St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-21

1t is evident that Miss SUSAN B. AN
THoNY grows wiser as she grows older,
or possibly the rapid and radical changes
Our social and industrial conditions have
undergone within recent years have
contributed 10 Miss ANTHONY'S CONVEX
SIN Of heart and mind. At all events,
We are treate d to the novel announce
ment that Miss ANTHONY has chosen
Tor the text of her lecture in this city
next Thursday night the solid chunk of
wisdom contained in these words,
Woman wants bread. not the ballot"
There are more women who will re-
SpOnd to that sentiment than Miss An
THoNY could enroll in the woman SUI
frage movement in a thousand years.
1t is bread that women want. aud that IS
why all the industrial pursuits are being
invaded by such vast army of bread
winners in petticoats. 1t hasn't been
a great while ago when 1t is thought TO
be degrading for woman to work in
any of the various spheres which man
had pre-empted. Her sphere of activity
was supposed to be limited to the laun-
dry, the kitchen and the nursery. But
in that mighty stride which civilization
has made within the last three decades
the bonds of WOman'S enSlayement have
been sundered. Her emancipation has
not been secured by the sacrifice of hui
man life. nor at the expense of the ma
toms treasury. but it came in obedience
10 her own command and as the result
of her own endeavOrs, until she is to-day
occupying the place in the industrial
world that the mother of our race Occu-
pied i'm Eden-man'S true helpmeet-
yet maintaining her freedom and pre-
serving her individuality.
When our American women first
evincGd a disposition to burst the
shackleS of tradition, and to compete
with men in industrial pursuits, Miss
ANTHONY and her associates miScOn-
strued wOman's restlessness into a long
ing for political power and supremacy,
and at once proceeded to inaugurate a
female suffrage crusade. That was
great mistake. 1t was bread, and not
the ballot. that our American women
wanted: and, now that Miss ANTHONY
has discovered the true cause of this
wOman's Instruction. we hope she will
lend her splendid abilities to the cause.
and fight as zealOusly for the female
bread-winnerS as she has done for the
wOuld-be ballOt-stuffers.
The women who want bread are as
Numerous in this city as they are in
other American cities, and they are en-
gagged in heroic struggle against star
walton. They are fighting the wolf
from the door with courage that would
have graced the age of chiValry; and,
better than all, these willing women
compare favOrably in point of personal
purity Of life and in womauly honor
with their sisters of the well-tO-dO class.
The commissioner of the labor bureau
recently instituted an investigation TO
discover how much of unWOmanly deg
radiation existed among the work
ingwomen, and we were panied to
hear an expression of surprise from the
press of the country when it was an
n0unced that there was more purity
among the women who work for their
living than in other grades OF society.
As rule, the iOafers are the Scurvy
fellows among men. Why should
not the same rule apply to the other
sex: The women Who have their way
10 make in the world are cOnspicuOusly
modest and honorable. too honorable
to become dependent Oh others and too
proud to sacrifice wOmanhoOd. 1t is
an ancient prOverb that idleneSs is the
source of Wickedness. Persons who
work, both men and women.have neither
the time nGr the inclination to form bad
habits, so that diligence in bread-win
ing work is prima facie evidence of i'll
tegrity in Mnmen.aS we'll as in men.