The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-18

women when they perform equal service
with men. By reducing the labor supply.
as INDICATED above, an opportunity would
be given for effective work in that he
half. plead the cause of the women who
must work for their self-support I in
slst that wages Of 81 and So per week.
nothing less than a gross iniquity.
Labor organization. for which women
nave thus far. shown a singular incapa-
CITY, would do much in this cause.
man says to me: THAT Young woman
costs me $40 a month as bookkeeper: /
9seo 10 pay a man So, and declare
t Eee ai Hir Just as well" Do you? Well
TINS girl SHOULD be paid by the standard
Oh availability and service. rather than
py the pltiful standard of her needs and
your parsimony ON"
FAMILY THEN THE UNIT.
But what would be the effect of equal
wages for the same service by men and
women? 1t would substitute the family
STANDARD of wages for the individual
9Ia1dard toward which women labor now
tenus. linen where men are really more
eitncIeht. they would be employed and
tney would not be turned out of their
pi SrLI SIMPLY because woman is cheaper
ms brings me to certain Fundamental
question in this whole matter. ThosS
VINO argue for the free labor Of women
Wlthoqt CONDITION, do so upon the theory
mat the Individual Is the unit of society.
indeed. nearly all the new woman" talk
is based upon that position The new
recon that Is sighed for is an absolute
individuality. On the contrary. I hold
that the family is the unit of societyI
that whatever helps the family serves
tthe state. and whatever assaults the fam
tig IS pubic danger. L am arguing in
Ge1ehse or woman when | argue for the
LIMITATION OF her public labor Less than
~ per cent of American families emDIov
Qodlestc heip. 1t is among these families
6nat the girl working women are found,
Inc girls having displaced fathers and
protherS IN earning capacity, leave in the
morning mo- for their tasks The woman OF
the house. who needs their help i'm ths
nome. must toll all hours like a drudge
ana THIS too. during those years of mid
uslilse ne when most of all she needs con-
De peter II father and brother had work
at hlgher wages and the mother had the
assistance OF the daughters at home?
30 pGt the assault upon the home Is one
oL the cnlef results of all this new phil
osophy. The Madonna. with her own
f iu IN her own arms, has been de-
Inroned to make room for the public
woman who is saving society at large
WINE her own husband and children are
suILeflng for her love and care I am
SUI sSa aoid-fashioned enough to think that
er claims upon married women than
9Ither social pleasures or public concerns.
Durlng all this period OF the invasion OF
women into business. the home has he
come more and more a thing of con-
VenIence rather than holy service Dr.
Norce. which was once unusual and on
convenient anu
-, The family is the social unit; it is also
me economic unit, and ought to furnish
the standard of wages.
Not every movement in society is either
safe a or final Nor is any civilization sure
or perpetuity. The length of its life de-
Ponds upon its virtue and it's Vigilance
When the Greeks chose Aspasia, the
female philosopher. rather than Penelope,
lhe Vlrtuous wife, as their heroine II
was not the reinforcement of Peneione
alone but the doom of Greece