Show ILL PAID OF WOMEN EIGHT thousand female cloak makers have been on strike in new york long hours and low pay drive many poor half starved and worn out women to infamy there are over two hundred thousand of such sach workers in new york city most of whom toil from fourteen to sixteen hours a day for a bare subsistence think of it they live in crowded tenement houses badly ventilated and eat the commonest food working week in and week out to keep body and soul together and the large profits of their labor gb into the pockets of fat christians who roll to church in their carriages on sunday and snuffle over the wickedness of the mormons cormons Mor mons in utah where two or three women actually marry the same man how much better it would be it if the civilized christian plan was forced upon those benighted mormons cormons Mor mons so that the surplus women might run machines and stitch their hearts out for the support of the grand social and commercial system which is the glory of the nineteenth een century en tury we hope the women will win in n their fight with conscienceless capital and that other workers besides tae cloak makers will wrest from their heartless taskmasters task masters an advance of wages wherewith to keep the wolf of hunger from the door for equal work with men women ought to receive equal pay and until that rule prevails the great cities of christendom will continue to swarm with poor lost creatures who can fare better by the we sale of their bodies than by the ill III requited toil which grinds them to the graye grave replied j the arbitrators will be sure to s split I 1 t the difference an and III ill get one portion ort on this his was an exah exaggeration aeration era tion of f course but at it illustrated the slipshod s 0 and a improper proper method of settling sa such cc 1 0 aties that is not infrequently adopted adopt pd to deal out but evenhanded even handed justice requires not only acuteness acut enels of intellect but firmness of mind decision ot of character and aad an sense of fairness and equity the idea of trying to please both parties or either party ought never to be entertained by a judge or tribunal of any ecclesiastical iu in settling differences between brethren whether as arbitrators teachers or as a court the rights of the parties the square straightforward tf or and undeviating course of truth and righteousness ought to be pursued w without thoat fear or favor or sentimentality the feelings feeding of the parties or their friends ought to cut no figure egure and exercise no influence in a question of light mercy must not rob justice pity must not dest destroy oy equity facts and figu figures resi in must not bend to wishes and op opinion nion clear honest unbiased judgment should hold sway and feeling ought not net to be allowed to interfere when a fair decision is rendered kindness and gentle persuasions may acome come in to temper the rigid claims of equity and soften the demands of exact 1 ustice justice there is some difference between the rules required to settle disputes and those that should govern adjudication upon transgressors motives and cir stances stance sand and palliations atiat th at may be considered in the latter do not enter so largely into the adjustment of the former and allowances that might be made in pronouncing penalties could not be permitted rightly to affect decisions involving rights of property if a plaintiff is found to be entitled to his claim it ought to be allowed without flinching or subterfuge and the michigan judge who recognized this principle and exposed the wrong of the compromise policy is ism fen an titled to the thanks of the public and plaudits pl audits of all lovers of rectitude and square dealing |