Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-05-31

to change employers and went to get b
pay for work done. The employers say
rs i hear you are going to leave meT Se
she said, and have come to get what y
owe me. He made no answer. She sal
cb Are you not going to pay meY Yes,
~ said, i will pay you, and he kicked b
down stairs.
never swore word in all my life, b'
confess that when read that l felt
stirring within me that was not at all d.
votional.
'e BY WHAT PRINCIPLE OF JUSTICE
n is it that women in many of our cities g
"a only twothirds as much as men, and /
), many csses only half? Here is the cigar
tic iDjustice-thst for work equally vel
g If not better done, woman receives far les
: com pensstion than man. Start with tn
. National Government. Women clerks il
Washington get nine hundred dollars TO
doing ths: for which men receive eighteen
hundred dollars. The wheel OF oppressi)I
is rolling over the necks of thousands O
, women who are at this moment in despair
about what they are to do. Many of thu
largest mercantile establishments OF ou
city are accessory to these denominations
. aud from their large establishments ther'
are scores of souls being pitched off into
death, and their employers know it. IL
there God2 Will there be judgment
tell you, if God rises up to redress wo
mans wrongs, many of our large estab'
: lishments will. be swallowed up quicker
than q South American earthquake ever
took down city. God will catch these
oppressors between the two millstones OF
his wrath, and grind them to powder.
WHY is IT
that female principal in school gets
only eight hundred and twenty-five dollars
for doing work for which male principal
gels sixteen hundred and fifty dollars? l
hear from all this land the vail Of woman.
hood Man has nothing to answer 10 that
wall but batteries. He says she is an
angel She is not She knows she IS not
She is q human being who gets hungry
when she has no food and cold when she
| has no FIRE. Give her no more batteries;
give her Justice There are sixty.fve thou.
sa I'd sewing girls in New York and Brook
lyn. Across the sunlight come their death.
groan. 1t is not such q Cry as comes from
those who are suddenly hurled out OF life,
but slow, grinding, horrible wasting
away. Gather them before you and look
into their faces, pinched, ghastly, hunger
struck! Look at their fugers, needle
picked and blood tipped Sea that prema.
ture stoop in the shoulders Hear that
dry, hacking, merciiess cough At
large meeting Of these women held in
hall in Philadelphia, grand speeches were
delivered, but q needle-womau took the
stand, threw aside her faded shawl, and
with her shrivaled arm hurled very thun-
derbolt of eloquenco, speaking out the ho;-
rors of her own experience.
THE WORKING GIRLS.
Stand at the corner of q street in New
York at siX clock or seven o'clock in the
morning, as the women 90 to work. Many
of them had no breaktsst 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 Brook
Ign. These engaged in head work, these
in il)wer.making, in millinery, paper box
making; bat most overworked OF all and
wa SJY"'sr~-~ted. J the sewing women.
tneit way up? They cannot afford the ive
cents. II, concluding to deny herself
some thing else, she gets into the cars,
give her a seat. You want to see how
Latimer and Ridley appeared in the fire.
Look at that woman and behold n more
horrible martyrdom. hotter fire, q
more sgonizing death. Ask that woman
how much she gets for her work and she
will tell you sig ceats Tor coarse shirts aud
finds her own thread.
l speak more itly OF Womans wrongs
because.
SHE HAS NOT BEEN HEARD IN THE PRESENT
AGITATION.
You know more of what men have suffered. !
[ said to a colored man who in Missouri |
last March came into my room In the
morning 10 build my fire: Sam, how
much wages DO you people get around
hgreY" He replied: "ren dollars a
month, sir" l asked: Have you iami.
ly?' Yes" said he, wife and children"
Think of it; hundred and twenty dollars
q year to support family on My friends,
there is something in this world awtuily
a.twist. When think OF these things | am
not bothered as some of my brethren with !
the abstract questions rs TO why God let
sin come into the world. The only wonder
with me ia that God don' t smash this world
m and start another in place OF it.
One great trial that the working classes
faelis
PHYSICAL EXHAUSTION.
There are athletes who 60 out to worFat
six or seven ol!osk il ths morning, and
come back at night aS fresh as when tney
stsstei. They turn their backs upon the
shuttle or the forge or the rising wall, and
thew come away elastic and whisting.
That's the exception. | have noticed that
when the factory bell taps for six o'clock,
the hard.workirg man wesrily puts his
arm into bis coat sleeve and
stars for home. He sits down in the fam.
ily circle resolved to make himself agree
HE 10 the means Of culture and education
to his children; out in FIVE minutes he is
sound asleep. He is Jagged out-streugth
CT body, mind and soul utterly exhausted
! He rises IN the mornlug ouly nAH resteu
from the toll. Indeed he will meyer lave
suy perfect rest in this world, until be gets
into one narrow spot which is the only per
feet rest for the human body in this world.
think they call it grave Has toll
frosted the color Of your cheeks Has II
,aken all spoutaneity from your laughter?
Has it subtracted the spring from your
! step apa the luster from yoar eye, until it
has left you only nall the gan y0F were
when you first put your hand on the ham
mtr and your foot on the
wheeli Tomorrow, in your place
OF toll. listen, snd You will hear 6
voice above the hiss Of the turnscs
and the groau Of the foundry and the clst-
ter Of the sbuttls-a voice not Of nsohIn,
ery nor OF the tasknsster, but the voice OF
an sll-sympsthetic God as he says; Come
unto me all you who labor and are heavy
laden, and | will give you rest" Let ail
men and wonsn {. toll remember that TINS
work will soon be over. Have they mol
heard that there is great holiday coming