[288] “The difficulty can only be removed by repealing the restriction act.”—Centerville, California.
“The Chinese have become very independent since the new restriction act.”—San Francisco, California.
“The restriction act made the Chinese very independent. They thought the stopping of the supply would make those already here able to command higher wages.”—San Francisco, California.
“One difficulty is the exclusion act.”—San Francisco, California.
[289] Co-operative Housekeeping. The book is now out of print, but the original articles on which it is based can be found in the Atlantic Monthly, November, 1868, to March, 1869.
[290] A full account of the plan is given in Good Housekeeping, July 19, 1890. It was also described in nearly all of the daily papers during May and June, 1890.
[291] A more complete and possibly more serious account of Mr. Bellamy’s views than that found in Looking Backward is given by him in Good Housekeeping, December 21, 1889.
[292] The New York Tribune says of the sewing women in that city: “They are a product of city life; a sort of vitalized machines, fitted only to do a certain mechanical work and disabled for any other industry mainly because they have been fastened to a sewing-machine all their lives.”
[293] “The men of my family would consider it the greatest disgrace if one of the women connected with it were to support herself.”
[294] Mr. Charles Dudley Warner asserts that women teachers have no social position (Harper’s Monthly, April, 1895). But his statements can apply only to some of the ultra-fashionable finishing schools in two or three large cities.