The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-05-16
What Others Say.
atlanta Constitution.

The late women's council at Wash
lington has called public attention to
some of the matters discussed during
the session of the convention.
It will be recollected that their re-
formers demanded equality between
men and women in schools of learning
and professional study, in industrial
training and in equal wages for equal
work, besides an Identical standard OF
personal morality.
A brief glance at the reports of our
last census shows that of 259 occupa-
tions pursued by the people of this
country, women are engaged, either
alone or with men, in 221 of them,
leaving only twenty-nine occupations
exclusively controlled by men. The
twenty-nine callings into which wo-
mon have not entered, embrace such
trades as blacksmiths, railroad build
ers, butchers, engineers, etc., etc.
So much for the progress of women
in the ordinry occupations of man.
kind. In the matter of learning and
professional studies, they are permit
ted in various colleges to 60 as high as
men ever go, and in quite a number
of professions they have already made
their mark. The moral standard in.
sisted upon will be regulated by pub
lie opinion. If women are more
severely judged than men when they
stray from the right path it is because
their sisters would have it so. When
the great majority of the. sex insist
upon an Identical standard of morals
for men and women the world will
have to come to it. Until they reach
this point it is waste of time to talk
to men about it-men are powerless to
regulate it.
The general disposition on the part
of women who have no fathers or hus-
bands to support them, to earn their
own living instead Of becoming OBJ
jects of charity will result finally in
winning all the privileges and
all the consideration desired by them.
Before very long public opinion will
force men out of many of the lighter
employments in which they are now
engaged, andtheir places will be filled
by women. This drift of things
should be encouraged, and the women
who succeed in their chosen profess
sions and occupations should be ap-
plauded. It is infinitely better for
them to become honorably indepen-
dent in this way than it would be for
them to sit down in idleness to be
supported by strangers, or perhaps by
unwilling kinsmen, no better than
strangers.
The present is an of intense social
agitation, a time when all divinely
ordained institutions are tested even
to their very foundations. The holy
Sabbath, especially, is in imminent
danger. Many who bear the Chris
tian name have admitted the secular
spirit into the home and church on the
Lords Day some have suffered hab-
it's of sef-indulgencs to impoverish
their religious nature; in some cases
the excitements of worldly pleasures
dissipate serious thought; while in
a few, Gods blessed word is no longer
relished on the Sabbath on account
of the preoccupacy of the modern
Sunday paper.
A CAR LOAD OF LIQUORS AS A
POLITICAL STATER.-Is the following
statement of the New York Voice
true?
"Saint Louis, the city that won the
Convention, made regular whiskey
campaign for it, sending out q carload
of liquors under the escort of the May
or and other prominent Democrats.
With these liquors free bar was set
up, around which the national leaders
of the Democratic party stood and dis,
cussed the superior claim of st.
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