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

ployers OF these women. They beat them
down to the last penny and try to cheat
them out of that. The woman must de-
posit one or two dollars before she gets the
garments to work on. When the work Is
done it is sharply inspected, the most In
significant flaws picked out and the wages
refused and sometimes the one dollar do"
posted not given back.
A sTALwART FRIEND.
The Woman's Protective Union reports
| q case whore one of these poor souls, finds
ing a place where she could get more
wages, resolved to change employers and
went to get her pay for work done. The
employer says: ~ hear you are going to
leave meW "Yes," she said. land have
come to get what you owe me-" He made
no answer. She said: "Are you not GO
ing to pay mep" "Yes," he said, ~ will
pay you," and he kicked her down stairs.
Oh, that Woman's Protective Union, 10
Clinton Place, New York The blessings
Of Heaven be on 1t for the merciful and
divine work 1t Is doing in the defense OF
toiling womanhood. What tragedies OF
suffering aIe presented to them day by
day! A paragraph from their report:
| "'Can you make Mr.. Jones pay meS He
owes me for three weeks at $3.50 a week,
and can't get any thing, and my child is
very sick.' The speaker, young woman
lately widowed, burst into a flood Of tears
as she spoke. She was bidden to come the
next afternoon and repeat her story to the
attorney at the usual weekly hearing of
frauds and impositions. Means were found
by which Mr.. Jones was induced to pay
the $780,"
THE BALLOT NO REMEDY.
How are these evils to be eradicatedf
Some say: "Give women the ballot"
What effect such ballot might have on 9TH
er questions l am not here to discuss; but
what would be the effect of female
suffrage on women's wages? l do not be-
lieve that women will ever get justice by
woman's ballot Indeed, women oppose
women as much as men do. Do not
women, as much as men, beat down to the
lowest figure the woman who sews for
theml Are not women as sharp as men on
washer women, milliners and mantua-
makersg II woman asks one dollar for
her work, does not her female employer
ask her II she will not take ninety centsl
You say: "0nly ten cents difference" but
that is sometimes the difference between
Heaven and hell. Women have often less
commseration for women than men. II a
woman steps aside from the path Of recti-
tude man may forgive, woman never !
Woman will never get justice done her
from woman's ballot; neither will she get
it from mans ballot. How then? God will
rise up for her. God has more resources
than we know Of. The flaming sword that
hung at Eden's gate when woman was
driven out will cleave with Its terrible edge
her oppressors.
But there Is something for women to do
Let young people prepare to excel in
spheres of work and they will be able aft
er awhile to get larger wages. If 1t be
shown that a woman can in store sell
more goods in year than man she will
soon be able not only to ask, but to demand
: more wages, and to demand them success
} fully. Unskilled and incompetent labor
must take what is given; skilled and COM
, petent labor will eventually make its own
/ standard. Admitting that tho law Of sup
; ply and demand regulates these things,
contend that the demand for skilled la
Dor is very great and the supply very
small. Start with the idea that work
is honorable, and that you can do some
one thing better than any body else.
Resolve that, God helping, you will
take care of yourself II you are, after
awhile, called into another relation, you
will all the better be qualified for IL by
your spirit Of self-reliance; or IL you are
: called TO stay as you are you can be happy
and self-supporting. Poets are fond Of
/ talking about man as an oak, and woman
: as the vine that climbs IL; but have seen
many tree fall that not only went down
itself, but took all the vines with 1t. / can
tell you Of something stronger than an oak
to climb on, and that is the throne Of thu
J Great Jehovah. Single or afflanced, that
. woman is strong who leans on God and
does her best. The needle may bIsak, the
|, factory band may slip, the wages may
fail, but over every good woman's head
there are spread the two great, gentle,
! stupendous wings of the Almighty.
, A SHARP CONTRAST.
Many of you will go single.handed
, through life, and you will have to choose
. between two characters. Young woman,
r am sure you will turn your back upon the
, useless, giggling, irresponsible nonentity
, which society ignominiously acknowledges
: TO be woman, and ask God to make you q
humble, active, earnest Christian. What
I will become Of that womanly disciple Of
I the world? She is more thoughtful Of the
| attitude she strikes upon the carpet than
! how she will look upon tho judgment;
I more worried about her freckles than her
. sins; more interested in her apparel than
, In her redemption. The dying actress
i whose life had been vicious said; "The
scene closes; draw the curtain" Gener-
ally the tragedy comes first and tho farce
/ afterward; but In her life it was first the
farce Of wretched life and then the trag-
edy of wretched eternity.
Compare the life and death Of such a
one with that Of some Christian aunt that
was once blessing to your household. /
! do not know that she was ever offered the
, hand In marriage. She lived single that,
/ untrammeled, she might be everybody's
blessing. Whenever the sick were TO be
visited or the poor to be provided with
bread she went with blessing. She could
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