The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1914-10-24

dry work. and masses it in great fac
tories and shops. AS a result the
homes of to-day and a hundred years
ago r very different. Instead of
woman taking mans work. it is the
reverse. He has appropriated to
himself what was long supposed to
be hers. When this is not the Ease
she must at least do it upon man.
made plans. AS this simply means
that in developing this country men
have consciously taken from the
home its industrial life. and woman
finds that what was formerly a work
of love is now done under new con-
ditions and strange environments.
1t is strange that any thinking be-
ing should consider in the general
evolution and progress of the world
that woman alone should stand still.
Industrial and economic conditions
to-day are such that however much
manyof the Z ZOO, 900 working women
in the United States wanted to stay
at home they could not do so, because
they are compelled to support them
selves and others. The wage-earning
girl or woman to-day has little chance
beside her brother Except in the
trade u~nions) although she performs
the same amount of work, yet she
cannot command the same wages,
largely because she is not a recog-
nized citizen. Every year conditions
in the business and industrial world
become more trying. Business meth
DDS, about which so much is said
these days. mean more exacting re-
quirements, and greater completely
in all work. Woman is expected to
meet all these demands, and ever to
exceed men in matters of detail.
This experience in the outside world
is educating her. She sees that she
is forced to compete with men who
have full political right, while she
herself is a political nonentity. She
often finds that she must protect her.
self against conditions which are
more often political than economical,
forcing upon her the conviction that
she too is entitled to be afull-fedged
voter. She sees that politics, bust
ness and industrial life are inter-re-
lated, and that since she is a factor
in two, she should be granted the
right and privilege of the third. She
sees that being a political nonentity
she is at a disadvantage as a bread
winner. Think of the number of
wage-earners in this country who
are without political representation.
The working woman needs the bal
lot because there are economic con-
ditions which can be solved by the
ballot only. At present laws are
made without the woman's viasV-
point. We know that the ballot car
ries with it responsibilities. We know
that the person who is Disseminated
against by law is always the poorest
paid, therefore woman's labor is
cheap labor. and unjust discrimina-
ton against her as a wage-earner
will continue until she becomes mans
equal politically.
The great bodies of organized la
Dor have for many years endorsed
Woman Suffrage, and have declared
that work should be paid for, not ac-
cording to the sex of the worker but
merits of the work. But the work
ingman knows that this will not be
so long as she is without power in
politics. Therefore political enfran-
chisement is a matter of vital con-
Germ to the working woman.
A government of the people, for
the people and by the people is only
realized when every individual has
equal share in administering such a
government. Where one class gov
erns without the consent of all there
is no true democracy. 1t is this that
led our Government to give the col
ored man political enfranchisement.
The same conditions which freed
the negro have been freeing woman.
The modern movement demands d.
rect influence for women upon the
legislation which concerns all people.
1t recognizes the vote as the only
means of securing recognition OF
their needs. Two things are certain: