The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1905-11-24
TRIBUTE TO AMERICAN WOMAN
Who Is Taking the Place of Nan in
labor, in Profession and
in Politics.
BY PETER STANLEY.

ldOOreT, dS PROFESSIONALISM. dS
business manager of large
it is possible that: within
the next half century she vii: Control
the American government.
This is broad statement, but there
is plenty of reality to back it up.
That she is fast forging herself TO the
front ranks of the business world is
evidenced evervwhere,san the great
success she has attained within the
past few years in this direction has
been the result of her own personal
worth, and in the very face of much
opposition and criticism from the
stronger Sex.
Possibly it was the Uniteds::States
poStOftice department TO first recog-
nize her distinguished ability over
man TO do a thing right every day in
the year and in sstrict. accordance
with regulations If she has a ''blue
day" she does mott resort to wine,
cards, clubs, cigars, and day aoff"
with dog and gun, regardless of the
welfare of her business. But, with a
heavy heart and eyes bedimmed with
tears. she works until her road of
duty leads through gardens of ever
blooming flowers again. The result
of this is that she is found in nearly
every postoffice in the United States
today.
The next largest institution-the
great American system of railways
follows closely behind :the postoffice
department in recognizing the worth
of the American woman, and in their
places of business where responsible
ity is demanded--w where the safety OF
lives and property depend. upon the
carefulness and the business judg-
ment of the employee the little bright
eyed beauty in bonnets and skirts is
rapidly taking the places of young
men whose irregular habitssand dis
sipation lead them to neglect and
carelesSness.
And today a mercantile establish
ment is scarcely recognized as being
complete without the addition OF a
sdieSWoman.
A lady has recently been appointed
TO fill the cIerkship of a county in
Florida made vacant by the death of
her husband-the only one in the
state filling a county office by actual
appointment
The editor of the Ocala Banner-a
gentleman recognized throughout the
state in which he lives as d distin-
guished Judge of the actual conditions
of affairs--has seen fit recently to en-
courage girls TO learn the mechanical
art OF newspaper business.
And why?
Because they can be relied upon to
a degree of safety and satisfaction, a
fact which always guarantees en-
ployment and the very highest wages
that can be afforded.
Beginning at the mechanical end Of
the business they will accomplish a
thorough knowledge OF it land one
day assume entire management-the
safest and surest right-of-way TO flu
ture government control.
The American business woman is
one of the great powers of the future.
She does not wilfully waste her mon
ey. but saves it. And every dollar
represents one point of power; and
but for the DIRE ad expense, with many
of them, of being bound to a WORTH
less man, they would have attained
power in this respect much faster.
And, furthermore, had it not been
for the very unreasonable G opposition
of men to woman's attempts to rise
in the business world. in the profes-
sional world, and in the enobling
things that create honor. wealth and
distinction, the American woman
would have stood even much higher
today than she does.
But, God bless her, she has outlived
that opposition, and now we tip our
hats at almost the entire business
world, because there is woman
there.
Goes to MonticeIIo to Seek Quiet.