Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-13

pare the wages of the common laborer VINO
loses on ap,oavegage two days in the week
by. bad weather. IL he earns ~ week ne
does we'll. If he earns $40 or $ll 1t is
remarkable Is he as well paid as the
domestic-I mean female? We have no
Cinnamon. Qaughter) Right here let me
say / worked for thirteen years in the teie-
graph service and became quite an expert
operator. During those thirteen years l
only lost one month. and in all my expert
ence | never met a woman telegrapher
that was first class. Colonel Dickey tells
me that there are but two women IN the
United States who are experts, and they
get the same pay as the men OF the same
grade Complaint ia made that the women
do not get as good pay as telegraphers as
men. but the fact is they get all they earn
1t takes a good deal of stamina and 1t Is
great strain on the nervous system for an
operator to receive 100 dispatches without
a break or stop, rs | have done, ana as
many men can do. Woman cannot stand
it and why should she get equal pay when
she cannot DO equal work? Talk about
women's wages! | know young man VINO
came from Michigan to work In the tele-
graph service at my instance. lie Is now
employed by the b. g. NJ. at Friendvllle
He is u years old and gets only S25 a
month IL he was not a male voter he
would get just as much. l don't think the
telegraph superintendent OF the b. O. M
inquired whether he was a voter wheh ne
hired him. All he asked was whether ne
could do the service required. III IL hau
been a woman operator she could not nave
earned less than $25 month. Wheh cor
porations or individuals employ a man 40
they ever ask whether he Is haturallIeu!
Do they pay the man VINO Is NoteE iAole
than they pay the man who mas no vote
There are men working in the Omaha
smelling works for $1.50 to Sl15 day,
and | know there is not woman IN amer Amer
lea that could so down and stand the work
for ten days (applause) not even the ANA ana
zon, OF whom Miss Couzlns spoke lhe ,5, osnS.
night The woman with the IRON Jaw hllsnI
trv II on hut even she would give out
Qaughter) This is the only trouble why
do women get less wages than men? IL is
because they are not physically their eiual,
il is because | would not be match lot
John C. Heenan: because the race morse Is
not tho canal of the dray horse in hauling
heavy loads. When woman changes her
nhvsical constitution it will be time Tor
her to come and ask US to change our state
constitution. applause and lauGhter)
UTAH AND WYOMING.
We have been told that the experiment
has been tried and that IL Is d success, ~
Utah women have voted for hiteeh yeaLS'
ever since Brigham Young conceived the Drll-
liant idea of creating a monopoly In votes
u.aughterO And in Wyoming they gave
woman the ballot ten or eleven years ago.
The other dayI was called upon ny @ Two Mr: Ny
Wells and the other Miss Emeline Young,
a daughter OF brigham Young. Incidentally
asked them this question anu wrote ~
down so should not msqIbote tbo tba mem wnmen
Of Utah. who are largely in the majority
have not leglsIated out the biighting curse
of polygau y?'t surely you have the VOTES
and the power to elect such members OF lhe
legislature and government as you want.
Mrs Wells frankly responded 1T is be-
cause we are Hn favor of polygamy. We be-
lieve il to be fight and regard II as divine
institution and because we believe II TO
be better. and we have been on both SIDES.
| was raised IA COngregatlohallst III NE"
England" " said, Mrs. Wells, but | became
Mormon, and3I believe that pIuraiItg VI
wives is PERFECTLY right "a
Here we have women with suffrage talk
ing about slavery and degradation, but what
can be more degrading ana slaVlsh thah
polygamy unless 1t be the concerns on the
lower end OF Douglas street? And yet women,
by their own votes have kept themselves
In that degradation, They nave SAID IN SUD
stance that they prefer to have one-tenth
or one-hfteenth part or husband rather
ber OF persons who have lived In Wyoming,
among them Major Balcomb, deputy United
States marshal, and Mr.. Swartz OF this city
who was United States marshal, j saw this
morning letter In the Omaha hepuoiiea9
from a reliable gentleman who has lived
in Wyoming up 10 1878, that fully confirms
their reports. Let me read you the follow
ing extract:
WOMEN IN POLITICS.
"I have had two years experience In
territory where some women vote, and where
all might II they desired to do 80; and not
wlthstandlng the eloquence OF Governor Hoyt
and others, ! failed to see beneficial results
arising out OF It, lived in the town OF
Rawins. on the Union Pacific railroad, 1856
miles west OF Laramie. nearly two years.
Rawlins at that time contained about 800