Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-09-18
WOMEN pOR PROTECTION.
Ladies Given . Baeartae On the Tariff
Question.

Ladies Given = Sacariss sn the Tariff
Qussstea.
MY pLJ0HTnS TEE srBcoxNrfrKr or rHr
SENATE FINANCE COMMITTEES ON woxK AND
WAGES HExE AND IN EUROPE. ETC.
The proceedings Of the senate subcommittee On
the tar1n this morning were In refreshing con-
uase with the average OF the last two months
About nfteen wen-dressed,. fresh-lookine ladies'
made their appearance at the doors OF the COM
mittee-room q IL O'Clock, headed oy Mrx !. Ellcn
Foster, PRESIDENT OF the womans' Christian TEN.
perance Urion, OF Iowa and were introduced by
senator Allison 70 his fellow members a. q dele.
CATION who wished 70 be heard In respect 10
woAAxs ESPECIAL Ikrksksr IN THE PROTECTIVE
MrS Foster addressed the committee eloquently
ana at considerable length. She described her ex.
perience In Europe year ago, whittier she went
In connection with the philanthropic work In
which she had spent her life setting forth the steps
which led her 70 the belief that the incomparabsy
superior advantages enjoyed by the American
woman as wife, mother or self-supporter TO her
tective system She contrasted the manuIactur.
Ing and farming localities OF Germany, England,
Scotland and ireland with their
WOMEN AARSEssrD
sometimes like beasts OF burden In the nelds leav-
ing their little ones without mothers care, earn.
with the conditions or life here, declaring that
on her arrival In Massachusetts, on her
Ieturn. she could hardly escape the
did moi profess TO be speciaiist in regard TO the
taflu, but had read the debates In Congress and
noticed that whenever the wage-worker was re-
sympathies OF the legislator Would nobody she
asked herself appear Tor the working women Of
saR WARMED THE COMMITTEES
ha An of
Kind which had contributed most TO the upbuild-
Ing or pulling down OF nations and told them that
whenever the condition OF men was degraded,
There women went lutte lower one
Women and sae America nsS soSsSs
this hearing. She had been into the mills and
workshops OF New York ana New England, and
the female employees TO come 70 Washington with
her and tell the committee how they were stu-
ated. These were the ladies present
PRETTY AND INTELLIGENT WOMEN WORKERS
She assured the committee that they were In nc
Wise superior 70 their fellow-workers-had not
been picked out for greater intelligence or ability
and were themselves surprised that the choice
should have fallen on them rather than on others
Two OF the ladies present were qualified school
all were accomplished In some OF the arts, music,
drawing, fancy work and the like, which In the
popular regard are limited 70 other walks or life
than the women wage-earners.
Her companions were then briefly questioned by
members OF the committee.
MRS BoRsER, 4 GERMAN LADY,
who had worked In factories In the Fatherland.
had been employed about twenty years In Rock
Vile, Conn, In weaving cloth for mems clothing
her weekly wages were from 50 TO $40 as CON-
pared with two marks In Germany. She laid up
money here and mad three times visited her birth
place. paying the expense from her savings
kNGLIsH GIRLS WHO Rave BkcoNE AMERICANS
Miss White. Miss Pitts and Mrs Stans1eld, all
born In England, were also employed In mills at
Rockville, Conn, but no two were ia the same
mill They told similar stories to that OF Mrs.
Bonner, or the superior wages, and superior adj
vantages OF their present condition TO that IN
which they lived In the old country, and declared
themselves with enthusiasm to have become
Americans In the fullest sense OF the word.
OTHER WOMEN TELL THEIR STORIES
Miss Gallagher and Miss Dempwolr were from
Amens' clothing house In New York city; Miss
Jennie Cheener, Mrs. studd and Miss Clark, were
from the mills OF Ware, Mass. There was but
little variety in the stories briefly and
modesty tod. Their positions were those
OF the average in their respective To-
calities, and they were earning comfortable live
uhoods by the work OF their own haads- The ap-
pearance or the ladies was however, the most
convincing part OF the evidence received by the
irrespective OF the tarin views OF the committee
men.
SENATOR HARRIS,
who represented the tariff reform doctrine on the
committee, CALAMITY contented himself In draw
ing the fact from each OF the Rockville witnesses
that the foreign-born element largely predoml-
mated among their fellows, and from the others
that IT about eQualled that OF native birth tn the
New YORK shop and the Mare mills.