Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 149, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1910 — WOMEN PREFERRED. [ARTICLE]

WOMEN PREFERRED.

EntlUh Lecturer Telia Why Employers Like Them Best. "Political power is the only pathway to economic Independence," said Miss Ethel Arnold, of England, In a lecture at New York City a few days ago. The lecturer told of a visit she paid to a big manufacturing town at the hour when the employes were dismissed and of how much better impression the 700 women, clear of eye and skin, trim of figure and independent In bearing, made than the men employes. The head of the factory, commenting on this, told her that the employers pre l ferred them because they didn’t drink, gamble or have the unsteady habits of men. In speaking about the low rate of wages paid to women, the lecturer said that if they demanded more they would be ousted by the men as aresult. It was better a thousand times that women should be ousted by the men, she declared, than that they should lower the standard of wages for honest work. The average of men’s wages in the United Kingdom was rather more than double that of the women, she said, and she continued, "less than half is not a Just nor a fair proportion under any system.” The speaker was loudly applauded

when she said: “If you exclude the married women from the factory then you must assure her a definite legal share in the wages of her husband as the keeper of his house and the mother of his children.”