St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-03-06

cate the women? you Will want TO edu-
cate the cows next" That is the verdict
and opinion OF heatheniSm and not of
Bible lands. There has been a long
process of emancipation going on for
women. by which they have been slowly
and yet certainly advanced to better
positions. / think IL comes with even
step with the advance of the race. AS
men move up out of their muscle into
their brain, they come into region
where women have larger opportunities
to exercise their forces. Most men, most
people, through most of the ages, have
lived
Down in Their Cellars.
down in the lower dehartment of their
being. Now and then, once in five or
six centuries, 4 man has moved up into
his parlOr and gotten some outlook and
has discovered better methods of doing
things, and once in twenty-five or thirty
centuries Il man has moved up into the
observatory of his being, where the
great eDicS are manufactured. created.
bTeathed forth, and where the great
constitutions are framed, and where the
great philosophers are found. But IN
this day, and especially in this tongue,
families, tribes, peoples, great sections
of civilization are moving up into these
better conditions, moving up out OF the
muscle into the region OF influences, OF
arguments, of motives, of inducements,
of the actual forces of the multitude,
and fashion human society.
All forces reYOlye about their short
est axis. You NAV throw wheel
through the street by such force that it
shall not revOlve at all, but, given to its
nature, it will reVOlye about its shortest
axis. So people revOlve. And it has
been little unjust in the ages to eX-
pect women to revOlve about their
physical force, for the competition with
men is not even there; but IN the other
department they have come and are
coming to the front. We have haG an
array of conventions and of conferences
and of great missionary gatherings and
of great associations of women aud the
great associations of people open to
women, and the women have
been acquiring membership and
have been occupying seats to-
ward the front. We have had the
institutions opened to them, the col
legeS and the universities, and they
have been open SO long that we have al
most forgotten that they were ever
clOsed-nearly all wide open, mOIe OF
them open than needed, but open. IN
deed the long list of rules and regula
tons that l remember distinctly in the
days of my training in mixed schools
that guarded so carefully every turn
and shade and relation between men
and women have faded out of the great
universities, and it is said to be the
boast of Cornell today that she has but
one law, and that is that the students
must not shoot the professors. Laugh
ter. We have come to
Better Understanding
of the relation of the forces, especially
educational forces, of the world, and
great professions, the learned profess
siOns. are p Itiy opened. n woman with
great courage and seemingly divine
call can crowd her way into them and
have little opportunity; and, with these
doors open. it is the easiest thing in the
world to come to the conclusion that the
greatest industries of life must be
jointly shared by men and women.
These come with greater disabilities.
The advantages for women in these, in
the openings, are multiplied by the
multiplication of machinery. When
you can furnish steam nerve and iron
muscle that never wearieS, then the
brain that can handle them need not be
careful about other muscles. And so ON
this plane women find multiplied
opportunities for activity and for
bread earning. There are difficulties
in the way, disadvantages to be over
come, necessities that seem to compre-
bend the people in every department of
this activity; and it is little glance at
some of these disadvantages that has
created, as by tine command of God, the
society at whose bidding we are here
today.
Difficulties come from some of our
convictions. We have long (abOut
thousand years and mOre) been measur-
ing everything by the one law of use.
Men are graded by this standard. they
take their rank by their availability.
Probably good measurement, or 1t
would not stand the test of so many
centuries. but we have had low stand
ard of use; we have been blind
to the great uses; we are now
awakening to the fact that some
things may be useful that we cannot
carry to the market in lumber wagon.
Jacob Strong, that Napoleon of cattle
down yOnder in the Prairie state, could
not see any use in his sons going to
college, because the boy was already as
good Judge of an animal as was his
ltiOlllbiC ldlllCls liz COulul SCG ANY
use in 1t. 1t was only century since
that we could see no use for women in
literature; but since they have gotten
in and have learned to read, all the
world round, and furnish a large part
of the market for the sale of the books
and a large part of the books that are TO
be marketed, a new spirit has come into
literature, so that today the new books
that are brought out hardly need 10 be
eXpCirgated like the books of two or
three centuries Since-sOme utility,
even though it was not at first manifest.
There are
Difficulties That Confront as.
The very numbers that come into the
industries of our time, out of this great.
waiting army, make the questions of
their adjustment serious and difficult
problems to which we must
give our best attention. Take one little
section of work in Boston; out of 1900
and little over people given to given
kinds Of work, il is SAID that more than
10 per cent of them receive but about
one hundred, possibly one hundred and
fifty dollars years. dollars week at
the most. 1t does not represent very
much food or very good clothing Some
body needs TO touch that problem
little.
Three millions of working women In
America poured into our Industries
careen the ship of state, and somebody.
sOme time, must readjust the cargo and
the ballast, for we do not want to face
TOO many stOrms-problemS that grow
out of the very numbers. 1t is said that
in some of the Quaker towns about
which are colonies OF Italians and of
Poles, with self-supporting industry;
that is, people who have no outside help,
but depend upon their industry, and
who are excluded from the factories be
cause by chance they may have invalid
parents to care for or little infants to
guard, that these are working at rates
that make us almost ashamed to put on
our own clothes. Think of a woman
making dozen shirts for 81 cents, or
dozen pieces of underwear for a man
for - cents. and out of that buying the
thread and paying the rent of the ma
chine and the cost OF the eXpressage. |
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