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Show oive them justice. i "Nothing of lale," nays the New ; York Tribune, "giiea a more pitiable ineisht into tho condition o( the labor , ing clasaea than the ruhh o( women into every employment that promises to Rive them a livicg." It might have added that nothing ia more ungenerous un-generous than the Ireatmornt these ambitious ladies receive at the hands of their malo employera. The time has gone by when it is doeined a violent innovation upon the prerogative preroga-tive ol men for women to work it uiy of the many callings outside of the domestic circle Intelligence has increased, and now women are not dirgracul or frowned upon for performing per-forming work that once was regardtd ao belonging exclusively to men. T.io advance baa been Blow, because bigotry in civil, religious and social O'januela was firmly rooted, and had to Iih overturned by degrees. Grudg ingly baa woman been permitted to go ahead toward her own just right as a human being to fill any industrial indus-trial epbere that does not requiie mere brute 'force to attain succesi-Ad succesi-Ad compositors, telegraph operator!, cluiks, copyists, sellers ol gfjoJa, women wo-men ore the equals of men; and as teachers in achools, eicopt perhaps the higher branches, tbey are not ba-hiutl ba-hiutl the sterner sex. They have not a yet, only in exceptional instances, developed high aJministralivo abilities, abili-ties, but as they Are jostling men in almost ovory line of effort iu which scholarship, ingenuity and pereerver- ; ance cau succeed, we may expect i them shortly to be occupying more generally executive poiitiorjs. Aa remarked, in many of these pUcoa they are the equals of nieu, and in some of them may be justly preferred, aa in teaching children, because ol the better influences they :tro likely to exert over the impreasiva tendencies ol juvenilia. Women have n:ver wanted ability or energy; they have simply lacked the permission And oppoi tuiiity to exert them. The social idea of paai ages was that anything any-thing that demanded thought or labor w.ia beyond woman's power and in a degree degraded her. This has about been reversed, chiefly through tho ( Hjrts of tho sex; and the ladies of the Lined!, culture are those who work and think. Necessity compels many of them to mnuual labor, but the possession pos-session of wealth dooa not always cause a woman to recline into the clogaof, but worthless leisure a sort of animate nothing that was once held to be so highly respeottible and so fitting to her sex. Not a few ladies who possess sutEciint of tbis world's goods to permit them to live in idle-new idle-new and ease, are regularly at work on the editorial Btafl of daily journals; others are constant contributors to the batter claa of BcientiSo and literary magazines; much of our meat readable read-able and instructive fiction is given us by women of wealth, who work faithfully faith-fully and industriously ua if their cir-euiuaUncos cir-euiuaUncos permitted of no net; it is the rule, rather than the exception, excep-tion, for rich ladies to decorate their homes with their own hands. This praiseworthy ambition on the pntof the sex Bhould be encouraged and aided by the abolishment of the single remaining relio of the past ages in this matter which forbids the payment of women fair and equitable prices for their handiwork. If they arc expected to aud aotually do per form the eame duties which are assigned to man, and quite as well, by what principle of equity or f?-ir dealing can leea pay to them be justified? justi-fied? The lady teacher receives less than the male; the female clert is not paid so much as the man who stands beside her behind tho same t.iblc; the editress fills an mn columns, and with as interesting and instructive matter aa her male associate, asso-ciate, but her Balary is less than hie; i ven her works of art command a h -it siller price form the dealer than no better prcductions by a man. This id wrong and plaeta before women an unnecessary obstacle and discouragement. discourage-ment. The cue who employs her labor, her skill or gets the advantage of her study and tiaining has no right to set her sex down to her disadvantage; disadvant-age; acd to do so is unworthy men of tliis enlightened, generous ago. It ii fcmelinies put forth in argument that women do not require as much as men tj live eomicrtabiy, hence they ehculd not receive as much. Tbis ia an insult to fairness. Her work is what is pail for, and not her wants taken into consideration. consider-ation. Besides, the assertion is untrue; un-true; and if it were true, it would present a strong argument iu favor if difchargiug men ar.d employing' uracil to do all tho work they can' c It may bo a fact that mcst men! are more eiponsive tj themselves ! than moat women; but they are Dot' necessarily eo. If wor. ru Jo not have' ciaisand beer and spend money for fa' t living, neither are men obliged' to hav Lhu&e thina. Women who earn their own money are prudent. They do not sport, buy beer and cigur, nor drive fast horses. Their, frugality is creditable, to them, and' nhouid be an argument in favor uf inereitsifg rather than Iraacrjing their : c )niponaiiuu '.$r equ-1 work. jU'hcn this ung ill uit discrimination '.Hgi.iiHt the sex shall be overcome, then will women have achieved their greatest "right" a right more im-! im-! p'.jrunt to them than going to Ibo polN, depositing tbeir ballot, Icrging election returns to retain power, and calling the oppieite party blackguard named. |