The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1904-11-25

daughters TO labor as farm hands In
the fields, when there are sturdy IA
theirs and brothers physically able TO
bear the brunt OF the work under the
noOntlde sun. Yet everywhere we see
strong men, ablebOdied men who want
10 work and yet who are unable to
find employment because the work that
they should do Is being done by women
who ought to be at home caring for
the household. This condition Is a men
ace not only TO the American labor
market, but 10 the American home and
family. Both must suffer by the sub
stitutiOn of women and girls for men
and boys in the factories and stores Of
our land. The natural place for wo-
man is the home. IL Is there that the
qualities with which God has endowed
her find their proper exercise. To
be the wife and mother, 10 make the
house a home by her sweet and refin-
ing influence, to train the children to
be good and wise men and yirtuous
women by a mothers love and care
these are the services she alone can
render, and II she deserts that duty It
will 90 undone, and this country will
lose its moral tone. There is no com
pensation known to man for the lack
Of a mothers benefcent influence on
her children.
/ yield TO no man in my admiration
for the girl who, being left fatherless
and having no brothers capable Of
earning a livelihood for the bereaved
family. goes forth to toll for the sup
port Of her widowed mother and her
fatherless brothers and sisters. Many
a noble girl Is doing that and deserves
to be honored for her conduct Many
a girl unsought In marriage, seeing her
father gradually losing by age his
capacity for work, takes up the bur
den Of helping to provide for the
family which he is no longer able to
bear alone. All honor TO her for the
assistance she is rendering, and for
the sympathy and reverence for her
parents which she displays In reliev-
ing them Of care and anxiety Many a
widow, clinglng to her children and
shrinking from the pain OF having
them scattered in the charitable homes
Of relatives or friends, finds employ
ment by which she can support and
educate them aud At them for their
duty in life. God bless and help all
such and give them the strength they
need for their arduous lott They should
have our hearty sympathy and our
cordial help in their self sacrificing
labor.
But the spectacle Of what such wom-
en- are doing has stirred the ambition
Of another class Of women. These are
they who voluntarily and by choice
elect TO do a mans work in the world.
In order that they may escape the
drudgery Of domestic service or the
weariness Of school teaching or In or
der to obtain money for eXtravagant
dress and ornament or for luxuries
which their fathers cannot provide,
they thrust themselves into business
pursuits, displacing some man who
was earning a higher salary. and they
help to depress the market rate Of
wages.
protest against system which
makes it impossible for a strong, able
bodied man TO find work, forcing him
to stay at home and live upon his
young daughters earnings when they
themselves should be at school or help
ing their mothers at home. There are
only two ways to rectify this evil EN-
ployers should hire their employees
in two ways First, when an applicant
comes for a place give the preference
to men who are husbands and fathers
and the heads Of families; second, alb
solutely refuse to employ any young
girl in a store or factory unless that
young girl Is fatherless, brotherless
and has others dependent upon her for
support. II Is high time that some Of
our female clerks who are working in
stores for a little extra spending money
should 90 back to their homes and
domestically help to care for their
mothers and fathers and younger sis
ter and brothers, where they belong.
The Affections Of the industrial work
ers Of America are very great. Indeed,
| sometimes think they are about as
badly of in America today as were the
Israellties in the Egyptian capital over
three thousand years ago. In a blunt
way / have tried to present three or
four Of the difficult labor problems
which confront the laboring classes Of
America at the present time. Do not,
however, even for a moment suppose
that consider these problems and 9TH
ers like them impossible Of solution.
The same God who led the children Of
Israel out OF their enslavement will yet
lead his American children TO freedom
from their industrial troubles.
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