Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-05-31


water, and many trIniDg things too NJ
merous 10 mention"
Some Of the woret villains OF our elite
I. are the employers OF these women. Inc
beat them down 70 the last penny an
try to cheat them out of that The woma
must deposit dollar or two before 81
gets the garments 20 work on. When N
work is done II is sharply Inspected IN
N most Insignificant flaw Is picked out an
the wages refused, and sometimes IN
dollar deposited not given back. IN
Women's Protective union reports cas-
where one OF the poor souls, finding
place where she could get more wages
resolved TO change employers, and Wen
TO get her pay for work done. The EN-
piOyer SAYS. 81 hear you are going =
leave meSn eyes" she said, 'iand
have come 60 get what you owe me-" III
!. made no answer. She said; care yol
. not going TO pay me?" "Yes,n he said
: al will pay you,v and he kicked her dow
. stairs. ! never swore a word in all M
life, but confess that when | read that
felt stirring within me that was not a
all devotional
by what principle Of justice is II that
women in any OF our cities get only two
thirds as much as men, and In many cases
only half Here Is gigantic injustice
that for work equally well, II not better
done, woman receives far less cOmpensa-
tion than man. Start with the national
government. Women clerks in Washing
ton get $500 for doing that for which men
receive $500. The wheel OF oppression
il rolling over the necks of thousands Of
women who are at this moment In de-
spair about what they are TO do. Many
Of the largest mercantile establishments
Of our cities are accessory TO these abom-
nations, and from their large establish
ments there are scores OF souls being
pitched OFF into death, and their employ
ers know It. Is there Godg win there
be judgment? tell you, II God rises
up To redress woman's wrongs, many Of
our large establishments will be swallowed
up quicker than O South American earth.
quake ever took down city. God will
catch these oppressors between the two
mlllstones OF His wrath, and grind them
10 powder
Why IS 1t that female principal in
school gets only 1928 for doing work for
which male principal gets SlG502 II
hear from all this land the wall OF woman
hood. Man has nothing to answer 20 that
wall but batteries. He says she is an |
angel. She Is not. She knows she is not |
She Is 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 5000 sew
ing-girls IN New York and Brooklyn,
Across the sunlight comes their death
groan. II is not such cry as comes from
those who are suddenly hurled out OF life,
but slow, grinding, horrible
wasting away. Gather them be-
fore you and look into their
faces pinched, CHASTITY, hunger-struck
Look at their fingers, Deedle-picked and
See that premature stoop
In the shoulders Hear that dry, hack
Ing, merclless cough! At large meet
ing OF these women held in hall 10 Phil
idelphia, grand speeches were delivered,
out q needle-woman took the stand, threw
aside her faded shawl, and with her
'hriyeled arm hnrled very thunderbolt {
u eloquence, speaking out the horrors of !
Ter own experience.
Stand az the corner OF street in {
'ew York at & or O'Clock in the morn ]
ng, as the women 20 to work. Many of
hem had no breakfast except the crumbs /
hat were left over from the night before, /
II the crumbs they crew on their way |
through the street. Here they comet |
The worklng-girls of New York and
Brooklyn These engaged in head work,
hese In flower-mabing in millinery, paper {
ox-maklng; but, most over.worked of c
II and least compensated, the sewing '
'omen. Why do they not take the city
ars on their way upP They cannot
nord the five cents. II, concluding TO d
eny herself something else, she gets into e
ne car, give her a seat. You want to see n
ow Latimer and Ridley appeared in the I,
re- Look at that woman aud behold h
ore horrible martyrdom, hotter fire, n Il
ore agonizing death. Ask that woman Il
Dw much she gets for her work. and she "
III tell you six cents for making coarse 81
lirts and finds her own thread. "
speak more iltly OF woman WRONGS b.
cause she has not been heard in the f
'esent agitation. You know more of b.
bat men have suffered. said TO a y,
'lored man who, in Missouri last March. ol
Ime Into my room in the morning to Fl
llld my fire "Sam, how much wages do h,
~ people get around hereYn lie replied tC
Zen dollars a month, sir!" / asked m
Have you family2" eyes" said he, tc
vile aud Children Think of IL; tn
inbred and twenty dollars year to al
pport family on. My friends, there o,
something In this world awluly th
visit. When | think of these things In
. not bothered as some of my brethren "
IN the abstract questions as TO why nc
,d let sin come into the world. The by
iy wonder with me Is that God don't 81
lash this world up and start another in to
ice OF il. OF
One great trial, that the working II,
Isses feel is physical exhaustion. There he
athletes who 20 out 20 their work at be
" O'Clock In the morning, and come ar
ok at night as fresh as when they tn
rted. They turn their back upon the IL
little or the forge or the rising wall, ST.
i they come away elastic and wh!stling. an
at Is the exception. have noticed
It when the factory bell taps for to
lock, the Woodworking man YEARLY OF
Is his arm luto his coat-sleeye and I
rts for home. He sits down in the glC
nily circle resolved TO make himself IN,
eeable, TO be the means of culture and tn,
lcaton to his children, but In five pie
lutes he is sound asleep He is tagged lay
strength Of body, mind and soul del
erly exhausted. He rises IN the morn du
only half rested from the toll. In VIII
d, nc VIII never have any perfect rest the
his world until he gets into one mar pc,
spot walch Is the only perfect rest res
the human body Ia this world. plo
lk thew call IA Urapaf una 4Dn ~,