The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-06-08
FRIDAY MORNING. JUNE 8, 1894.

and In many cases only half? Here Is
the gigantic injustice-that for work
equally we'll il not better done woman
receives far less compensation than man.
Start with the national government
For long while women clerks in WASH
ington got 5000 for doing that for which
men received 81, 800,
To thousands Of young women in our
cities today there is only this alternative
starvation or dishonor. Many Of the
largest mercantile establishments Of our
cities are accessory to these abomina-
tions, and from their large establish
ments there are scores of souls being
pitched off into death, and their EN-.
ployers know It'll
The Wall of womanhood.
Is there q God? Will there be judg.
ment? l tell you, if God rises up to re.
dress woman's wrongs, many Of our
large establishments will be swallowed
up quicker than South American
earthquake ever took down city. God
will catch these oppressors between the
two millstones of his wrath and grind
them to powderl
hear from all this land tho wall Of
womanhood. Man has nothing to an
swer to that vail but batteries. He says
she is an angel She is not. She knows
aha Ia not. Gho 10 q human being, who
gets hungry when she has no food and
cold when she has no fire. Give her no
more batteries. Give her justice!
There are about 90, 900 sewing girls
In New York and Brooklyn. Across the
darkness of this night hear their death
groan. 1t is not such cry as comes
from those who are suddenly hurled out
Of life, but slow, grinding, horrible
wasting away Gather them before you
and look into their faces, pinched,. ghast-
ly, hunger struck Look at their fingers,
needle pricked and blood tipped See
that premature stoop in the shouldersl
Hear that dry, hacking, merciless cough!
At large meeting Of these women,
held in hall in Philadelphia, grand
speeches were delivered, but needle
woman took the stand, threw aside her
faded shawl, and with her shriveled
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 III the very early 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 a
crust they chew on their way through
the streets Here they come-the work
ing girls of the city! 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 theil
way up? They cannot afford the
cents. IT, concluding to deny herself
something else, she gets into the car,
give her scat. You want to see how
Latimer and Ridley appeared in the fire.
Look at that woman and behold more
horrible martyrdom-a hotter fire,
more agonizing death.
One Sabbath night, in the vestibule
of my church, after service woman
fell in commissions. The doctor said she
needed medicine not SO much as some.
thing to eat. AS she began to revive,
in her delirium she said gaspingly
eight cents. Eight cents! Eight cents
wish I could get it done! am sc
tiredl wish could get some sleep,
but must get it donei Eight cents
Eight cents!" We found afterwarG
that she was making garments at
cents apiece, and that she could make
but three II them in day. Hear it
Three times are 24l Hear it, me1
and women who have comfortable
honest
Some of the worst villains of the city
are the employers Of these women
They beat them down to the last penny
and try to cheat them out of that Thu
woman must deposit 81 or$2 before she
gets the garments to work on. Whe1
the work is done, it is sharply inspected
the most insignificant flaws picked ou
and the wages refused, and sometimes
the 81 deposited not given back The
| Womens Protective union reports {
| case where one of these poor souls, find
ing place where she could get more
wages, resolved to change employers ant
vent to get her pay for work done. The
employer says, II hear you are going t.
leave me?' Eyes" she said, "and
hare come to get what you owe me- ;
He made no answer. She said, "Art
you NOT going to pay me?" "Yes," hi
said. Hswill pay you, and he kickec
her down stairs.
| m Women Against Women.
How are these evils to be eradicated
What have you to answer, you who sci
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, Civ,
women the ballot. What effect sucl
ballot might have on other questions
am not here to discuss, but what woult
| be the effect of female suffrage upol
woman's wages? I do not believe tina
woman will ever get justice by woman
ballot
Indeed women Cypress women a
much as men do Do not women a
much as men beat down to the loves
figure the woman who sews for them
Are not women as sharp as men Oh
,yasherwomen and milliners and man
tina makers? If woman asks 81 for he
work, does not her female employer asl
if she will not take 90 cents? You say
"Only 10 cents difference But that il
sometimes the difference between heav
On and hell. Women often have les
commiseration for women than men, 1
a woman steps aside from the path o
virtue, man may forgive-woman never
Woman will never get justice done he
from woman's ballot.
| Never will she get it from mans bal
lot How, then? God will rise up fo
her. God has more resources than W,
know Of. The flaming sword that huns
ut Eden's gate when woman was driver
out will cleave with its terrible edg
her oppressors.
| A Source of Strength.
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