Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-01-17

thing to wear and something to eat,
and shelter and fuel for the body, and
knowledge for the mind, and religion
for the soul. And all these things will
continue to be the necessaries, and if
you fasten your energies upon occupa-
lions and professions thus related the
world will be unable to do without you.
Remena Der that in proportion as you are
skillful in anything your rivalries be-
come less. Fer unskilled toll there are
women by the millions. But you may
rise to where there are only thousands,
and still higher till there are only a
hundred, and still higher till there are
only ten, and still higher, in some par
ticular department., till there is only a
unit, and that yourself. For awhile you
may keep wages and place through
the kindly sympathy of an employer,
but you will eventually get no more
+. compensation than you can make your
self worth.
Let me say to all women who have
already entered upon the battles of life
that the time is coming when women
shall not only get as much salary and
wages as men get, but for certain styles
| of employment women will have higher
salary and more wages, for the reason
that for some styles Of work they have
more adaptation. But this justice will
come to woman not through any senti-
ment Of gallantry, not because woman
| is physically weaker than man, and
| therefore ought to have more consider
| alton shown her, but because through
| her finer natural taste, and more grace
| of manner, and quicker perception, and
| more delicate touch, and more educated
| adroitness, she will in certain callings
be to her employer worth 10 per cent
| more or 20 per cent more than the 9TH
er sex. She will not get it by asking for
it, but by earning it, and it shall be
hers by lawful conquest.
Now, men of America, be fair and
give the women a chance. Are you
afraid that they will do some Of your
work, and hence harm your properties?
Remember that there are scores of
thousands of men doing women's work.
Do not be afraid. God knows the end
from the beginning, and he knows how
many people this world can feed and
shelter, and when it gets too full he will
end the world and if need be start an
other. God will halt the inventive fac
| ulty which, by producing a machine
that will do the work of 10 or 30 or
100 men and women, will leave that
number Of people without work. hope
that there will not be invented another
sewing machine, or reaping machine,
or corn thrasher, or any other new ma
chine for the next 500 years. We want
no more wooden hands, and iron hands,
and steel hands, and electric hands sub
stituted for men and women, who would
otherwise do the work and get the pay
and earn the livelihood.
Trust In God.
But God will arrange ALL and all we
have to do is to do our best and trust
him for the rest. Let me cheer all wo-
men fighting the battle of life alone
with the fact of thousands of women
who have won the day. Mary Lyon,
founder of Mount Holyoke Female SEM
mary, fought the battle alone; Adelaide
Newton, the tract distributor, alone;
Fidelia Fisk, the consecrated mission
airy, alone; Dorothea Dix, the angel of
the insane asylums, alone; Caroline
Herschel, the indispensable REINFORCE
ment of her brother, alone; Maria
Takrzewska, the heroine of the Berlin
hospital, alone; Helen Chalmers, pa
iron of the sewing schools for the poor
of Edinburgh, alone, and thousands
and tens of thousands Of women, of
whose bravery and self sacrifice and
glory of character the world has made
no record, but whose deeds are in the
heavenly archives of martyrs who fought
the battle alone, and, though unrecog
nized for the short 80 or 80 or 80 years
Of their earthly existence, shall through
the quintillion ages of the higher world
be pointed out with the admiring cry,
"These are they who came out of great
tribulation and had their robes washed
and made white in the blood of the
Lamb
Let me also say for the encourage
ment of all women fighting the battle
of life alone that their conflict will soon
end. There is one word written over the
faces of many of them, and that word
is "despair. - My sister, you need ap-
peal to Christ, who comforted the sisters
of Bethany in their domestic trouble
and who in his last hours forgot all the
pangs of his own hands and feet and
heart as he looked into the face of ma
ternal anguish and called friends at
tention to it, in substance saying:
'tJohn, I cannot take care of her any
longer. Do for her as l would have
done if had lived. Behold thy moth
er !'' If under the pressure of unreward-
ed and unappreciated work your hair is
whitening and the wrinkles come, re-
joice that you are nearing the hour of
escape from your very last fatigue and
may your departure be as pleasant as
that of Isabella Graham, who closed her
life with smile and the word "peace."
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