Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1894-06-15

home as men have.
But it is said that her nature Is so delicate
that she is untitled for exhaustng toll. l
ask in the name OF all past history what toll
on earth is more severe, eXhausting and ire
mendous than that toll Of the neetle 10
which for ages she has been subjected! Inc
battering ram, the sword, the carblne, tue
batteaX, have made no such havoc as the
needle. Iwould that these living sepucAres
in which women have for ages been burle I
might be opened, and that some resurrection
trumpet might bring up these living corp5es
to the fresh air and sunlight.
Go with me, and will show YOU 4 TO nan
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. an when sac
can get some neighbOr on the Sabbath to
come in and take care OF her family appears
In church with hat AMI cloak that ar fer
from Indicating the toll TO which sac is sab
jectei.
Such a woman as that has boly AMI soul
enough to fit her for any position. Sa(
could stand beside the majority Of your
statesmen an / dispose OF moro gOOlS. S1a
could 90 into vOut wGe3'wrght shops an
beat One-haf OF your workman at making
carriages. We talk about woman as though
we had resigne to her all the light WORK,
AMI ourselves had shoIlderel the heavier.
But the day OF iu ignent, which Will r3ya1l
the surTerin IS OF thu staSs an in1u sition.
will marshal before the throne OF Co an
ths-ht~rrr-1s-o heaven the martyrs Of W ssh
tue and needle.
Now. Isly, If thera be any pr3'erAn33 in
occupation. let woman have It. Go knows
her trials are the severe5t. By her aruter
ca IN ic ny n
anguish. deman that no one ige up her
pathway to livelihood. On. th3 mspn1ess,
the despicabllty of men WAC b9grn lSe 4
woman the right 10 work anywhere IN any
honorable calling
l go still further AMI say that women
should have equal compensation with men.
By wat principle OF justice IS il that women
in many Of our cities get only tw0-thiris as
much pay as men. and in many cases only
half? Hero ia the gigantic injustice-:hat
work equally we'll If not better done woman
receives .tar lrs5 compens ltiOn than man
Start with the national government. For
long while women clerks in Washington got
$500 for doing that for which men received
$3.50.
To Thousands Of young women In or cities
today there Is only this Observation-Disclosures
ton Or dishonOr. Many OF the largest mar
camille establishments Of our citias ar ac-
Oessorv to these aboningtions, an fro
their large establishments there ara scores 81
souls being pitched of into death, an theIr
employers know it
Is there Il Col? Will there be aiu(Sm9nt?
l tell YOU, If Co rises up to re lrass wonans
wroays, many OF our large estabis IN 4n:S
will be swallowed up quicker than S)ntl
American earthquake ever took doTl city.
GOD will catch these oppre .so-s batw,%9 tls'
two millstones of HIS wrath and grin1 thon
TO powder.
l hear from all this land The wall o w.
manhood. Man has nothing to aus Yer 10
that wall but batteries. He says she is an
angel She is not. She knows she IS noS.
She is a human being who gets hungry when
she has no food and cold when she mas no
Gre. Give her no more filtteries. Give her
justice
There are about 60 900 sewing girls in New
York and BROOKLYN. Across tho darkness OF
this night 1 hear their death Sro1ns. 1t IS
NOT sIch a cry az comes from those who are
suddenly hurled out OF lie, but SLOW,
grinding horrible wasting away. Gltaer
Them before you and look into their faces,
pinchei, ghastly, hunger struck LooA at
their fingers. needle pricke AMI bloc
TIMED See that premature s!oop IN the
shoulders Hear that dry, hacking, mere
less cough
At large meeting Of these women, held
in p hall in Philadelphia, grand speecAes
were delivered, but needle-Ionan tooi
the stand, threw aside her failed SHAWL an
with her shriveled arm hurlel very thua Ter
bolt OF eloquence, speaking out the horrors
OF her own Experience
Stand at the corner OF street in New
York in the very early morning as the wo-
a flon
no breakfast except the crumbs that were
left over from the night before or crust
tdey chew on their way through the
streets. Here they c0ne-the WORK
inc girls OF the city These engaged IN
baadwork. these in flower making, in mllIin-
cry. enameling, cigar making, boo&bindtnS,
labelling, feather picking, print co.orln;,
paper box making, out, most overTorSeI OF
all and least compensated, the sewing
women. Why do they not take the city cars
on their way up? They cannot afiord the
five cents IT, concluding 10 deny herself
something elss she gets into the car. give
her seat. You want to see how Latimer an
Ridley appeared in the fire. LOOK at that
woman and behold more horrible martyr
DOM hotter fire, more agOnizing DEATH
one Sabbath night, in the vestlbule OF my
church. after service wo W fel IN Goa
wilson's. The do,toi said sh9 nee lei me H.
cine not so mucl rs so nstlinS u eat. a
sas hogan 10 revive, in her delirlun sh9 s1l
y1spingly eight cents Eight cents EliAt
cents I wish | could get 1t done. IN 50
tired! wish l could get soma sleep, out J.
n ust get It DOM. Eight cents EiSnt cents
We foun afterwar that s1e WAS mliiAS
garments at eight cents apiece, an | tA' SI7
could make but three OF them in day. BAR
it Three times eigat are twanty-fOur. H9Ir
If. men ana women who have com.ortaole
homes
Some OF the worst villains Of the city ara
the employers OF these wonsn. T1ey peat
them down to the last p9nny an try TO
cheat them out OF that. The woman mus
deposit 81 or 81 before she gets the gar
mepts to work on. When the WORK IS DOM
it is.sharply inspected, the most lnsiSh'n
cant flaws picked out and the wages refused
anJ Sometimes the 81 deposited not give
back The Women's Protective Union re
no-ts q case where one OF these poor souls
aniing place where she cOult get more
WAGES. resolved TO change employers an(
went 10 get her pay for work dom. I'M
emnlover SAYS. 'l hear you are going II
lave me?" Yes" she salt "dnI hav'
como to get what you owe me" He mad'
no answer. She said, care you not goin-
TO nav me?' eyes" he said, Il will pa,
YOU. and he kicked her down stairs.
HOW are these evils 10 be erddlcated
What have you to answer, you who sci
coa.s and have shoes made and contract io
the southern and western markets? VIVA
bclp is there what panacea, what redemp
ton? Some say, "Glve women the ballot.
What effect such ballot might have on otne
questions I am not here to discuss, bu
Whet would be the effect Of female suTfrag
UPON woman's wages. do not belIeye tina
woman will ever get justice by woman
ballot.
Indeed, women Cypress women as much
men do. d. not women. as mucA as mel
beat down to the lowest figure the woman