Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-05-31

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gets hungry when she has no food and cold
when she has no dre. Give her no more ilat-
terles; give her justicel There are 65,o00 sew
lng-grle In Now York aud Brooklyn. Across
the sunlight comes their death groan, 10 Is
not such cry as comes frOm those VINO are
suddenly hurled out Of life, but "a slow, grind
ing, horrible wasting away. Gather mem be-
fore YOU and look into their faces pinChed,
ghasty, hungertstruck! Look a. their fingers,
de-picb ed and OlOOG-tipppdi See that
premature stOOp in the shoulder! Hear that
dry, hacking, mercuess cough! Al large
meeting of these women, held in 4 hall in
philadelphia. grand speeches were delivered,
Dut needle woman took the stand, threw
aside her fade i shawl, and with her shriveed
arm buried very thnnderbOlt of eloquenee,
speaking out the horrors Of her own export
ence.
stand at the corner OF q street in New
Ork at 9 or O'tlOck in the morning, as the
women go TO work. Many Of them had no
breakfast 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
Ork and BrOOklyn. These engaged IN head
work, these in fower-making, in millinery,
paper box making: bat, most OverwOrked of
all and least compensated, the sewing wO-
men. Why do they not take the city cars on
their way upr They cannot afford the five
cents, IL, concluding to deny herself some
thing else, she gets into the car give her u
seat. You wantto see how Latimer and Rid
lev appeared in the fire. Look at that woman
and behold more horrible msrtyrdOm,
hotter fire, o more agoniztBg death, Ask
that woman how much she gets for her work
and she will tell you six cents for making
coarse shirts and finds her own thread.
speak more htly of woman's wrongs be-
cause she has not been heard in the present
agitation. You know more Of what men have
suffered. / said to a colOred man who IN Mis-
souri, last March came into my room in the
morning to Uulld my fire: Sam, how much
wages do You people get around here?" lie
replied "Teu doliars month sir" asked: /:
''Have you u faniily!" "Yes," said he, wife
and children Think OF lt--a hundred and
twenty dollars year to support family on.
My friends, thereis something in this world
aWfully atwist, When l think OF these
things | am not bothered as some OF my
brethren with heabstraet questions as to why
Sod let sin como into the world. The only
wonder with me IS that God don't smash this
world up aud start another in place Of it.
One great trial that the working classes
feel is physicai exhaustion. There are ath-
letes who 20 out q their work at or O'Clock
in the morning and come back at night as
fresh as when they started. They turn their
back upon the shuttle or the forge or the rs-
ing wall, and they come away elastic and
whistling. That Is the exception. l have
noticed tnat when the fsotory bell taps for 6
O'Clock the hard working man wearily puts
his arm into lis coat sleeve and starts for
nome. He sits down IN thefamlly circle re-
solved to MAKE himself agrcesble-tO be the
means of culture and education to his chll-
dren-but in i've minutes be is sound asleep
lie is tagged out--strength Of body, mind and
soul utterly eXnRusted II e rises in the morn
ing only half rested from he toll. Indeed, he
will never have any perfect rest in ritis world
until he gets iBt0 one narrow spot which is
the only perfect rest for the human body in
this world. think they call IL grave. Has
toll frosted the color 0f your cheeksG Hasiit
taken all spontareity from your laugbieri
Hasitsubtractedthesp spring from your step and
the lustre from ys,sss eye, until Il has left you
only half the man you were when you first
- ~ ont ha hau mo am foot
on the wheel? Tomorrow. in your place OF
toll, listen, and you will hear a voice above
the hiss OF the furnace and the groAn of the
foundry aud the clatter of the shuttle-a voice
not of machinery nor of the taskmaster, but
the voice OF an al-sympathetlc God as He
says; 'Gome unto me all you who labor and
are heavy laden, and | will give you rest -
Let all men and women of toll remember that
this work viii soon be over. Have they
not heard that there Is a great holiday com
ing? o that home, and no long walk to get
to it. o that bread and NJ sweating toll nee
essary to earn it. o these deep wells of eter-
nal rapture and no heavy buckets TO draw up.
/ wish they would put their head on this pill
low stuffed with the down frOm the wing OF
all Gods promises. There remains rest for
the people of God.
] wonder how many tired people there are
in the house to day? A thousand? More
than that. Two thousand people who are
tired, tired out with their life, tired in hand
and foot and back and heart? An there are
more than two thousand tired people here TO 10
day, suppOsing all the rest TO be in luxury and
IN ease. YOnder Is woman who has her
head down ou her hand. What does that
mean? ASK her. It has been n tiresOme
week to her. ''Oh!' she says, 'when will /
ever get any restf
Do YOU saw: ave have sewing machines
now IN our great cities and the trouble is
gone" No, It ls not. | see a great many
women wearing themselves out rid the
hardships OF the sewing machine. A Chris
tian man went into house OF good deal OF
destitutiOn in New York, and ne saw u poor
woman there with SICK child, and he was
telling the woman how good a Christian she
ought to be, and how she ought to put her
trust in God. ''Oh~ she said, II have no
God; II work from Monday morning until Sat.
urday night and | get no rest. and | never
hear any thing that does my soul any good
and when sunday comes haven't any
bonnet that | can wear 10 church
and | have sometimes got down
to pray, and then | got up, saying TO my
husband: My dear, there's no use of my pray
ing; am 20 distracted can't pray it don't dc
any gOOd.' Oh sir. lt is very hard TO work OF
as we people do from year 10 year, aud TO see
nothing bright ahead. and 10 see the poor lit.
tile child getting thinner and thinner, and my
man almost broken down aud TO be getting nC
nearer to God, but To be getting farther away
from Him. Oh, If were only ready TO die!'
May God comfort all who toll with the needle
and the sewing machine, and have compass
sion on those borne down under the fatigue,
Of life.
Another great trial is prvatlOn OF taste ant
sentiment. There are mechanics who have
their beauti al homes, who have thcir fln,
wardrobes. who fave all the best fruits AM
meats OF the earth brought 10 their table
They have their elegant libraries. But theJ
are the exception. great many OF ihe work
ing people Of our country are living IN cramped
ab0des, struggling amid great hardshps, liv-
ing IN neighb0rhOOds where they do not want
TO live, but where they have 10 live. do moi
know Of anything much more painful than Il
have a fine taste for painting aud sculpture
and music and glorious sunsets and the ex.
panse OF the blue shy, and yet not to be alb q
10 get the dollar for the OratOriO, or 10 get q
picture, or 10 buy Oue's way inJO the country
10 look al the setting sun and no ihs bright
heavens. While there are mel In great
aiiluence, who have around ibem AL
kinds Of luxuries In art, thomseiVe.
entirely unable 70 appt eciate these luxuries-
buying their books BY the square foot. their
pictures sent TO them by some artist VINO h
glad TO get tho miserable dauOs out OF the
studiO-thcre are multitudea OF renned. deli-
reign in the kingdom OF heaven as artiste
wdO are denied every picture aud eYerv sweet
song and every muieal instrument. Oh let
nc cheer such persons by telling them 10 iOOk
up and behold the inherit1nce that Gud ba.
reserved for them. The King Of Babylon had
a hanging garden that was famous IN all the
ages, but you have hanging garden better
thau tnat. All the heavens are YOURS. They be-
long 10 your Father, and what belongs 10 your
Fatnor belongs 70 you.
Then there are great many who snffer not
only IN the privati0n Of their taste, but IN the
approximations and the oppressive surround.
inga OF life, that were well described by an
English writer He said:
''rO be poor mans child and look through
the rails OF the play ground and envy richer
boys for the sake of their many books, and gcl
10 be doomed 10 ignorance. To be appren.
ticed 70 come harsh stranger ana feel foreyei