Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1908 — Woman Frail Thing, Says Supreme Court [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Woman Frail Thing, Says Supreme Court

tITOMAN is in a class by herself. v» She's frail. ‘ No matter how much she may hanker for the rights of men, the right of suffrage and other privileges, it is impossible to close one’s eyes to the fact that she is the weaker vessel and still looks to her brother for protection. This Is so, Susan B. Anthony and others to the contrary notwithstanding. The supreme court of these great United States says so. ■ In a decision upholding the Oregon eight-hour day law for women em-

ployes, the court perhaps for the first time in its history, told woman just where she stands. And a laundryman is responsible for this official pronunci amen to as to the rights of the fair sex. This thrifty Oregonian made his women employes work ten hours, the same as the men on his pay rolls. He was prosecuted under the eight-hour law, which was upheld by the state courts and again by the country’s highest tribunal. , , Holding first that women’s rights can be no more infringed than those of men, Justice Brewer, who announced the decision, went still further and held that on many accounts woman is entitled to greater protection than her brother. “Legislation designed . for her protection may be sustained even when like legislation is not necessary for men and could not be sustained,” he said.