of commercial value Ii the mar
| ket. 1t is not uncommon to see III our
daily papers advertisements Of the furnish
ing establishments OF cur eiIies calling fer
a hundred or five hundred female aborers
calls answered ali too quickly from the
country Ivy girl, who know not to what they
come. We all know how sadly this demand
for female labor is influencing the working
woman question everywhere by the many
advertisements Ct work wanted aild the sad
contrast of work and wages. Miss Mar
wedel says that q London dry-goods mer-
chant, wanting some thirty working men,
was obliged to send away, not without the
help Of the police, seven hundred women
who gathered round HIS door at seven
O'Clock in the morning Of a rainy Sovem-
Der day. And the average number Of gov
ernesses III London who apply ior places
every day Is more than two thousand. ii
is mentioned IN the L5nlen Times that u
gentleman wanting q goyerness received
five hundred and ten applications Gov
ernesses in the work houses Of England are
not uncommon. There are also ten times
more governesses that pass heir eXamina-
tions i'll Prussia than are wanted. ct there
is another fact which, in this connection, it
may seem hard TO believe in tie very same
places there is an unfulflled demand for
thoroughly skilled laborers Of many kinds.
In undertaking to show why and how this
2 is, Miss Marwedei SAYS: 81 used to be
, said in Germany that girl leaving school
at fourteen could support herself But
the influence of the home and school educa-
ton is dependent on its keeping pace with
the wants of the times; and the German
schools, though they have adopted some
improvements, have not done SO. AT the
time the above mentioned proverb arose all
situations fer girls OF fourteen were sup
posed to be inside Of families. But now,
when girls are thrown into factories and
shops. unguarded, on their own RESPONSE
bility, the case is different. Physically fee.
ble and half developed, not fitted 10 act and
think independently. unsupported by the
requisite preliminary knowledge. they pass
from the constraint Of school rules 10 a per.
sonal freedom they do not know how to use.
The necessary consequences are-all the
moral evils to which oar poor factory girls
and domestic servants are exposed and
which, we are too apt 10 say, are ''the char.
; acteristic faults Of our time, forgetting
; that we are responsible. hy reason of our
commanding positions, for these same char.
!, aeterstics.
We are proud Of our ho:pi,als and aims
houses. Of our reformatories and work
houses, Of our asyums and regulated pris.
ons, of our life inSurances for the sick and
for burial expenses. But all these things
+, are for the middle and end OF spoiled and
infrm lives. What blessed change in
our moral aud social circumstances it wonli
be if society and the state should take
equally generous care to invigorate arc
preserve The uncontaninatei healthy limb.
of our youth, especially Of car female youth
: and TO give moral ripeness to Their charac
ters We are proud o. our schools as
!, models for other nations; but We take oul
q children out Of them When they have re
ceived less than nothin. for the conduct Of
: practical life. and most need good exam
5 pies and u oral protection, neither strength
; ened in inner capacity nor outside practical
: ability. even when they have, what the ma
ioritv never do have. q year OF regular ap-
premiership. What. necessarily, mus, be
the lot Of the working. women of to-day
Without any systematic Instruction, in tb
majority Of cases. instead Of being skilled
in labor, in a hopeless mediocri,y. their 10,
is the sorrowtul one Of working for any wa
ges; and this is net all. for the better work.
ing power is drawn out BY the iron law Of
demand and supply to the same Starvation
prices. THIS is net ouls true in Germany ;
the workins-women qf France, England,
and America are suffering in the same WAY.
From "Industrial Schools for Women
by ELIZABETH +. PEABODY, in Uarper' 5
.Nagasiae tor My.
SnIFFLKss FARMERS. - Mr.. a..