The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-08-29

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change and i. is ex neceSSitate.
I GO in a store and l find woman
! doing the principal work. where she Is
busy from early morn until in the
night. l go into offc~ | find them
full of young women at work. | take
the train to travel | find woman with
her suit ease pressing through the
crowd to get aboard and get a seat if
possible for she knows that if men
get in first they will get seats and
leave her to stand If there are not
seats for all.
their homes and seeking employment
wherever it may be found, whether in
town or IN distant part of the ountr
| see her work in stores n other
places until late in the night and then
so to her home or boarding house as
it may be alone.
Now I think the old way of father,
brother husband providing for and
caring for woman better than this;
but a change has come in society and
woman is hustling for a living along
with man. and however, young or
weak she may be, man too frequently,
does not feel it his duty or his con-
Germ to care for and protect her, but
is too often ready to take any ad-
vantage Of her he can.
Since woman must make a living
for herself and protect herself while
so doing h ought to have a Chris
tan character for a shield. n the
most powerful weapon known with
which to defend herself-the ballot.
1 witnessed two trials lately that l
am under the impression would have
ended differently if women had had
a voice in selecting officers who tried
the cases:
Or trial was that of a small and
frail negro woman who had, without
:, boon hoafpp almost to death
by her husband, while she knelt be-
fore him and begged him to spare
her, who then threatened to kill her
and throw her in an old we'll nearby,
she fled from him, barefoot and al
most nude, leaving her shoes and
clothes. a cold winter night, and went
to her mother, a mile distant and fell
speeches. in the floor. bruised and
bleeding. The next day her husband
followed her up n told her ne
would kill her if she ever put her foot
out Of doors, if she didn't go back
home and live with him. A peace war
rant was sworn out, the evidence was
undisputed and the woman sWore that
she feared her sba would kill her.
court dismissed the warrant ana
discharged the husband and inqulr
ed if the woman's father had told her
to swear out the warrant and said it
wanted to know so that he could be
taxed with the costs. The woman at
last account still lived apart from her
husband, but in constant dread OF
him, and without the protection OF
the law. And this not because she
is q negro, but because she is a wife
ma
Another case was tried a few weeks
ago, in another court, hen the de-
fendant was charged with throwing
stones at a house owned and
by two estimable Christian ladies Of
our city. who live almost within a
stones throw of it's highest steepled
church, in which the evidence was
as follows: One Of the ladies testified
that she and her afflicted sister, living
by themselves in their own home,
where they have resided many years.
We're awakened about 2 O'Clock one
night by a fearful noise and jar, tina
the neighbours on each side
Of the street and some on another
square.
That she found stones on her front
porch IN her yard and in her garden.
that one of her window blinds was
broken open, deep scars on the wall
of her front porch, the ceiling in her
sitting room cracked from the impact
OF the stones thrown against her
house, that a high plank fence at thel
end OF her houAc was partially knock
ed away from the house, hat one
crack in the plastering was six feet. |
long.
"A policeman testified that he was
about a block away when he heard a
great noise and lOOked and saw a
crowd run from near Miss - house
and that a boy ran towards him. he
and another policeman being III the
of a building. when the boy
them he ran in another direction. |
but was pursued and caught, and The
prisoner was the boy that was caught.
a ~neighbor testified that he heard
a noise. looked out Of his window and
the prisoner in a crowd at the |
of the noise and saw run off.
Another witness. a policeman. testi-
that the prisoner tOld him the
crowd met at the Capitol and went
from there to Miss --- house for
the purpose of rocking it. The court,
by man without woman nav
ing a voice in it. held that there was
evidence against the prisoner and I