The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1884-02-29
Senator Martins Bill for an Indus.
trislInstisuts for White Females

! ulsl1nSututet Tor Whlte Femeies.
EDITORS CLARION: In TaE DAILY
CLARION of cath inst, is published the
bill Of Senator ]. Nee. Martin, entitled,
"An act to create and establish an In
dustrial Institute and College for the
education OF white females in the Arts
and Science The bill does credit to
the talented Trainer and is complete in
its clearneSs, force and conciseneSs.
The object of the bill is to introduce
the lucrative arts and sciences into our
midst, so that those women who wish TO
gain livelihood by such requirements
will not have to 60 North or West TO oh.
tain such knowledge. In plain language,
the Institute will ht women for work.
If this bill becomes q law, the proposed
Institute will relieve more suffering in
ten years by giving work to the poor
women than any two charitable institu-
tons in the Union.
Do the men of Mississippi ever reflect
what class of women are asking the
Legislature to establish a State Indus
trial Institute? Who are those of whom
the State Grange are representatives
Fearing that they have forgotten us in
our poverty we beg leave TO remind them,
and asthe novelists sayr "let me take a
retrospective glance"
Twenty.four years ago, many OF us
will remember, the almost princely style
in which Mississippi planters entertain
ed their guests Hospitality was the
universal law OF society. Then woman
reigned queen Of mems hearts; nothing
was too good to lay at her feet /;
her love was the acme OF earthly
bliss. When the dark cloud OF
war engulfed us, these same women
babe their lovers and husbands God
speed, and consecrated them with pray
ers and tears as they marched away to
defend our native State. They rejoiced
over victories, and wept over defeat, and
deprived themselves of luxuries that
would add to the soldiers comfort,
They stood dauntless and undismayed
when the foul hordes of Sherman and
Grant polluted their homes and remain
ed true to their principles, although the
price Of their integrity was often insult
and robbery! When defeat and sur
render came, the women of Mississippi
welcomed their soldiers back to Their
broken homes as heroes Of the defeated
but Just cause. From that day they have
J borne the burden of toll and poverty
accomplishing, trusting in the integrity
of their men.
They have witnessed many changes
Their broad acres have slipped from
them. The homes of their children ar,
: possessed by strangers. The planter
occupation has declined into secondar,
importance; the planters wife leads
necessarily, life Of hardship and pr
walton. On no class of citizens did tn
J failure of the Confederacy fall so har
as on Southern women. All of thei
. struggles, privations and sacrifices vii
never be known until we are summone,
r before the "Great High Throne" to Civ
) an account of the deeds done in tn
. flesh.
Men praise women for their patienc
a and fidelity. Alasl what cheap thin
breath isl Their praise is like the ia
, bled apples of Sodom-fnir on the out
side, but bitter ashes to the taste. lie
no man dare look into a Mississippi wo
mans face and tell her that he honor
womanhood, but the State is too poo
to establish an Industrial Institute
Out upon such silly talk while the Stat
makes annual appropriations for TIVE
! negro schoolsl There are men who 50,
they do not believe the miracles OF
Christ, but if the spirits of our ances
tiers. the heightened gentlemen plan
ters of ante beLium darys, are hoverinI
around us, what miracle it must seen
: to them that their jewels, their preciou
} daughters, have become subordinates
' and chiUdlric Mississippi men have re
3 warded the love of their mothers, sister
I and wives, by taxing their property an
I giving the sldues educational advantage
! denied to the white women OF the State
Shades Of our immortal heroes, arts
5 from your bloody battleields and cor
: front your former companions! Man
{ Of your wives and daughters are seekin
: remunerative employment and canno
: find 1t.
!. The women Of Mississippi are kneelin
at the feet of the Legislature asking 9
!, boon that they will do something /
! enlarge their sphere and give them
! change to make living. Will our Law
makers heed their cry, or will they asl
!. Gam my brothers keeper~ The bi
: before the Senate may be defeated, bu
/. the Senator who framed it will be eve
e held in grateful remembrance by I'll
y mothers and wives Of Mississippians.
% Mrs. o. A. HASTINGS.