The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1900-03-29

port: "A fortnight had passed, when
she modestly limited a 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 will always
get the very best price. Ten dollars
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 n 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
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"
Another paragraph: "lIer mortifica-
ton may be imagined when told that
one of the two tive-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
tor In
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 l am not here to dis
cuss, but what would be the effect OF
female suffrage on women's wages? l
do not believe that woman will ever get
justice by woman's ballot. Indeed
women oppress women as much as
men do. Do not women, as much as
men, beat down 10 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 woman asks one dollar
for her work, does not her female en-
ployer ask her il 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. IL woman
steps aside from the path OF rectitude,
man may forgive; woman never.
Woman will never get justice done her
from woman's ballot. Neither will she
Ket it from mans ballot. How then?
God will rise up for her. God has more
resources than we know of.
But there is something forwomen 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 these
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. you
are after awhile called into another
relation, you will be all the better
qualified for il 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 an oak and woman the vine that
climbs IL, but ] have seen many tree
fall that not only went down itself, but
took all the vines with it. / can tell
you of something stronger than an oak
for an ivy to climb on, and that is the
throne of the great Jehovah. Single or
affianced, that woman 10 strong who
leans on God and does her best. Many
Of you will 90 single-handed through
life, and you will have to choose be-
tween two characters. Young woman,
/ am sure you will turn your back upon
the useless, giggling, irresponsible
nonentity which society ignominiously
acknowledges to be q woman and ask
God to make you . humble, active,
earnest Christian. What will become
of that womanly 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