St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-04-14

| paragraph from their report: ~Can
| you make Mr.. Jones pay me? He
owes me for three weeks at $3.50 =
week. and can't get anything. and
! my child is very sick" The speaker,
a young woman lately widowed.
burst into q food of tears as she
| spoke. She was hidden to come again
| the next afternoon and repeat her
story to the attorney nt his usual
weekly hearing Of frauds ard impose
tions. Means were found by which Mr..
Jones was induced to pay the $780,"
Another paragraph from their re-
port: "A fortnight had passed, when
she modestly limited . desire to know
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 win always
get the very best price. Ten dollars
| a.week you will be able to earn very
easily And the girls fingers few on
with her work at a marvellous rate.
The picture Of ten dollars = week had
almost turned her head. A 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 it, for weeks, and then he'll let
you go, and get some other fool!' And
thus Jane Smith gained her warning
against the swindler. But the union
held him in the tolls Of the law until
he paid the worth Of each Of those
days of trial fa
Another paragraphs: "Her mortifica-
ton may be imagined when told that
one Of the two flve-dollar bills which
sAe 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 Protestive
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 eradicated7
Some say: s'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 womenb wages? I
DO not believe that woman viii ever get
justice by womnn's ballot. Indeed
women oppress women as much n
/ 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 milliners and mantua
makers. II q woman asks one dollar
for her work, does not her female em-
ployer ask her il she will not take 90
cents? You'eay: "Only ten cents diff
ference" But that in sometimes the
difference between Heaven apd hell.
Women often have less commiseration
for women than men. If woman
ssteps aside from the path Of rectitude.
man may, forgive; woman never:
Woman win 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 excel
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 its
own standard. Admitting that the law
of supply and demand regulates thes.
things, contend that the demand for
skilled labor is very great and the sup
ply very small. Start with the idea
that work is honorable and that you
can do some one 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 If you are called to stay as
you are you can be happy and self
supporting.
Poets are fond of talking about man
as m oak and woman the vine that
climbs it,. but have seen many . tree
fab that not only went down itself, but
IOOA Al tuC NiHcS WASu-Ats. C0u tCn
you Of something stronger than an oak
for an Ivy to climb on, and that is the
throne Of the great Jehovah. Single or
ahRanced, that woman is strong who
leans ON God and does her best. Many
of you will 90 sin9le-handed through
life. and you will have to choose be-
tween two characters. Young woman,
/ em sure you will turn your back upon
the useless, gigsling, irresponsible
nonentity which society ignominiously
acknowledges to be woman and ask |
God to make you humble, active,
earnest Christian. What will become |
Of that womaply disciple of the world?
She is more thoughtful of the attitude
she strikes upon the carpet than how
she will look in the judgment; more |
worried about her freckles than her |
sins; more interested in her apparel
than in her redemption. The dying |
actress whose life had been vicious
said: ''Tke scene closes. Draw the cur
tain Generally the tragedy comes |
first. and the farce afterward, but in |
her life it was first.the farce Of use.
less life and then the tragedy of
watched eternity. i
Compare the life and death Of such |
a one With that Of some Christian aunt |
that was once q blessing to your house
hold. I do not know that she WAS ever.
asked TO give her hand in. marriage.
She lived single, that.
she:might be everybody's blessing.
Wherever the sick were to be visited or
the poor to be provided with bread she
went.with a blessing. She could pray
or sing: 'Rock of Ages: for any sick
pauper who asked her. As she got old
cf there were days when she was liz
tie sharp, but for the most part auntie
was q sunbeam, just the one for Christ
mas eve. She knew better han anyone
eese how to fix things. Her every prayer,
- God heard it. was full of everybody
who had trouble. The brightest thiags
in all the house dropped from her +
fingers. She had peculiar notions, but
the -grandest notion she ever had was
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