The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-06-11

them had no breakfast except the crumbs
that were left over from the night before.
or the crumbs they chew on their way
through the street. Here they come!
The working girls of New York and
Brooklyn. These engaged In head work,
these in Aower-making, in millinery,
paper-box making; but, most ovecworked
Of all and least compen sated. the sewin &
women. Why do they not take the city
cars on their way up! They can not afford
the five cents. If. concluding to deny her.
self something else, she gets into the car,
give her . seat. You want to see how
Latimer and Ridley appeared in the fire.
Look at that woman and behold Q more
horrible martyrdom, . hotter fire, q more
agonizing death. Ask that woman how
much she gets for her work and she will
tell you six cents for making coarse shirts
and finds her own thread.
speak more dtly Of woman's wrongs
because she has not been heard ia the
present agitation. You know moro Of
what men have suffered. I said to q col
ored man who, in Missouri last March,
came into my room in the morning to build
my fire: "Sam, how much wages do you
people get around here:" He replied:
"Ten dollars . month. STRIP I asked:
"Have you a family" "Yes," said he,
"wife and children" Think of it; $40 q
year to support family on. My friends,
there is something in this world awfully
atwist. When I think of these things
am not bothered as some of my brethren
with the abstract questions as to why
God let sin come into the world. The only
wonder with me is that God don't smash
this world up and start another in place
of it.
One great trial that the working classes
feel is physical exhaustion. There are
athletes who go out to their work at six or
seven O'Clock in the morning and come
back at night as fresh as when they start
cd. They turn their back upon the shut
tie or the forge or the rising wall, and
they come away elastic and whistling.
That is the exception. have noticed that
when the factory bell taps for six O'Clock,
the hard working man YEARLY puts his
arm into his coat-sleeve and starts for
home. He sits down in the family circle
resolved to make hiriself agreeable, to be
the means of culture and education to his
children; but in five minutes he is sound
asleep. He is tagged out-strength Of
body, mind and soul utterly exhausted.
He rises in the morning only half rested
from the toll. Indeed he will n ever have
any perfect rest in this world. until he
gets into one narrow spot which is the
only perfect rest for the human body in this
world. think they cali it grave! Has
toll frosted the color OF your cheeks: Has
IL taken all spontansity from your laugh
ter: Has it subtracted the spring from
your step and the luster from your eye,
until 1t has left you only half the man you
were when you first put your hand on the
hammer and your foot on the wheel: To-
morrow, in your place of toll. listen, and
you will hear a voice above the hiss OF the
furnace and the grosn of the foundry and
the clatter of the shuttle-a voice not of
machinery nor Of the taskmaster. but the
voice of an all.sympathetic God, as ne
says:
Come unto me all you who labor and are
heavy laden, and Ill give you rest.
Let all men and women of toll re.
member that this work will soon be over.
Have they not heard that there is a great
holiday coming. o! that home, and no
long walk to get to it. o! that bread aud
no sweating toll necessary TO earn it. o!
these deep wells of eternal rapture and no
heavy buckets to draw up. I wish they
would put their head on this pillow stuffed
with the down from the wing of all Gods
promises. There remains a rest for tue
people OF God.
wonder how many tired people there
are in the house TODAY. A thousand:
More than that. Two thousand people
who are tired, tired ont with their life.
tired in hand and foot and back and heart.
All! there are more than two thousand
people here to-day, surprising all the rest
to be in luxury and in ease. Yonder is
woman who has her head down on her
hand. What does tina. mean: Ask her.
1t has been a tiresome week to her.
''Ow she says, "when will I ever get
any rest:"
Do you say:
1--WE have sewing machines now in our
great cities and the trouble is gone"
No. it is not. / See a great many women
wearing themselves out amid the hard
ships of the sewing machine. A Christian
man went into a house of a good deal Of
restitution in New York, and he saw =
poor woman there with sick child. and
he was telling the woman how good q
Christian she ought to be and how she
ought TO put her trust in God.
''Oh"' she said, II have no God. work
from Monday morning until Saturday
night, and get no rest, and l never hear
any thing that does my soul any good;
and when Sunday comes l haven't any
bonnet that can wear to church, and I
have sometimes got down to pray, and
then l got up saying to my husband: MY
dear. there is no use OF my praying: am
so distracted can't pray: it don't do any
good Oh sir, it is very hard to work on
as we people do from year to year, and to
see nothing bright ahead. and to see the
poor little child getting thinner and thin.
ner. and my man almost broken down,
and to be getting no nearer to God, but to
be getting farther away from him. Oh, if
1 were only ready to die"
May God comfort all who toll with the
needle and the sewing.machine, and have
compassion on those borne down under the
fatigues of life
Another great trial is privation OF taste
and sentiment. There are mechanics who
have their beautiful homes, who have their
fine wardrobes, who have all the best
fruits and meats of the earth brought to
their tables. They have their elegant
libraries. But they are the exception.
A great many of the working people
of our country are living in cramped
abodes, struggling amid great hards.ips,
tvin in al Ac u-l,a shnS do
not want to live, but where they have to
live do not know of any thing more
painful than to have q fine taste for paint
ing and sculpture. and music and glorious
sunsets. and the expause Of the blue sky.