The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1898-09-09
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greed are largely the causes of female
employment. 1t takes advantage of
the weakness of woman's nature,
and employing her for less wages
than man, gratis her upon the stock
OF mod ern industry. The employment
of women and children tends to reduce
wages and supplants the man and
youth who are the real wage earners of
society. Factory life for woman saps
her physical and moral being, and is
viciously detrimental to the family. 1t
increases the mortality among women
employees, aiding perceptibly in short
ening their lives. 1t destroys the home
life Of the wage-earner. 1t units young
women for family life and motherhood,
by the weakening in her home inter
ests and the neglect of home duties. 1t
is the machine versus the home. The
factory has gained-the corporation has
increased its dividends-but the home
has suffered.
"The employment of young girls in
factories and in department stores is a
blot upon our Christian civilization.
Think of it-l,lS1 little girls in the
sweat shops of Chicago. Girls just IA
years Of age have been known to be
n, ~ IN
one day. Child labor has a demoraliz-
ing effect upon the child. 1t creates ex-
haustion, weakens vitality, and hast.
ems consumption and other diseases.
this employment of wife or child to the
wage-earner. 1t has been proven that
in the building trades, where female
labor is not employed, the wages of the
men supply about 97K per cent of the
total cost of the family's living, because
the other one-third is supplied by the
wife and children. The last report of
the Bureau of Labor of Massachusetts
significantly says: Thus it is seen
that in neither of the cases where the
man is assisted by his wife and child,
rem does he earn as much as other
wage-earners. Also in the case where
he is assisted by both the wife and
children he earns the least
"Cheap labor is a curse to any coun.
try. 1t is the dollar-a,day wage and the
| tifty-cents-a-day wage that is crushing
the heart out of the American wage
Garner, and driving him to adoption of
extreme socialistic views. There is a
radical wrong somewhere. Civilization
is not true to men; government is not
true; the church of Jesus Christ is not
true in country like this that will see
multitudes of toilers labor ten hours a
dav year after year,fo less than dollar
day There is grave, gigantic fault
some where, and the people have the
moral right to search it out and change
those abuses if they can. Labor well
paid is ennobling. Labor underpaid is
placing a premium on brutality. With
increasing debt and poverty staring
him in the face, the laborer is not apt
to grow in grace or morals! When a
man becomes industrially a slave he is
liable to become morally a slave. To
make machine of man is to make
him mere cog in a wheel-and to
make his labor so hard that he gets no
time for anything else, is to brutalize
him. Long hours and wages below the
comfort point means the deterioration
of the wage-earner's home-it means
exhaustion, ignorance and imw "rality.
"All over the land to-day labor Is lift
ing its voice against another danger
that threatens this country from the
arrogancy of corporate power. | refer tC
the use of the courts in the assurance of
the restraining injunctions against la
Dor. The injunction ISIS ued in lS9-
against the leaders of the American
Railway Union and in the miners
strike issued at the option of the cor
porations that will not arbitrate their
difficulties, is dangerous precedent tc
establish. Disguise 1t as we will, il
seems that the courts are on the side OF
| Ju6 COl BoI dJlOus anu the sJIOuS. NON
eminent by injunction is the most dan
gerous form of tyranny that ever
threatened the freedom of people OF
the safety of republic.
81 believe in arbitration. believe in
government ownership of railways and
the telegraph system of the country. ]
am a strong advocate for cooperation
cooperative manufacturing plants, co.
operative stores, and for the principle:
of profit-sharing as offered to all line:
of business. Read the story of the mag
niticent success of cooperation in Eng
land. We ought to profit by it in thi:
country. believe in a justly regula
ted income tax law. l believe in the
true social spirit of christianity. Be
ware OF some Of the socislistic tenden
cies of the day. am afraid of the so
cialism founded upon the teachings Of