The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-11-11

rs, have you no help for the women
Utterly impoverished of these treas
lres? Can you not stop in the hap
,iness even so long as to tell her what
he does not know, or, knowing, dare
lot hope, though her sins be as scar
ct, they will be as white as snow;
h ough they be as red as crimson, they
'hall be as WOOL" sayth the Lord.
Are social opinions miserable scare
crows our neighbors set up in the
Lords vinyard to be permitted place.
if they make women hard hearted and
relentless toward any portion of their
sex?
Only after they have found friends
it is possible for them to attempt hon
orable labor. They can make but at
tempts at first. Do not call it ingrat-
itude if they fall back into Incidence,
pity them that they have lost the
peace to persevere, and stimulate them
in every way to acquire it. They must
be taught industry by degrees, as
children are taught to read, letter by
letter. Idleness is as demoralizing as
ignorance, and it seems quite as inn
portant that
LABOR SHOULD BE COMPULSORY
as that education should be. We are
apt to consider ourselves magicians, a
wave of whose wand will subdue the
restless spirits. Not in one hour or by
one endeavor can these natures, per-
verted mentally morally and spiritual
ly, be restored. They will be thrown in
many a wrestle before the higher ma
ture has SO conquered the lower as to
hold it in some subsection. Then We
must be ready to bind up their
wounds, and prepare them anew in
the struggle, The christian grace Of
humanity will doubtless give up pow
er to practice the Christian virtue of
patience; if we truly desire to help
these suffering souls If we could re-
alize that inherent weakness of char
acter among women more than inhe-
rent grossness leads them to adapt this
sad career with it's tragical close, we
should feel that, as women, we have
great responsibilities in the matter.
Vast multitudes of women lead aban-
don lives to-day. The population of
public women in New York is that of
to every SIS; in Chicago, to every 23O.
Statistics seem to show that the evil
diminishes as means of employment
are open to women, and opportunities
are given them to support themselves
honorably. In Birmingham and Shef-
field, the two cities of the world where
employment is open to women, only
l in 7S9 leads an abandoned life, the
lowest population found anywhere ex-
cept at the Hague. Every endeavor
then, which women make to open.
NEW FIELDS OF INDUSTRY FOR WOMEN
and to fit them to labor therein is q
direct blow at this hydro-headed mon.
ster which preys so devouringly on oul
social life. Every Industrial School
which we open for girls, every Indus
trial Bureau we establish for women
protects them against this terrible fu.
ture contingency
Believing this, will you fail to Sc.
the duties of woman in this moment
Gus matter? Will you not look to i
that women are raised from the posi-
ton of vagrants in the world, withou
visible means of support, to positions
in which they shall be honorably self
supporting? Will you not use you
last endeavor. that they may becom
skilled in all industries, whatsoeve
they may be, which they may choos
as means of livelihood, and, bein,
skilled. receive as much remuneration
as men for the same work? Then re
fiecting on the social injustice done t,
! women who sins as opposed to tha
offered the male offender, will you no
be inspired with courage to insist up
| on
EQUAL PURITY OF LIFE.
for men as well as women? Male wri
ters on this subject invarihly state
to be their belief that the social evi
is inevitable, is ineradicable. Assur
edly it would be hard to prove to tn
contrary in christian lands. In hea
then lands it is different. It is sal
that an unehased Parsee is unknown
that, in addition to their other vii
tues, they uniformly possess that O
chastity. This brings to our mind
the fact that purity of character is Oh
of the leading requirements Of the Zt
roastrian religion. In our spiritu;
pride we have liked to send missions
ries to the heather; must we com
down from our high estate and ask ft
missionaries from them to us? Woul
heather amendment to christian rel
olutions be too sadly out of order to
adopted in our code of morals? Th
Hindoo mother OF many daughter
makes sacrifice of one to public Ii,
for the sake of the rest. She gives OF
of her beloved, innocent girls to go an
live away from her forever, in ord
that her sisters may be saved betray
or sin. A house is built expressly f;
these girls, who lose their lives, go
speak, for the rest of the Hindt
woman world. This building is D,
far away from the city which it pr
tects, a certain kind of cloth is wovt
for the girls who live inside its wall
and only these are allowed to wear
By this provision the safety of Il
remaining Hindoo women is perfect
secured. Is there any provision
which any daughter of Christendo
is perfectly secured? Sad as this he
then provision is, it is infinitely sa
der to feel the peril in which eve
girl in our land is placed by virtue
the inherited social ideas, the lack
proper womanly training, and the &c
eral antipathy to individual, respo
sible, earnest lives for women whi,
prevails. Since it may be long al
late before the truth which is nigh
shall prevail" while we use every e
deavor in behalf of better social co
ditions and the equalization of the r
lations between men and women as t
best means for the final overthrow
the social evil, let us not disgrace
OUR PRESENT OBLIGATIONS
toward those of our sex who must
considered victims as we'll as SHINE
Benevolent institutions to welcol
and shelter them must be establish
and encouraged. They are of incalc
liable benefit. Chicago has two ins