The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1885-06-03

time you consume whole harvests and
droves Of cattle, and every day yon live
you breathe forty 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
geologists are right, the earth was mill
lon of years In possession Of the insects,
beasts and birds before our race came up
on 1t. In one sense we were innovators.
The cattle, the lizards and the hawks had
presumption right. The question is not
what we are to do with the lizards and
summer insects, but what the lizards and
summer insects are to do with us.
NATURE SAYS "PAY."
II we want place in this world we must
earn 1t. The partridge makes its own nest
before 1t occupies it, Tho lark, by its
morning song, earns its breakfast before 1t
eats 1t, and the Bible gives an intimation
that the first duty Of an idler is to starve
when 1t says that II he twill not work
neither shall he eat" Idleness ruins the
health, and very soon nature says: "This
man has refused to pay his rent; out with
himW Society is to be reconstructed on
the subject of woman's toll. A vast ma
jority Of those who would have woman in
dustrious shut her up to few kinds Of
work. My judgment In this matter is that
a woman has right to do anything she
can do well. There should be no depart
ment Of merchandise, mechanism, art or
science barred against her. II Miss Hos
mer has genius for sculpture, give her
chisel. II Rosa Bonheur has a fondness
for delineating animals, let her make ''The
! Horse Fair" II Miss Mitchell will study
astronomy, let her mount the starry lad
der II Lydia will be merchant, let her
sell purple. II Lucretia Mott will preach
the Gospel, let her thrill with her womanly
eloquence the Quaker Westinghouse.
1t is said IL woman is given such oppor-
tunities she will occupy places that might
be taken by man. Isay II she have more
skill and adaptedness for any position
than man has, let her have II. She has
as much right to her bread, to her apparel
and to her home as men have. But 1t is
said that her nature is 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 and tre-
mendous than that toll Of the needle to
which for ages she has been subjectedp
The battering-ram, the sword, the car
bine, the battle-axe, have made no such
havoc as the needle. / would that these
living sepulchers, In which women have
for ages beon buried, might be opened, and
that some resurrection trumpet 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 hus-
band, her old father and mother, pays her
house rent, always has wholesome food on
the 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 indi-
eating the toll to which she is subjected.
Such woman as that has body and soul
enough to fit her for any position. She
could stand beside the majority Of your
statesmen and dispose Of more goods. She
could go into your wheelwright shops and
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carriages. We talk about woman as though
we had resigned to her all the light work
and ourselves had shouldered the heavier
But the day Of judgment, which will ro-
veal the sufferings Of the stake and inqui-
stion, will marshal before the throne oi
God and the hierarchs Of Heaven the mar
tyrs of wash tub and needle. Now, say
II there be any preference in occupation
lot woman have It, God knows her trials
are the severest. By her acuter sensitive
ness to misfortune, by her hour Of anguish
/ demand that no one hedge up her path.
way TO a livelihood. Oh, the meanness
the despicability, Of men who begrudge Q
woman the right to work anywhere in any
honorable callingl
EQUAL PAY FOR EQUAL WORK.
go still further, and say that woman
should have equal compensation with
men. By what principle Of justice Is Il
that women, in many of our cities, ge
only two-thirds as much pay as imen, ant
In many cases only halfS Here is tn,
gigantic injustice-that for work equally
we'll, II not better, done woman receives
far less compensation than man. Star
with the National Governments: WomeI
clerks in Washington City get nine hun
dred dollars for doing that for which mer
get one thousand eight hundred dollars
The wheel of oppression is rolling ovel
the necks of thousands Of women who are
at this moment In despair about what they
are to do. Many Of the largest mercan.
tile establishments Of our city are acces-
sorry TO these denominations, and from theii
large establishments there are scores ol
souls being pitched of into death, and
their employers know 1t. Is there a Cod
VIII there be Judgment tell you, Il
God rises up to redress women's wrongs
many Of our large establishments will b.
swallowed up quicker than South
American earthquake ever took down q
city. God will catch these oppressors be-
tween the two millstones OF His wrath
and grind them to powder. tt.
Why is 1t that female Principal In O
school gets only Ss25 for doing work fol
which male Principal gets 81, ,650Y hear
from all this land tho wall Of womanhood
Man has nothing to answer to that wall but
batteries. He says she is an angel. She
is not. She knows she is not She is 0
human being, who gets hungry when she
has no food and cold when she has no fire
Give her no more batteries; give her JUS
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