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NAIIUNij LAdUK
OVER A MILLION AND A HALF
WOMEN WORK AS FARM HANDS
IN THE UNITED STATES.
By Peter Radford
Lecturer National Farmers* t’nlon.
Our government never faced 00 tre
mendous a problem as that now lying
dormant at the doors of congress and
the legislatures, and which, when
aroused, will shake this nation from
center to circumference, and make
civilization hide its face in shame.
That problem is—women in the field.
The last federal census reports
chow we now have 1,614,000 women
working in the field, most of them
4outh of the Mason and Dixon line.
There were approximately a million
negro slaves working In the fields
when liberated by the emancipation
proclamation. We have freed our
slaves and our women have taken
their places In bondage. We have
broken the shackles off the negroes
and welded them upon our daughters
The Chain-Gang of Civilization.
A million women In bondage In the
southern fields form the chain-gang of
civilization — the Industrial tragedy
of the age. There Is no overseer quite
so cruel as that of unrestrained greed,
no whip that stings like the lash of
suborned destiny, and no auctioneer’s
block quite so revolting as that of or
ganized avarice.
The president of the Vnited States
was recently lauded by the press, and
very properly so. for suggesting medi
ation between the engineers and rnll
road managers in adjusting their
schedule of time and pay. The engi
neers threatened to strike If their
wages were not Increased from ap
proximately ten to eleven dollars per
day and service reduced from ten to
eight hours and a similar readjust
ment of the overtime schedule. Our
women are working in the field, many
of them barefooted, for less than 60
cents per day, and their schedule Is
the rising sun and the evening star,
and nfter the>day’s work is over they
milk the cows, slop the hogs and rock
the baby to sleep. N anyone mediat
ing over their problems, and to whom
shall they threaten a strike?
Congress has listened approvingly
to those who toil at the forge and be
hind the counter, and many of our
Ftatesmen have smiled at the threats
and have fanned the fk»me of unrest
among industrial laborers. But wom
en are as surely the final victims of
industrial warfare as they are the
burden-bearers in the war between na
tions. and those who arbitrate and
mediate the differences between capi
tal and labor should not forget that
when the expenses of any industry Hre
unnecessarily increased, society foots
the hill hv drafting a new consignment
of women from the home to the field.
Pinch no Crumb From Women’s Crust
of Bread.
iiiiiuirmi a^ani ran ne mane
without someone footing the bill, and
we commend to those who accept tho
responsibility of the distribution of In
dustrial justice, the still small voice of
the woman in the Held as she pleads
for mercy, and we beg that they plnrh
no crumb from her crust of bread or
pflt 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 Tui-tice 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 feveri'-h
brow' of her pox who bows and reaps
*the nation's harvest or will she permit
the male of tlje species to shove
women—weak and weary—from the
bread-line of Industry to the back al
leys of poverty?
Women and Children First.
Tho census enumerators tell us that
of the 1.:,14.000 women who work In the
fields as farm hantb 400 ooo are six
teen years of ne« and under. What is
the final d^stinv of a nation whoso 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 if our daughters
are raised In the society of the ox and
the companionship of the plow0
In that strata between the ago® of
Sixteen and forty-five are 950,000 wom
en working as farm hand® and many
of them with surkllng babes tug
King at their breasts, ns drenched
In perspiration, they wleid the scythe
and guide the plow. What Is to be
come of that nation where poverty
breaks the crov.ns of the queens of
the home; d* - pair hurls a mother's
love from its throne anu hunger drives
innocent children from the schoolroom
to the noe?
The census bureau phows that 155,
000 of thc«e women are forty-five
years of age and over There Is no
more pitiful sly it in civilization than
these saintly mothers of Israel stooped
vi h age. drudging in the field from
•tin until sun and at night drenching
th'ir dingy pillows with Um tears of
despair as their aching hearts take
It *.!! to God in ui«»ver. Civilization j
strikes them a diow wneu u suouiu
give them a crown, and their only
friend is he who broke bread with
beRRars and said: “Come unto me all
ye that are weary and heavy laden and
I will Rive you rest."
Oh, America! The land of the free
and the home of the brave, the
world's custodian of chivalry, the
champion of human rlRhts and the de
fender of the oppressed -shall we per
mit 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,
w hom w e covenanted with God to cher
ish aud protect, to be hurled from the
home to the harvest field, and our
mothers dear to he driven from the old
arm chair to the cotton patch?
In resculnR our citizens from the
forces of civilization, ran we not apply
to our fair Dixieland the rule of the
sea—“women and children first?”
There must be a readjustment of i
the wage scale of industry so that the
women ran be taken from the field or
Riven a reasonable whro for her serv
ices. perhaps the Issue has never been
fairly raised, but the Farmers’ Union,
with a membership of ten million, pula
Its orRanlzed forces squarely behind
the issue and we now enter upon the
docket of civilization the case of "The
W oman in the Field" and demand an
immediate trial.
RAILROADS APPEAL
TO PRESIDENT
The Common Carriers Ask for Re
lief— President Wilson Directs
Attention of Public to
Their Needs.
Tho committee of railroad execu
tives. headed by Mr. Frank Trumbull,
representing thirty-five of the leading
railroad systems of the nation, recent
ly presented to President Wilson a
memorandum briefly reviewing the dif
ticultit s now confronting the railroads
of the country und asking for the co
operation of tli«* governmental authori
ties and the public In supporting rail
M>ad credits am] recognizing an emer
g-ncy which requires that the rail
roads be given additional revenues.
The memorandum recites that the
Furopean war has resulted in general
depression of business on the Ameri
can continent and in the dislocation
of credits at home and abroad. With
revenues decreasing and interest rates
increasing the transportation systems
of the country face a most serioua
crisis and tho memorandum is a
strong presentation or the candle
burning at both ends and the perils
ihat must ultimately attend such a
conllugrution when ttic flames meet
*s apparent to all. In their general
discussion the railroad representa
tives say in ptirt: "Hy reason of leg
islation and regulation by the federal
government and tho forty-eight states
acting independently of each other, as
we|] as through the action of a strong
public opinion, railroad expenses in
recent years have vastly increased.
No criticism is here made of the gen
eral theory of governmental regula
tion, but on the other hand, no In
genuity can relieve fhe carriers of ex
penses created thereby."
President Wilson, iu transmitting
tho memorandum of the railroad
presidents to the public, character
izes it as "a lucid statement of plain
truth. 1 he president recognizing
the emergency as extraordinary, con
tinuing. said in part:
You a-k me to call the attention
of the country to the imperative need
that railway credits be sustained and
the railroads helped in every possible
"ay, whether by private co-operative
effort or by the atflon, wherever j
feasible of governmental agencies, and
1 am glad to do so because 1 think
the need very real."
The conference was certainly a
fortunate one for the nation and th®
president is to be congratulated for
opening the gate to a new world of
effort in which everyone may co-oper
ate.
There are many important prob
lems in our complex civilization that
will yield to co-operation which will
not lend themselves to arbitrary rul
ings of commissions and financing
railroads is one of them The rnan
with the money is a factor that can
not bo eliminated from any business
transacting and the public Is an Inter
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suited and happily the nre»|dent has
invited nil to participate In the solu
tion of our railroad problems
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«c r**-*— BIBLE •STUDY* ON -—
THE RISEN CHRIST,
dark 16:1-8; Matthew 28:11-15—Dec. 6.
I “Why trek ye the hiring among*! the <t>a<it
lie i* no! here. Out rixen.'' —I.uke i^:S. iS.
CHK resurrection of the dead will
i>e the greatest manifestation
of Divine Power ever mud** to4
angels and to men. The awak
ening of Jairus' daughter, of the wid
ow of Xaiu's son. and of Jesus’ friend
Lazurus are nowhere styled resurrec
tions of the deud; they were merely
awakenings, the Inst of these l»eing
the most wonderful, because Lazarus
had lieen dead four days and putrefac
tion had set in.
The resurrection promised In the Bi
ble will bring back the |»ersonallty and
the consciousness of billions of hu
manity who have died under the Di
vine sentence, '‘Dying, thou shalt die,”
“Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt
thou return.” There could be no res
urrection no escape from that Divine
sentence—except in the way that God
has arrungeJ; namely, that our Lord
Jesus took the place of the origiuul
sinner. Adam, purchasing him and all
his race back from the death state.
Fallacious ideas have gone abroad to
the effect that it will be merely the
body that will Ih.* resurrected—that
God will collect from the four winds
every particle of dust which once com
posed the body, and will reorganize
i the race out of the same particles
which formerly composed it. The ab
surdity of this thought grows upon us
! as we consider that the bodies of
i the dead have more or less gone Into
I vegetation, etc. The ditliculty has
I been that we lost sight of the Biblical
i declaration that it is the soul that dies.
(Ezekiel 18:4, 20.) Our bodies are
changed every seven years. It is the
soul that dies, that has been redeemed
and that Is to be resurrected.
Our Lord No Longer Human.
Christ, ns the I.oros. was n livinp
soul, being. on a hiRh spirit plane. For
man's sake lie humbled Himself—
“took a bonds man's form.” (I’hillp
pians 2:7, S.> As a human soul, or be
biR. He died—“poured out His soul
unto death," “made His soul an Offer
biR for sin."—Isaiah 52:10 12
It was Jesus the soul that died, but
He was raised from the dead a soul of a
i hijrher order. At that time, as He fore
told. He ascended where He was be
j fore: that is. He was put to death in
nesn, nut <111i«*K
eiicd. or made
alive, in spirit, tl
Peter 3:18.» He
took the human
nature merely
for I he u'reat pur
pose of trivimr
mans redemp
tion-price: and
a t’t e r lie had
laid down that
ransom-price by
giving Himself up “ne ia Men.’’
tt ileatii, the Kiithfr raised Him up to
glory, honor, immortality—far above
angels, principalities, powers.
Because after Ills resurrection Jesus
was so different, we are prepared from
lliis viewpoint to understand why He
conducted Ilimself so differently after
Ills resurrection—lie appeared and dis
appeared, we read. Never before had
lie done this. After Ills resurrection
He appeared in different bodies, differ
ent forms, different clothing. To Ma
ry He appeared as the gardener; to
tlie two walking to Emmuus. lie ap
peared as a ritranger. His clothing had
been parted amongst the soldiers.
How evidently He was put to death
In flesh, hut quickened In spirit! It
was tlie Spirit Jesus who showed Him
self, assuming different human forms
and clothing, as best suited the occa
sion. Tills Spirit Being came Into the
assemblies of the disciples when the
doors were fastened for fear of the
Jews. He created or materialized a
laxly and clothing In their presence:
nnd after a few minutes He vanished,
dissolving the body nnd the clothing,
while He. tlie Spirit, remained invisi
ble Tims He wan with the disciples
for forty days before lie ascended;
yet they saw Him not. except for a
few minutes at a time on seven differ
ent occasions.
I Iiom** forty dny» wore vory nccrti
»»ry to *,eaeli two great lessons:
(I) 'I hat He was no longer dead, but
alive;
f.i That He was no longer a man.
bur a spirit.—2 Corinthians 3:17,
The Importance of the Resurrection,
Tie <• f icts are deafly established
bv >t I*ml s narrative of his own ex*
perba lie explains that It was
»"v • f that the twelve Apostles
*b • 'I ' •• able to bear witness to .le
sns' resurrection.
There could have
been no Hospel
-ijifctt* of hope
of Divine favor
through n dead
Savior. Had
t'hrlsf not risen,
«ho would es
tablish the M<>*
slanle Kingdom
and call forth
front Die tomb
^ the sleeping bll
I. i of tl .. .;.11.IV .Ml this the Apostle
f • s to our minds.—I Cor.
U:12 ltt.
*h*ti11j sj I’ntil In no way shared
t • ■ . . r tl, is.- vim nnscrlpturnlly
r- III if Jesus while dead was
toln i I'*. Kid that tie* resurrection
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' » the carrying out of
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