The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-10-12
After all. in buying

distribution. After ALL in buying
ready made goods in the department
store, she is contributing toward the
employment OF men and women in in
dustrial life. With this new point or
view. IL seems that the broader human
ity and higher morality is not so much
10 help isolated rersons as TO guar
antee 10 all the units OF society a fair
opportunity for healthy and profitable
employment. education and recreation.
Women Of the privileged classes are
Weakening TO their duty 10 other less
fortunate women and to all who are
oppressed and ovcrdrlven. They have
had a vision which VIII not be dis
pelled-of little children denied all
becoming dull and apathetic from
overwork, underfceding and no happy
hours OF play; OF women and girls in
industry, working ten long hours
day. in the roar and vibration OF great
machines. as fast as fingers can fly and
eyes and brain can direct. for less
than a living wage; of girls behind the
counters standing most OF the day.
working IN BADLY lighted and ventilated
stores. and earning only enough TO
give them such insufficient food. cloth
ing and homo life as they have. They
know that men who have not learned
To organize sometimes work twelve
hristma+ being the only holiday. And
they know that none of these things
are really necessary, because the own
crs and managers of corporations
which are grinding employees to death
and turning their flesh and blood and
chance OF happiness into profit, grow
richer every year.
They see the glazing inequalities Of
life. the placid acceptance of the double
standard of morals. They know that
the SHINING father goes free. while the
SHINING mother must support tho child.
whose existence is as much another's
fault her own. They see the bad"
girl social outcast, and the equally
bad" man a social lion. They see the
important business OF furnishing
recreation and entertainment taken
over by business and run only for gain.
and often vitiating the morals Of the
children Of the community.
Am I my SISTERS Keepers
Women are filled with divine dis
content because the potential mother
love in them cries out to correct these
evils to make the world sweeter,
kinder place and to guarantee to the
weak as we'll as the strong fair oppor
tunity for an honest, free and happy
life. The history of social Legislation
and actual industrial conditions in
places where woman suffrage has been
long established is sufficient evidence
OF the power OF enlrancnlSeu women
in bringing about better conditions.
Am I my sisters Keeper Is a
question which should burn into the
brain and heart of the sheltered wo-
man. Every woman who has leisure
and means for self-culture. travel and
social entertainment owes duty to
the people who made these things pos
sible for her If 1t were not for the
men and women in industry the home
would not bo a place of so much com
fort and luxury. But as society is now
constituted, the very Inventions which
bring leisure and happiness to the
homes of the upper classes are the
means of destroying the homes OF the
laboring classes by drawing alb of
their inmates into wholesale industry
and forcing them into n lifc-consum-
ing fight for n less than living wage.
We have no right to stand idly by and
profit by the undcrpaid and overdriven
labor OF people bound with the chains
OF economic bondage. "Innsmuch as
We have done it unto one of the least
of these, My brethren, ye have done 1t
unto Me-
If we are, dead to the spirit OF d.
vine discomfort. if we look for no
more perfect social adjustment, IL we