The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-07-07

hold in hall in Philadelphia, grand
speeches were delivered, but needle
woman took the stand, threw aside her
faded shawl, and with her shrivelod
arm hurled very thunderbolt Of elo-
quence, speaking out the horrors of her
own experience.
Pathetic Picture.
Stand at the corner of street in New
York in the very carly morning as the
women go to their work. Many of them
had no breakfast except the crumbs that
were left over from the night before or
crust they chew on their way through
the streets Here they come-the work
| ing girls of the ethyl These engaged in
| beadwork, these in flower making, in
millinery, enameling, cigar making,
bookbinding, labelling, feather picking,
print coloring, paper box making, but,
most overworked of all and least
compensated, the sewing women. Why
do they not take the city cars on their
way up? They cannot afford the
cents. IT, concluding to deny herself
something else, she gets into the car,
| give her seat. You want to see how
Latimer and Ridley appeared in the fire.
Look mt that woman and behold n more
horrible martyrdom-a hotter fire, q
more agonizing death.
One Sabbath night, in the vestibule
of my church, after service q woman
fell i'll commissions Tho doctor said she
| needed medicine not SO much as some
thing to eat As she began to revive,
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eight ceutsl Eight centsl Eight ceutsl
[ wish | could get it donel am so
tiredl | wish | could get some sleep.
but | must get il donel Eight cents |
EIGHT oentslp We found afterward
that she was making garments Mt &
cents apiece. and that she could make
but three of them in n dav. Hear itI
Three times are 24l Hear if. 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 tie last penny
and trv to cheat then, ont of that The
woman must deposit 81 or 50 before she
gets the garnents to work on When
the work is done, it is sharply inspected,
the most insignificant flaws picked out
and the wages refused, and sometimes
the 81 deposited not given back. The
Women's Protective union reports
case where one of these poor souls, find
ing a place where she could get more
wages, resolved to change employers and
went to get her pay for work DONE The
employer says, II hear you are going to
leave me?" Eyes" she said, land /
have come to get what you owe me- "
He made no answer. She said, "Are
you not going to pay me?" Eyes, he
said, 81 will pay you," and he kicked
her down stairs
Women Against Women.
How are these evils to be eradicated?
What have you to answer, you who sell
coats and have shoes made and CON
tract for the southern and western mar
kets? What help is there, what panacea,
what redemption? Some say, "Give
women the ballot. What effect such
ballot might have on other questions |
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
washerwomen and milliners and man
tua makers? If a woman asks 81 for her
work, does not her female employer ask
if she will not take 90 cents? You say,
"Only 10 cents difference. But that is
sometimes the difference between heav-
en- and hell. Women often have less
commiseration for women than men. If
a woman steps aside from the path of
virtue, man may forgive-woman neverl
Woman will never get justice done her
from woman's ballot.
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