The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1914-12-18

industrial warfare as they are the
burden-bearers in the war between ma
tions, and those who arbitrate and
mediate the differences between capi-
tai and labor should not forget that
when the expenses Of any industry are
unnecessarily increased. society foots
the bill by drafting a new consignment
Of women from the home to the field.
Pinch no crumb From Women's Crust
Of Bread.
No financial award can be made
without someone footing the bill, and
we commend to those who accept the
responsibility of the distribution of in
dustrial Justice, the still small voice OF
the woman in the field as she pleads
for mercy. and we beg that they pinch
no crumb from her crust of bread or
put another patch upon her ragged
garments.
We beg that they listen to the
scream Of horror from the eagle on
every American dollar that is wrung
from the brow OF toiling women and
hear the Goddess of Justice hiss at a
verdict that increases the want of
woman to satisfy the greed of man.
The women behind the counter and
in the factory cry aloud for sympathy
and the press thunders out in their
defense and the pulpit pleads for
mercy. but how about the woman in
the field? Will not these powerful
exponents OF human rights turn their
talent, energies and influence to her
relief? Will the Goddess of Liberty
enthroned at Washington hold the cal.
loused hand and soothe the feverish
brow of her sex who sows and reaps
the nations harvest or will she permit
the male of the species to shove
women-weak and weary-from the
bread-line of industry to the back al
leys of poverty?
Women and Children First.
The census enumerators tell us that
Of the 1.514 900 women who work in the
fields as farm hands 400 900 are six.
teen years Of age and under. What Is
the final destiny Of a nation whose fu-
ture mothers spend their girlhood days
behind the plow, pitching hay and
hauling manure, and what is to become
of womanly culture and refinement
that grace the home, charm society
and enthuse man to leap to glory in
noble achievements IL our daughters
are raised in the society of the OK and
the companionship of the plow?
In that strata between the ages of
sixteen and forty-five are $4,000 WON.
A. wnrkino 20 hon ava
" them with sucking babes tug
glng st their breasts, as drenched
IN perspiration, they WELD the scythe
and guide the plow. What is to be
come of that nation where poverty
breaks the crowns of the queens of
the home; despair hurls a mothers
love from it's throne ana hunger drives
to the noe?
The census bureau shows that 1885, |
900 of these women are forty-five |
years of age and over. There is no
more pitiful sight in civilization than |
these sanity mothers of Israel stopped |
with age, drudging in the field from |
sun until sun and at night drenching |
their dingy pillows with the tears of |
despair as their aching hearts take |
it all to God in prayer. Civilization |
strikes them a blow when 1t should |
give them a crown, and their only |
friend is he who broke bread with |
beggars and said: Come unto me all |
ye that are weary and heavy laden and |
/ will give you rest"
Oh, America! The land Of the free |
and the home of the brave, the |
worlds custodian of chivalry, the |
champion of human rights and the de- |
fender of the oppressed-shall we per- |
NIT our maidens fair to be torn from |
the hearthstone by the ruthless hand !
Of destiny and chained to the plow? |
Shall we permit our faithful wives, !
whom we covenanted with God to cher |
ish and protect, to be hurled from the |
home to the harvest field, and our |
mothers dear to be driven from the old |
arm chair to the cotton patch?
In rescuing our citizens from the |
forces of civilization, can we not apply |
to our fair Dixieland the rule Of the |
sea-"women and children f1rst?"
There must be a readjustment of !
the wage scale of industry 80 that the
women can be taken from the field or |
gwen a reasonable wage for her serv-
ices. Perhaps the issue has never been
fairly raised, but the Farmers Union, |
with membership of ten million, puts |
its organized forces squarely behind !
the issue and we now enter upon the
docket of civilization the case Of The |
Woman in the Field" and demand an !
immediate trial.