Life and writings of Amelia BloomerBloomer, D. C. (Dexter C.)
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Life and writings of Amelia Bloomer
Bloomer, D. C. (Dexter C.)
Bloomer, Amelia Jenks, 1818-1894; Women's rights -- United States
Mrs. Bloomer attended the meeting of the Ohio Woman’s
State-Temperance Society, held at Columbus early in January,
and took an active part in its proceedings. She was elected its
corresponding secretary, and was a member of the committee which
proceeded to the State Capitol and presented a petition to each
branch of the legislature then in session asking for the enactment
of stringent prohibitory laws. Not being entirely satisfied with
the regular report of the committee on resolutions, she offered a
series on her own responsibility. These declared in substance, that
the redemption of our race from the manifold evils of intemperance
is of greater importance than the triumph of any political party;
that the question must go to the ballot-box for final settlement;
that, as men regard women as weak and dependent beings, women ask
protection at their hands; and that it should be their duty to make
themselves acquainted with woman’s sentiments on this great question,
and honestly carry them out. In support of the resolutions, she
said she considered many of the temperance men really responsible
for the protracted rum interest. They were so wedded to party that
they heeded not their duty to the welfare and morals of society. In
spite of all that had been done, the cause lingers and the rumsellers
and manufacturers triumph. The temperance men are to blame for not
acting consistently or independently for the cause. They will not act
together as for a paramount interest; they do not strike the nail
on the head. It is useless to dally thus from year to year and not
strike a blow to tell upon the evil and the curse. The resolutions,
after discussion, were unanimously adopted.
A WOMAN TYPESETTER.
Fully believing that she should carry out in practice what she
advocated in theory, Mrs. Bloomer secured early in the spring the
services of Mrs. C. W. Lundy, of New York, as typesetter; previously
to coming to Mount Vernon, she had had three months’ experience in
the work. The fact of her employment and coming into the office
was freely talked of in the presence of the employees, all of whom
were men, and no word of dissent or disapproval, to Mrs. Bloomer’s
knowledge, was expressed. It was agreed that her employee should
receive all necessary instructions from Mr. Higgins himself, he
being a practical printer, or from the men engaged in the office. It
was soon seen that the men employed in typesetting, and especially
the foreman, looked with disfavor on the movement and by various
uncourteous acts and remarks endeavored to make the situation an
unpleasant one.
A STRIKE FOLLOWED.
Mrs. Bloomer herself gave the following report of this strike of the
male typesetters. After alluding to the employment of Mrs. Lundy and
her introduction into the printing office of the _Home Visitor_, she
proceeds:
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