Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-22

and because of the places OF vice wide
open on the Sabbath day. and for a
thousand other reasons which appeal
TO men and women who are seeking for
tho best good of our noble state, this
pulpit pleads for a. Sunday law en-
forced in California, and protests
against the multiplied forms of Sab
bath dissertation that are now making
our country an abominajon in the sight
of God and an offense as a Christian
nation.
Quotes Personal Letter
"Apropos of the serious question of
working on Sunday L have received the
following letter:
LOS Angeles, March /, 1909.
CDR Locke
Dear Sir--I have heard you preach
about what Christ would do il he should
come to Los Angeles. Now, / want
to ask you If Christ would allow poor
working girls, or rather, ould he al
low Goddess managers to compel girls
to work on Sunday, so they are in no
condition to go to church on Sunday?
"'There are girls in this store who
want to go to church and try and live
better lives, but for fear they viii lose
their positions are compelled to do as
the manager of their department says
they must do.
Cant you help us by preaching a
| sermon on working on Sundays? |,
with several other girls, am unfortu-
nate enough to have to work In depart
ments where our managers never go
to church. but go to ---- etc.
Now, | am afraid to sign my name
to this. If they knew 1t / would lose
my position, but / am writing for other
girls also. Now, doctor, help us!'
Il am glad to receive and read this
letter, and shall do anything in my
power to relieve these business girls of
this despotic imposition. For these
working girls to be forced to labor
seven days in the week is nothing shor;
of slavery, and should not be tolerated
in these modern days of freedom. These
young women are practically at the
mercy of these merciless managers,
and should in body make an appeal
to the proprietors in order that this
medieval injustice should be corrected.
l cannot believe that there are any OF
the masterful men who own the great
department stores in this city who will
not be willing to accede to the request
of these oppressed young women.
To Work Is No Disgrace
Graceful Lydia in the New Tesla
ment was business woman. Often
from necessity, If never from prefer
ence, some woman will be compelled 20
enter the realm of business. A woman
is no less entitled to the gallant de-
Tense and consideration of men because
she is required to go out into the world
and earn livelihood. There is nothing
in business itself more than in the home
duties, or the round of social obliga-
tions, to lessen those gracious qualities
which make good woman the most
ennobling influence In the world. If a
girl, to care properly for herself and for
those dependent upon her, must enter
the arena of business she deserves all
the protection and courtesies which
she would expect to receive If kinder
fortune permitted her to live In the
shelter of her home under the protection
of father or brother.
zone of the outrageS committed to-
day is the low wage for which these
noble, Industrious, self-sacrificing
young women are compelled to work,
and it is but adding insult to injury to
practice the tyranny of the slave-driv-
er's lash by requiring these already
overworked and underpaid daughters
of liberty to work seven days in a
week.
"These young women have my SINGER
est sympathy. They are right in pro-
testing against these truly un-Ameri-
can conditions. 1t is pity they can
not organize themselves together for
mutual protection. They should be
better paid, and they could be If the
patrons of the stores were willing to
pay a trif1e more for all commodities.
1t is the avaricious public, ever in the
delirium of running after bargains and
striving to get something for nothing,
which is to blame for all these condi-
tons
Live and let live is an old motto
in business which should be revived.
Nobody ever succeeded in getting what
did not belong to him that some other
human being did not suffer on account
of the injustice perpetrated.'