The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-06-09
WOMEN vs.. MEN.
Women Workers are Forcing Men tH
be IdlerS and DrOnes.
and How InexOrable are
the Laws of Nature.

"BrutuS," an intelligent ana
thoughtful observer, writing from
New York to the Nashville Banner,
says:
byron, in an apotheosis of the con-
trary seX-that is, the sex which is not
contrary, but very amiable-has this
line:
'Oh, woman, in thy hours of easen
"If he could revisit the glimpses of
the sun, and get over the city of New
York for the period of the dial he would
be at some confusion to know just
which are woman's hours of ease.
Emancipation, some call this; inno-
walton of woman into the competitive
employments of life, slavery, degen-
eracy, the flood of poverty, it is called
by others.
~ know this, that women in New
York are ceasing to be idle; that hun
dred females, from the ages of 6 to 60,
than five thousand when old man Dana,
Robert Bonner and Peter Cooper and
Tilden and all those old-tiners didn't
cast their fortunes but made them here.
"The serious, discouraging point
about this is that female service is driv-
ing men out of employment.
"Men ought not to be out of employ
ment; they ought to be compelled to do
all the work of the world, except the
domestic requirements, which are not
in the nature of tasks but of agreeable
duties and pleasing responsibilities,
which good women like, if their home
life be otherwise attractive. But no
woman should have to earn a support
for herself, much less for others, eX-
cept cases where death, or some insur-
mOuntable necessity, renders it neces-
sary for her to be a competitor in the
industries or the arts of life. Anything
that reduces the scale of masculine
wages is bad for the human family.
Economic devices, such as labor. saving
machines, are not harmful, but helpful
to humanity, because they increase the
scope and, therefore, the value of indi-
vidual energy. This tends to make a
mans earning capacity greater than
the cost of daily food. 1t tends TO place
the comforts, even some of the luXu-
ries of life in his reach, to offer his
family. The laboring mans ideas of
the general economy of existence are
often wrong. He is too prone to the
rudiments of labor, such as the spade,
the ak, the hammer, the plow. Make
labor skillful, and its value is inevita-
bly, enhanced. 1t is made skillful by
the contrivances of human ingenuity
the worlds requirements is further in
creased by the introduction of competi-
tive labor-which female help 18th en-
begins the reduction of individual earn
ing power, by which everybody suffers
"Cheap labor is the curse of Europe
1t will become the curse of America
Already the contest is, not how much
beyond the necessities of life for his
family man can earn, but how little
that family can live on. This sort of
competition is causing American labor
as boys-out of school and put them ir
offices, stores, factories-whereve they
can earn something to insure the Iiveli-
hood of the family.
-
"At thirty, how to make money-con-
science aside. At seventy, what to do
with it. These are the questions thai
open and close the careers of New York
millionaires.
"Forty years of endeavor, of constant
struggle-success after success, millions
on top of millions-and for what?
"To be perplexed, harassed in mind
as to what to do with the tremendous
wealth when the hand that signs the
checks quickers from infirmity, the
body shrivels from age, the eyes grow
voice falters and shutters in its utter
ance.
"Nature is insistent, ineXorable in it
course, and, no matter how indulgen
OF interest, exacts its principal sooner
or later.
"The way to wealth is steep and haz
ardous at every step. The man wht
sows carefully and tills industriousl,
on farm depends on the season for thu
balance, and garners his energy, by
night, in undisturbed repose. But the
man with spectacle on nose who sits IL
his New York office and watches hi
fortune or misfortune reeled off b.
"tickers" every minute in the day
| bOthers his brain too actively for Ma
| ture's purpose, and therefore he is no
normal creature. 1t is like being in {
continuous game of gam mbling-anxiet,
is natures 'rake-Off, sure and steel
percentage of the game.
Gagged out at last, the exhaustet
player says Il must go, l can play n
more
His winnings are passed over to min
and he goes home.
At home, what? \ reaction, tOuc
of heart failure, a bad paroxysm
an ominous look from his doctor-the
meditation, fright, vivid sense of tht
impending end.
"'Put your house in order whisper
a frightful voice. Il shall want yo
| SOON
"No letters Of credit 90 with tina
summons. Naked you came into tn
world, aud naked you 20 out OF tn
world. Though you have feasted a
banquets, at banquet shall you be de
vouTed. The worms of the ground hOl
lordly festivals as well a. men, for the
feed on men who have fed at banquet,
"lt has not been many years sine
| thousands on Broadway saw an impTe.
| sive procession Of humar .splendoI
with flowers and bands OF Sshsic an
vOciferuus chee~s aud every form o
public honor attend the course Of R0.
well Il. Flower through the city. Onit
/ "A few days ago some newspaper calle
him the bismarck Of Wall street.
scratch of the pen would have hrgugh
20 him any luxury known ts mar
And that same pen could hay