The Washington weekly post., 1900-05-22
Ma, De What she Cau DO " ell.

rent Tor it,
Ma, Do What ~he Can DO Well.
In he course Of q lifetime you con-
rume whole Elrvests and droyeS ~ cattle,
and ev.ry day you live breathe forty
hogsheads of good. pure air. YoI must by
some kind u usefulness paw for All this.
our race VAS the last thing rreaJed-ihe
birds ana fishes .u tha fourth day. TIE
cattle and lizards on the 1fth day. ana
man on the sixth day " =soi1gis-s are
right the ear,k VS. a million years IN
thr p8rses Jon n he Insects. beasts. and
birds before our race came upon it. Ia
ore sense Wo were invaders. The cattle.
the lizards and the hawk had rr,-enp-
tioa right. The question is ugt Shst We
are 10 do with the lizards ana summer in
seCts but what the lizsTiS and summer
insects arc 20 10 with us. IL We want a
place In this WoTi :. We must earn H. Tie
UaTtr.dIa makes his own nest before iJ
occupies g. The Lark by ITS morning song
earns its breakfast before % eats b.. aud
the Bible gives an intimstion tnat the
first duty OF an idlsr is 20 -ta~va when it
says. 'lI he will no, work neither snail he
eat Iilencss ruins the health. and very
soon nature says; This man has refused
10 pay his rent. out with him Society
is TO b. reconstructed on .he subject o.
Woman's toll \ vast majority % these
who would nave woman Industrious shut
her Up 10 a few Kinds OF work. My 5u6g-
ment tn this matter Is that a woman has
a right 10 do anything she can 30 wei
There should be- no department Of rner-
chandiSe, mechanism, art or science bar
red against her. II Miss Hosmar has ger
ius Tor sculpture. give her a chisel II
. IHE4 KIrhaTlr no TETr N
eating animals. let her MAKE The Horse
Fair II Miss Mitchell will study as
/ trOnomy let her mount the starry laddz
7 u Lydia VIII be d merchant. let hcr sell
purple. II LUcretia Mott will preach the
gospel let her thrill with her wOmanly
e!oquence the Quaker meetiug-hOuse.
1t Is SAID, il woman il given such op-
I portunitles. she VIII occupy places that
might be taken by men. / say, q she
/ nave more skill and adaptedness for any
position than man has, let her have IL!
She has as much right To her bread. TO
her apparel. ana TO her home a. men
. have. But II Is said that her nature is so
+ delicate that she il untitled for exhausting
toll ! ask. In the name Of all past his
4 tory. what toll on earth is more severe,
I eXhaus;ing, ard tremendous than that
toll Of the needle TO which for ages she
has been subjected? The battering-ram,
. the sword the carbne. the battle-aX have
made no such havoc as the needle. |
v Ould that these living SeDulcherS in
/ which women have tor ages been buried
/ might be opened. and that some resur-
/ rection trumpet might bring up these liv-
1 ing corpses 10 the fresh air and sunlight.
Injustice 10 Woman Workers.
eco with me and / will show you a
woman who by hardest toll supports her
! children, her drunken husband her old
/ father and mother. pays her house rent,
| always has wholesome food on her table.
I and when she can get some neighbor on
/ the Sabbath 10 come In and take care of
/ her family. appears in church with hat
/ and cloak that are far from indicating the
toll 10 which she is subjected Such a
woman as that has body and soul enough
J 10 fit her for any position She could
/ stand beside the majority OF your sales
men and dispose of more goods. She
+ could 90 into your wheelwrght shops and
/ beat Cne-half of your wOrkmen at making
/ carriages. We talk about women as
though we had resigned TO her all the
light work, and ourselves had shOuldered
| the heavier. But the day of Judgment
. which will reveal the sufferings Of the
. stake and inquisition. will marshal before
the throne OF God and the hierarchs OF
| heaven the martyrs Of wash-tub and
/ needle Now | say. If there be any pref
| erence in occupation, let woman have it
| God knows her trials are the severest
! BY her aCuter SenSitiyeneSS to misfortune
by her hour Of anguish, I demand tha
no one hedge UP her pathway to a liveli
hood. Oh, the meanneSs, the deSpiCability
of men who begrudge a woman the r;gh
TO work anywhere in any honorable call
ing!
'T go still farther and say that woml:
should have equal compensation wit
men. BY what principle of justice is /
that women in many Of our cities get 0Dlr
two-thirds as much pay as men, and i
many cases only half? Here is the gigau
tic injustice-that for work equally well. |
not better done. woman receives far les
compensation than man. Start with III
national government az Washington Tn
less il has been recently chang q. Wome'
clerks i'm the Capital get nine hundred dol
lars for doing that for which m N receiv
eighteen hundred dollars. The wheel &
oppression is rolling over the necks q
thousands of women who are at this mo
ment in despair about what they are {
do Many Of the largest mercantile IS
tablishmentS Of our cities are aCceSSor
to these denominations and from these larg
! establishments there are scores OF s0ui
, being pitched off into death. and thei
r. employers know il. Is there fod
2 VIII there be a Judgment? | tell YOU.
, / God rises up to redress wOman's wrong,
many of our Ia ea establishments viii b
: | swallowed up quic'Eer than South Amer
! / can earthquake ever took down % CITY
a God will catch these oppressorS betW ee
, the two millStOnes Of his wrath and grin
] | them 10 powder.
, Wage Hates Are Unfair.
h ''Whv is il that a female principal in
a school gets only eight hundred and twei
II ty-fve dollars for doing work for whic
r a male principal gets sixteen hundred az
p CITY dollars? ] hear from all this lant III
p vail OF WomanhOod. Man has 10 hirg
u answer 10 that wall but fiattarics. II
l. saws she Is an angel. She is not. 81
e knows she is not She is a human ocin
u who gets hungry when she has no fo1'
e and cold when she has no fire. Give h;
II no more batteries. give her justice, Cd
2, The thousand Of sewing girls. Across Ii
u sunlight comes their death sroan. Ii
) moi such a cry as comes from those WI
y are suddenly hurled out Of Efe, but
- slow grinding, horrible wasting ava
IN Gather them before you ana LOOK mi
II their faces. pinched CHASTITY. hung
u struck Look at their fingers, neeii
Is pricked and blood tipped. See that rr
! mature stoop in the shoulders, Hear th'
m drv. hacking. merciless couch! AT a lar'
is meeting of these women, held in PhIlai7
e. mia grand speeches We're delivered. b
o. \ needle-woman took the stand. thy
. a.ide her faded shawl and with her shri
rs eIcd arm hurled very thuyderbolt Of e!
n ouence speaking out the|horrors Of h
4 own experience.
"Srand at the corner Of a street in son
great CITY at or : o'clock in the morni'
Is As the women so TO work Many of the
r. had no breakfast except the crumbs -
So we're left over from the night before
'c the crumbs they chew OF their WS
ir through the street. Here they come! Il
n working girls Of the cities. These eugaS
T. in bead-work. these in fiOwer-making.
sr millinery in paper-boX making. but, mo
go ovrrworked of all ard least compensatt
al the sewing women. Why 90 they not la
d. the city cars on their way up They ca
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