The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1894-06-07

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Idlensss ruins ths health. AMI very soon
nature s1ys; "This man has refused 70 pay
his rent. Out with him ~
Society IL 10 be reconstructed on tho sub
ject OF woman's toll A vast majority OF those
who would have woman industrious shut her
up TO few kinds OF work. Ny judgment in
this matter is that n woman has n right 10
do anything she can do well. There should
| he no department OF merchandise. mechan-
ism, art or science barred against her. II
Miss Hosmsn has genius for scripture. give
her chisel. II Rosa Eonheur has foni-
ness icr dellneating animals, let her make
"The Horse Fair" II Miss Mitchell will
study astronomy. let her mount the starry
lad FER. II Lydia will be- = merchant. lot her
sell purple. II Lucrrtla Mott wlllpraach the
Gospel. let her thrill with her womanly elo-
qnence the Quaker meeting house.
IL Is said that " woman Is given such on
poriuni'ies she will occupy places that might
be taken by men. i say III she have more
skill and adRptedness tor any position than a
man has let her havs II. She has as much
right TO her bread, 10 her apparel and to her
home rs men have.
But It Is said that her nature IL so delicat o
that she Ia untitled for exhaustiny toll.
ask in the name OF all past history what toll
on earth Is more severe. exhRusting and tre-
mendous than that toll OF the needle to
which forages she has been subjecte12 The
battering ram, the sword, the carhine, the
battleax, have made no such havoc ms the
needle. would that these living sepulchres
In which women have for ages been buried
might be opened. and that some resurrection
trumpet might bring up these livln; corpses
to the fresh mir and sunlight.
Go with me, and will show you n woman
who by hardest toll supports her children.
her drunken husband. her old father and
mother, pays her house rent. always has
wholesome food on the table. and when she
a. ~.
come In and take care OF her family appears
In church with hat aud cloak that ara far
from indicating the toll TO which she is sab
iected.
Such woman rs that hns body and sonl
enough to nt her for any position. She
could stand beside the majority of your
salesmen and dispose OF more goods. She
could go Into your wheelwrlyht shops and
beat one-half OF your workmen at making
carriages. We talk about woman "a though
we had resigned to her all the light work.
and ourselves had shoulderei the heavier
But the day OF judgment, which will reveal
the sufferings OF the stake and inquistion.
will marshal before the throne of God aud
tho hierarchs OF heaven the martyrs Of wash
tub and needle.
Now. Isav. II there be any preference in
occupation. let woman have II. God knows
her trials are tho severest. By her acuter
sensitiyeness 10 misfortune. by her hour OF
anguish. demand that no one hedge up her
pathway TO a livelihood. Oh. tho meauness
the despicabili,y of men who begrudge u
woman the right 10 work anywhere In any
honorable calling!
l go still further and say that women
should have equal compensation with men.
By what principle OF justice Is II that women
In many OF our cities get only two-.hirds rs
much pay as men. and In many cases only
half? Here Is the gigantic injustice-that
a all noe bot tan
receives far less compensation than man.
Start with the national government. For
long while women clerks In Washington got
1900 for doing that for which men received
$500.
To thousands OF young women In our cities
to-day there Is only this alternative-starvi-
tion or dishonor. Many OF tho largest mer-
camille establishments OF our cities are ac-
cessory to thess denominations, and from
their large establishments there are scores OF
souls being pitched of into death, and their
employers know II
Is there God? VIII thers be q Judgment?
I tell you, II God rises up to redress woman's
wrongs, many OF our large establishments
Will be swallowed up quicker than South
God VIII catch these oppressors between the
two millstones OF His wrath and grind them
to powder
l hear from all this land the wall of vo.
manhood. Man has nothing 10 answer TO
that wall but batteries. He says she Is an
angel. She is not. She knows she is not.
She Is human being. who gets hungry when
she has no food aud cold when she has no
fire. Give her no more batteries. Give her
Justice
There are about $1,000 sewing girls in New
York and BROOKLYN. Across the darkness OF
this night hear their death uroans. Ii il
not such cry as comes from those who are
suddenly hurled out OF life, but u slow,
grinding. horrible wasting away. Gather
them before you aai look into their faces.
pinched, ghastly, hunger struck Look at
their fingers, needle prcSsi and blood
tipped! See that premature stoop In the
shoulders Hear that dry, hacking mercl-
less cough.
A. large meeting OF these women, held
In hall in Philadelphia grand speeches
were delivered, but needle woman took
the stand, threw aside her IA iel shawl. AMI
with her snrivelel arm hurled a very thunder.
bolt OF eloque3cn. sp sasing out this horrors
OF her own experience.
stand at the corner OF n street In Now
York In the very early morning as the wo.
men so TO their work. Many OF them had
no breakfast except the crumbs that were
eit over from the night before or a crust
'hey chew on their way through the
streets. Here they cOme-the work |
nS girls OF the city! Tnesa engaged IN |
DsadworS, these IN Hover making. In milin- |
'ry, enameling, cigar making, bookbindlng, |
aoeling, feather picking, print coloring, |
paper box making. bur. most oyerworksd OF |
III and least compensated, tho sewing |
women. Why do they not tn;s the city cars |
1n their way upy They cannot afford the /
I've cents. II, concluding TO deny herself |
else, she gets into the car, give |
Ter seat. You want 10 see how Latimer and |
sidley appeared In the fire. Look at that
yonan and behold q more horrible martyr !
iom--l hotter fire, more agonizing death.
One Sabbath night, in the vestlbuls OF my
'hurch, after service a woman fell in con.
'ulsions. The doctor said she needed medi-
iine not so much rs somsthing TO eat. As
he began 10 revive, In her delirium she said
,aspingly Eight cents Eight cents Eight
ents! wish | could get II done! am so
ired! wish l could get some sleep. but |
must get II done Eight cents Eight cents -
We found aiterwari that she was making
garments at eight cents apiece, and that shs
ouid make but three OF them In day. Hear
Three times eight are twenty-four. Hear