The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1886-06-10

school gets only 1926 for doing work for
which male principal gets VI ,6bOf ] hear
from all this land the wall OF womanhood.
Man has nothing 10 answer 10 that wall but
batteries. lie says she 10 nm angel, She
10 not. She knows she is not. She 10 a
human being who gets hungry when she
has no food, and cold when she has no
fire. Give her no moro batteries; give her
iusticel There are $4,000 sewing girls In
New York and Brooklyn. Across tho sun
such cry az 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 fingers, neddle-picked and blood
tippedl See that premature stoop In the
shouldersl Hear that dry, hacking mer-
ciless cough At q large meeting OF these
women held In hall in Philadelphia
grand speeches were delivered, but nee
die woman took the stand, threw aside her
faded shawl, and with her shriyeled arm
hurled very thunderbolt Of eloquence,
speaking out the horrors Of her own expe-
rience.
"Stand at the corner of q street In New
York at 6 or o'clock In the morning, as
the women 20 TO work, Many Of them had
no breakfast except the crumbs that were
left over from tho night before, or the
crumbs they chew on their way through
the street, Here they come the worldng-
girls Of New York and Brooklyn. These
engaged in heNd-work, these in flower
making, In millinery, paper box making;
but most overworked of all and least COM
ponsOted, the sewing women, Why do
they not take the city cars on their way up?
They can not afford the . cents. III, con-
cluding to deny herself something else, she
gets into the car, give her seat, You
want to zee how Latimer and Ridley ap-
peared in tholire Look at that woman and
behold q more horrible martyrdom, hotter
fire, more agonizing DEATH Ask that
woman how much she gets for her work,
and she will tell you G cents for making
coarse shirts, and finds her own thread,n
speak moro 0tly Of womnn's wrongs be-
cause she has not been heard In the present
agitation, You know more OF what mon
have suffered, | said TO co0red man
who, IN Missouri last March, came into my
room In the morning TO build my lire:
"Som, how much wages do You people get
around hcrc?' lie replied. "Ten dollars
month, sr' asked Have you fam
IlyY' "los," said he, "wifo and children"
Think Of III Sl2On year to support family
)nl My friends, there IL something In this
world awGully atwist. When | think of
,hcso things am not bothered az some OF
my brethren with the abstract questions ns
why God lot sin como into the world.
The only wonder with me IL that God don't
lmosh this world up and start another in
,lnce Of H.
ono great trial that tho working classos
feel IL physical exhaustion. There aro
athletes who 60 ont TO their work at O or 7
o'clock in the morning, and como back 1T
night Ns fresh as when they started, They
turn their back upon the shuttle, or tho
forge, or the rising wall, and they como
AWAY elastic and whistling. This the ex-
coption. | have noticed that when The fac
tory bell taps for O o'clock, the hard work.
ing man weanly puts his arm into his coat
sleeve and starts for homo Ho sits down
In the family circle resolved 10 make him
self agreeable, 10 bo the means Of culture
aud education 10 his children; but In ayo
minutes ho Ia sound asleep. He ia tagged
out strength OF body, mind, and soul Mt
torly exhausted. lilo rises In the morning
only half rested from the toll. Indeed, ho
Will mover have any perfect rest In this
world until he gets into one narrow spot
which is the only perfect rest for tho
human body In this world. / think they
call II grave. Ilns toll frosted the color
Of your checks9 Has Il taken all spon-
tonoity from your laughcr9 Has II sub
uactod the spring from your stop and tho
lusior from your eye, until II has loft You
only half the man you were whom you frat
put your hand on the hammer and your
foot on the whool2 Tomorrow, In your
place Of toll listen, aud you will hear u
voice above the hiss OF the furnace and tho
groOn OF the foundry and the clattor of tho
voice not Of machinery nor OF
the taslSmOstor but tho voice Of an al-
God ns He says. "Como unto
me all you who labor and 0ro hoayy laden,
aud will give YOU rostn Let all men and
womon Of toll remember that this work will
soon bo oyor Have they not heard that
There Ia q great holiday coming2 q that
homo, and no long walk TO got TO Il, o
That bread, and no sweOting toll necessary
10 earn H. o those docp wells Of eternal
rapture and no heavy buckCts 10 draw up.
wish they would put their heads on this
pillow stuffed with the down from the wing
Of oil Gods promises. There remains q
rest for the people Of God.
! wondor how mr tired people thoro
lro In the house to-day A thousand.
Moro than that. Two thousand people who
,ro tirod--tirod out with their life, tired
N hand and foot and back and hoariY Ali
here are moro than two thousand tirod
people here to-day, suppoeing all tho rest
% DO In luxury and In ease. Yonder Ia a
woman who has her head on her hand.
What does that mcan1 Ask her. II has
)oon tirosomo week 10 her. -Ohln eho
Iays, "whon will ever get any roetpn
Do You say "Wo have sewing. mn
,hinos now In our great oitioa and Tho
rouble Ia gone.' No, Il IL not, | noe
great many womon wearing themselves out
mid the h0rdahips Of the sowing machine.
Christian man wont into house Of
rood deal OF doetitutlon In Now York and
40 eaw n poor woman thoro with sick
'hild, and ho was telling tho woman how
,ood q Christian she ought 10 be, and how
ho ought to put her trust In God. "0hp
he said, III have no God; | work from
Monday morning until Saturday night, and
get no rest, and / never hear anything
hat does my soul any good; and when
sunday comes haven't any bonnet can
wear 10 church, and have sometimes got
lown 10 pray and thon got up, eaying 10
NY husbands, My doar, there's no use Of
ny praying. | am no distracted can't
,rayi II don't do any good, oh, air, II Ia
'ory hard TO work on ~ we people do from
'oor TO yeor, and 10 SEQ nothing bright
ihcod, and 10 zee the poor little child got.
ing thinner and thinner, and my man al
most broken down, and TO bo getting no
,oaror 10 God, but 10 be gotting farther
way from Him. Oh, " were only
oady 10 diol" My God comfort oil who
oil with the needle and the sowing. ma.
ihino, and have compassion on those borno
lown under tho fotiguoe Of life.
Another great trial 10 privation Of tAelo
md sentiment. There are mechonice who
,ayo their fine wardrobe, who have all tho
,oet fruits and meats Of the earth brought
o their table. They have their elegant
ibroriee. But they arc tho exception, A
roat many OF the working people OF our