Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-05-25

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doing dishonorable work, ! shall partcu-
larize. on may knit a tidy for the back
of an arm chair, but by no means make
the money whereWith 10 buy the chair.
You may, with delicate brush, beautify a
mantei ornament, but die rather than
earn enough. to buy a marble mantel.
You may learn artistic music until you
can squall Italian, but never sing ''Ort0n-
vile" or "Old Hundred" DO nothing
practical If you would in the eyes Of re-
! nned society preserve your respectaDillty
l scout these finical notions. / tell you
q woman, no more than man, has right
| to occupy place in this world unless she
pays rent for it. In the course Of a lie
time you consume, whole haryests and
droves of cattle, and every day you live
| breathe 40 hOgsheads Of good, pure air.
You must. by some kind Of usefulness,
pay for all this. our race was the last
thing created-the birds and fishes on the
/ fourth day, the cattle and lizards on the
fifth day and man on the sixth day. Ii
biologists are right, the earth was ,0OO,-
600 years in the possession Of the
insects, beasts and birds, before our race
came upon it. Ina one sense we were in
noyators. The cattle, the lizards ana the
I hawks had presumption right. The ques-
/ ton is not what we are to do with the
/ lizards and summer insects, but what the
/ lizards ana summer insects are to do with
! US.
I If we want a place in this world we
must earn it, The partridge makes its own
nest before it occupies 1t. The lark by
Is morning song earns its breakfast be-
fore IL eats it; and the Bible gives an lnti-
nation that the first duty OF an idler is to
starye when il says, if he 'will not work
neither shall he eat" ldleness ruins the
I health; and very soon nature says, This
man has refused TO pay his rent; out with
himP Society is TO be reconstructed on
the subject of wOman's toll. A vast ma
iOrity Of those who would have woman
Industrious shut her up 10 a few kinds Of
work. My Judgment in this matter is that
a woman has right 10 do anything she
can do well. There should be no depart
ment of merchandise mechanism, art or
science barred against her. If Miss Hos
mer has genius for sculpture give her a
chisel. If Rosa BOnheur has fOndness
for delineating animals let her make "The
Horse Fair" Ii Miss Mitchell will study
astronomy let her mount the starry lad
der. If Lydia will be a merchant let her
sell purple. If Lucretia Mott viii preach
the gospel let her thrill with her womanly
eloquence the Quaker meeting house.
1t is said ii woman IS given such ops
portunities she will occupy places that
might be taken by men. / say if she have
more skill and adaptedness for any pnsi-
tion than a man has, let her have i'll She
has as much right TO her bread, to her ap-
parel and her home as men have. But it
is said that her nature its so delicate that
she is untitled for eXhausting toll. | ask
in the name of all past history what toll
on earth IS more severe, exhausting aud
tremendous than that toll of the needle TO
which for ages she has been subjected
The battering-ram, the sword, the carbine,
the battle-aX, have made no such havoc
as the needle. | would that these living
sepulchres, IN which women have
for ages been buried might be
opened, and that some resurrection trum-
pet might bring up these living corpses
to the fresh air and sunlight. Go with
me, and | will show YOU woman who
by hardest toll supports her children, her
drunken husband, her old father and
mother, pays her house rent, always has
wholesome food on her table. and when
she can get some neighbOr on the Sabbath
TO come in and take care Of her family,
appears in church with hat and cloak
that are far from indicating the toll to
which she is subjected.
Such woman as that has body and
soul enough TO fit her Tor any position.
She could stand beside the maiOricy OF
your statesmen and dispose of more goods.
She could 20 INTO your Wheelwright shops
and beat One-half of your work men at
making carriages. We talk about women
as though we had resigned % her all the
light work and ourselves had shOuldered
the heavier. But the day Of Judgment
which viii reveal the suiferings of the
stake and inquisi ton, will marshal before
the throne Of God and the hierarch of
heaven the martyrs of Wash-tub and
needle. Now, l say, il there be any pre-
ference in occupation let women have il.
God knows her trials are the severest.
By her acuter sensitiveuess to misfortune,
by her hour OF anguish, l demand that no
one hedge UP her pathway 10 a livelihood.
on, the meanness, the despieabiliiy Of
men who Degrudge a woman the right to
work anywhere in any honorable calling
go still farther and say that women
should have equal compensation with
men. by what principle of justice is it
that women in many OF cur cities get only
tw0-thirds as much pay as men, and in
many cases only haliY here Is the gigan-
tic injustice-that for work equally well,
IL not better, done woman receives far
less compensation than man. Start with
the National Government; women clerks
in Washington get $500 for doing that for
which men receive $500. The wheel Of
oppression is rolling over the necSs Of
thousands of women who are at this mo-
ment in despair about what they are TO
do. Many of the largest mercantile
establishments Of our cities are
accessory to these denominations; and
from their large establishments there are
scores Of souls being pitched OIL into
death and their employers know it. Is
there a Godg Win there be a judgment +?
/ tell you if God rises up TO redress
woman's wrongs, many Of our large
establishments viii be swallowed up
I quicker than a South American earth
quake ever took down city. God Will
catch these OppressOrs between the two
| millstones of his wrath and grind them
| 10 powderl
Why is it that female principal in a
school gets only $S25 for dong work for
which male principal gets 81 Csc?
/ hear from all this land the wall OF woman
hood. Man has nothing TO answer 30 that
I wall but batteries. lie SAYS she is an
angel. She is not. She knows she is not.
! She is a human being who gets hungry
when she has no food and cold when she
has no fire. Give her no more batteries.
/ Give her iusticol There are 90, 900 sewing
/ girls ia New y ork and Brooklyn. Across
/ the sunlight comes their death groan. II
/ is not such cry as comes from those 10
are suddenly hurled out of life, but slow,
! grinding, horrible wasting away. Gather
them before you and look into tDeir faces,
/ pinched, CHASTITY, hunger-struck! Look
( ~ their fingers, needle-picked and blood
/ tipped See that premature stoop IN the
/ shoulders! Hear that dry, hacking, mer-