The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-14

look ut the faces OF tic working
people met on the streets to know
whethsr they belonged to the co-opcr-
alive society (called there the so-
l'claltsts) or to tho slaves of the
monarchy.
The only happy looking laborers to
pc met IN Flanders or in BRUSSELS wcro
tnese people who had begun, just as
inc shirtwaist strikers began, de-
mandins justice and fair play.
me blouse of the 8PcoplcN
In BRUSSELS the famous House OF
me People was started BY striking
!aoo1ers, and every year y grows
moro and more prosperous n tho
bers.
Ono canno help wishing that the
young women who nave taken their.
brave stand In the shirtwaist Industry
might be enabled to establish a CO.
operative society and begin the manu-
facture or shirtwaists indepeldent OF
their employers.
with the right guidance and d,rec.
ton they could make an epoch in the
industrial world, IL they formed a CO..
Operative Organization now. while pub,
lie sentiment is awakened on the sub
jcct.
Cooperation must take the place
OF competition before these questions
can be settled.
The hour has struck for great
changes In our Industrial system. Be-
fore the end OF the decade Just begun
astonishing %upheayels will take place;
the old things will pass ava and a
new era will dawn for the rich and the
poor.
Women Important Factors.
In spite OF what seems to be a
Il ..f H. ~ Isl In s. ~ III hafyyna~ r t1a
two classes there was never a time in
the worlds history when the moneyed
people and the laboring classes were
in such close touch; when there was
!, so much sympathy felt by so large a
class of rich people for the poor; and
never were women SO awake to the
: vital questions OF the hour as at this
present moment.
e In England and in America, women
y are important factors in the worlds
: work. They arc powerful influences
] for good.
s when ne see women Of wealth,
reared in the ranks of Fashion, and ac-
customed to having every whi1n graft
ned, yet giving time, strength and
money to the betterment Of the con-
ditions OF the laboring classes, to tho
making of kinder and more just laws
/. for the toiIers OF earth, we need not
ask IL the world is growing better or
worse.
n We know It's impulse is upward and
onward.
Not like a daring. bold, aggressive
ri Is Inspiration, eager to pursue.
N But rather like a maiden, fond, yet
n, who gives herself to him who best
IS doth WOO.
once she may smile. or thrice. tn.
Is a soul to fire
In passing by, yet when she turn!
Thou must persist and seek her Will
- desire
- If thou wouldst win the favor o
her grace.
=, And II. like some winged bird, sh
no cleaves the air,
And leaves thee spent and stricke
on the earth,
-. still thou must strive to follow eve
lis there.
That she may know thy valor an
thy worth.
dy Then shall she come, unwilling all he
IT. charms.
lin Giving JOY for pain, smiles &c
tears,
Then shalt thou clasp her with 20:
of sessing arms,
Ter The while she murmurs music
is thine ears.
es
But ere her kiss has faded from til
cheek
lis. She shat flee from thee yer hi
nd. and glade,
So must thou seek and ever seek al
seek
zen For each new conquest of tn
lus phantom maid
in (Copyrigh. 1910, by the New Yol
Evening Journal Publishing Company