The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-02-10
THE BRIGHT ERA THAT DAwNs
UPON Us.

TIE BRIGHT ERA THAT DAwNs
UPON Us. -. 49,.
The Senate did most noble act
yesterday. when. with but two dis
senring voices, it passed the resolu-
ton requiring the employment-o OF
women in the Slatf departments.
When such requirement is laid away
in the State department with all the
binding effect of law, signed by the
Governor and the presiding officers
of and eas-,--beafing
attestation with the great seal
OF the state, AWE o. may feel
that the Lone Star State has adj
vanced another step in its civiliza-
ton, emitting these good men who
votes for this measure TO honorable
mention in eternity. The Star of
Bethlehem shone in the east and led
kings PROSTATE 10 the feet of the in
FAINT Saviour, the worlds Redeemer.
Yesterday in the halls of the Senate
chamber there was awaked a light,
which, fed, will lead poor women in
Texas to feel that she is disenthrall-
ed, that she is we'd, redeemed from
that shame, which a cold and false
society forces her 10 assume because
of poverty and wretchcdness; be-
cause of false and foolish theory.
too long prevailing, that women is
fit alone 10 handle children. or to
cook and TO wash and scrub, to hoe
and pick cotton or 10 become a sub
iect for prostitution. Woman have
attained brilliance in the world of
letters second to no man, and We're
il not for her native purity Of pur-
pose and of action man would.
long since, have descended TO, or
more properly he would never have
been lifted up out of The position to
which Darwin traced him in the
worlds forgotten history. All that
is pure in man is born Of wOman's
influence, and let man acknowledge
the truth, and assert that all which
is base in woman is enforced by
man. If her example be for good
in the family circle; if her presence
in society lead TO its exaltatiOn, why
not lead her in the business walks of
life, where her pure and honest i'm
pulses may train man against the
arts of forgery and swindliHg,
against defalcation and fraudulent
entries, against land frauds and the
base purposes of man, and in favor
of honesty of purpose in public and
in private business transactions.
This resolution, when put in force,
viii not open the. way alone
to few women find
ing employment in State depart
ments, but the lesson, thus taught,
that woman is suited for clerical
employment will lead to her en-
rloy ment in private business, and
after awhile she will indeed be
much less than Il slave vi.
The STATESMAN took OCCASION
upon the introduction of this resO-
luton by Senator Houston, to com
mend il 70 the support of the MEM
bers of the Legislature, and it is
firatified that it passed the Senate
with such singular nnanimity.
Why should not every avenue to
honorable employment be opened to
women Are they not as deserving
as the best of men, and when COM
competent, are they not more SO
in the essential particular of neat
ness and tidelityP Women never
shirk. duty, while men oftentim es
do, and we doubt not, that when
this law goes into effect, but that
there will be more work, better done,
of this same kind, than has ever
been the case before, Members of
the House should now hasten TO do
this simple act of justice, and there
by pay grateful tribute to her who,
amid sunshine and storm, amid pros
perity and adversely. beautifully il
In 20 In H.
shows the other. Woman faces pes
thence, and by her gentle ministra-
tions relieves the sick and soothes
the dying,while brave men, pale and
affrighted, shrinks away. Theirs
are lives of devotion, and
that devotion is a devotion
TO duty. There were sound
speeches of exceptional ability made
upon this subject in the Senate, and
Yeti is but justice TO say that the one
of Senator Terrell was the speech
of the day, and the occasion. With
earnest eloquence he PLEAD for
woman's right TO share in these ben
efactions of the State, and cited the
needs land wants ofthese ofthe weak
er sex, whose protectors have filed
soldiers graves in the various de-
partments at Washington. The
STATESMAN thanks God that the
women of the State have such
advocate on the floor of the Senate
as these men who voted aye
on the resolution yester-
day, advocates, who will se-,
not only that they are protected,
but that those who are competent
shall have afforded opportunities of
being honorably employed, that food,
shelter and the means of educating
those dependent upon them may be
afforded.
THE LEG IsLATIvE sQUABBLE OVER
RAILROADS.