The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1894-06-14
two mlllstones of his wrath and grind

hear from all this land the wall ol
womonhood. Man has nothing to an
swer to that wall but flatteres. He says
! she is an angel. She is not. She knows
| she is not. She is q human being, who
gels hungry whom she has no food, aud
cold when she has no fire. Give her no
more flatlerles; give her justicel
There are about $4,000 sewing girls in
Now York and Brooklyn. Across the
darkness of this night l hear their death
groan. II Is not such CRY rs comes
from those who are suddenly hurled out
OF life, but slow, grinding, horrible
wasting away. Gather them be fore YOU
and look into their faces, pinchcd, ghast-
ly, hunger struck. Look ct their Gugers
needle pricked and blood tippeGl Sec
that premature stoop in tho shoulders.
Hear that dfy, hacking, morciless coughl
At largo meeting Of these women
held in hall in Philadelphia, grand
speeches were delivered but a needle
woman took tho stand, threw aside her
faded shawl, and with her shriveled arm
speaking out the horrors OF her own eX-
perience.
Stand at tho corner Of d street in New
York In The very carly morning rs the
women go TO their work. Many of them
had no breakfast except The crumbs that
werc lefC over from the night before or
crust they chew on ,halr way through
the street. Hero they como the working
girls Of the city! These engaged IN
beadwork, these in flower making, in
millinery, enamollng, cigar making, book
binding, labelling, feather picking, print
coloring, paper box making, but, most
overwolked ofall and least compensated
tho sewing woman. Why do they not
taks the city cars on their way
up? They cannot afford the five
ccns. If, concluding TO deny
herself something else. she gets into
the car, give her seatl You want to
see how Latimer and Ridley appeared
In the fire. Look at that woman and
behold more horrible martydom, a hot
ter fire. a more agonizing death!
One Sabbath night, in the vestibule
Of my church, after service, a woman
fell in convulsions The doctor said
she needed medicine not so much as
something to eat. AS she began to re.
vive, in her deiirlum she said gasping.
ly: "Eight cents! Eight cents! Eight
cents! | wish could get it done! l am
so tired! wish could get some sleep,
but must get it done" We found
atteWard that she was making gar
ments at 8 cents apiece, and that she
could make but three of them in day.
lear 1T Three times eight are twen-
ty.four! Hear it, men and women who
have comfortable homes!
Some Of the worst Williams of the city
are the employers of these women.
They beat them down to the last pen.
ny and try to cheat them out of that.
The woman must deposit dollar or
two before she gets the garments to
work on. When the work Is done, it
is sharply inspected, the most insie.
nilicant flaws picked out, and the
wages refused, and sometime the dol.
lar deposited not given back. The
Women's Protective union reports a
case where one of these poor souls
nndlng place where she could get
more wages, resolved to change EN-.
ployers and went to get her pay fol-
work done: Tho employer says, IL hear
you are going to leave me?" eyes
she said, "and have come to get what
you owe me" lie made no answer
She said, "Are you not going to pay
mep' "Yes," he said, II will pay YOU
and ho kicked her down the stairs.
How are these evils to be eradicated
/ II
coats and have shoes made and con
tract for the southern and western
markets? What help is there, what
panacea, what redemption Some say
Give women the ballot" WHAT effect
such ballot might have on other cues
tloDs l am not here to discuss. but
what would be the effect of female
suffrage upon Woman's wages? [ 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 L?
Are not women as sharp as men on
washerWomen and milliners and man.
tua makers? If a woman asks a dollar
for her work, does not her female EN-.
ploYer ask her If she will not take SO
cents? You say, "OnIy 10 cents differ
ence," but that is sometimes the diff
terence between heaven and hell.
Women have often less commiseration
tor women than men. If a 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
ner. G0d has moro resources than we
know OF. The flaming sword that
hung at Eden's gate when woman was
driven out will cleaye with it's terrible
cage her oppreSsors.
But there is something for our WON.
en- 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 1t be shown that a woman
can in a store sell more goods IN q wear
than man, she will soon bs able not
only to ask but to demand more wa
ges, and to demand them successfully.
Unskilled and incompetent labor must
take what Is given. Skilled and com.
petent labor will eventually make its
own standard. Admitting that the
law of supply and demand regulates
these things, l contend that tho de-
mand for skilled labSr i3 very great and
the supply very small.
Start with the idea that work is hon
able, and that you can do some one
thing better than anyone else. Resolve
that. God helping,you will take care of |
yourself. lfyOu are after awhile called |
into another relation, you will all the |
better he GDolifip6 for IT. hu yo,,r o,>i,tt