New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-01-02


No woman is free to live the life which lshe ought to
live until to the carnal eye she TO have pretty
nearly nothing at all to DO. But upon this point
women seem 10 be as much in the dark as the men.
You would Judge from their writings and public
speeches that women had only to choose between
idleneE on the one side or mans work On the other
They believe in the dignity Of labor but not in the
existence of woman's work. Apart from the acct
dent of motherhood, they virtually hold that women
are men.
But in the present conditiOniof society, If woman
puts herself into the sphere of man, and undertakes
to do mans work, she must do it in mans way, OF
suffer the consequences The value Of her LABOR
must he brought into direct comparison with that OF
man, and be judged solely by its character, not by
The weakness sur1nounted in its accomplishment.
The author does not present tatterlng view OF the
practical and executive capacities of women in the
present ARRANGEMENTS of business She describes their
ignorance and inexactness as something appalling
Men are apparently as bad they can be in this re-
spect but it would seem that they cannot be as bad
as women They have NJ least been taught the dill
ference between yes and no, but women
have yet to learn that they are not one
and tho same thing. Gail Hamilton IS
guilty even of tho mOnstrOus assertion that they
lack moral sense or mental perception, OF what
ever be the faculty which makes one capable OF con-
tracing an engagement Her experience has GER
taiuly been unfortunate, and We lament that she
has fallen into such bad company. One hardly
knows Of whom she speaks when she 50 grossly calls
in question the loyalty and good faith of woman.
When she declares that they do not comprehend the
nature Of promise, that it has no more binding
force for them than rope of sand. and that they
break il with a serene unconsciOushess that any
thing is broken, or that there was anything TO
break she utters an extravaganza, Of which the
paradox affords no excuse for its injustice.
The author has much in the same strain, though
not of so extreme character with regard to the So
cial disabilities If women, their causes and their
remedies Poor work not poor pay, is at the bottom
Of this industrial inf uorty. cure for the evil is
to be found in good work bat this will not be sup
Piled by women. They have not tie ingenuity the
courage - the perseverance to devise and carry out
responsible undertakings Nor do they possess the
patience, the sense, the wisdom to work faithfully
under he direction of others. 1t is easier f0r them
to plod ON i'm the old track to be slaves to hoartless
employers and to cry ont against injustice and pai
TALLY than t is 20 strike silently untitled paths,
To- bend circumstances ara control fate. But If wO-
men have not Tho ability 20 open the avenues 1t en-
ploymcH, log tuu.-g,Fos, LIcy VIII Doe unable to
walk in them after they have been opened for them
by Others. The barriers such that lcr feet can
not pass beyond them whose hand cannot remove
them.
Ii is 1o. SO much opportunity that women need.
says Gail Hamilton, a, qualities. Here AGAIN Tie pitt
less writer is hard upon Ecy sex, including al in her
bold cenoIalizatons. They DO not succeed in lus-
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