The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-03-31

forever, it appears, remain an inscrutable
mystery to young girls who are fully compe-
tent to decide all problems, from the political
economy of the Phonicians to the Alabama
claims. What professions or trades ladies OF
education are able to comprehend they, of
course, are the best judges; but the amount
of intelligence and culture possessed by the
ordinary truck raisers for the New York
markets does not appear to us unattainable
by them. We no not propose that they should
take charge this spring of model farms or
gigantic nurseries, but that, if they had two
or three hundred dollars capital, should buy
| or rent few acres and raise vegetables
enough at least to keep their families in
food. Any woman with ordinary common
sense can plant potatoes as easily as pinks, or
rhubarb as roses. The largest fruit-growing
establishment west of the Allegheny Noun
tains grew out of half-a-dozen Seeding apple
trees in a clergyman's back yard.
But the difficulty in the wey of helping
! women to work now is that they ere averse to
beginning with seedlings of any sort. The
largeness of their claims blinds them. They
are waiting for some great social convulsion
which will lift them en- nlGSSe into positions of
place and profit, where they can work effec-
lively and be literally paid. They do not re-
| alize that if the famished sewing woman had
the right of suffrage tomorrow, it would not
add pound of beef to her larder Her hus-
and he has not yet voted himself q, full
stomach or O coat to his back. Work with head
or Aands-steady, conscientious, hard work
is the best chance open now, as it has always
been, for women as for men, and there is7no
need of crying aloud in the market places
to fad it. The seeding apple tree is
near every man or woman if they have energy
and skill to find and dig about it and dung it.
Outdoor work We urge, with the approaching
spring, as the mast healthful, accessible, and
remunerative. Our advice to every woman
obliged TO support herself is, first, leave the
large cities. No matter what your emplyment
be, ynu will find less competition in the coun.
try or country towns, the rates of living
cheaper, human sympathy warmer and life,
itself healthfuller and higher. If you are a.
laboring woman, there are within an hour s
ride of New York hundreds of farmers
who are willing to pay good wages to
honest servants, but yet cannot obtain
them. While this is the case, and
while the land is waiting to be tilledp
we have less sympathy, probably, than is de-
manded of usfor the psuper of the city. Seq
vitude, we are told, is repugnant to the inde-
pendence of most American women. Bat
when in the next breath'we are assured that
twenty thousand women in New York must
starve, or go into the brothels, we feel that
| independence is here carried probably to nn
extreme. We have listened for years to the
despairing cry, "Give- us work or we die"
| We suggest planting potatoes, and are an
swered by a thousand feeble protests, s'Whero
is an acre of ground to plant them in and
how should they find the train to take them
| to it and who would tell them how many
to put in hill ? and, after they were grown,
how would they discover the price per
bushel ?"
There is Western story of man who was
too lazy to work, and whose neighbors, being
| e 1ata ra6 10
him. Meeting the squire, his pity was
touched. "Set him down." he said ''I'll
give him load of corn to keep him alive. y
The victim raised his head from the bier.
"Shelled, Squire?" mo. The hea6 drop
ped again. "Drive on, boys, then" The
Story has its own moral
THE REVOLUTIONARY KU-KLUX BILL.
From the NJ Y. World.
Stripped of its husk, the bill which has
been agreed on by the Republicans of the
House is intended to accomplish these two
Objects
First, to annul that provision Of the Con
stitution which requires an application OF
the State authorities before the Federal Gov
ernment can intervene to maintain order in 6
State.
Secondly, to give the Federal Government
the same jurisdiction over crimes committed
in the States that it possesses, and has Away
exercised, over crimes committed in the fogt
and arsenals of the United States.
That this is true description of the bill
no person who reads it can dispute. Nor Cal
any one be SO ignorant of the laws and of tn
history of the country for the eighty-tw
years since the organization of the FEEDERS
; Government, as not to perceive that this bi
proposes an innovation which would chang
the character of our institutions. Il break
down and obliterates the division and part
ton of powers which the Constitution ests
blished, and the legislation of eighty yeal
has recognized, between the General Covers
ment and the Governments of the States.
: proposition so startling and reyolutional
would rouse and electrify the country even
it came in the shape of an amendment to I'll
Q Constitution, because it would be an amen
3 ment that would subyert the fundament
principles on which the Constitution was est
u blished 1t is infinitely more alarming whe
d proposed as a mere act of Congress.
" This dangerous bill processes in its tit
- that it is ''a bill to enforce the provisions
70 the fourteenth amendment to the Constit
l. ton of the United States" But who, un
70 now, ever supposed that the fourteen
- amendment had any such dangerous scop'
~ If it authorizes such legislation as the prese
u. bill proposes, it ought to have been in for
- something like this:-
W "Sectlon /. Congress shall have power TO exte
Ut the jurisdiction over crimes which the United Sta
be possess in the military forts TO every part OF
r. country.
no "section p Congress shall have power to autl
10 rZe the President to repre- SIS domestic V0lenct
10, the States without an application from the ST.
authorities and in opposition TO their wishes.
Section 3. Congress may authorize the Pre-
dent in his discretion, to put the States under m
tial law, suspend the hGbeas corpus within tn
limits, and thereby annul and set aside thelT St
of govern ments."