The Globe-republican., 1894-06-15

ON. When the work Is done Il b
sharply inspected, the most insignifi-
cant flaws picked out, and tie wages
refused. and sometimes the dollar de-
posted not given back.
How are these evils to be eradicat-
ed? What have You to answer. you
who sell coats. and have shoes made,
and contract for the southern and west
ern markets? What help is there, what
panacea, what redempticEs Some say:
/ Give women the ballot" What effect
+ such ballot might have CT other Ques-
/ tions. l am not here to discuss: but
/ what would be the effect of female suf-
/ frage upon woman's wages? do not
believe that woman viii ever get JUS
| tice 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 SONS for them?
1 Are not women as sharp as men on
washerwomen. and milliners and
| mantua-makers? If a woman asks a
dollar for her work. does not her female
| employer ask her if she will not take
| 90 cents? You say: Only 10 cents
difference but that is sometimes the
difference between Heaven and hell.
| Women often have less commiSeration
| for women than men. If woman
steps aside from the path of virtue,
| man may forgive - woman never!
Woman will never get justice done her
| from woman's 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 cleave with its terrible
| edge her oppressors-
But there is something for our
women to do. Let our young people
prepare to excel in spheres of work,
| and they will be able, after awhile, to
get larger wages. If it be shown that
a woman can. in a store. sell more
| goods in year than man. she will
soon be able not only TO ask but to de-
mand more wages. and to demand
them successfully. Unskilled and in
competent labor must take what it is
given. skilled and competent labor
| will eventually make its own standard.
| Admitting that the law of supply and
| demand regulates these things. con-
| tend that the demand for skilled labor
is very great. and the supply very
| small
Start with the idea that work is hon
ora BILE. and that you can do some one
| thing better than any one else. Re-
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care of yourself. If You are. after
| awhile. called into another relation
You will all the better be qualified for
| it by Your spirit of self-reliance: or if
you are called to stay as You are, you
can be happy and self-supporting.
Poets are fond of talking about man
as an oak. and woman the vine that
climbs il: bit have seen many tree
fall that not only went down itself.
but took all the vines with it. l can
tell YOU of something stronger than
oak for an ivy 10 climb on. and that is
the throne of the great Jehovah. Single
or atfianced. that woman is strong who
leans or God and does her best. The
needle may break: the factory band
may slip: the wages may fail: but over
every good woman's head there are
spread the two great. gentle. stipend
Gus wings of the Almighty.
Many of you will go single-handed
through life. and you will have to
choose between two characters. Young
woman. l am sure you will turn your
back upon the useless. giggling,
painted nonentity which society igno-
miniouslv acknowledges to be wom-
an. and ask God to make you an hum
BILE. active. earnest Christian.
What will become of this goddess dis
ciple of fashion? What an insult to
her sex. Her manners are an outrage
upon decency. She is more thoughtful
of the attitude she strikes upon the
carpet than how she will look in
the Judgment: more worried about
her freckles than her sins: more inter-
ested in her bonnet strings than in her
redemption. Her apparel is the poor
est part of Christian woman, how
ever magnifcently dressed. and no one
has so much right to dress well as
Christian. Not so with the goddess
disciple of fashion. Take her robes
and you take everything. Death will
come down on her some day, and rub
the blister off her eyelids, and the
rouge off her cheeks. and with two
rough. bony hands. scatter spangles
and glass beads and rings and ribbons
and lace and brooches and buckles and
sashes and frisettes and golden clasps.
The dying actress whose life had been !
vicious said: The scene closes. Draw
the curtain Generally the tragedy
comes first. and the farce afterward;
but in her life it was first the farce of
a useless life. and then the tragedy of
a wretched eternity.
Compare the life and death of such
an one with that of some Christian |
aunt that was once blessing to your
household. do not know that she was
ever offered hand in marriage. Sne /
lived singly. that untrammeled she
might be erybody's blessing. When
ever the sick were to be visited |