Connecticut western news., 1904-09-08

ty of the worker than Marie An
 toinette had with the suffering5 of poor
 Paris when she heard the cry of the
 mobs: Give us bread! We must have
 bread!' why" said the shallow
 attendants, do they ask for bread:
 If they have no bread, why don't they
 eat cakeW But, while capital in some
 instances may be merciless, it is quite
 certain that if the labor unions will
 stop their petty bickerings and their
 unjustifable tyrannies and unitedly de
 mand what is right capital will bs com
 pelled to yield to all of ldbor's just de
 mands. So long as labor persists in
 making absurd claims just so long
 will labor not only bc refused such de-
 mands, but labor will lose much of
 what she justly and rightfully ought
 to have. When labor union comes
 and says, Capitalist, you must hire the men I send to you ana no others" then the capitalist, stung by such tyr amy, replies: Rather than have you dictate to me what I shall do I will fight your organization to the last dol
 lar. My forefathers died on Bunker
 Hill and at Valley Forge for liberty. Free 1 was born, free I shall live, and steel and Is the inevitable result of such a course of action. This Is the spirit with which capital is today fight ing labor when labor makes absurd and unjust demands.
 But I would speak also in reference to another great af1iiction from which labor today is suffering. I allude not with the foreign hordes, but to that unnatural and ever increasing com petition between our American boys and their American sisters in the la bor market Brothers struggle for bread In competition with sisters; fa- thers compete with their owh daugh- ters. Now, know the few words that I am going to speak will not be popu- lar with some, but what I have to say I hope may be heard patiently and with profit.
 The world, by every law of justice, owes every man, woman and child living, if they are ready to work for it. But God never intended some peo- pie to work for a living in certain ways any more than he intended a colt six months old to do the work W a well developed draft horse. He never young boys and girls to leave school before their time, or wives and daughters to labor as farm hands in the fields, when there are sturdy fa- thers and brothers physically able to bear the brunt of the work under the noontide sun. Yet everywhere we see strong men, ablebodied men who want to 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 q men, ace not only to the American labor market, but to the American home and family. Both must suffer by the sub- 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. It Is there that the qualities with which God has endowed ler find their proper exercise. To De the wife and mother, to make the house home by her sweet and refin- ng influence, to train the children to De good and wise men and virtuous by mothers love and care these are the services she alone can render, and if she deserts that duty 1t will go undone, and this country will
 lose it's moral tone. There Is no com pensation known to man for the lack Dt mothers benef1cent influence on her children
 The Working Woman.
 I 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 SUD- port of her widowed mother and her fatherless brothers and sisters. Many l noble girl Is doing that and deserves to be honored for her conduct. Many l girl unsought II. marriage. seeing her father gradually losing by age his for work, takes up the bur ACA VI bCipAho IO plONluC lOl IhC 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, clinging 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 and fit them for their luty in life. God bless and help all such and give them the strength they need for their arduous lot! 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 ,f another class of women. These are hey who voluntarily and by choice elect to do mans work in the world. In order that they may escape the lrudgery of domestic service or the vearlness of school teaching or In or ANi hV ObNuAh AlOhSy AOl lress and ornament or for luxuries which their fathers cannot provide, hey thrust themselves into business displacing some man who was earning a higher salary, and they lelp to depress the market rate of wages.
 I protest against system which makes it impossible for a strong, able bodied man to find work, forcing him 0 stay at home and live upon his young daughters earnings when they should be at school or help ng their mothers at home. There are ,nly two ways to rectify this evil. Em- ,loyers should hire their employees n two ways. First, when an applicant comes for place give the preference o men who are husbands and fathers | md the heads of families; second, ab- | iolutely refuse to employ any young | girl in a store or factory unless that | young girl is fatherless, brotherless
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