, 1886-06-06

NiAiANI III NhaN was lAVA NJ 49, 49,
By what principle of justice ia it that
women in many OF our cities get only two
thirds as much as men, and in many cases
only half Here is the gigantic injustice
that for work equally well, II not better
done. woman receives far less compensation
than man Start with the national govern
ment. Women clerks in Washington get
500 for doing that for which msn receive
$500. The wheel of oppression is rolling
over the neck OF thousands OF women who
are at his moment in despair about what
they are TO do. Many Of the largest mercan-
tile establishment of our cite, are accessory
to these denominations, and from their large
establishments there are scores Of souls be-
ing pitched off into death, and their en-
ployers know it. Is there a Godl VIII there
be a judgmenti | tell you, II God rises up
to redress woman's wrongs, many of our
large establish ments will be swallowed up
quicker than a South American earthquake
oppressors between the two millstones OF His
wrath aud grind them TO powder.
Why Is 1t hat a female principal In
n school gets only ss2J for doing work for
which a male principal gets 81, 65Of | hear
from all tins land the wall OF womanhood.
Man has nothing to answer 10 that wail but
BATTERIES. He 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 ~justicsl There are
5000 sewing girls in New York and Brook
lyn- Across the sunlight comes their death
groan. 1t Is not such a cry as comes from
those who are suddenly hurled out of life,
but a slow, grinding, horrible wasting away.
Gather them before you and look into their
q na.a tnala. l...e1 -.
at their fingers, n~eedle-picked and blood
tipped See that premature stoop in tho
shoulders Hear that dry, hacking, merci-
less coughi At a largo meeting OF these
women held in n hall in Philadelphia, grand
speeches were delivered. but a needle woman
took the stand, threw aside her faded shawl.
md with her shrivelel arm hurled n very
thunderbolt OF eloquence, speaking out the
horrors OF her own experience.
Stand at the corner of a street in New
York at o or Z o'clock in tho morning
MS the women go to work. Many of them
hal no breakfast except the crumbs that
were left over from the night before, or the
crumbs they chew on their way through tho
street. Here they comet The working girls
of New York and Brooklyn. These engaged
in bend work, these in flower making, in
millinery. paper box making; but, most over
worked OF all aud least compensated, the
sewing woman. Why do they not take the city
cars on their way upi They ann afford
tbs five cents II. concluding to deny
herself something else, she gets into the car.
give her n seat. You want to see how Lati-
mer and Ridley appeared in the fire. Look
Mt that woman and behold a more horrible
m%artydom, n hotter fire, a more agonizing
death. Ask that woman how much she gets
for her work and she will tell you six cents
for maxim, coarse shirts and ind her own
thread.
Isi eak more fifty of woman's wrongs be-
cause she has not iecn heard in the present
ngiiauo' Ycu : " more of what men
have suffered. | sad to n colored man who,
in Missouri last March, came into my room
in the morning to build my fire: Sam, how
much wages do you people &c. around hereln
He replied: Ten liars n month, sir |
askel !: Have you n familyf' Yes said
he. wife and chillren.n Think of it; sl20
a year to support n family on. My fri nds,
there is something in this world awfully
ntwist. When / think of these things | am
not bothered as some OF my brethren with
the abstract question ms TO why God let sin
come into the world. The only wonder with
mo is that God don's smash this world up
and start another in plac, OF it
One great trial that the working classes
feel i, physical exhaustion. There are ath-
letes who go out to their work at 9 or Z
o'clock in ths morning and come back ut
night as fresh as wnen they started. They
turn their back upol the shuttle, or the forge.
or the rising wall, and they come away
elastic and whistling. That is the exec Ii
ton. have noticed that wlcn the factory
b,ll taps Tor 6 o c ock the hard working man
YEARLY puts his arm into his coat sleeve
and starts for home. He sits down in the
fnmily circle resolved TO m Ike himself agre =
uble. 10 b. the means OF culture and edurn-
ton to his children, but in five minutes he
is sound asleep. He is tagged out-strength
of body, mind AMI soul utterly ex-
hnssted He rises in the morning only half
rested from the toll Indeed he will never
have any perfect rest in this world, until he
gcs into one narrow spot which Is the only
perfect rest Tor this human body in this
world. | think they call il u gravel Has
tol frosted the color OF your cheeksi HIS
it taken all s%pontaneity from your laughleri
Has it subtrnctod the spring from your sep
and tho luster from your eye, Until it has
left you only half ths man you wero when
you first put your hand on the hammer
and your loDs ON the wheslf Tomorrow
in your place Of toll, listen, and You
will hear n voice above the hiss of the
furnace and the groan of the foundry and
the C after OF the shuttle-a voics not Of
machinery nor Of the taskmnster. but the
voice of an ail-sy mpathetic God us He says:
Come unto mo all you who labor and nre
heavy laden, and l will give you rest" Let
all men and women of Toll, remember Tint
this work will soon be over. Have they not
heard that there Is a great holiday comingl
Ohl that home, and no long walk to get to H.
on that bread and no sweating toll neces-
sary 10 cara it OH these deep wells of
eternal rapture and no heavy bucket, TO
draw up | wish they would put their head
on this pillow stuffed with the down from
the wing Of all Gods promises There re-
mains a rest for the people OF God.
II how many tired people there are
in the house to-dayf A thousandi More
than that. Two thousand people who are
tired, tired out with their life; tired in hand
and foot nnd back and hearti All, there are
more thnn two thousand tired people here
to-day, supposing all the rest To be in luxury
and in easel Yonder is a woman who has
her head down on her hand. What does
that meant Ask her. 1t has been a tiresome
week to her. Our she says, when will |
ever get any iestf'
Do you ,ay: we ave sewing machine,
now in our great cities, and the trouble is
gone" No II Is not i ses a great many
women wearing themselves out amid thu
hardships OF the sewing machine. A Chris
tian man went into a house OF a good deal Of
destitution in New YORK, and he saw a poor
woman there with a sick child, and he was
telling the woman how good n Christian she
ought 10 b., and how she ought to put her
trust N Col "Ohi" she said, ~ ave no
Col, l work from Monday morning until
Saturday night, and l get no rest, and !
mover hear anything that does my
soul any cool; and when Sunday
comes | haven't any bonnet that /
can wear TO church. and | have sometimes
got down TO pray I'm then | got up. saying
to my husband. MY dear, there's no ue
OF my praying. ] am so distracted | can't
FRAY. 1t 10 1T do any good Oh sir, IL Is