Arizona republican., 1903-07-18

mas DlOcked progress m every uifectlOD from the beginning.
 1 Woman. however. has at last become a potent factor in nearly all the in- dustries. Not only that, she has dem | onstrated her ability to hold her place in them. bring substantial returns to her employers and earn compensation for herself. There is no favoritism. It is purely a question of brains and capability. Not all women, of course, are fitted for a strenuous business life. Nor are all men so fitted. This is shown by the immense number of men who fail who reaching a certain point or level. remain there stationary. then slip, go down and disappear. Possibly it will be the same with the business woman who is now forging to the front. but the probabilities of marked success are for many reasons greater in her case than in that of men. First of all, the moral nature of the male sex is weaker. Under no restraint | whatever, except that which prudence and common sense dictate, temptation | finds in him a far readier subject for | her allurements and pitfalls, and the downward slide, imperceptible at first. ! becomes at length irresistible. Women on the other hand may be said to be immune against the great majority of | these perils, the breakers upon which so many business careers are wrecked. Her sex is a panoply against them. | Commercial pursuits does not enamel | pate her from the social code that enacts what she may or may not do. | So far from that, they impose, if possi- ble. a more rigorous observance of It's mandates. The very independence she has assumed makes incumbent upon her greater circumspection than her | sisters, whose paths lie within the metes and bounds of the purely domes- 1 tic duties are compelled to observe. All | this tends to develop strength and character without the loss of any fem | mine quality whatever. These quail ties, thus acquired. command deference respect. admiration the admiration that intellect invariably receives as a | tribute due it. No wonder that in many departments of modern business women are supplanting men and for their services obtaining equal finacial | compensation with them.
 Women are winning in business for the reason that they have prepared themselves as thoroughly as they can for the work they undertake. When l Ni4t1 SCGh CiiiplOEHlt III any llilc, ] mean the serious. sensible women, they go not with a petition tc be allowed to ;ry. that they can learn and will dc their best That sort of entreaty does moi weigh with business men in these days. and women who mean to sue ceed know it. They gC with proofs or credentials of some kind or another showing their capability They pre- sent diplomas or certificates from in- stitutions which prove the truth oi their assertions. Rejection under cir cumstances of this character is rare They get the chance. and, as results show. the percentage of failure is small. Another thirs in their 1ayol ic tile specialization of business every where at the present time. It zoe: without saying that there are many branches of it to which women are naturally better adapted than men and in which the training being equal the women must perforce be more sue cesful than her brother. That is what is carrying her onward to victory. The great captains of industry see and realize it. The conflicts of competition in which they are engaged require that the battle shall be fought out with the best instrumentalities available, unless they desire to run the chance of defeat and ruin. In the old days the young woman of thirty who had not married saw dreary prospect before her. Nc matter what her ability was she could not find employment for it except along very contracted lines which starved out all the aspiration in her. For wo- men of this class the new century is rapidly becoming a golden age. It has place and opportunity, ample reward for them in nearly all the great acti- vities of life, if the brains and the adequate preparation are in evidence No door is closed against woman. Nc field whatever is exclusively occupied by man, at least no field whose pos session is worth having. Those who deplore it all as a terrible revolution can never set backward the hands on the clock. Woman has come into busi- ness to stay and to conquer.-Phineas Fletcher.