Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1871-09-08

Shall. Women Have q Chance 10 Learn
it n q Trade. afi 3A sl44,
g Theodore Tilton OF the New York
Golden Age, sent the following let
Ger 10 the Labor Congress- loo i
e9i8 orvscS oy THE GoIDEx Asx, 4 \ I
= a. New YoRK, August 5, 1871. 4 !.
Members Of the Convention III
could be In st. Louis at your meeting
4 would beg O hearing I'm person In
behalf OF en- idea especially import
ant 10 the working glasses namely q
rearrangement Of your crafts, and
particularly of the fner mechanical
pursuits, so as TO give to women an
equal chance with men to earn q live
lihood by well paid toll. stf,rt
believe in women. So every man
who remembers his mother, his sis
ter or his wife. Eagerly do / share In
the sentiment that every man should
mate whom he loves, and for whom
he strives. . The chivalry which
makes the stronger sex the natural
protector OF the weak, runs In every
true mans blood. Nor can any one
be more sensitive than i to all the
phrases with which the poets paint
And guild 10. 'sthJ tssIag9'
(, But turning from the poetry Of life
aud looking at Its prose i see millions
OF women who have nn other protecs
tor than their own womanly selves |;
who have no other livelihood than
they can purchase with their own
ineagre wages.
q Now, these women, TO earn money
m net learn trades. hut In entering
trades they must compete with men,
for men are already In all trades, even
TO the making of women's skirts and
.chfidren's pinafores. AS n conse-
quence instead or being women's nat
ural protector, become In reality their
enemies. For instance In my own
business, which is printing, I know
OF beardec and brawny com positors
who, while picking up at their finger
ends q comfortable living ut their
cases, will redden In the face and
shatter the fourth commandment In
emphasizing the proposition that
women have no natural right To set
type. And yet the swiftest type>set-
ter 4 ever saw was woman.
The world Is large enough for both
lsexes--othefwise God would not have
set them both In it. Being In IL, and
having both to fight bravely the hat
tie Of life, they ought each to help
and not to hinder the other I'm win-
ming the victory. 10 must be mean
man who will begrudge q woman her
change TO earn an honest living
What II that same mans wife should
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orphan, and what ff either or both
should be bitterly forced TO work at Q
trade for the sake OF filling their
children's hungry mouths I can
fancy that such d man would be re.
pentant in Ms very grave at the re-
morseful recollection to having 9 closed
the gates Of opportunity to any strug-
Cling daughter Of God. .se,,sss -
Suffer me, therefore, to say point
blank Though I mean no offence by
Tit) that II the capitalists have hither-
to oppressed the workingmen, and
this 4 must confess, so also the work
ingmen have hitherto oppressed the
workingwomen, and this yon must
4 Nor confess II, only, nor better ia
part, but reform IL altogether, Let
the old grievance be now brought te
happy end You are q body or no,
BILE and generouA souls. Speak az st
4 Lonis q word that shall gladden. the
heart of every woman In, Amsrica
who tolls for her daily bread. From
the center or the continent 10 ths
boundaries thereof, send out o decIs
tration that you win henoeforth biz
4 women q cheerful welcome Into al
your trades, aud ado. to this the Jus
and hrotherly pledge that for womer
as for men fair days work shaI
bring q fair days pay. h,g3 -
Finally, after having done, thil
A justice to woman after having gal
lantly received her into the trade o
ther choice; If then you cannot beal
to see her soiIing her white handl
with Its Crime, aud you want to ge
her out OF IL, Why, seize, the firs
golden chance to marry 'her out or 1
f--and, my word for ft, she will theI
1tgracl0nsly leave you the inonopol,
oil to yourselves Fraternaily, you
fellow-workmafi. ,.ill, - l.lifl q
| THEonoRE TrLToN.