Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1900-03-29
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the hawks had preem ption ria BIT. Tht
question Is not what we are to do with the
lizards and summer ~insects. but = hat the
lizards anc summer insects are to 10 With
us. II We want q place in this vi rid. va
must earn it. The partridge makes ito
own nest before it occupies it. The
lark by its morning song earns is
breakfast be.ore it eats it, and the
Bible gives an intimatioa that the first
duty Of an idler is to starve when IL
says, "lt he will not work, neither
shall be eat" Idleuess ruins ,he health,
and very soon nature says: This man has
refused to pay his rent. Out with hirn.'
Society is TO be reconstructed on the sub.
iect OF wouan's toll. 4 vast majority OF
those who would have woman Industrious
SHUT her up 70 a few kinds OF work. My
judgment II this matter is that q woman
has q right to do anything she can do well.
There should be no department Of Ener-
chaudlse. mechanism, art or science barred
against her. II Miss fi0sner has genius
for sculpture, give her a chfsel. II Rosa
Bonheur has 4 fcudaeas for deiin-atiug
animals. let her make The Horse Fair
If Miss Mitchell will study astronomy. let
her mount the starry ladder. l: Lydia
will be a merchant, let her sell purple. II
Lucretia Mott will preach the gospel, les
her thrill with her womanly e.o4.ence tue
QuaEer meeting house.
It is saidrif woman Is given such oppor-
tanities she will occupy places that mig 1T
be taken by men. Isay, IL she have more
skill and ndapsedness for any position than
a man has, let her have l.. She has as
mueh right to her bread. to her apparel
and to her home AS men have. Bat 1t is
said that her nature is 50 delicate that she
ia untitled for exiausting toll. l ask in the
name Of all past history what toll on eautL
il more severe. ex!,austing and tremen-
dous than that toll OF the needle to which,
for ages she has been subjected? The bat
tering ranl. the sword, the earbine, the
battleaX, have made no such havoc as the
needle. I wouid that these living sepul-
I chres il which women have for ages been
buried might lie opened and that some RS
surrcction trumpet might bring up these
living corpses ia the fresh air and sunlight.
Go with me-, and | will show you Il wom-
an who by hardest toll supports her chill
dran, 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 neighb0r on the Sabbath
to acme in and take care OF her family APP
rcsrs in church with hat and cloak that
are far from Indicating the toll to which
she is subjected. Such Il woman as that
has body and soul enough to ft her Tor any
position. She could stand beside the ma
iority CT yoursa!esmen and dispose OF moro
! goods. She could 90 iuto yonr wheel
wright shops and beat one-ha!f or yonr
worhnon at making carriages. We tax
about woman as though we had resigned
to her all the light work and our
selves had stouliered the heavier. But
the day OF Judgment, which viii reveal the
sutferings Of the stake and in0uis!tIon, Will
marshal before the throne OF God aud the
hierarchs Of heaven the martyrs OF wash
tub and needle. Now l say il there be any
preference in Cccu patton let woman have
It. God knows her triais are the severeSt.
Bv her acU.er constituencies to misfortune,
by her hour Of anguish, | demand that no
one hedge up her pathway to Il livelihood.
Oh, the meanness, the .despicabilitY Of mon
who beyrudge Il woman the right to WORK
anywhere in any honorable calling!
20 still further and 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 wo-
thirds rs much pay rs men and in many
cases only half? Here is the gigantic injI.
tice-that for WORK equally we'll il not better
lone Wouan receives far less colnpensa-
ton than man. Start with the National
Government. Women clerks in Washing
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
moment in despair about what they ara TO
do. Many OF the largest mercantile estab-
ishmcrts OF our cities are accessory to
these denominations, and from their largo
establishments there are scores OF souls
being pitched off into death. and their en-
ploytrs know it.. Is there u God? Will
there be Il Judgment: tell you IL God
rises up to redress wOmanS wrongs many
Of our lurge establishments will be swal.
lowed up quicker than Il South American
earthquake ever took down ~ city. God
will catch these oppressors between the
two miilstones Of HIS wrath and grind
them so powder.
Why il il that n female principal in a
school gets only 1925 for dom: work for
w.iich Il male principal gets $3.50? l hear
from all this land the wall OF ~woma-hOo1.
Man his nothing to answer to that vail
but batteries. He says SHE is an angel.
She IS not. She knows she is not. She Is
n human being who gets hungry when she
has no food and cold when she has no fire.
Give her no more flatteries: give her
IN tiee. Oh. the thousand Of sowing
glrisi Across the sunlight comes their
death groan. It is not such a cry az
comes from those who are suddenly
hurled out Of life, but a slow, grind
ing, horrible wasting away. Gather
them before you and look into their faces
pincke1, ghastiy. hunger struck, Look at
their fingers, needle1pricked and blood
tipped! See that premature stOop in the
shoulders. Hear that dry, hacking, merci'
less cough! At st large meeting OF these
women held in Philadelphia grand speeches
were delivered, but a ntedleWoman toO6
Nio cttAitts AAA1N "'~ @N' "
ard with her shrivelei arm hurled a very
thunderbo!t Of eloquence, speaking cut the
horrors OF her own experience.
Stand at tha corner Of q stfaet IN some
great city at 8 or ! O'Clock in the morning
, rs the women go to work. May OF them
bad no breakfast except the crumbs thai
We're lett over from the night before or the
crumbs they chew on their way through
the street. they come. The WORKING
girls of the cities. These engaged in bead
, work, these in Hover making, in millinery
!. in paper box making, but, most oyerTorl
: OF ali and least compensated, the sewine
!, women. Why do they not take the cit.
cars on their way up? They cannot nfor,
the Ave cents. Ii, concluding to deny her
I SELF something else. she gets into the chr
: give her Il seat. You want to see how La i
, mer and Ridley appeared In the fire. Loo
! at that woman and behold u more horripi
, martyriom, IA hotter fire. Il more agoniz
r ing death. AK that woman how nue.
she gets for her work. and she will tell yo1
> six ceuts for making coarse shirts aud fud
: her own elread.
? Years ago one Sabbath night In the vest'
buie u our church after service a woaa
: fell in commissions. The doctor said sh
: needed medicine not so murk AS som.