The Labor enquirer., 1886-01-09
To Statesmen, Legislators, Mo-
nopolists. Autocrats and
Politicians.
Take Heed in Time Wage Women
Demand Work, and Must and
Will Have Bread.
With Aillions In the Q. s. Treasury,
No Nan Or Woman Should be
Allowed to StarYe.
WAsHrNaroN. D. G., Dec. "a. 1885.

WAsHrNaToN, D. G., Dec. "a. 1885.
This Christmas eve Of 1885 Witnesses
women with starving little ones, soldiers
widows crying for bread. while monopo-
lies and Cinnamon and Jeffersonian
economy have taken pread from the
young and the old.
We are not and will not be Paupers.
while you, the servants of the people,
live on the fat Of the land, and deny US
honest employment.
An officer told little woman this
Christmas eve, who had lost her hus-
band in June, 1885. who had her hungry
baby in her arms, on her first applica-
ton for food and assistance, mot to
bother him again"
The woman was trying to exc out an
existence BY making three pairs Of
drawers for 25 cents. It cost her 40 cents
per week for two cans of condensed milk
to feed her babe: and to use her own
words: Nothing was left for me to buy
food and fuel" In the same building
lives an old woman . soldiers widow
who earned the pittance Of SIS per
month by washing the towels Of enc of
the departments, but this was taken
from her by the secretary to satisfy the
grasping greed of contractors and
Chinese sub-contractors.
These women are sample of the APP
plicants who daily come to the Woman's
National Industrial League with their
tales of sorrow and distress. and in the
name Of justice and common humanity
the Woman's League demands that
Chinese monopolies must gol That the
wage woman shall have fair chance in
the battle for bread That this govern
ment of the whole people shall not dis
criminate against the soldiers widows,
the nations wards, at the washtub, in
favor of the leprous heathen Chinaman
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who have the good of this world goods,
every pleasure 9ratifed for You and
yours, and a through ticket to Paradise
furnished by fashionable churches,
should remember that the same God
who made you also created the wage
woman, and through no crime of hers
she hears the plaintive cry of her off
spring for bread, which she cannot give
them. They are as dear to her as the
children of the Vanderbilts, Goulds and
Sharon's and other millionaires death
comes to the Creesus as well as the poor.
and shrouds have no pockets, and Gods
curse will fall upon nation of monev
worshipers and wealth idolators.
Divines should practice charity while
preaching it, and preach more humanity
and less hypocrisy. Statesmen and law
makers should remumber Rome, and
hearken to the distant thunder as 1t vi.
brates through the halls of the capitol
and sends a muttering echo from the
rotunda to disturb the attitude. of the
.OOuucSSsOl AlUOIJt iOohluk uOWu upOu
our fair city 'Tis the half hushed sound
Of volcano, that will burst ere long
from the starving thousands who have
tasted and waited for many weary
night for the morning Of relief to dawn
Let them remember France, when the
populace trayersed the streets of Paris
and demolished the Bastile and desc
Grated the gardens of the Tulleries by
the rude tread of coarse shoes and
coarser yells, because the rulers had for
gotten the people in the day of their
power, ease an afluence.
The cry for bread is tho forerunner Of
blood. The cry for work to bring bread
is faint now, like the howl Of the prairie
wolf, when he scents his victim. and
prepares to gather and marshal his
horde. The cry for bread will rise like
the blasts of December and awake the
lmonopolists, the millionaire on his easy
couch, and tend to engulf our country in
vortex of untold woe.
| CHARLOTTE SMITH,
President Wonan's National Industrial