The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1886-06-09


pinched, CHASTITY, hunger struck Look at
their fingers, needle -pricked and blood
tipped See that premature stoop In the
shouldersl Hear that dry, hacking, mer-
ciless cough! At large meeting Of these
women, held in hall in Philadelphia,
grand speeches were delivered, but q
needle-woman took the stand, threw aside
her faded shawl, and with her shriv
arm hurled very thunderbolt of elo-
quence, speaking out the horrors Of her
own experience.
speak more ftly Of woman's wrongs
because she has not been heard la the
present agitation. You know more of
what men have suffered. I said to coll
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 a month; STRIP | asked:
"Have you a familyW EYES," said he,
"wife and children" Think Of it,; $l2O a
year to support family on. My friends,
there is something In this world awfully
atwist. When think Of these things l
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
ed. 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 Woodworking man wearily puts his
arm INTO MS coat-sieeve ana starts for
home. He sits down In the family circle
resolved to make himself agreeable, to be
the means OF culture and education. to his
children; but in five minutes be is sound
asleep. He Is tagged out-strength Of
body, mind and soul utterly exhausted.
he rises In tne morning only half rested
from the toll. Indeed he will never have
any perfect rest in this world, until he
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only perfect rest for the human body in this
world. think they call 1t gravel Has
toll frosted the color OF your cheeksf Has
II taken all spontaneity from your laugh
teri 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 vnur foot IN tha xvhaalt To.
morrow, in your place of toll, listen, and
you will hear voice above the hiss OF the
furnace and the groan Of the foundry and
the clatter OF the shuttle-a voice not Of
machinery nor Of the task-master, but the
voice Of an all-sympathetic God, as he
says:
Come unto me all you who labor and are
neaNy iauen' anu E"i give you rest
Let all men and women OF toll re-
member that this work VIII soon be over.
Have they not heard that there Is great
holiday comingl ol that home, and no
long walk 70 get 70 H. VI that bread and
no sweating toll necessary 70 earn 10. oI
tnese deep welis OF eternal rapture and no
heavy buckets to draw up. wish they
wonid put their head on this pillow stuffed
WIN tne doWn from the wing OF all 9od's
Promlses. Inere remains Arrest Tor the
FfPeVpie o. ovu.
"onusr no" many .reu people tpere
are IN 'ne mouse to-oay' a tnousanaf
MORE 'nan tnar Two thousand people
VINO are ureu' sreo OUT win tneir iite,
ureu IN nahu ana ioot anu oack ana neart.
AN there are more tnan TWO thousand
people pere to-day, supposing al the rest
10 Dc In luxury ana In ease fonder lsa
woman VINO mas ner heaa down on ner
manu- y" hat uoes tnat meanf ASK ner'
~ mas oeen tiresome week 70 her'
~" sne says 'when wiz :. ever get
any restr
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 %ardrobes, 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 hardships,
living in neighborhoods where they do
not want to live, but where they have to
live. I do not know of any thing more
painful than to have a fine taste for paint
Ing and sculpture, and music and glorious
sunsets. and the expanse Of the blue sky,
and yet not be able to get the dollar for