The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-03-16

how much her services were worth. |
oh, my dear he replied you are get
ting to be one of the most valuable
hands in the trade. You will always
get the very best price. Ten dollars
n week you will be able to earn very
easily And the girls fingers flew on
with her work at marvellous rate.
The picture of ten dollars week had
almost turned her head few nights
later, while crossing the ferry, she
overheard the name of her employer
in the conversation of girls who stood
near: What. John Snipes? Why, he
don't pay! Look out for him every
time. He'll keep you on trial, as he
calls II, for weeks, and then he'll let
You go, and get some other fooll' And
thus Jane Smith gained her warning
against the swindler. But the union
held him i'm the tolls of the law until
he paid the worth of each of those
days of trial "
Another paragraph: "IIer mortifica-
ton may be imagined when told that
one of the two five-dollar bills which
she had Just received for her work was
counterfeit. But her modification
was swallowed up with Indignation
when her employer denied having paid
her the money and insultingly asked
her to prove it. When the Protective
union had placed this matter in the
courts, the Judge said: You will pay
Eleanor the amount of her claim, $3.50,
and also the costs of the court"
How are these evils to be eradicated?
Some say: Give woman the ballot"
What effect such ballot might have on
other questions ] am not here to dis
cuss, but what would be the effect of
female suffrage on women's wages? !
| do not believe that woman will ever get
| Justice by woman's ballot. Indeed
women Cypress women as much as
| men do. DO not women. as much as
men, beat down TO the lowest figure
the woman who sews for them? Are
not women as sharp as men on washer
women and mlliners and mantua
makers. If n woman asks one dollar
for her work. does not her female en-
| ployer ask her if she will not take 90
cents? You say: "Only ten cents diff
| ference" But that is sometimes the
| difference between Heaven and hell.
| Women often have less commiseration
| for women than men. If woman
steps aside from the path of rechtude,
man may forgive; woman never.
Woman will never get justice done her
from woman's ballot. Neither will she
get it from mans ballot. How then
God will rise up for her. God has more
resources than we know of.
But there is something for women to
do. Let young people prepare TO exec
in spheres of work, and they will be
able after awhile TO get larger wages
Unskilled and incompetent labor must
take what is given skilled and com.
petent labor will eventually make lis
own standard. Admitting that the law
OF supply and demand regulates these
things, | contend that the demand fol
skilled labor is very great and the sup
ply very small. Start with the ideG
that work is honorable and that yor
can do some ono thing better than any
body else. Resolve that. God helping
you will take care of yourself. II you
are after awhile called into another
relation, you will be all the better
qualified for it by your spirit of self
reliance, or IL you are called to stay n
you are you can be happy and self
supporting.
Poets are fond of talking about mar
as an oak and woman the vine tina
climbs It, but ! have seen many tire,
fall that not only went down itself, bu
took all the vines with it. | can tel
you of something stronger than an oal
for an ivy to climb on, and that is thu
throne of the great Jehovah. Single ol
atlianced, that woman is strong wht
leans on God and does her best. Man,
of you will go single-handed through
life, and you will have TO choose be
tween two characters. Young woman
am sure you will turn your back upol
the useless, giggling, irresponsible
nonentity which society ignominiousl,
acknowledges TO be woman and asl
God to make you a humble, active
earnest Christian. What will become
of that womanly disciple of the world
She is more thoughtful of the attitud
she strikes upon the carpet than hov
she will look in the judgments; NOR
worried about her freclles than he
sins; more interested in her apparc
than in her redemption. The dying
actress whose life had been viciou
said: THE scene closes. Draw the cur
tain Generally the tragedy come
first and the farce afterward, but /,
her life it was first the farce of use
less life and then the tragedy OF
wretched eternity.
Compare the life and death of sucl
n one with that of some Christian aun
that was once a blessing to your house
hold. | do not know that she was eve
asked to give her hand in marriage
She lived single, that, untrammelec
she might be everybody's blessing
= Whenever the sick were to be visited o
the poor to be provided with bread sh
went with blessing. She could pra