Connecticut western news., 1900-03-15

ey wherewith to buy the chair. You may with delicate brush beautify a mantel ornament but die rather than earn enough to buy a marble mantel. You may learn artistic music until you can squall Italian. but never sing Or lonville" or ''Old Hundredth." Do noth- ing practical if you would in the eyes of refined society preserve your re- spectability. l scout these finical no ,ions. l tell you n woman. no more than man, has right to occupy a place in this world unless she pays a rent for it.
 Work Necessary.
 In the course of d lifetime you con sume whole harvests and droves of cattle and every day you live breathe 10 hogsheads of good, pure air. You must by some kind of usefulness pay for all this. Our race was the last the fourth day, the cattle and lizards on the fifth day and man on the sixth day. If geologists are right, the earth was n million of years in the posses sion of the insects, beasts and birds before our race came upon 1t. In one sense we were invaders. The cattle, the lizards and the hawks had pre- emption right The question Is not what we are to do with the lizards and summer insects, but what the lizards and summer insects are to do with us. If we want a place In this world, we must earn it. The partridge makes its own nest before it occupies 1t. The lark by its morning song earns it's breakfast before 1t eats 1t, and the Bible gives an intimation that the first duty of an idler Is to starve when 1t says, If he will not work, neither shall he eat" likeness ruins the health, and very soon nature says: This man has refused to pay his rent. Out with him." Society is to be reconstructed on the subject of woman's toil A vast majority of those who would have wo- man industrious shut her up to few kinds of work. My judgment in this matter is that q woman has a right to do anything she can do well. There should be no department of merchan. disc, mechanism. art or science barred against her If Miss Hosmer has genius for sculpture, give her chisel. If Rosa Bonheur has fondness for delineating animals, let her make "The Horse Fair If Miss Mitchell will study astronomy. let her mount the starry ladder. If Lydia will be mer chant, let her sell purple. If Lucretia Mott will preach the gospel let her thrill with her womanly eloquence the Quaker meeting house.
 It is said if Woman is given such op- portunties she will occupy places that might be taken by men. 1 say, if she have more skill and adaptedness for any position than man has, let her have it. She has as much right to her bread, to her apparel and to her home as men have. But it is said that her nature is so delicate that she is un- fitted for cXhausting toll. I ask in the name of all past history what toll on earth is more severe, eXhausting and tremendous than that toll of the nee dle to which for ages she has been sub jected? The battering ram, the sword, the carbine, the battleax, have made uO SUCH lldNOC ut httuAC. NoulNi that these living scpulchers in which women have for ages been buried might be opened and that some resur- rection trumpet might bring up these living corpses in the fresh air and sun light
 A Woman's Right.
 Go with me, and I will show you a xryho hu bn oil : her children, her drunken husband. her old father and mother, pays her house rent, always has wholesome food on her table and when she can get some neighbor on the Sabbath to come in and take care of her family appears In church with hat and cloak that are far from indicating the toll to which she is subjected. Such a wo. man as that has body and soul enough to fit her for any position. She could stand beside the majority of youi salesmen and dispose of more goods She could go into your wheelwright shops and beat one-half of your work men at making carriages. We tall about women as though we had resign ed to her all the light work and our selves had shouldered the heavier. Btu the day of judgment, which will revea the sufferings of the stake and in quisition, will marshal before tho throne of God and the hierarchs o1 heaven the martyrs of washtub anC needle. Now, I say if there be any preference in occupation let woman have 1t. God knows her trials are tht
 severest. By her acuter sensitivenes!
 to misfortune, by her hour of anguish
 demand that no one hedge up he
 pathway to a livelihood. Oh, the mean
 ness, the despIcabiIity of men who be grudge woman the right to worl anywhere in any honorable calling! 1 go still further and say that wo
 man should have equal compensation
 with men. By what principle of jus
 tice is 1t that women In many of ou cities get only two-thirds as much pa,
 as men and in many cases only half
 Here Is the gigantic injustice-t fo
 work equally we'll if not better don, woman receives far less compensation l than man. Start with the nationa | government. Women clerks in Wash ington get 5000 for doing that fo | which men receive S1,S00. The whee
 of oppression is rolling over the neck
 of thousands of women who are at thi | moment in despair about what the. are to do. Many of the largest mer | cantile establishments of our cities arr
 accessory to these abominations, an, | from their large establishments ther
 are scores of souls being pitched of
 into death, and their employers know | it. Is there God? Will there be | judgment? I tell you if God rises III l to redress woman's wrongs many o
 our large establishments will be swal
 lowed up quicker than South Ameri
 can earthquake ever took down a city God will catch these oppressors be | tween the two millstones of his wratl
 and grind them to powder.
 Wholly Uniust