in an official
document is sufficient to send a woman to the jail or the gallows, it
is sufficient to enable her to vote and hold office.

On the last evening, the Hon. Carroll D. Wright, U. S. Commissioner of
Labor, delivered a valuable address on The Industrial Emancipation of
Women, in which he said:

Until within a comparatively recent period, woman's subjection to
man has been well-nigh complete in all respects, whether such
subjection is considered from a social, political, intellectual
or even a physical point of view. At first the property of man,
she emerged under civilization from the sphere of a drudge to
that of a social factor and, consequently, into the liberty of
cultivating her mental faculties....

Industrial emancipation, using the term broadly, means the
highest type of woman as the result, the word "industrial"
comprehending in this sense all remunerative employment. The
entrance of woman into the industrial field was assured when the
factory system of labor displaced the domestic or hand labor
system. The age of invention, with the wonderful ramifications
which invention always has produced, must be held accountable for
bringing woman into a field entirely unknown to her prior to that
age. As an economic factor, either in art, literature or
industry, she was before that time hardly recognizable. With the
establishment of the factory system, the desire of woman to have
something more than she could earn as a domestic or in
agricultural labor, or to earn something where before she had
earned nothing, resulted in her becoming an economic factor, and
she was obliged to submit to all the conditions of this new
position. It hardly can be said that in the lower forms of
industrial pursuits she superseded man, but it is true that she
supplemented his labors....

Each step in industrial progress has raised her in the scale of
civilization rather than degraded her. As a result she has
constantly gone up higher and gained intellectual advantages,
such as the opening to her of the higher institutions of
learning, which have in turn equipped her for the best
professional employment. The moral plane of the so-called
workingwoman certainly is higher than that of the woman engaged
in domestic service, and is equal to that of any class of women