The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1894-06-13

sure OF doing dishcnnrsb bic work shall
particulay'zs. You may knit q tidy
for tFe back Of an armchair, but
by 20 msans make the money,
whsreviih TO tnY tne chair. You may,
with delicate trush, beautity q mantle
orpamspt, hut de rather than earn
enough 10 buY g marble mantle. You
nav learn arustic music uutil you can
suualI Italian, but uever si0g Orion
vile" or Ola Huadred." Do Dothjng
practical, ifycu gou'd, 10 tbe eyes OF re.
fined society, preserve your respectable
ty. Iscous these fDical notions. l tell
yCu no woman, any more than man,
has ri2ttto occupy q place IN this
world unless she pays rent for it.
In the course Ct lifetime you COM
sume whole barVests ard droves OF cat
tie, and every day you live breathe 40
ho:shaads Of good pure al, You must
BY some kind of usefulness, pay for ali
this. Our race was the last thing Great.
ed-the birds and fishes on The fourth
dav, the cattle and lizards on the tltth
CAV al man On the sixth day. If eeol.
oeists are right, the earth was amlllIoh
ofyears in the possession OF the insects,
BEASTS and birds, before cur race came
upon it. In oue sen2e. We were lnno
vators, TIE cattle, the lizards and The
hawks had preempti0n right. The ques'
ton Is not what We are to do with :he
lizards and summer insects, but what
the lz,rds and sunner insects are to
do with Us.
five want place in this world, we
must earn it. The partridge makes lis
own nest before it occupies 1t. Ttelark
by its morning song, earns It's breakfast
before it eats it. The Bible gives an
intimation that the first duty OF an ldier
is to starVe when it says if he "Tlil not
work neither shall he eat" Idleness
ruins the health, and very soon nature
SAYS: This man has refused to pay his
rert. Out with him!"
S1clety is 10 be reconstructed on TIE
subject of wouaa's toll. A vast major
ity ofthose who would have woman IN.
dustrious shut her up TO few kinds OF
work. Ny judgment in this matter IS
that woman has q right to do any,
thing she can do yell. There should
be no department Of merchandise, me-
chanlsm, art or science barred against
her. IfMiss Hosmer has geniuE for
sculpture, give her chisel. Il Rosa
Bonheur has fondness for dellneatlng
enimals, let her make The Horse
Fair" II Miss Mitchell will study as
tronomy let her mount the starry lad
der. IfL7dia will be merchant let
her sell purple. If lucrecia Mott will
preach the gospel tet her thrill with her
womanly elCquance the Quaker meeting
house.
It is said If woman is given such op-
portunities she will occupy such places
that might be taken by men. [ say &. II
she have more skill and adaptedness for
any position than a man has. let her
ha7ei! She has as much right to her
bread, to her apparel and to her home
as men have.
But it is said that her nature IS so dei'
icate that she is unified for exhaustlng
toll. l ask in Ihe name ofall past his.
tory what toll on earth is more severe.
exhausting and tremendous than that
of the needle, to which for ages she has
bsen subjected? The battering ram,
the sword, the carbine. the battleax,
have made no such havoc as the needle.
I would that these living sepulchers IN
which women have for ages been buried
might bs opened, and thai some re8ur-
rection trumpet might bring up these
living corpses to the fresh air and suo'
light.
Go with me, and I will show you
woman who, by hardest toll, sup.
ports her children, her drunken husband
her old father and mother, pays her
house rent, always has wholesome food
on the table, and when she can get
some neighbor on the Sabbath to come
in and take care of her family appears
in church with hat and cloak that are
far from indicating the toll to which she
Is subjected.
Such woman as that nas body aud
soul enough to fit her for any position,
She could stand beside the majority OF
your statesmen and dispose of more
goods. She could 60 into your wheel
wright shops and beat one half ofYour
worknen at making carriages. We talk
about woman as though We had resigned
TO her all the light work, and ourselves
had shoulGereG the heavier. But the day
ofiudgment, which will reveal the suf.
ferings Of the stake and irquisitI0n, will
marshal before the throne OF God and
the hierarch1 Of heaven the mertyrs CT
waehtub and needle.
NOW, I say, if there be any preference
in occupatian, let 8oman have il. God
knows her trials are the seVerest. By
her acuter sensitiveness to misfortune,
by her hour Of anguish, I demand that
no one hedge up her pathway to JiVeli-
hood. Oh, the mesnness, the despica-
bility OF men who begrudge woman the
hight to work anywhere il any honorable
calling!
60 still further aad say that women
shohld have equal compensation with
men. By what principle Of justice is It
that women 10 many Of ouc cities get
only two thirds as much pay as meD, and
II many cases only half? Here is the ei'
gautic iniustlce-that for work equally
well if BOT be ter done woman receives
far less than man. Start with the IA.
tional government. For a long while
women clerks in Washington got 5000
for doing that for which men received
$1,000.
TO thousands Of young women Ia our
cities today there Is only this alternative
starvation or dishonor. Many ofthe
largest mercantile establishments Of our
cities are accessory to those abomina-
tions, and from their large establish
ments there are scores Of souls being
pitched off into death, and their employ
ers know it.
Is there Goo? Will there be q j0dg
ment? I tell you, if God rises up to re-
dress woman's wrongs, many Of our
large establishments Will be swallowed
up quicker than a South American
earthquake ever took down city. God
will catch these oppressors between the
two millstones Of his wrath and grind
them to powder!
l hear from all this laDd the wall Of
uoooaDbO,o3 Man hae NOT h1nr t0 an