Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-09-07
T,he Female Labor QuesIion In
n New Light.


n New Light.
The New York Journal Of Com
d merce does not believe that young
woman are driven by necessity to
q adont don't a loose course IF life. It is
Z, yerv easy for Wellsfed gentleman to;
p s;t in his office and animadvert upon
the frailty of poor friendless girls,
3 but we are inclined to the belief that
not a few of the latter hdre been
compelled by want and despair to
embrace moral destruction. It is
not unusual, we believe, for girls in
search of employment to be tempted
by5 the promise of good situations,
or OF special favors, to relinquissh
= their virtue. and when they are ern-
Moved, the circumstance of their de-
nendence on that employment for
their daily bread, and that of some
helpless mother or other relative, is
NOT unfreouently taken advantage OF
bv the lecherous scoundrels, their
masters, to work their ruin. The ed
tor mentioned talks of from one
s and. . half to two dollars per day as
usual wages for plain sewing. He
: knows better. No such prices are
maid for this class oflabor, and never
were. We have in our minds eye
lady who makes from one dollar ar
to one dollar and a quarter per day.
3 on her own machine, in the manu-
zsfacture. of .shirts But this is one
: ,.ase In . thousand. How many of
those who sew for a living are able
!, 10 purchase machine 2 We know
9 that among skilled mechanics even
the amount required for that purpose
: Is looked @ upon = Haslalmost small for
tune. The truth is that fifty cents
sNknd two mealsSislconsidereds large
\ remuneration for sewing girls or
s women, and is not. always to be OBJ
tanned. In one case that has come
! under our personal observation, the
poor girl had been able to get moth,
NIng whatever to do. After weeks of
6 RESTITUTION, when the last dress but
! one had gone to the pawn7shop, and
= she had endured the pangs of unap-
peased hunger for four days, the
poor creature started for the. river
late at night to end her sufferings,
when she fell into the hands OF a
half.intoxica.ed gambler, who, obey
ing some good impulse-for even
<ihese men have good impulses some
asfimes--took her to his mothers S
: house, fed and clothed her, and pro-
cured plenty of honest employment
for her. She had received numerous
proffels of assistance from creatures
who appended to their oyertures GER
tain conditions which no yirtuous
] woman could hear. That many of
the miserable creatures who fall into
evil ways are the victims of a
love of dress and ease, We do not
doubt; but we contend that the vast
majority of poor girls who have
lost the jewel of chastity have been
forced by circumstances into false
position. yA''~ Z 80 .,s5,a,a {
Itwould be well if such influential
journals as the one named would ex-
ert themselves rather to aid the weak
and distressed of the feebler sex in
their struggles by advocating fair
rate of remuneration for their labor,
than in encouraging the world, which
is, under any circumstances, only too
ready to blame those who fall by the
wayside in hurling taunts and invec-
tive and all manner of uncharitable-
- ness at the unfortunates.
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