The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1885-10-08

morning song, earns lts breakfast before 10
eats 10, and the Bible gives an intimAtion
that tho frst duty OF an idler 10 TO sbarve
when II says that II no twill not work
neither shall he eat,D Idlsnsss ruins the
health, and very soon nature saysi "rhis
man has refused 10 pay his rent; out with
him" Soclaty Ia TO DO reconstructed on
tho subject OF womans toll A vast ma
| jority Of those who would have woman In
duatrious shut hor up TO fow kinds Of
work, My judgment In this matter is that
a woman has ri ght 10 do anything she
can do we'll, There should be no depart-
mont OF merchandise, mechanism, art or
science barred against her, II Miss Hos
mer has genius for sculpture, give her a
| ohlsel IL Rosa Bonheur has fondness
for dolineating animals lether make "The
Horse Fair" II Miss Nit hell will study
astronomy, lot her mount the starry lad
dor II Lydia will DO merchant, lot her
sell purple. Il Lucreta Mott will preach
| tho Gospel, lot her th III with her womanly
| eloquenco the Quaker meeting house
IL ID said II woman Is given such oppor-
tunitles she will occupy places that might
be taken by man, Isay II she have more
skill and adaptedness for any position
than man has lot her have II. She has
as much right TO her bread, 10 her apparel
and 10 her homo aA mon have. But ID 10
said that hor nature is 80 dol cate that bho
Is untitled for eKhausting toll | ask, M
the name Of all past history what toll on
earth Ia moro severe, oEhansting aud trs-
| mauIanQ than thaI foil nf IA naaNla 10
which for ages sh. has b0sn subjoct0dS
| The hattortng'ram, tho sword, tho car
bino, tho battls.aKs, have MADE no such
havoc Az tho needle, | would that those
living sopulchora, In which women have
for ages boon buried might bo opened, and
that some resurrection trumpet might
brIng up these living corpsos TO tho fresh
air and sunlight Go with mo and viii
show you u woman who, by hardest toll,
supports her children, her drunken hus-
band, her old father and mother, pays her
house rent, always has wholesome food on
tho table, and whom she can got soma
nelghbor on tho Sabbath 10 como In and
take care OF hor family, appears In church
with hat and cloak that aro far from indi-
eating the toll 10 which she ia subjected,
Such woman a. that has body and soul
enough 10 ~ her for any position She
could stand beside tho majority Of your
aalosmon and dispose Of moro goods, She
| could go into your whOolwright shops and
beat ono.half Of your workmen at making
| carriages, We talk about woman AZ though
We had resigned 20 her all tho light work
and ourselves had ahouldorsd tho heavier.
But the day OF Judgment which will re-
veal tho sulforlngs OF the stake and inQul-
SItion, viii marshal before tho throne Of
God AMI tho horarohs Of Heaven the mar
tyrs OF wash.tub and noOdlO, Now, say
II thoro b. any preference In occupation
lot woman have II, God knows hor trials
, Aro tho soyorcst by hor acutor sensitive.
, ness 10 misfortune, by her hour Of anguish,
domond that no one hedge up hor path.
way TO u livelihood, Oh, the moannOss,
lhc dcspIcabIlity, Of mon who bcgrudgo a
woman tho right 10 work anywhere In any
honorable c0llngl
EQUAL PAY FoR EQUAL WORK.
go still further, and say that woman
should have equal compensation with
mon. BY what principle Of justice Ia IL
that women, In many Of our ctlos, got
only two.thIrds Ns much pay as mon, and
In many cases only holty Hero Ia tho
gigantic injustec-thOt for work equally
woll, il not bottor, done woman rocclycs
Tar less compensation than man. Start
with the National Governments Womon
corks Ia Washington CITY got nlno hun.
lrod dollars Tor doing that for which mon
get ono thousand eight hundred dollars
The whou Of oppression IL rolling over
lhn nrCts pf thousands Of women who are
Rt this mumont In despair about what thoy
Urt 10 do, Many Of the largest mcrcan.
tilo establishments Of our ~ are Nccca.
sorry TO these denominations, and from their
largo establishments there are scores Of
souls boing pitched on Into DEATH and !
their employers know H. Il thoro u Godi |
win there DO a judgmrntS toll you, Il |
God riaos up 10 redress womcn's wrongs
many Of our largo establishments viii bo |
swallowed up quicker than South |
American earthquake ever took down u
city, God viii catch those opprcs1ora bo. |
tween tho two millstonca Of His wrath |
and grind thcm to powder
Why lsit that fomalo Principal IN |
school gots only SS95 for doing work for |
which malo Principal gots 81 ,O5OS hear
from all this land tho wall Of womOnhood. |
Man has nothing 10 answer 10 that wall hut !
ilattorlos, He says she IA an angel, Sho |
Is not, Sho knows she is not, She 10
human being, who gota hungry whom aho
has no food and cold whom she has no fire. |
Give her no moro ilattcrloa, glvo her Jus.
tioo, There are sixty sayo thousand sowing |
girls In Now York aud Brooklyn. Across
tho sunlight comes their death.groan, 10 |
In not such n cry "a comes from those who |
are suddenly hurled out Of life, but slow, |
grinding, horrible wasting away. Gather
thom before you and look into their facoa |
-pinohod, ghastly, hunger.struckl Look |
At their ilngors-needlo. picked and blood |
tipped boe that premature etoop In tho |
shouldorsl Hear that dry, hacking, mor-
oiloaS cough.
MERomEss VILLAINS.
Years ago ono Sabbath night In tho vea.
tlbulc Of this church, after service, a woman
fell Ia oonvulslona, Tho doctor said aho |
NODDED medicine not 40 much M something
10 eat. A she began 10 revive, In hor do. |
lIrlum she said, gaspInglyi "Eigbt contsi
oight oonts wish could get 10 donel |
am 40 tired l wish could got somo sleep,
but must get II donol Eight oontsl oight |
ocntap We found aftcrward that sho was
making garments for olght cents apiece
and that sho could mako but throo OF thom
In a day. lloar ltl Three tImos oight aro
twonty -four. Hear II, men and women
whe have comfortable homcs Some Of
thc worst villains Of our cities are the ON.
plpors OF those women. They beat them
down 30 tho last penny and try 10 cheat
lhom out Of thai Tho woman must do.
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