Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1894-06-13

horrible wasting away. Gather them
before you and look into their faces.
pinched. CHASTITY, hunger-struck. Look
at their fingers, needle-pricked and
olood-tipped. See that premature stoop
In their shoulders: Hear that dry, hack
ing, merciless cough,
At large meeting of these women,
held in hall in Philadelphia, grand
speeches were delivered. but a needle
woman took the stand threw aside her
faded shawl, and with her shriveled
arm hurled very thunderbolt of elo-
quence. speaking out the horrors of her
own experience.
Stand at the corner of street in
New York in the very early morning.
as the women go 20 their work. Many
OF them had no breakfast except the
crumbs that We're left over from the
night before. or crust they chew on
their way through the street.
Here they come. the working girls o.:
the city. These engaged in beadyvorlS,
these in flower making. in millinery,
enameling, cigar making, book-bind-
ing, labelling. feather picking, print
coloring, paper-box making, but, most
overworlled of all and least compen-
fNhNtbs AhN Swing WOUltU w nv 10
they not take the city cars on their
way mp? They can not afford the five
cents. If, concluding TO deny herself
something else. she gets into the car,
give her seat, You want 10 see how
Latimer and Ridley appeared in the
hre; look at that woman and behold a
more horrible martyrdom, hotter fire,
a more agonizing DEATH
One Sabbath night, in the vestibule
OF my church, after service. a women
fell in commissions. The doctor said
she needed medicine not so much as
something to eat. As she began to re-
vive, in her deiirum she said, gasping-
~. Eight cents! eight cents! eight
cents. l wish l could get il donel /
am so tired! l wish / could get some
sleep, but | must get it done! Eight
cents! eight centsr' We found after
ward that she was making garments
at eight cents apiece, and that She
could make three of them in a day.
Hear 1t! Three times eight are TWEEN
ty-four! Hear it, men and women who
have comfortable homes!
Some of the worst villains of the city
are the employers of these women
They beat them down to the last pen.
NY, and try to cheat them out of that.
The woman must deposit a dollar OF
two before she gets the garments To
work on. When the work is done it ia
sharply inspected, the most insignifi.
cant flaws picked out and the wages
refused, and sometimes the dollar de-
posted not given back. The Women's
Protective Union reports case where
one of these poor souls, finding a place
where she could get more wages. re-
solved to change employers, and went
to get her pay for work done. The
employer says:
Il hear you are going to leave me?"
Yes" she said, and have come te
get what you owe me-
lie made no answer
She said: Are you not going to pay
me?"
Yes, he said, Il will pay you" aud
ne kicked her down the stairs.
How are these evils TO be eradicated?
W nat nave you to answer, you who sell
coats and have shoes made and con-
tract to the southern and western mar
kets? What help is there, what pam
acea, what redemption? Some say. :
Give women the ballot" What effect
such ballot might heve on other cues
lions l am not here to discuss: but
what would be the effect of female
suffrage upon woman's wages? / do
not believe that woman will ever get
justice by woman's ballot. Indeed,
women Cypress women as much as men
do. Do not women, as much as men.
beat down to the lowest figure the
woman who sews for them? Are not
women as sharp as men on washer.
women and millinerS and mantua max
ers? If a woman asks "a dollar for her
work, does not her female emplover
ask her if she will not take 90 cents,
You say, only 10 cents difference.
but that is sometimes the difference be.
tween Heaven and hell. Women often
have less commiseration for women
than men. If woman steps aside
from the path of virtue man NAV for.
glve-women never Woman will
never get justice done her from won.
an 5 ballot.
Never will she get it from mans bal
lot' How, then? God will rise up for
her' Hod mas more resources than we
know of. The flaming sword that
hung at Eden's gate when woman was
driven out will cleave with its terrible
~ i'l pppItSSOTS.
But there is something for our WON.
en- to do. Let our young people pre.
pare to excel in spheres of work. and
they will be able. after awhile. to get
large wages. If il be shown that
woman can. in n store, sell more goods
In a year than man, she will soon be
able not only to ask, but demand mora
wages. and TO demand them success.
fully. Unsltilled and incompetent Ia.
boz must take what is given: skilled
and competent labor will eventuallv
make its own standard ADMITTING
that the law of supply and demand
regulates these things, / contend that
the demand for skilled labor is VIZ,
great and the supply very small.
Start with the idea that work u hon.
orable, and that you can do r.,ne ON.
thing better than anyone else. Re
solve that God helping zou will take
care OF yourself II Tou are, after
while. called into ans, her relation vou
viii all the better -, qualified for n bv
your spirit of se,1-reliance: or IL Won
are called 20 sIay as You are. Won can
be happy anS self-supporting.
Many - you will go singIe-handed
through life, and You will have 70
choos between two characters. Youno