The Nevada County picayune., 1914-11-27

dtid u tliC 1dNA0i VI aiOud fOl
 sympathy and the press thundcrs
 out in their defense and the pull
 pit pleads for mercy, but how
 about the woman in the field
 Will not these powerful eNpon-
 9ts of human rights turn their
 aent. energy and influence to her relief? Will the Goddess of
 Liberty enthroned at Washing on hold the callouscd hand and
 oothe the feverish brow of het
 ex who sows and reaps the na-
 ions harvest or will she permit
 he male of the species to shove
 omen-weak and weary-from the bread-line oi industry to the back alleys of poverty?
 Women and Children First.
 The census enumerators tell us that of the .7i4.OO0 women who work in the fields as farm hands 10000 are sixteen years of age and under. What is the final des- tiny of a nation whose future mothers spend their girlhood days behind the plow, pitching nay and hauling manure. and what is to become of womanly culture and refinement that grace slle home, charm society and en- .huse man to leap to glory in noble achievements if our dau9h- tnrs are raised i'll the society of lbe oN and the companionship ol he blow ?
 In that strata between the ages f sixteen and forty-hve are 950.- D0O women working as farm hands and many of them with -uchIng babes tuggiug at their breast, as drenchcd in perspira- tion, they wield the~ scythe and auide the blow What IS to be come of that nation where povef- ty breaks the crowns of the queens of the home; despair hurls a mothers love from its throne and hunger drives innO- cent children from the school room to the hoe
 The census bureau shows that 155.0OO of these women are forty i've years of age and over. There is no more pitilul sight in ciyili- zation than these ssintlv mothers of Israel stopped with age, drudg- ing in the field from sun until ,un and at night drenching their dingy pillows with the tears of despair a. their aching hearts take it all to God in prayer. Civ ilization strikes them blow when it should give them a crown, and their only friend is He who broke bread with beg gars and said Come unto me all ye that are weary and heavy laden and I will give you rest.
 Oh, America the land of the free and the home of the brave; the worlds custodian of chivalrv, the champion of human rights and the defender Of the oppressed
 shall we permit our maidens iair to be torn from the hearth -tone by the ruthless hand of destiny and chained to the blow ? Shall we permit our faithful wives, whom we covenauted with God t6 cherish and protect, to be hurled from the home to the har- vest field. and our mothers dear to be driven from the old arm chair to the ect'a9 patch
 In reScuiug aur citizens from rhe forces of civilization, can we not apply to OUT tair DiXieland he rule oi the ~ea-"Women and children tjrst2'
 There must be a rcadju>tmenf If the wage scale of industry se that the woman can be taken from the field or given a reason- able wage for her services. Per hape the issue has never been iarlY raised, but the Farmers Union, with a membership of ten million, puts its organized forces squnrcly behind the issue and we now entcr upon the docket oi civ ihza,iou thc case If The Woman in the Field and demand an im- mediate ti4i
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