Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1894-06-08

ing girls OF 30 cltyl These engaged in
beadwork, these in flower making, III
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 M? They cannot afford the
3 cents. If, concluding to deny hcfscA
something else, she gets into the car,
give her seat. You want to see how
Latimer and Ridley appeared IN the fire
Look at that woman and behold q more
horrible martyrdom-a hotter fire,
more agonizing death. 80,
One Sabbath night, in the yestibule
of nv church, after service woman
fell in commissions The doctor said she
needed medicine not so much as some
thing TO cat. As she began to revive,
in her delirium she said gaspingly;
eight centsl Eight cents Eight cents
Iwish I could get it done! l am so
tiredl wish l could get some sleep,
but I must get it donel Eight cents!
EIGHT cents!" We found afterward
that she was making garments at 8
cents apiece, and that she could make
but three of them in a day. Hear I'll
Three times 8 are "a! Hear it, men
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 The
woman must deposit 81 81 before she
gets the garments 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 place where she could get more
wages, resolved to change employers and
went to get her pay for work done. The
EMPLOYER says, Il hear you are going to
leave me:' eyes, she said land
have come to get what you owe me.
He made no answer. She raid, Are
you not going to pay me-" Yes, he
said, Il 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 helps there, what panacea,
what redemption: Some say, GIVE
women the ballot" What effect such
ballot might have on other questions l
am not here to discuss, but what would
be the effect Of female suffrage upon
woman's wages? I 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 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 heay-
en- and hell. Women often have less
commiseration for women than men. If
a woman steps aside from the path Of
virtue, man may forgiye-womann never!
Woman will never get justice done her
from woman ballot
Never will she get it from mans bal
lot. How, then: God Will rise up for
her. God has more resources than we
know Of. The flaming sword that hung
at Eden's gate when woman was driven
out will clcave with its terrible elge
her oppressors.
& Source Of Strength.