The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-06-18

being recognized that the just and
generous thing to do is to remove
all distractions and give to woman
equal rights and privileges. Nay,
more; it is being recognized not
only as right and just tha- woman
should be fully affranchised but
that as a factor in political and in
dustrial life, her free and independ-
ent action is becoming moral i'm
perative. Think of one-h half of the
intellectual and spiritual energy of
the world being forced out of its
legitimate channels and compelled
to dissipate itself in the pettiest
trivialities. What an enormous
loss to the world is all this perverted
mental and moral force! These
personalities capable of the highest
development, are partial and stunt
ed growths, in the main, and bust
ness affairs and political affairs suf-
fer from it. This is now recognized
by the philosophic mind.
Happily the necessities of life are
forcing this subject, that has long
occupied the philosophers, upon
the consideration of practical men
and the question just at this juno
ture turns very largely upon a just
distribution of wages. 1t is from
this standpoint that the Grange has
looked at the matter, and has ex-
pressed its sentiment on behalf of
woman. From the beginning the
Grange has urged the injustice of
any discrimination against woman
in favor of man in the payment OF
wages for work equally 7VeH done
We do not claim that this is always
the case-that women always turn
out equally as good work-it would
be strange if they did, never having
had the training and other advan.
tages that men have had; but when
II is equal in quality, it is just and
right that they should receive the
same compensation 1t does seem
if there were any reality in that sen.
timent of protective regard for wo
man-willing enough that she
should engage in the coarsenine
drudgery of domestic life, but horri
fled at the thought of her associa
ting with men in public life,-i
there were any reality in this sent
ment, it does seem that these con
siderate individuals would insis
upon the larger pay going to the
the more delicate, the less ply sically
able, The universally of the re
verse of this, is to some minds the
strongest argument of its righteous
ness,-though with strange incon
Sistency, they are not willing to al
low other applications of this argu
meht. The fact that Work is don,
by woman forecloses the question
of its QUALIFYING comparison i
made. And yet, how often hav,
we seen perfect BOBBY of a man
whose only strong point is his as
surance and his inability to recog
nize his own dullness, getting
double and more than double tn
salary of women, whose work is o
the finest quality and who do no
spare themselves in the least, work
ing faithfully and not allowing tn
sense of injustice to affect the sin
cerity of what they do, or to abat
their Jealous enthusiasm.
This state of things is in the mui
titude thoughtless acceptation O
things as they are. But among tn
thoughtful, the larger minded, NOR
generous men acknowledge tn
cruel injustice and are endeavorin.
to create juster sentiment am
juster administration. PETIT,
minds are unable to see beyond tn
horizon of their own little persona
interests and under the affectatiol
d conservatism endeavor to concea
their selfishness.
The association of the sexes in tn
Grange is one of its finest features
showing it to be in the advanc
guard of human progress, and tina
in this question of fair and equit
able distribution of wages it ha
been outspoken and decided, is ad
ditionsll evidence that the rider i
in sympathy with the nobler ten
denotes of the age. We want all o
the Oranges to bear out upon thi
line in the large spirit of the found
ers of the Order. They can hell
very materially toward putting tn
matter on satisfactory basis.
What the Grange has accom-
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