The herald., 1894-03-15
A Womnn's View.

EDITORS HERALD 1T must seem q
pity TO many-when one stops to con-
slider the great army of homeless, bread
less, workless unemployed, that there is
no mother element, no mother heart in
the halls of legiplation. In the small
home where the mother has usually
equal recognition and authority it is the
little children" and especially the
puny ones which receive the most
thoughtful, tender care. She seems to
act impulsivelv on the Christly doc
trine that they that are whole need not
a physician, etc, The big, greedy chill
dren she would doubtless slap and send
about their buainess--if she were
pushed for time and they importunately
greedy-when she would go right on
with her tender ministrations for the lit
tie ones. But in our big homes and
especially in our great national home it
is not thus. Only men are there and it
is the big. shrewd, greedy boys who get
the booty, while the modest, hard
working citizens, together with "the lit
tie Ones" are relentlessly pushed to tho
wall. Through the usual male legisla-
tion America has reached a not unusual
crisis of heaped riches On the one hand
and dire distress on the other. When
will our brother learn that he represents
and can represent but one-half of
humanity, one-half of the virtues of the
race; and that he is powerless to build
up civilization that will not sooner or
without the needful heart element to
bind it and consolidate it? Let them
have dominion over the earth" is the
old dinfuua nd no frrn Oua
But the male legielation has been CO.
ing on here gs elsewhere, and the crisis
is here as elsewhere. What is to be
done? Women, as usual, are full OF
tender, anxious solicitude for the
sufferers in this one-sided legislation.
Though they have not been partners in
the unwise, demorslizlng legislation
which has brought our country to the
verge OF ruin, they etand ready to do
what they can to help alleviate distress,
to turn the tide OF threatening revolu-
tlon into peaceful, uplifting chsnnelg.
They are now endeavoring, here in the
City Of the Angels, to rouse the churches
and all other organizations they can
reach to secure their cooperation in
order to equip comfortably, if possible,
the unemployed in our midst and send
them to the capital for an object lesson,
provided nothing more can be accom-
plished.
Well, now, would humbly ask, why
send these men, who are more or less
party to the worse-than-do.nothing pol
icy that has been going iorward-vea,
the criminal legislation enacted since
the war, even before its closer Why
not the women, as many as can, 90
themselve5--the comparatively inno-
cent, and plead with the guilty2 Go
800, 900 strong. Flood Washington with
women-earnest, determined women.
Its streets have often been filed with
men. and sometimes to good purpose;
these men have helped to wash away.
partially, the stain of black slavery; but
the white, irresponsible slavery Of the
land is thousand fold greater, more
demoralizing. Civilization itself trem.
bles in the balance. Let the women. at
this terrible time, food our great law
making center and see what they can do
with our stony-hearted legislators. Trv
an entirely new remedy for this most
desperate OF climaxes. And while the
women are on their mission of marcy
let the unemployed take their places in
the Workshop, Office, even in the home
where there iH some sweet woman To
help along. Let everyone 90 to work tn
DO what is possible to help pull the ma
ton through her birth hour Of better
time. without the shedding OF drop of
blood A WoMAv