The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-10-19

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ton from day to day.
While thousand men in this city esti-
mate their wealth at over 81 100000, it
can be safely said that there are 1O0,-
900 people in this city who are hungry
for bread every day in the year. The
number of people who sleep on boards,
and who drift from house with nowhere
to sleep, approximates 100, 600 daily. The
children of this generation of paupers
seem to increase with greater rapidity
than the normal rate Of the increase Of
the average population of the world.
HOPE.
While the evil elements Of life have
thus been intensified, we take hope from
the fact that tho better elements of life
are also being intensified The heroism
of this life in its crying wants, its needs,
is as brilliant in its individual examples
as at any time in the history of the
world. While crime and corruption and
debauchery have increased in the city,
the army Of self sacrificing men and
women who are willing to give their
lives for the betterment of mankind
daily increases.
We have the mcanest men in New
York In the world perhaps. We also
have somo of the best men and women
in New York in the world. The intensi-
fication of life in this century has intro
duced new element just here in our de-
velopment of civilization which must in
the immediate future tell as it has not
in the past.
WOMEN WORKERS.
The number of women that have pour
ed their lives into the current stream of
active endeavor has been, within the last
20 years, increasing as never before in
the history of the human race. Accord
ing to the report of the census of 1880,
here were in America among women
who earned their daily bread outside Of
domestic service the following numbers
in different professions: 10 lawyers, 1855
ministers, 500 authors, 5SS journalists,
2,061 artists, 2,188 architects, chemists,
pharmacists, 2,106 stock raisers and
ranchers, 5,145 government clerks, 2,49S
physicians and surgeons, 1882 profess
sional musicians, j6,S00 farmers and
planters, 81 OF clerks and bookkeepers,
Ia ,4G5 heads of commercial houses, 1867
900 public school teachers.
This was by the census Of 1880, but by
the report Of the last census of 1890 there
is received the remarkable fact that in
these 10 years the army of women who
earn their daily bread outside of their
homes now reaches the enormous total
of 2, 100000.
For the first time in the history of
economics woman has entered as an ac-
tive factor. Her influence in develop
ing the history of the next generation
can but be marvellous. Her influence in
molding and fashioning the life of socie,
to when thus brought in active contact
with its working force cannot be less
than it has been in other spheres where
woman's influence has been felt when
woman's position is recognized as il
should be in the world of economics.
We stand upon the threshold of an
economic evolution, of a new socia,
| order. It means, sooner or later, that
woman will be emancipated from the
slavery in which she has labored in the
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and that society in its working force will
be elevated and refined and humanizet
by her touch, her sympathies and hel
life.
POLITICAL EQUALITY OF THE COMMON PEo-
| PIE.
| Third-The rise Of the common people
| to political equality in government will
the traditional ruling classes has beel
accomplished within this century ant
is but the beginning of a revolution tina
| is not yet accomplished. Robert Mac
kenzie says: "Siyty years ago Europ
was an aggregate of despotic powers
disposing at their own pleasure Of tn
lives and property Of their subjects. To
day the men Of western Europe govern
themselves" Popular suffrage, more o
less closely approaching universal
chooses the governing power, and b,
methods more or less effective dictate
its policy.
One hundred and eighty million Euro
peans have risen from degraded an,
ever dissatisfied vassalage to the rank o
free and self governing men. This ha
been an accomplishment which has sim
ply put into the hands of the commol
people the weapons with which they vii
fight their battles in the twentieth cen
tury. The battles are yet to be fought
the revolution is yet to be accomplished
They have simply been given the ballot
and the consciousness of their power ha
only begun to dawn upon them.
In the early part OF the twentieth Ger
tury we may surely look for sufficien
diffusion Of intelligence to bring this TIRE
mendous mass into the aggressive assel
ton of the fullest rights of manhood
Hitherto they have been dominated b
bosses, by tricky politicians, and the.
have followed skillful leaders blindly.
AN EXPLOSION IMMINENT.
Sointense are becoming these element
Of corruption that it cannot continu
longer without an explosion. The lam,
has been lit, and it has been left burning
A woman In q western home during tn
war sent servant into the cellar with
lighted candle to look for some object
The servant returned without the candle
The housewife asked where she had lef
it. She said that she had left it in bar
rel of sand in the cellar. The housewif
remembered that there was barrel @
powder standing open in the cellar
Without q moments hesitation sh
rushed below and found that the ignc
rant girl had thrust the candle down int
the loose powder and left 1t burning. Sh
lifted it carefully and extinguished 1t.
The movement for universal suffrag
in this century has placed the candle c
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