HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1894-6-14, Page 3„DOMINION PARLIAMENT.
OCR ummuouals Ix COUNCIL
;Proceedings of The Senate and House
of 001MMOI1S, New 01118 irltrOaneed
and The Budget Debate Continued.
Hon. Mr. Daly, in answer to Mr. Gir-
,enzard, said that the Government had
sent two agents to the United States last
year to promote the repatriation of eau-,
odious. There were some 288 Canadians
who returned during the year. They
settled chiefly in Manitoba.
Sir John Thompson moved: "That ib
is expedient to provide that the salaries
of the judges of the courts of Cariboo,
New Westminster, Yale, Nanaiino and
„Xootenary, in the province of British
'Columbia, shall be $2,400 each per an-
num.”
Sir John Thompson said that if there
'was time this session the Government
would introduce the Insolvency 13ill and
'the Dom.panies Act. The Insolvency Bill
had been fully considered in the Senate
and would probably nob require mueh
,discussion in the House.
Hon. Mr. Laurier asked if the Govern-
ment intended introducing a bill for the
xedistaibution of Quebec this session,
Sir John Thompsou said he would an-
swer in a day or two.
Mr. Martin, on motion to go into sup-
ply, took up the question of the land
grant to the University- of Manitoba. He
read from eertain documents to show
that the Dominion Goverament granted
•certaka lands to the university uncondi-
tionally. Ib woald appear that when the
lands were granted the university was
not a teaching institution, but simply
granted degrees on examination to the
successful Students of Catholic and. Pro-
testaut schools. Since the lands were
granted the university beeame a teaeh-
ei?g institution, and immediately Arch-
bishop Tache claimed a portion of the
lands for a Catholic 'university. Mr.
Martin said that the archbishop had ap-
pealed to the Dominion Government, and
that the Government had promised to
divide the lands as suggested.. Be claim-
ed that the Government had no right to
so divide the lands.
Sir Sohn Thompson was surprised that
the hon. member should be so urgent in
his demand for the patents, since the
university authorities themselves had not
made any such demand during four long
years. He then proceeded to show that
when the university was formed it was
only because the different colleges—Pro-
testant and Catholic—had agreed to the
scheme. The scheme was that the uni-
versity was to be only an. examining
body, and. not a teaching institution.. If
this scheme had not been agreed to by all
the parties, the formation of the univers-
ity would have been impossible.
Hon. Mr. Daly thoueeht it a singular
thing that though he had been Minister
of the Interior for eighteen months he
had not been appealed to by the Univers-
ity of Manitoba if they were in such
haste as Mr. Martin had suggested. He
had paid several personal visits to 'Win-
nipeg since he had been sworn in, and
though he was the proper person to whom
the appeal should be made, no such ap-
peal had been made, though he had had
personal interviews on other subjects
with many of the gentlemen composing
the council.
Mr. McCarthy said. that the Dominion.
Government had already decided the
question, and that the reason of delay
was because the university had refused
o accept the patents upon. the conditions
• posed by the Government.
After recess the house went into Com-
1ttee of Supply, taking up the item of
61,688 for salaries and contingent ex -
causes of the Senate, which was passed.
On the item of $200,000 for the revision
of the voters' list, Sir John Thompson, in
reply to Dr. Landerkin., said he hoped
that about $25,000 would be saved by the
proposed changes in the Electoral Fran-
ohise Act in each. revision.
In reply to Sir Richard Cartwright, Sir
John Thompson said that it was proposed.
be adopt the provincial franchises, and
not exactly the provincial lists. The
revising officer in each constituency
would have the a,ssessraent rolls and all
'the matter before him in. making the
revision. The Redistribution Act of
1892 would be brought into force for the
,purpose of this revision.
The item passed.
Considerable discussion arose on the
Votes for railways and canals.
Mr. McMullen opposed anyfurther ex-
penditure on the Intercolonial, and Mr.
Davies had also a great deal to say. The
new scheme for the Cornwall canal calla°
in for a great deal of criticism, although
Mr. Haggart explained that the Sheik's
-dam plan saved $200,000 and gave a
shorter and safer route.
After recess the House went into com-
mittee on ways and means.
Tine item was nnally adopted. : Build-
srs' cabin.etmakers', undertakers', up-
holsterere', harnessma,kers' and saddlers'
:hardware, 82i per cent. ad valorem.
Hon. Mr. Foster moved the adoption of
the item, "Bituminous coal, 60 cents per
ton of 2,000 pounds.''
Mr. 11/1cMullen, on behalf of the rail-
roads, asked that this duty be struck oft.
It was too bali that the duty should be
kept on to please the Nova Scotian min-
ers
The item was adopted.
The item of "Eggs, 5 cents per dozen,"
'was elm,nged, with the amendineut that
they are to be free when and so long as
-eggs are. allowed to enter free into the
United States.
On motion of Hon. Mr. Foster, the du-
ties on rice, when imported by makers of
rice starch for use in their faeteries only,
(1 sax° fixed at of a cent per pound. The
regular duty on rice is 1 cents per
pound.
Galvanized iron wire, Nos. 6, 9, 12 and
14 gauge, when imported by makers of
-wire fencing for use in their factories
,only, 20 per cent.
On the motion to go into committee of
supply, Mr. Charlton attacked the Gov-
•ernment's system of granting hornesteade,
,comparing it with the policy pursued by
the United States. Instead of settling
•emigrants in masses, where they would
have the advantages of schools, ebtarches,
•mills and postoffices, the Government had
•scattered them in all clireebions. Mr.
Charlton. acoustic' the Government of
granting a number of limits to their fa-
vorites ab nominal prices, and condemned
'their policy generally with great vigor,
as " a glaring insta,nee of the Govern-
• ment's ineapaeity and folly," he saw
forty-four millions of acres of land—
enough to maintain a population of 10,-
000,000—had been gra,nted •to railway
• corporations, some of them necessary, but
most of them unnecessary. Another
scomparison with the United State% to the
disadVantage Of Oaaede followed, having
special reference to the number of acmes
.granted and the length of railway line
obtained thereby. He moved the follow-
ing resolution: " That in the opinion of
this Houee the public lauds of the Do-
minion. should be sold to actual settlers
only upon reasonable terms of settle -
moat, and in emit areas as can be reason-
ably occupiecl and cultivated by the set,.
tiers ; that no sales of publie lands to
speculators or middlemezt should bo per-
mitted ; that liberal provision should be
made for free homestead grants to set-
tlers, an4 that laud grants to railway
corporations have been made by the Gov-
ernment with recklees la,vieliness and to
the serious detriment of the pablie, inter-
est."
Mr. Coatsworth moved a resolution.
That it is expedient to insert in, every
eentracit for any public work made or en-
tered into her.ntfter a clause requiring the
contractor to pay the workmen engaged
upon such work at a rate of wages at
least equal to the current rate of wages
paid in the looality where such work is
being clone at and during the time such
contract is being carried on, unless the
Minister with whose department the con-
tract has been made shall, for special rea-
sons, relieve the contractor from the ob-
servance of this clause."
Mr. Oaimet, replying for the Govern-
ment, said that, although the resolution
at first sight seemed reasonable, it would
be found impossible to carry it into oper-
ation. Who would determine what were
current wages? Would it be by the la-
bor unions,by the contractors or by the
law of supply and demand? If it were all.
over the country, as he understood it was
in Toronto, that an agreexnent was ar-
ranged. between the different trades and
eentractors what the rate of wages shall
be th.e resolution might be practicable.
ikt.r. D. C. Fraser remarked. that men
woulcl not hire if they were not offered
the wages prevailing in their district, and
that he therefore Sought the resolution
unnecessary. Ho suggested, however, a
resolution obliging first contractors -who
sub -let contracts tooblige the sub -con-
tractors to pay current pages. This, he
thought, would reach the sweating sys-
tem.
J. D. Edgar combated Mr. Onimet's
remark that the sweating system is not
in existence '• he was assured that it was
practised in Toronto Polish Sews having
been im.portecl by the firin of Lailloy &
Co. to do some work on ready-made cloth-
ing. When he had mentioned this be-
fore, Mr. Ooateworth had denied that
there was any sweating in Toronto but
the Trades and Labor Council luta de-
clarecl that there was sweating.
Mr. Ingram stated that sweating was
done by private individuals, ancl that men
employed oia public works venally got
fair wages. The trouble was caused. by
Government contractors un.derbidcling lo-
cal contractors, who figured on the local
rate of wages. .
Mr. Coatsworth spoke again, giving an
instance in Toronto in which a contrac-
tor suddenly lowered the rate of wages, a
strike resulting, which he and his col-
leagues lia,d managed to settle.. Ile thought
that this resolution should. be adopted., if
only to prevent Government contractors
from entering cities and underbidding lo-
cal contractors.
Mr. Mara thought something shoull be
done to get the Admiralty to pay current
wages to the Canadian workmen working
on the,Esquimalt fortifications.
Mr. Davin thought such a principle
would upset existing conditions, and that
to be logical, the resolution shoulcl be ex-
tended to merchants, clerks and book-
keepers.
Dr. Sproule thought that the Govern-
ment contractors had a right to underbid
local contractors.
Col. Tisdale thought that the principle
of the motion led to bacl results.
Mr. O'Neill thought that the adopting
of this resolution would be a terrible
thing. It meant that the rules passed. by
the Toronto labor unions would rule all
over the Dominion.
Mr. McLennan said. that the weak point
was that the question would arise as to
who would say what was the currentrate
of wages.
Mr. Laurier said that evidentiy new
light had dawned upon the Government;
one Minister had pronounced against the
motion, and now another was moving to
adjourn the debate to have time to con-
sider the subject; moreover, Mx. Haggart
had made use of good free trade argu-
ments. The Government should agree
with the motion; for logically, if:, the
product of foreign labor was to be kept
out, so should the foreign laborer himself.
For his part, he was inclined, to let the
laws of labox take their course and not to
accede to the .principle of protection. He
svonld have favored the withdrawal of
the resolution.
Six john Thonipson said that the light
had dawned on the pioneer of free trade,
as it was Englancl that was adopting the
protective principle applied to labor, as
shown in the recent action of the British
Government. It had been forced oxithem
by the evils resulting from free trade.
The protection advocated would be of the
local sort as opposed to the wider protec-
.
ton.
Mr. Mills (Bothwell) presented the:dif-
ficulties of applying the resolution, and
said the course of the Governmentewas
not courageous.
After recess the order of business was
-changed, and the Weldon bill was given
its third reading. Mr. Charltonts Sab-
bath observance- bill was considered. in
committee. The first clause, prohibiting
the publication or distribution of Sunday
newspapers was adopted., upon a vote of
41 to 21. The second clause provides for
the closing of Dominion canals. Mr.
Haggart proposed to subetitette the clause
adolitecl • when the bill was before the
House in 1892, that the canals shall be
closed on Sundays between the hour e of 6
a.m. and 9 p.m., providing that " in. case
of urgent necessity owing to pressure of
business mused by interruption of traffic
or the approach of the close of navitm-
Clan," the clause may be suspendoeor
variecl byorder incouncil., which shall
i
continuo n force for only low: weeks at
most, and may apply to one or more ca-
nals. Sir Hector Langovin, Dr. Sproule
and Mr. Masson opposed the inclusion of
the ,Satilt Ste, Marie Canal in such a
clause. : On division, a clause was adopt-
ed by 59 votes to 32.
Mr. Charlton then announeed that he
would not jeopardize the clausepassecl
by pressing those limiting railway; traffic
and prohibiting Sunday excursions. Ho
therefore clroppecl them, and the commit-
tee proeeeded to consider the penal clauses,
They were adopted and the billolwas
ported.
Mr. Coatsworth's billion the prevention
of cruelty to animals was then taken tip,
After passing a part of the bill the com-
mittee, upon a vote of 62 to 27, roe° and
reported progress.
A his is a concentration.
TTIRSONG TTIE KURT.:
THE TALMAGIAN VERSION OF Ti'M
OLP, OLD STORY.
The martyrs of the Needle—Mow 'They
Are Operessed-eTwould No, Says the
Great Divine, Ile Any Better Were Wo-
nsan to Get Gullet Rights.
Bnoexteree June 3.—Rev. T. De. Witt
Talmage, who is now on his round -the -
world journey, has chosen as the subject
for to•day, "Martyrs of the Needle," the
text being Matt. 1924, "It is easier for a
camel to go through the eye of an needle."
Whether the "eye of the needle" be the
small gate et the side of the big gate at the
entrance of the wall of the ancient city, as
is generally interpreted, or the eye of a
needle such as is now handled in sewing a
garment. 1 to not say, In either case it
would be a tight thing for a camel to go
through the eye ot a needle.• But there
are whole caravans of fatigues and hard-
ships going through the eye of the, sewing -
woman's needle.
Nery low,"ago the needle was busy. It
was considered honorable for women to
toil in olden time, Alexander the Great
stood in his palace showing garments made
by his own mother. The finest tapestries
at Bayeux were made by the Queen of Wil-
liam the Conqueror, Augustus the Em-
peror wonla not wear any garments ex-
cept those that were fashioued by some
member of his royal family. So let the
toiler everywhere be respected!
The greatest blessing that °mild have
happened to our first parents was being
turned out of Eden after they had done
wrong. Adam and Eve, in their perfect
state, might have got tieing without work,
or only such elight employment as a per.
feet mtrden, with no weeds in it, demand-
ed. °Brit, as soon as they had sinned, the
best thing for them was to be turned out
where they would have to work. We
know what a withering thing it is for
Man to have nothing to do. Good old
Ashbel Green. at four -score years, when
asked why he kept on working, said,
do so to keep out of mischief." We see
that a man who has a large amount of
money to start with has no chanae. Of
the thousand prosperous and honorable
men that you know, nine hundred and
ninety-nine had to work vigorously at the
beginning.
But I am now to tell you that industry
is just as important for a woman's safety
end happiness. The most unhappy women
in our communities to -day are those who
have no engagements to call them up in,
the morning, who, once having risen and
breakfasted, lounge through the dull fore-
noon in slippers down at the heel aud with
dishevelled hair, reading the last novel;
and. who, having dragged through a wretch-
ed forenoon and taken their afternoon
sleep, and having spent an hour and a half
at their toilet, pick rip their oard-case and
go out to make calls; and who P8ES their
evenings waiting for somebody to comein
and break up the monotony. Arabella
Stuart never was imprisoned in so dark a
dungeon as that.
There is no happiness in an idle woman.
It may be -with hand,.it may be with
brain, it may be with foot; but work she
muse or be wretched forever. The little
girls of our families must be startled with
that idea. The curse of our American
society is that our young women are taught
that the first, second, third, fourth, fifile
sixth, seventh, tenth, fiftieth, thousandth
thing in their life is to get somebody to
take care of them. Instead of that, the
first lesson should be, how under God,
they may- take care of themselves. The
simple fact is that a majority of them do
have to take care of themselves, and that,
• too, after having, throutsh the false notions
of their parents, wasted the years in which
they ought to have learneli how success-
fully to maintain themselves. We now
and here declare the inhumanity, cruelty
and outrage of that father and . mother,
who pass their daughters iuto woman
hood, having given them no facility for
earning their livelihood. Madame de Steel
said: "It is net these writings that I am
proud of, but the fact that I have facility
in ten occupations, in any one of which I
could make a livelihood."
You say you have a forttine to leo re HIND
C man and womant have you not lea lied*
that, like vultures, like hawks, like eagles,
riches have wings and ley away? Though
you should be successful in leaving a com-
petency behind you, the trickery of exe-
cutors may swamp it in a night; or some
elder a or deacous of oar churehes may get
up a fiotitious company, and induce your
orphans to put their money into its and if
it be lost, prove to them that it was eter-
nally decreed that that was the way they
were to lose it, and that it went in the
most orthodox and heavenly style. 0,
the damnable schemes that professed
Ohristimus will engage in—nntil God puts
His fingers into the collars of the hypo.
mite's robe and rips it clear down to the
bottom! You have no right; because you
are well off, to conclude that your children
are going to be as well off. A. man died,
leaving it large fortune. His son fell dead
in a Philadelphia grog -shop. His old com-
rades came in and said, as they bent over
his corpse, "What is the matter with you,
Boggsey?" The surgeon standing over hiin
said, "Hush up 1 he is dead 1" "Ah, he is
dead!" they said. "Come, boys, let as
go and take a drink in memory of poor
Boggsey 1"
Have you nothing better than money to
leave your children? If you have not, but
send yen r daughters into the world with
empty brain and unskilled hand, you are
guilty of aseassination, homicide, regicide,
infanticele. There are women toiling in
our cities for three and four dollars per
week, who were the daughters of liter
chant princes. These suffering ones now
would be glad to have the crumbs that
once fell from their fathers' table. That
worn-out, broken shoe that elle wears is
the lineal descendant of the twelve dollar
gaiters in which her mother walked; itncl
that torn and faded calk° had ancestry of
magnificent bromide, that swept Broadway
clean without any expense to the street
commissioners, Though you live in an
elegant residence, and' fare stimptuously
every day, let your daughters feel it is a
disgraee to them not to know how to work.
441n A,n1:„..,n•ro1n.f 4,, ann7e4itr
that though our young women may ezn.
broider slippers, and crochet, and make
mats for lamps to stand on; without dis-
grace, the idea of doing anything for a
livelihood is dishonorable. It is it Online
for a young woman belonging to a large
family to be inefficient when the father
toils his life away for her stipport. It is
a shame for it daeghter to be idle while
her mother toils at tho washtub. It is
as honorable to sweep hoese, make bele,
or trim hats, as it is to Wet it watoh
chain.
As fat. as I elm understand, the lip° of
respeetability ilea between, that wtich is
tieeful and that which is useless. It
women do that which is of no Value, their
week is honorable, If they do practical
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tlyestiii)oerati)140e, That out')o younge doit
xg
dielionorable work, I shall partieularize.
You iney knit a tidy for the back ef an
armchair, but by no means make the money
wherewith to buy the chair, You may,.
with tlelicate brush, beautify a mantel -
ornament, but die rather than earn enough
to buy a zearble mantle. YAII may learn
atile. le music, until you earl squall Italian,
but never sing "Ortouville" •or "Old Hun,
deed." Do nothing practical, if you would,
in the eyes of refined society, preserve your
respeetability. 1 scout these liboal no
11003. I tell you no womau, any more
than a manehas a, right to occupy a place
in this world unless she pays a rent for it.
in the course of a lifetime you consume
whole harvests, and drove a of cattle, and
every day you live breathe forty hogsheads
of good pure air. You must, by some kind
of osefoluess, pay for all this. Our race
• was to' last thing created,—the birds and
fi.ave on the fourth day, the cattle and
on the filth day, and man ou the
eixtli day. If geologists are right, the
elute was a million ot years iu the posses-
sion of the insects, beaste and birds, before
onr race came upon it. In one sense, we
were innovators. The eattle, the 'Amnia
zttal tho hawks had pre-emption right. The
question IS not ‘s hat we are to do with the
lizards and summer insects, but. what the
lizards teal summer inseuts are to do
with me
If we want a plase in this world we
must earn it The partridge makes its own
nest before it ooeupies ib. The lark, by its
morning song earns its brenkfast before it
eats it; the Blble gives an intimation that
the first duty of en idler is to starve, wheu
it says if he "will not work, neither shall
he eat." Idleness ruius the health; and
very soon Nature says, "This man has re-
fused to pay his rent; out with hitn 1"
Society is to be reconstructed on the
subject of woman's toil. A vast raajority
of those who would have woman indus-
trious shut her up to a few kinds of work.
My judgment in this matter is, that it
woman has a right to do anything she can
do well. There should be no department
of merchandise, mechanism, art or science
barred against her. If Miss Homer has
genius for sculpture, give her a chisel. If
Rosa Bathe= has a foudness for delineat-
ing animals, let her make "The Horse
Fair." 11 Miss • Mitchell will . study
astronomy, let her =mut the starry lad-
der, If Lydia will be a merchant, let her
eel' purple. If Lucretia Mott will preach
the Gospel, let her thrill with her womanly
eloquence the Quaker meeting•house.
It is said, if women is given such op-
portnuities, she will. occupy places that
might be taken by men. I say, if she have
more skill and adaptecluess for any posi-
tion than a man has, let her have it 1 She
has as much right to her bread, to her ap-
parel and to her home as M811 have,
But it is said that her nature is so deli-
cate that she is unfitted for exhausting
toil. I ask in the name of all past history,
what toil on earth is MOTO severe, exhaust-
ing and tremendous than that toil of the
needle to which for ages she has been sub-
jected? The battering ram, the sword, the
carbine, the battle-axe have made no
such havoc's as the needle.
Go with. me, and I will show you a
woman who, by hardest toil, supports her
children, her drunken husband, her old
father and mother, pays her house -rent,
always has wholesome food. on the table,
and, rhen she can get some neighbor on
the Sabbath to come in and take care of
her family, appears in church, with hat
and cloak that are far from indicating the
toil to which she is subjected.
Such a woman as that has body and soul
enough to fit her for any position. She
could stand beside the majority of your
salesmen and dispose of more goods. She
could go into your wheelwright shops and
beat one-half of your worknien at making
carriages. We talk about woman as though
we had resigned to her all the light work,
and ourselves had shouldered the heavier.
But the dav of judgment, which will
reveal the sufferings ot the stake anti in-
quisition. will marshal Lefore the throne
of God and the hierarchs of heaven the
martyrs of wash -tub and needle.
Now, I say, ii there be any preference in
occupation, let woman have it. God knows
her trials are the severest. By the acuter
sensitiveness to misfortune, by her hour of
anguish, I demand that no one hedge up
her pathway to a livelihood. 0 the mean-
ness, the despicability of men who begrudge
a woman the right to work anywhere, in
any honorable callingl
go still 1 urther, and say that women
should have equal compensation with men.
By what principle of justice is it that wo-
men in many of our cities get only two-
thirds as much pay 84 men, and in many
cases only half? Here is the gigantic injus-
tice—that for work equally well, if not
better done, woman receives far less com-
pensation than man.
To thousande of young women in our
cities to -day there is only this alternative—
starvation or dishonor. Many of the largest
mercantile establishments of our cities are
accessory- to these abominations; and from
their large establishments there are scores
of souls being pitched off into death; and
their employers know it!
Is there a God? Will there be a judg-
ment? I tell you, if God rises up to redress
WOMilll'S wrongs, many of our large estate
lishments will be swallowed up quicker
than a South American earthquake ever
took down a city. God will catch these
oppressors between the two milestones of
His wrath, aud grind them to powder.
I hear from all this laud the wail of wo-
manhood. Man has nothing to answer to
that wail but flatteries. He says elle is an
angel. She is not. She knows she is not.
She is it human being, who gets hungry
when she has no food, and. cold when she
has no fire. Give her no more flatteries,
give her justice!
There are about fifty thousand sewing -
girls in New York and Brooklyn. Across
the darkness of this night I hear their
death groan. It is not such a cry as comes
from those who are suddenly hurled out
of life, but a slow, grinding, horrible
wasting away. Gather them before you
and look into their faoes, pi:ached, ghast-
ly, hunger -struck!
At a. large meeting of these women, held
in a hall in Philadelphia, grand speeches
were delivered, but it needle -woman took
the stand, threw aside the faded shawl,
and with her shrivelled arm hurled a very
thunderbolt of eloquence, speaking of the
horrors of her own experience.
Stand at the corner of a street in New
York in the very early morning, as the
women go to their work. Many of them
had no breakfast exoept the crutnbs that
were left over from the night before, or a
Crust they chew on their way through the
street. Here they come! the working girls
of the eity 1 These engaged in bead -work,
these in flower making, in millinery, en-
amelling, cigar making, book binding,
labelling, feather picking, print coloring,
paper -box making, but, most overworked
of all, and least compensated of any, the
sewing woman. Why do they not take the
cit,‘, cart on their tvey up? They cannot
afford the five cents! If, coucluding to
deny herself something else, she gets intO
tee ear, give her e seati You went to gig,
IOW 1 et( i user and Riddles' eppeared in the
fire, look at that wohnzu and behold a more
Lto, went -40m, cs hotter fire, 14 more
Agonizing deathl
One Sabbath night, in the veatibUle of
clinroli, after service, a woman fell in
convulsion% The dooLor ectid she needed
atediches tiot so =eh as emoting to eat,
As she began to revive, in her delirione
she seid, gaspingly, "Eight emits Lis
ceatel Eight cents1 I wish, J. eould get it
dope! I am, Lio tired! 'I wish 1 could get
some sleep, hut I must get it done! Etglit
cents! Eight emits!" We found efun-
ward that she was making garments at
eight cents a piece, end that she could
make but three of theuu in a day. Hear
it! Three times eight are twenty-four!
Hear it, men and women who have com-
fortable honies 1
Some of the worst villaies of the eity
are the erapleyers of these women. They
beat them down to the last penny, and
try to cheat them out of that. The wo
Marl Must deposit a dollar or two before
she gets the garments to work on, When
the work is done it is sharply inspected,
the most ii3SigLlifiCallt flaw picked Our, and
the wages refused, and sometimes the dol-
lar deposited not given. back. The Wo-
men's Protective Unioa reports a case
where one of these poor souls, finding a
place where she conld get more wages, re-
solved to change einuloyers, and. went to
get her nay for work done. The employer
says: "Ihear you are going to leave me?"
—"Yes," she said, "and I have come to
get what you owe me." He made no ans-
wer. She said: "Are you not going to
pay me?"—"Yes," he eeid, "I will pay
you,;" Alld he kicked her down the stairs.
How are those evils to be eradicated?
What have yeti to answer, you who sell
coats, and have shoes made, and contract
for ole southern aud western inarketsl
Some say, "Give women the ballot."
Weat effect suoh ballot might have on
orher questions I am not here to disouss;
but wliat would be the effect of female
suffrage upon wonian's wages? I do not
believe that women will ever get justice by
woman's ballot.
Indeed, women oppress women as much
as men do. Do not women, as much as
men, beat down to the lowest figure the
woman who BeWS for them? Are not
wemen as sharp as men on washer -women,
and milliners and niseitua-inakers? If a
woman asks a dollar for it dollar, does not
her female employer ask her ir she will not
take ninety cents? Yon say "only ten
cents difference ;" but that is sometimes
the difference between heaven end hell.
Women often have less commiseration for
women than men. If a woman steps aside
from the path of virtue, man may forgive
—woman never! Woman will 'lever get
justice done her from woman's ballot.
Never will she get it from man's
How, then? God will rise up for her.
God has more resources than we know of.
But there is something for our women to
do. Let our young people prepare to ex-
cel in spheres of work, and they will be
able, after a while, to get larger wages. If
it be shown that a woman oan, in a store,
sell more goods in a year than a man, she
will soon be able not only to ask but to de-
mand more wages, and to demand them
successfully. Unskilled and incompetent
labor must take what is given; skilled and
competent labor will eveutually make its
own standard. Admitting that the law of
supply and demand regulates these things,
I contend that the demand for skilled labor
is very great, and the supply very small.
Start with the idea that work is helper -
able, and that you can do some one thilig
better than any one else. Resolve that,
God helping, you will take care of your-
self. If you are, after a while, oalled into
another relation you will all the better be
qualified for it by your spirit of self-re-
liance; or if you are called to stay as you
are, you can be happy and self-support-
ing.
Poets are fond of talking about man as
an oak, and woman the vine that climbs
it; but I have seen many a tree fall that
nob only went down itself, but took all the
vines with it. I can tell you of something
stronger than oak for an ivy to climb on,
and that is tee throne of the peat Jeho-
vah. Single or affianced, that Woman is
strong who leans on God and does her
best.
Many of you will go single handed
through life, and you will have to choose
between two characters. Young woman, I
am sure you will turn your back -upon the
useless, giggling, painted nonentity which
society ignominiously acknowledges to be
a woman, and ask God to make you an
humble, active, earnest Christian,
What will become of this godless disciple
of fashion? What an insult to her sex 1
Her manners are an outrage upon decency.
She is more thoughtful of the attitude she
strikes upon the carpet than how she will
louk in the judgment; more worried about
her freckles than her sins; more interested
in her bonnet -strings than in her redemp-
tion. Her apparel is the poorest part of a
Christian woman, nowever magnificently
dressed, and no one has so much right to
dress well as a Christian. Nob so with the
godless disciple of fashion. Take her robes
and you take everything. Death will come
down on her some day, and rub the bistre
off her eyelids, and the rouge off her
cheeks, and with two rough, bony hands,
scatter spangles and glass beads and rings
and ribbons and lace and brooches and
buckles and sashes aud frisettes and golden
clasps.
The dying actress whose life had been
vicions said, "The seene closes. Draw the
curtain." Generally the tragedy comes
first, and the farce afterward; but in her
life it was first the fame of useless life,
and then the tragedy of a wretched
eternity.
Compare the life and death of such an
one with that of some Christian aunt that
was onoe a.blessing to your household. I
do not know that she was ever offered a
hand in marriage. She lived single, that
untrammeled she might be everybody's
blessing. Whenever the siek are to be
visited, or the poor to be provided with
bread, she went with a blessing. She
cored sey, or sing "Rock oe Ages" for any
sick pauper who asked her. As she got
older, there were days when she was a
little sharp, but for the most part auntie
was a sun beam—just the one for Christ-
mas eve. She knew better than anyone
else how to fix things. Her every prayer,
ae God heard it, was full of everybody
who had trouble. The brightest things in
all the house dropped from her &gore.
She bad peenlier notions, bnt the grandest
notion she ever had was to I. -liaise you hap-
py. She deessed well—Axintie always
dreesed well; but her highest adorument
was that ef it meek and quiet spirit, which,
in the sight of God, is of great price.
When she died, you all gathered lovingly
about her; and as yen carried her out to
tor, the ;outlay school ideas covered the
(wan wiph japonicas; and the poor people
stood at the end of the alley with their
aprons to theireyes'sobbing bitterly; and
the man of the world seid, with Solonlon,
"Iler price was above ru Wes ;" and jostle
SO 0,110m
tu the eiden in Judea, tounnanded
1311)" 11.1t0 5.155, ar:se?"
A 'Wish,
Soule years ago an old cleaeon in Penn-
sylvanie was very self-willed, and On tWQ
or three occasions made endless trouble
in °lunch. After limn° years they got
started again, bet another row soon broke
out. At last the ehurchs clerk got up and
said: "Brethren and. sisters, I 'wish
Deaeon Anise was in hell," The now
pastor and the members were horrifiecl,
and the pastor said: " Brother Smith,
such a remark is unkind and un-,
Christian. 1/Vby do you use smelt expres-
sions ?' "Well, pastor, he replied, "1
caleulate if Deacon ,Tones was in hell
about six months lie would bust it up."
Stub Ends at' Thouglit-
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woman. is,
It isn't a sign of weakness for a man to
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Individual men and women are frac-
tions. The family is the integer of
human happiness.
Age is the natural enemy of mankind.
Nature is unclistilled art,
.A. man's character is born with him;
he gets his isputation from other people.
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