The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-27
THE NEW WOMAN.
returning to the Industrial Position
From Which Man Crowded Her.


day 10 find here and there still be-
nighted heather who talks of how wom-
an has crowded man out of the trades |
ana professions and thus deprived him |
Oh his heaven born right to earn and |
get all the money. This wicked new |
woman is also charged with flooding
the occupations with laborers and thus
bringing down the wages of Man with
big M. Man indeedl Even so, should
women starve in order TO give men all
the money? But there is no truth in the
charge, none at all. Look at the present
coal strike. Was it brought abou< be-
cause women crowded into the mining
business and brought down wages? Take
the great railway strike a few years
ago, the one in which United States
troops were ordered to the scene of &C
ton in Chicago. Was that produced be-
cause women crowded into the work of
railroading and thus brought down the
wages of trainmen? Go to! The truth
is just this: Wherever an occupation is
tolerably remunerative and steady thou
sands of men will seek to enter it. They
will learn that trade in great numbers
till there are more workmen than there
are places. Then they will undermine
each other, for people must live. at
least they think they must The abun-
dance of labor affords an excuse to en-
ployers to cut down wages, and they
always avail themselves of it. This is
the history Of every wage earning occu-
patton. 1t runs a natural course. At
first comparatively few persons under
stand it. Then wages are high. More
and more learn it till those who work
at it are more than can find employ
ment. Then wages come down, down.
If women had never earned dollar
outside of their own homes, the result
would have been exactly the same.
There were strikes hundreds of years
ago, when no woman had entered any
of the trades. 1t is to be hoped, how
ever, that there will not be strikes hun
dreds of years hence. So far from
crowding men out of their occupations,
the fact is that men have crowded wom-
en- out of every occupation whereby
they used to earn living, spinning.
weaving, cooking, surgery, sewing and
even washing The most wretched con-
ditions are found today in one Of these
trades out of which men have forced
women-namely, sewing. ~.
In entering the trades and professions
in such numbers women are only get
ting back to the industrial position from
which man crowded them when he took
all the breadwinning occupations OF
the old time from them, the spinning
weaving, knitting, garment making
and cooking We cannot get these back
but we are learning other trades by
which we can earn just as good living
Providence itself is on the SIDE of TIT
woman wage Garner. AT the time chang
ing economic and social condition.
made it necessary for women to ente
money getting occupations, just then,
number of new employments especlall.
adapted to our sex were invented am
J discovered. Look at them. Telegraphy
stenography, typewriting, telephonlng
4 physical culture. teaching, massage am
+ trained nursing are a few that com
4
- into my mind at this moment.
n In Shakespeare's time woman VIII
n desired to take even female part as a
actress on the stage was thought to
~ forcing herself into mans work and dc
n priving him of his bread. Poor man!
o I heard "a Scotchman lately put beau
40 tifully the old hunks masculine idea
~ woman as u wage Garner. "Scotchmen,
q. said he, "nave more respact for weeml
GO than you have in America. We don
or let them work for money as Sou do. 1t
thrue we think it's all right for thel
-. IN 90 into domestic sairvice, and I'll
NJ mill and the factory and that anon
~. the lower classes, as it were, but clark
od and feedlin with typewriter, nav
l., The mon does that and supports II
weeminkind. Just so. Men like hi
in are everywhere willing that wome
w should do the rough, dirty work, poo
10 " paid labor, such as washing, scru'
10 hing and homework. but when there
10 ANYTHING clean and light to be don
as like typewriting or selling goods, that
o. mans place. Oh. yes. We have see
no this kind Of finale protectors II
er women before. They are plenty
n blackberrlss.
ed At "a newsstand close to an elevate
lg station in New York city have notice
pretty little woman standing for Sc
IS eral years selling papers and mag
on zines. She looks the lady, gently Dol
II. and bred. Lately have found out b
OF interesting history. knew she had
sh interesting history from her refine
FER sweet face. have found out that she
de Russian lady who was left with
TX family of children to support D
ere speaks English with quaint ht'
ers musical accent She started the new
) stand to make living IL was III
zee good place and proved remunerati'
Ter She has now several women assistant
tie She has taken care of her family a.
:" educated her children handsomely. II
its son Is a student at Bellevue Medical CT
nut lege and will be graduated as phy
'xt clan in two years. Her daughter 10