The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-01-12

million. But you may rise to where
there are only a thousand; and still
higher until there are only a hundred;
and still higher till there are only ten;
and still higher in some particular de-
partment till there is only a unit and that
yourself. For while you may keep
wages and place through the kindly
sympathies of an employer, but you will
eventually get no more compensation
than you can make yourself worth.
Let me say to all women who have
already entered upon the battle of life,
that the time is coming when woman
shall not only get as much salary and
wages as men get, but for certain styles
of employment women will have higher
salary and more wages for the reason
that for some styles of work they have
more adaptation. But this justice will
come to woman not through any senti-
ment of gallantry, not because woman is
physically weaker than man and there
fore ought to have more consideration
shown her, but because through her finer
natural taste and more grace OF manner
and quicker perception and more delicate
touch and more educated adroitness she
will in certain callings be to her employer
worth 10 per cent. more, or 90 per cent.
more, than the other sex. She will not
get it by asking for it, but by earning it,
and it shall be hers by lawful conquest.
Now, men of America, be fair and
give the wonlenf ehaneei Are you
afraid that they viii do some of youY
work and hence harm your prosperitiss?
Remember that there are scores of thou
IL, of i q, ~
not be afraid! God knows the end from
the beginning and he knows how many
people this world can feed and shelter,
and when it gets too full he will end the
world and if need be start another. God
will halt the inventive faculty, which,
by producing a machine that will
do the work of ten or twenty
OF hundred men and women, will
leave -lat number of people without
| work. hope that there will not be in
| vented another sewing machine, or reap
| ing machine, or corn thresher, or any
other new machine for the next 500
| years. We want no more wooden hands,
| and iron hands, and steel hands, and
! electric hands substituted for men and
| women who would otherwise do the
work and get the pay and earn the live
| ihood.
But God will arrange all, and all we
| have to do is to do our best and trust
him for the rest. Let me cheer all
women fighting the battle of life alone,
with the fact that thousands of women
| have in that way won the day. Mary
Lyon, founder of Mount Holyoke female
seminary, fought the battle alone; Ade-
! laide Newton, the tract distributor, alone;
| Fidelia Fisk, the consecrated missionary,
alone; Dorothea Dix, the angel of
the insane asylums, alone; Caroline Her
schel, the indispensable reinforcement
of her brother, alone; Maria Takrzewska,
the heroine Of the Berlin hospital,
alone; Helen Chalmers, patron Of sewing
schools for the poor Of Edinburgh, alone.
! And thousands and tens of thousands of
women of whose bravery and self sacri-
fee and glory of character the world has
made no record, but whose deeds are in
the heavenly archives of martyrs who
fought the battle alone, and though un-
recognized for the short thirty or fifty or
eighty years of their earthly existence,
shall through the quintillion ages of the
higher world be pointed out with the
admiring cry, ''These are they who came
out of great tribulation and had their
robes washed and made white IN the
| blood of the Lamb.
| Let me also say for the encouragement
of all women fighting the battle of life
alone, that their conflict will soon end.
| There is one word written over the faces
Of many of them, and that word is De-
! spair. My sister. you need appeal to that
Christ who comforted the sisters of Beth
any in their domestic trouble, and who
in his last hours forgot all the pangs of
his own hands and feet and heart as he
looked into the face of maternal anguish
and called friends attention to it, in
substance saying: ssJohn, / cannot take
care of her any longer. Dc for her as /
would have done if had lived. Behold
thy mother!' If under the pressure of
vnrewarded and unappreciated work your
hair is VIII sening and the wrinkles come,
rejoice that you are nearing the hour Of
escape from your very last fatigue, and
may your departure be as pleasant as
that of Isabella Graham, who closed her
life with a smile and the word ''peace. !"
The daughter of regiment in any army
is all surrounded by bayonets of defense,
biINi, ill pliO beboe&C, E1OOFCA FdliSS PLY u
kept safe. And you are the daughter OF
the regiment commanded by the Lord OF
Hosts. After all you are not fighting
the battle of life alone. All heaven is
on your side. You will be wise to ap.
propriate to yourself the words of sacred
rhythm:
One who has known in storms to sail
/ have on board;
Above the roaring of the gale
l hear my Lord.
He holds me; when the billows smite
shall not fall.
If short, it's sharp; if long, tits light;
He tempers all.