The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-06-08

Ev comes the sexSiIs&Ason W -.
s.,s rlx.shes. 20 answer the - - =
ard vsssrnsrsrs az an unfainIlri ..ie :.
,as S.sx-s a. sin. Isosi eess II al anu
k.s,.s Tire account. and ] would rasneL
x.ana IN the fsnor shorgiri's shoes. rsen
=, x,u ana shame. than wear the nhe
Clothes Of those who have tfasne 'aie@0
..tudit;ous reside in human society
Thir.I-suci1 ar. the conditions al w0T
.ha. the tssfs IL driven 70 the point oa
exhaustion al al It's energies. ana ID ~
weakness il Ia the prey TO every ~hispi
Of evil. Ia the reaction from such e''i'u'
ing toll the effort ~ amusement heNes
ssrily becorncs dissipation Row eau We
expect men who work with such uncsas-
ing and ,IespaiFing energy To avoid saloons
ard concert halls and dens. whers tney
f,.a the onIv brightness in human hie.
And this il the brightness Of the gli'ie o.
hell. into which they are soon 10 iah.
Ter. - 10 and Is and even 10 hours
men and woraen work in this great CITY
and in other cities, and work at tasks
,leaaering 10 every OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
the verge of despair.
Fourth-Such poverty Is the gateway
To he'll. because the children born INTO IL
are doomed before their birth. and the
Generation that rises has less of hope than
tte generation that dies. Our staiisti-
cams tell US that 20. 900 children work IN
the Great civ Of New York, Int those
who know the facts tell Us that IN the
great CITY OF New York alone there are
loO. eco little pinched forms that WORK
for daily bread and are glad to get work
work at the period when cnildren
must grow or die. Their little faces are
pinched and shriveled and wrtnkled IN
til they are an army OF little old men
and women. to look into whose pinched
faces is enough to draw the tears from
the heart of n stone. What wonderful
little creatures many of them are! They
never complain-they take 1t as mat
ter of course.
A little fellow discovered IN Boston
recently by charitable institution gave
the matron an account of how he gol
along for week after his mother had
died and his drunken father had kicked
him out. where did you sleep?" she
asked. 1--WE lived out In Roxbury." said
he, land knowed place out that way
where man kept three pigs in rea
warm and snug pen, and l slept there
three nights "You slept with the
pigsT' asked the matron. "Oh, yes
mum; it was real nice and warm there
But the next night found the man hac
moved away and taken the pigs and per
and all. | lost 'em." "And what die
| YOU do them" Il kind of snooped round
and got into an empty old house.
found lot of papers on the floor ant
got into tks papers and folded them up
| They were nice and warm. slept there
two nights. Next night got in a junk
shop on some rags" What did you d.
for something to eat:s' ''Why, ! stai(
| round the markets and got oranges ant
apples and things the fruit stands throw
away, and ] knowed where there wa
restraints and boarding houses wher
they put things into the swill barrel
that's plenty good to eat"
There are from $4,000 to 60, 900 of thes
little waits drifting on the black, turbit
waters of this great city's life, and ever.
city has its proportion. Is it any won
| der that we have tramps and idlers, an,
that the gang of toughs is soon devel
oped, and that they graduate into tn
hardened criminal, desperate, highway
man and assassin?
PANTS SEVEN CENTS A PAIR.
Fifth-It is the gate of hell becaus
of the hard life of the women. Woman
| is the mother of civilization as well a
the mother of man Womanhood is tn
index to life. If it be degraded, life i
degraded. Ii it is STEPPED in sullen de
spair, life will show its fruits. If it
hard, life will be hard. If the life O
woman leads to hell, hell is nigh to hu
mainly. Two hundred and fifty thou
sand women work at hard tasks outsid
of domestic service in this great city
Three hundred and forty-three trade
| are open to women, the census take
tells US. They are, as matter of fact
simply subdivisions of old trades-sut
divisions caused by the divisions of la
Dor. Added to this is the additions
horror of unpaid labor. There is not
single one of these trades in which won
en- work in which they are actually PAL
just return for their labor. Becaus
they are women they are made to do tn
work which men could not do bette
for from one-half to one-third the remu
neration men would receive.
Needlewomen make pants for cent
pair and use their own machines, fin
their own thread. They make shirts fo
IS cents dozen and find their ow
thread and machines. They make gine
ham waists for boys at 81 cents each, an
it is impossible to make more than
dozen in IA hours at a sewing machine
And IA hours at a sewing machine, wit
a woman's hands and woman's nerve.
means that life is being ground out at
pace that makes the thing little short {
actual murder. Cloakmakers can ear
but 60 to 70 cents day. We find /
, hours of ioil unrelieved by single CLEAN
, Of light or hope or cheer, and the net re
suits of this concentrated despair an
, misery is 50. so week. And half of thi
| is taken to pay for the miserable den 4
which the work is done. Two fanilie
live in single rooms. Twelve people ar
, found sometimes in room 10 feet square
, Many of the women who work in thi
> underworld of horror are dying to hope
hA1o "hCh WOHIdu Will Q6T CodSeles
: passion of life, her undying love, wit
her quenchless heroism, ceases to hop
? it is time for your social economist, it
7 time for your preacher, your politician
: your philosopher, to hasten to find til
eause. One of this army of quarter {
D a million women recently said to Mr.
5 Campbell:
Il don't see how anybody can muc
e longer keep soul and body together"
, I'VE don't, said enc of the other W,
I men, turning suddenly. Il got rid {
/. my soul long ago. such as it was. Who
s got time to think about souls, grindin
I away here IA hours day to turn on
? contract goods2 faint souls that coun
It's bodies that can be driven and ha
starved and driven still till they Dire
! u their tracks. would try the river
1 4 % q ant Il l.