The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1870-08-04
BY THE EDITOR.

ing, the entefpfiSlng proprietor OF 'Doty's WasIs
ing-machine" aad "UniVersal Csotiaes-wriuger,"
who has done SO much, by the successful intro
duction ofthcse Invaluable household nachlnes,
TO relieve the women OF America from domes-
tic drudgery, has recently erected one OF these
laundries in Orange, New Jersey. In TINS HlgS
establishment he employs some TWO nunuIsu
women. These women work aitosethef py y,. we
piece. With the aid Of powerful steam lnacllin-
cry, shirts are starched aud ironed at eight cents
apiece. At these prices the women earn irom
dollar and halfto three dollars per uay, accoIo-
ing to their strength and skill.
few days ago, we called, in company with
Mr.. Browning, upon one OF his heaviest custom
ers, Mr.. C an extensive nahulaetureEi 9l snirts;
In the course of conversation, the difficulty OF
getting faithful and industrious working-women
being considered, Mr.. c. urged Mr.. Browning to
import Cinnamon TO take the place of women
in his laundry. Cinnamon can be hired at sew
enty-hve cents per day in gold, by the year.
They are steady, strong, doclle, patient, indus
orS san ana P nE %a f P5acet cen
than the women now do for three times that
sum.
Mr.. Browning admitted the facts, acknowledg--
cd the greater convenience and larger pront7 Dut
to his honor be 1t spoken-expressed MS an
willingness to suppant the labor OF women ny
importing men to fill their places.
Yet how fewkeen, shrewd business men would
share this chivalrous feeling. How long Will II
be ere worlIing-Women will find their scanty
wages still further reduced by the competition Of
these laborious Asiatic human machines?
And yet,-while working-nlcH have the matter
under their own control, and can influence leg
islaton in their own favor by their votes as they
may deem wise and eXpedient,-tens OF thouS-
ands of WoiiSing-wQmen are prohibited by law
from expressing an authoritative opinion in re-
gard TO matter fvital interest to themselves
The very bread may be taken troiil their mouths
by the importation and substitution 0l iIt sergio
constituted their political superlors, ana are
authorized TO make laws, public opinion and So
cial usages, to which these disfranchlsed Ameri-
can women must helplcssly conform.
Without expressing any opinion rs TO the WIS
| dom Of admitting or excluding their chinese
competitors, we demand the ballot Tor these csc
| Working-W women as their natural right IL Is for
| them to say whether this Immigration shall be
| permitted or prohibited. No other class OF citi-
zens have an exclusive right TO settle question
| in which these women have so vital an interest.
What would any class of worlStng-men say II
they were thus excluded What would the
Crisplns say If they were dlslranchlsed Wneh Jhe
rights of labor are In question, because Htey are
CTispfRSF Or the lawyers, If they were dlsfran-
chised when laws are to be enacted, because they
are lawyers? Or the lquor-seleTs, II they were
prohibited from voting on the question of licens-
es, because they are UquoT-sellers? What cry
Ofinjustice would be raised, and what sympathy
would be awalkenedi
Shame on our code Of political ethics! 1t Is
! respectable to be u CTlspin, or q lawyer, or n
! liquor-seller. Hts ortnl0 to be a Wonan;
From the above, and similar articles
which l see in q great many papers, l
am satisfied that should the Chinese
come to this country in such vast num-
bers as many anticipate, that the whole
question of labor and the creation of
property will have to be fought over
once more, inch by inch. 1t is a some
what difficult question, as there is diff
Guilty in making people understand it.
The writer here admits that women,
with washing machines and clothes
wringers, can earn from one dollar and
half to three dollars per day. Now |
can remember when women did all the
washing by hand, not even using the
common wash board Then woman
would wash all day, rubbing the clothes
between her hands until her wrists
would be blstered, aud she could only
get twenty FIVE cents for a full days
work, and that perhaps in trade. ii
you had told women then that machines
could he introduced, one of which would
do as much work as a dozen wo-
men, they would have used precisely
the argument used by this writer against
the introduction OF Chinese. But here
we see that the introduction Of machin-
cry has very greatly lessened the drudg-
cry of womans work, but it has increas-
cd her wages from six to twelve fold.
/ can we'll remember when all the
carding, and spinning, and weaving,
aud sewing, were done by hand. All
the wool was carded with two little
cards like horse cards, and the rolls
made into shape between the backs of
the cards, gently rubbed over each 9TH
er These rolls were spun on the big
wheel The fine poem published on
the first page of the Standard this week,
where an old maid is having some per-
sonal recollections of her girlhood days,
describes this mode ofspinning. Then
q woman would spin from morning until
night, to get her dozen cuts done per
day, or six dozen per week, and for this
diligent weeks work she received one
dollar, generally in trade. For sewing,
she received no better wages. Suppose
that forty years ago the women had
been told that all the carding, spinning
and weaving would one day be done by
machinery driven by steam, and that
every family would have sewing ma
chine which would do as much work in
a day as woman by hand could do in
a week, and the work be done with q
beauty Of finish which no tailor could
initiate, These women would have
thought that certain starvation must bt
the doom Of their grand daughters
But what is the result in realityl Wo
men now can get fifty cents per day il
Jackson for sewing, aud get their board
aud they have more work than they
can do Aud the carding, spinning
weaving aud sewing machines, to usc
the language applied to the Chinese BY
this writer, can do the work of woman
for much less than seventy five cents pei
day, and they are more "steady, strong