The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1871-02-11

and what do we find here In
this Division there are about nine
~ clerks -sixty f,males and thirty
males--whose duty it is to open,
examine and return to their proper
owners all valuable letters, visa
their contents.
In passing, may say that for
the last fiscal year. ending June
80, 20, near one hundred thousand
dollars, not in drafts, CT e ks, or
other similar evidences Of money,
but cash in bank bills, were return
ed to this office in unclaimed, mis-
directed and wrongly addressed
letters, in Incredible numbers. The
articles for which owners have not
been discovered, finding their way
to this place form quite sn inter
esling museum. We may here see
every imaginable curiosity from q
photograph to hoop skirts,
Well, all the duties of this Office
without exception, are such as are
peculiarly adapted to females. The
salaries paid the latter vary from
fifty. dollars to seventy five per
month. The male clerks for pre-
cisely similar and equal services
receive from one hundred TO two
hundred and eight 33-100 dollars
per month. The superintendent.
man who, l am credibly informed,
cannot write a letter OF six lines
in,elligibly, without making double
as many mistakes--who is unable
to spell correctly the names of the
days of the week and who is ruz-
zled to distinguish the difference
between nulitated and mutilated
by the most shameful political ia
voritism--gets twenty five hun
dred dollars year II! Here we
may find able bodied men engaged
exclusively in opeuing letter en-
velopes, and sorting the letters, and
receiving for this arduous? labor
from twelve hundred to Eighteen
hundred dollars per year,!
Now, suppose--what will not re
quire very severe strain of the
imagination-that the right accord
ed to the ignorant but lately en-
shaved citizen for his protection,
and unjustly and cruelty withheld
from woman, to be conferred on
her, so that she, equally with man,
might have a voice in selecting
Presidents, and all the Legislators,
as we'll as executive officers-how
long do you think, my friendly
reader, would this inequality oil
salary, this ungenerous distinction
between the two sexes, to which
have alluded, continae to exist
/ put this question, ia no caption;
spirit, to the candor and intelli
gence OF all those opponents O
woman suffrage, who are able t.
connect two ideas together.
| To intimate doubt as to tn,
result OF suffrage to woman in cor
recting this outrageous wrong
would be an insult to commo,
sense. And why? Simply be
cause womaa having power, bein.
freed from her unjust subsection
being clothed with her just right:
would be in a condition to demand
and to compel a compliance wit
her just demand, fox what magnan
imous? man even now, in his ir
tuition sense OF justice, admit
to be her due. Aspirants for of
cial honors would be swift to az
: know edge woman's claims TO equ.
, recognition with man, for equ,
, and similar services, eal,lly we
performed. In some of the State
New York at least, female teacher
9 can not by law receive as much
: males, not even ii the former q
: more and better work than ma
9 This injustice would vanish as
: by magic, before the ballot in W
t mans hands, and then what wou
!. become of DR.. Holland dog the
d ry9 1t rather occurs to me til
9 he would gladly forget that he ev
o entertained such an absurdiiy.
u In the business Of the dead lett
Office, referred to, l have not t
D. shade of a shadow of doubt, th
e females could do better service al
70 more oft, than males. She 10
'e not get better wages for her lab,
10 because she has no mems Of CO
~ pelling her geners us? protector?
~ relax his hold of power--becar
IS in word she is an ahject deper
III ent.
Let us come nearer home. G.
y woman the hallOt--tha ,,riyi loo a