The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1900-04-14


serve your responsibility. | scout these
| hnica. notious ! tell You IL woman. no
| more than II man. has u rj-ht (" occupy :,
place in this world Hutes- She pays a rent
| TOR it.
In the course or a lifetime YOU consume
| whole harEe-ts and droVr> Of cattle Hai
| every d1v Won live breathe forty hp-hrad-
! Of good. pure air loH must ~ SOM linz
| OF use,uit"-s pas lor all This. Olr rarr
was til" last thiu2 created II hrt- auf
! t'eh"s on til" fuurth day the rAt!l. aH.I
| liar j. 90: t." 'if'h day s.nt Wa. on tIr
! ,lHtt dtr II g"ci3-;i-t, ur- r.-t' tic
! tHriu Wa q H.lt,irn a. N".r- in tJo lu~-s
| s'on VI tbe insects br:..t~ ~ rod- t".1t f
our race came upon it. In sne sense we
were invaders. The cattle. the lizards and
! the hawks had preenption right. The
/. question is not what we are to DO with the
/ lizards and summer insects, but what the
| lizards ant summer insects are TO do wit b
Us. II We wait u place in this world, ws
! must earn It, The partridge makes its
own nest before it occupies it, The
lark BY It's morning song earns its
breakfast before 1t eats it, and the
Bible gives an intimation that the first
duty OF an idler IS to starve when it
say7, III he will not work, neither
shall he eat" Idleness ruins the hoalth,
and very soon nature says: This man has
refused 10 pay his rent. Ont with him.
| Society is to be reconstructed on tho sub.
Iect OF woman's toll. A vast maj orty OF
those who would have woman Industrious
shut her UP to a few kinds OF work nv
judgment in this matter Is that q woman
has a rght to do anything she can do we'll
There should be no department o; mer-
chGnli,e, mechanism, art or science barred
against her. II Miss HOsmer has genius
ior sculpture, giva her n chisel If Rosa
Gonheur has a iondness for delineattns
animals, let her make THE Horse Fair"
II Miss Mitchell will study astronomy, let
Der mount the starry ladder. II Lydia
will be merchant. let her sell purple. II
LucrMia Mott will preach the gospel, let
her thrill with her womanly eloqGence tue
Quaker meeting house.
1t is said II woman is given such oppor-
tInities she will occupy places that might
be taker. by men. | say, II she have more
skill and adApteiuess for any position than
4 man has. let her have it. She has "a
much right to her bread, to her apparel
and to her home rs men have. But it is
said that her nature is so delicate that she
is untitled for exhaustin5 toll. l ask In the
name OF all past history what toll on earth
Il more severe, exhausting and tremen-
dous than that toll OF the needle to which
5or ages she has been subjected? The bat
terins ram, the sword, the carbine, the
battieax have made no such havoc as the
chres In which women have for ages been
buried might be opened and that some re-
surrectiOn trumpet might bring up these
living corpses In the fresh air and sunlight.
Go with me, and will show you wom-
an who by hardest toll supports her chill
iren, her drunken hust and, her old father
ana mother, pays her house rent, always
has wholesome food on her table and when
she can get some neichbor on the Sabbath
to come In and take care OF her family ap'
pears In church with hat and cloak that
are far from indicating the toll to which
She Is subjected. Such n woman az that
has body and soul enough to 1T her for any
position. She could stand beside the ma
jorty Of your statesmen and dispose OF more
goods. She could go into your wheel
wright shops aud beat half OF your
workmen at making carriages We talk
about woman "a though We had resigned
to her all the light work AMI our
selves had shouldered the heavier. But
the day Of Judgment, which will reveal the
sufferings Of the stake and inqui5ition, will
marshal before the throne OF God and the
herarchs OF heaven the martyrs OF wash
tub and needle. Now, l say il there be any
preference in occupation let woman have
L. God knows her trials are the severest.
BY her acuter sensitiveness to misfortune,
by her hour OF anguish, 1 demand that no
ore hedge up her pathway to a livelihood.
On. the meanness the desDlcability CT men
who begrudge woman the right to WORK
anywhere in any honorable calling!
go still further ani say that woman
should have equal compensation with men.
BY what principle OF justice is 1t that
women in many OF our cities get only two
thirds rs much pay rs men and In many !
cases only half? Here is the gigantic iDju- .
tice-that for work equally we'll X not better !
done woman receives far less "Ompensa- !
Government. Women clerks In Washing I
ton get 500 tor doing that for which |
men receive $500. The wheel OF OPP |
preston is rolling over the necks OF !
thousands OF women who are at this I
moment in despair about what they are to /
do. Many OF the largest mercantile estab-
!ishments Of our cities are accessory to |
these abominatiOna, and from their large
establishments there are scores OF souls
being pitched off into death, and their en-
ployer. know it. Is there God? Will |
there be a iudGment2 ] tell you IL God |
rises up TO redress woman's wrongs many |
of our large establishments will be swal-
lowed up quicker than a South American
earthquake ever took down city. God |
will catch these Oppressors between tho |
two millsto0es OF His wrath and grind
them 50 powder.
Why is it that a female principal in u
schoo! gets only 1926 for doing work for
which male principal gets 1850? l hear
from ali this land the wall OF womanhood.
Man has nothing to answer to that wall
Int batteries He says she is IA angel |
She is not. She knows she is not. She Is
Il human being who gets hungry when she |
has no food q. ! cold when she has no fire. !
Give her no more batteries; give her |
Justice! Oh, the thousand OF sewing |
girls Across the sunlight comes their |
death groa.. It is not such cry as |
comes from. those who are suddenly
hurled out OF life, but SLOW, grind
ing, horrible wasting away. Gather
them before you and look into their faces,
pinche |, ghastly, hunger struck Look at
their fingers, needle-pricked and blood
tipped! See that premature stoop in the
shoulders Hear that dry, hacking, merc-
iess cough! At Il large meeting OF these |
won en- held in Philadelphia grand speeches |
were delivered, but needlewoman took |
the stand, threw aside her faded shawl, |
and with her shrlvelei arm hurled very |,
OF eioquence. speaking out the |
horrors of her own experience.
Stand at the corner OF 4 street in some |
great city at 6or7 o'clock in the morning
as the women go to work, Many OF them
had no breakfast except the crumbs that |
were left over from the night before or the !
crumbs they chew on their way through |
the street. Here they come! The working |
girls of the cities These engaged in bead
work, these In flower making, in millinery,
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