The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-06-17


taking mp piece Of meat on fork and put
ting it into stewpan is work that degrades
or should revolt them. And good cooking is
a thing that would be paid highly if done as
an art and science combined. But it is secuted
as not to be thought of for any one with edu-
cation or brains: though Office work, and
copying dull legal documents, and mixing up
pills as apothecaries, and other of
the utterly uninteresting work of
men, is clamored for because
denied. We are afraid the fact is that women
want notoriety in their work, and more, they
want pay for play. They are not content to
do quiet, useful, unobtrusive work in their
own path as men are obliged to do in theirs.
Onane Son0tatm pro aadgngtico, hence they
envy men, and think their lives something
infinitely gratifying as compared to their own
home duties, and because they will not put
any intellect or education into those duties
deny that they could if they would and affirm
that the duties are to blame, not their own
want of interest in them. But the dull work
of life has to be done by some one, aud all
men 8 work is not interesting or amusing or
rich in pay and kud0s. Men know that the
really useful and influential man, in O public
Office say, is one who is never spoken of, and
that the most successful member in the House
is he who is best coached. But what woman
of the new school would consent to be the
uluutn Wut-pullSI, lu6 uudCkDDWl6uRou
coach The greater the publicity, the more
she would be gratifed.
Lady Amberley, in her late speech, spoke
bitterly about the lowness of womans pay,
and said she cannot get as much as men for
work done as well as men can do it. This we
distinctly deny. If she does as good work as
men she gets the same wages, and it is be-
cause her work is not SO good that she is paid
at lower rate. Women themselves acknow-
ledge this, if by nothing more striking than
the wages they pay their servants, the differ
ence they themselves make between butler
and parlor maid, who perform substantially
the same offices. Until, then, all the work
which women can do, and which they
ought to do, is brought up to
the highest point of perfection of which
it is capable, until they have learned how to
ennoble their own natural work. to make it
stand higher in the professional scale, and to
obtain for it better payment because of its
greater perfectness, they have no right to any
of those offices naturally appropriated by
men. 1t is childish, to say the least of it, to
leave ones own ground untitled out of en-
vious desire to drive ones neighbor's plough;
but this is what women are doing now when
they wish to leave their houses and their
children to servants that they may push their
husbands, sons, and brothers from their
places-when they think the hundreds saved
by good management sordd, and the twenties
gained by bad work sublime.
THE ADMINISTRATION AND THE CASE
OF CUBA.
From the N. Y. Herald
What do the friends of Cuba propose !?
With the resolution presented by Mr.. Banks
committee we find this fault-from the rejec-
ton of such resolution by either house or
by both houses of Congress Spain in her in
human conduct of the contest in Cuba might
draw very great comfort and encouragement,
while in the adoption of the same resolution
there would assuredly not be an equivalent
favor for Cuba; for the resolution is far from
eA'travagant in the attitude it proposes for the
United States 1t instructs the President TO
declare and maintain a strict neutrality be-
tween The parties; it gives to Cuba for this
purpose a quasi national position before our
law by applying to her the statute of 1913,
and it proposes remonstrance to both sides
against their acts of barbarous cruelty. There
is so little in this to comfort any friend OF
Cuba that we do not see but what the Presi-
dent in his objections to granting belligerency
is so near to the chairman of the Committee
on Foreign Affairs that the difference between
them is finally the rather insubstantial one of
tone and sentiment. Mr.. Banks is the
chivalric and generous friend OF Cuba. In
his generous attitude there is, perhaps, a sus-
oicion of that rhetorical glory of orr country
the spread eagle. General Grant is the
Pre- sident of the United States. When man
is distinguished member of the House he is
then als7o part of the government of free
people: bat the obligations of duty do not
always sit SO heavily upon him but he can
afford to feel as free lance in a cause that
touches his sympathies But the Executive
is not thus fl zee. Flights of the imagination
are not for HIN, more especially when his
ship of state n,peds all that can possibly be
given of plain pvectical attention to sail it
safely. 1t is for hi "a to consider first of all
the condition of the country especially COM
mitted to his care, and to view all that comes
before him only in the light of that country s
welfare.
Is there really any other difference between
the administration and the party that is
heard in the House in favor OF Cuba? The
vital point of the whole subject for us is,
shall we or shall we not recognize the belli-
serency Of the Cuban people Graut is Op-
uosed to such recognition and Banks IL not
+ favor Of it. At least it must be so held,
since 18th all his fame, he does not lay
before the -. ~use any definite proposition 20
commit the coun, 10 sucn course de
says great deal on the suoJect Oh the rela-
tions of Spain and Cuba ,ss saI bo oh'ea nAo
States, same of which will doubti.. a6re
able enough to the popular fancy, and Mucn
OF which should be very painful if false. ana
still more painful if true. The imputation
for instance, that message sent to Congress
from the President of the United States is
prepared in the pay of Spain is not often sur
passed for malignity and meanness by the
bltterest hostility of the partisan. 1t is in the
style, indeed, of those scavengers of journal
Ism whom their spleen affect to believe that the
President permits the domestic circle of Mr.