The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-06-04

earn it. The partridge makes it's nest
before it occupies it. The lark, by its morn
ing song, earns its breakfast before it eats
it; the Bible gives an intination that the
first duty of idler is to starve, when it
says if ne will not work, neither shall he
eat" IdleneSS ruins the health, and very
soon nature says This man has refused
to pay his rent; out with him!'
Society is to be reconstructed on the sub
ject of womans toll. A vast majority Of
those who would have woman industrious
shut her up to a few kinds OF work, My
judgment in this matter is that a woman
has a right to do anything she can Go we'll
There should be no department of merchan-
disc, mechanism, art or science barred
against her. If Miss Hosmer has genius
for sculpture, give her "a chisel. If Rosa
Bonheur has fondness fer Gelineating ami
mails, let her make 1.-THE Horse FAIR If
Miss Mitchell will study astronomy, let her
| mount the starry ladder. If Lydia will be
a merchant, let her sell purple. If Lucretia
Mott will preach the gospel, let her thrill!
with her wonanly eloquence the Quaker
meeting house.
| 1t is said if woman is given such oppor-
turities, she will occupy places that might
be taken by men. I say, if she have more
skill and adaptedness for any position than
| a man has let her have it. She has as much
right to her bread, TO her apparel and to
her home men have.
But it is said that her nature is SO deli
| cate that she is untitled for eXhaustlnS
! toll I ask in the name Of all past history,
what toll on earth is more severe, exhaust
| ing and tremendous than that tell or the
needle to which for ages she has been SUD
jected? The battering RAM the sword, the
carbine, the battle AK have made no such
havoc as the needle. I would that these
living sepulchers in which women have for
ages been buried might be opened, and that
some resurrection trumpet might pfihS up
these living corpses TO the fresh air ana
sunlight.
man who by hardest toll, supports her
children, her drunken husband, her Ola
father and mother, pays her house rent az
ways has wholesome food on the taole, anu
when she can get some neiShbor on the
So nF,ath to come in and take care OF her
family appears IN church. with nat ara
cloak that are far from indicating the ton
to which she is subjected.
Such woman as that has body and soul
enough to lit her for any position. S'iie
could stand beside the majority or your
statesmen ard dispose of more goods. SAe
could go into your WheelWliGht shop" alC
beat one-half of your WorkDlen at making
carriages we talk about woman as though
va had resigned to her AL the light work,
and ourselves had shouldered the heavier
But the day Of judgment, which viii reveal
1he sufferings Of the stake and lnqulslNioh,
will marshal before the throne OF cod ana
the hiera,chS of heaven tAc martyrs Vi
Washtub and needle
Now. | say if there be any preference III
occupation, let woman have IT. 600 KNOWS
her trials are the aeVereHt. by her acu1ct
constituencies to misfortune, by her ho'if 81
anguish demand that no one hedSe UP
her pathway to q livelihood Q tire mean
ness the despicab!ity OF n4ell who begroGSe
a woman the right to work anywhere III
any honorable calling.
go Still further, and say that women
should have equal compensation WITH men
la a.
men in many Of CIR cities get oAiy Two
thirds as much pay as men, ana IL many
cases only half? Here is the gigantic IN
iustice-that for work equally yell II hot
Iattpr done. woman receives far less com
pansation than man. Start Wlth the ha
t;o7al Government fer 2 long while women
clerks in Washington got $3.50 for uojnS tn&t
for which men received $l,60O
To thousands Of youn& women III oUh
cities today there is only this alternative
starvation or dishon2r. Many of the largest
mercantile estabi. Amc1tS OF our cues are
accessory to these aHo.linauonS, ana from
their large establishments there are scores
Of souls being pitched OF INTO dealA' &''d
their employers Know II!
Is thAre a God? W;Il there be a judG'
ment? [ tell you s Cod rises up - re-
dress wonan's wrongs, many or our !@ 800 &c
establishments VIII b. swallowed up qC'tNSi
than a South American edILhGH1Ee even
tool, down d city. God VIII eaten th3Se
o,,Drassors between the two mil stones OF
his wrath and grind them 10 poNQc''
I hear from all this land TIE wall OF Wo
manhood. Man has n0thihS 10 aH5"Gi ~
nat wall but batteries. lie says s@2 Is 2n
snmeI She is not. She knows she IS net.
she is 3 huln&n being, who gets h4nSf|
when she has 10 food. ara co0 " @@h SE@
has no fire. Give her no more hat}efieS;
sf Tnar rec are about hfty Thousand sewing
girls in New York ant HfoUklyn Across
the darkness of mrs hl54.1 ne 5,1 .t me