The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-06-08
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tempter with his whisper of bright things
to be had for the taking. Then comes
the time when the devil puts in his fine
work. Life has lost It's glamour Pow.
erty in all its grim and Edeous and hell
ish outlines looms up before the tired
vision Of tho girl. Sickness comes, loss
of work and the terrible alternatives to
steal, to starve, TO beg, to commit sui
eide or sell her body for money. Often
er comes the temptation to obtain the
fine clothes, to answer the aspirations
and yearnings Of an unfulflled life in
the ways Of sin. God sees it all and
keeps the account. and would rather
stand in the poor shopgirl's shoes, even
in sin and shame, than wear the fine
clothes of those who have made these
conditions possible in human society.
Third-Such are the conditions Of work
that the body is driven to the point of
exhaustion of all its energies, and in its
weakness it is tho prey to every whisper
of evil. In the reaction from such grind
ing toll the effort at amusement neces-
sarily becomes q dissipation. How can we
expect men who work with such unceas-
ing and despairing energy TO avoid saloons
and concert halls and dens, where they
find the only brightness in human hfe2
And this is the brightness Of the glare Of
hell, into which they are soon to fall
Ten, 10, 10 and 10 and even 16 hours
men and women work in this great city
and in other cities, and work at tasks
deadening to every ysense--monotonous to
tho verge Of despair.
Fourth-Such poverty is the gateway
TO hell, because the children born into it
are doomed before their birth, and the
generation that rises has less of hope than
the generation that dies. Our statisti-
clans tell us that 20, 900 children work in
the great city Of New York, but those
who know the facts tell us that in the
great city of New York alone there are
100000 little pinched forms that work
for daily bread and are glad to get work
work at the period when children
must grow or die. Their little faces are
pinched and shriveled and wrinkled I'M
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 stone. What wonderful
little creatures many Of them are! They
never complimentary take it as mat
ter of course.
A little fellow discovered in Boston
recently by n charitable institution gave
the matron an account of how he got
along for q 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, "and I llnowed place out that way
where man kept three pigs in a real
warm and snug pen, and slept there
three nights" "You slept with the
pigs2' asked tho matron. "Oh, yes,
mum; it was real nice and warm there.
But the next night found the man had
moved away and taken the pigs and pen
and all. l lost 'em." "And what did
you do then?" 81 kind of snooped round
and got into an empty old house.
found q lot of papers on the floor and
got into the papers and folded them up.
They were nice and warm. l slept there
two nights. Next night got in junk
shop on some rags" ''What did you dc
for something to eatT" "Why, staid
round the markets and got oranges and
apples and things the fruit stands throw
away, and / knowed where there was
restraints and boarding houses where
they put things into the swill barrels
that's plenty good to eat"
There are from 20, 600 to 60, 0,0O0of these
g. 1,SF "a Il
waters of this great city's life, and every
city has its proportion. Is it any won,
der that we have tramps and idlers, and
that the gang of toughs is soon devel,
oped, and that they graduate into the
hardened criminal, desperado, highway,
man and assassin?
PANTS sEVEN CENTS PAIR.
Fifth--It is the gate of hell because
of the hard lie Of the women. Woman
is the mother of civilization as well as
the mother of man. Womanhood is the
index to life. If it be degraded, life is
degraded. If it is steepel in sullen de.
spair, life will show its fruits. If it be
hard, life will be hard If the life OF
woman leads to hell, hell is nigh to hu,
manity. Two hundred and fifty thou
sand women work at hard tasks outside
Of domestic service in this great city.
Three hundred and forty-threc trades
are open to women, the census taker
tells us. They are, as matter of fact,
simply subdivisions of old trades-sub-
divisions caused by the divisions of la-
Dor. Added to this is the additional
horror of unpaid labor. There is not Il
single one Of these trades in which WON.
en- work in which they are actually paid
just return for their labor. Because
they are women they are made to do the
work which men could not do better
for from one-half TO one-third the remu-
neration men would receive.
Needlewomen make pants for cents
pair and use their own machines, find
their own thread. They make shirts fog
80 cents dozen and find their own
thread and machines. They make gin2-
ham waists for boys at % cents each, and
it is impossible to make more than a
dozen in II hours az sewing machine.
And Ia hours at u sewing machine, with
a woman's hands and a womanis nerves.
means that life is being ground out at Il
pace that makes the thing little short of
actual murder, Cloakmakers can earn
but go to 20 cents day. We find 16
hours Of toll unreIieved by single glean
Of light or hope or cheer, and tho net re,
suits Of this concentrated despair and
misery is $3.50 q week. And half of this
is taken to pay for the miserable den in
which the work is done. Two families
live in single rooms. Twelve people are