The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-11-08
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that are needed in the home industrial
force as heads, as chiefs, instead of men,
women to whom these profits Of right be-
long.
Crowded out from the home industries,
our wome in return, through their
cheaper labor, usurp the places which have
hitherto been held by men. They lower
the standard of work, as cheaper labor al
ways will, leave the homes and their
private manufactures, the kitchen, to
founder along as best they can without
them, and make our age as regards the
home industries and kitchen comforts one
of confusion and vexation OF spirit, and
since the home influences and surround
ings make or mar the nations growth and
prosperity, this subject is a true woman's
one and should command for its solution
the attention and work Of all women to-
day.
Now you question what has the ballot
to do with it? Mach. The Knights Of
Labor are, many of them, urging womau's
ballot for no other reason. A woman's
ballot means, il it means anything from an
industrial point of view, equal pay for
equal work" thus in a great measure CIV
ing back to men their own departments
and returning women to theirs.
1t means an equal voice in the laws that
govern m and the trades, an equal
vote with men, into appropriations of money
for industrial education and training, then
if our W. G. T. L. want to train the girls
for house service, who nov are oilers,
house-moths, educated by the tax
payers ab0oe apd not for usefulness and
industry, our woman's vote can secure an
industrial school or college in any State or
city. Nay, more. Looking ahead a few
years it will mean that the public schools of
our land, supported by its capital, shall
by a law that will require that every child
educated by the country, shall give back
to the country a return through his or her
industry. The women because of our slim
and most often the wisest, in running the
home machinery, and we are going to car
ry this into the State when have a chance,
far enough to train our girls for industry,
and not for pleasure, for housewives, not
house-moths, for the girls and women of
of the future must stand beside their broth
or men as their equals in industrial import
ance, chiefs in their own department, the
home, or to be more clear, the housewifery
industries, or sink into beasts of burden, or
worse. the falsely termed daughters of
pleasure" and the women of to-day must
lay the foundation stone industrial reform"
through cooperation and ballot and ed
u~cation, by which to start the building
Alright.
Manhood's c~hivalry for women has al
ways demanded in the past, and will con
time to demand in the future. more of a
retarn than mere beauty, clinging depend
ence, the higher accomplishments or
extreme helplessness can offer as a rec
ompense.
The ground that we lave occupied
safely in the past is gone for the majority
Vi TIC. u lHt SlVliuQ CItdlCd L ny tlic
minority won through the higher education,
and the moyemeDt-the ground up
on which grows our women, lawyers,
doctors, ministers, editors, Deans of col
leges, presidents of stock companies, etc.,
must always belong to the minority, be-
cause the majority of women by the univer-
sal, God-given law will be mothers, home
makers and keepers and home educators,
and they need the right to work for these
interests, politically, to secure for them
their highest good.
Sometime ago one of our professed be-
levers in suffrage said to myself: s'You
women who are taking such a stand in
favor of woman's suffrage should be very
meek wives, because many men have the
impression that woman's suffrage means
woman's rule" Woman's, or as | like bet
ter, equal suffrage, means simply this, that
one half the people of these United States
aren not represented at the ballot box and that
until such is the case our government is
not, and never can be ''of the people, by
the people, for the people," and the half
that is not represented is the half that
makes the home-that do and will work for
the homes industrially, politically, and
morally, and when American women
through their own demands and their BROTH
ers' sense of ~jnstice, shall have given them
what the meanest foreign tramp after a
five years residence here can have, then
will Americas greatest prosperity come to
her, then will the home" sit enshrined in
the Nations halls, and Christ's reign up
on earth begin. And so it is through many
needs, from many sides, that we women
are still knock, knock, knocking at Uncle
Sans" door, demanding admittance daily
more loudly, not asking to vote as men
vote, but as women, as mothers aoall cote for
the broadcast, highest good of the greatest
number.
WasnsIsgton Letter.