Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1907-11-14
= Women and Principles.

Am puzzle or an enigmay If
am, so be it. told you at the begin
ming who ! was or where | lived was
no affair of yours. So | treat the
News audience nicely and genteelly, is
all that anyone could ask or expect.
A friend of mine has asked me to keep
on writing and I've agreed to do so,
for said he, l like your letters. Well,
hope all do, and if all don't, perhaps
I've hit the truth in what I've said
I've not tried to dig any social gulf
between girls and boys, for hope am
too we'll raised to do that, for | know
such gulf is more ticticious in spirit
than in fact, and no one need fall SO
low that they can't get up. Though
servant, still they are human, and
should be treated as such, and no we'll
bred young lady is going to mistreat
a hired girl or the hired man. Well
bred people stop and think before they
utter harsh words to hired person.
They consider how they would like
to be treated under like circumstances,
and act accordingly. Just here,
friends, let me say in all candor, my
sympathies are for the working people.
l am aware their treatment has not
been just and fair and their struggles
and conflicts have been more to gain
that God-given right of equality than
it has been for dollars and cents. Wo-
men are not blind to these things as
some think they are, and have been
| willing to economist and stint them
selves in order that their husbands and
| sons and brothers might not be treat
ed as slaves Women know this and
but few, if any, are bitter opponents
of the working class. Then it need
not be surprise if our well-bred, in
| tellectual women declare their sympa-
thy for the people who toll. Women,
as general rule, love the right and
are not afraid to so declare, for they
believe that all towards are tyrants
and all tyrants are towards, and who
ever heard of woman truly loving a
coward2 | wish / knew one. It's not
the feminine nature But they 90 ad-
mire man who stands up for home
and country and his rights and privi-
leges among his fellows. How many
women did you ever know to cast slurs
and insinuations against the working
people when contending for a right or
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with any degree Of common sense. Not
even the wife of the boss or president
would if she had a reasonable amount
of common sense. These are facts be-
be generally known that the female
sex have their own ideas and views
on every question that concerns man,
and that they are the most persistent
of all in carrying their point.
Who are the champion of prohibi-
tion? The women. Who will soon
champion the cause of labor? The
women. Already they are looking in
to the industrial question and the day
is coming when they, like the sisters
of Moses, will help liberate the sons of
toll from their bondage, and place
them on equal footing with the mas
ter. The struggle is sure to come and
will win all over these United States.
We know that from the sons and
daughters of toll our bread and clothes
and fine carriages eminate, and as such
we will dare to stand up for them a
gainst every foe, traitors to them new
er. The female sex has done much
for the land and will do more, as op-
portunity offers and take pride in it..
. Now, in conclusion, let me say this
may be surprise coming from Your
Friend, L, and fill some of you
, readers with astonishment and NAV
even offend some. Be that as it may,
slavery must go, and the people OF
toll be respected and employers must
7 do it or go out of business and stay
! ont. Now, sisters, stand firm and
! true to home and country and God
! will help you in little while, for the
, leaven is working splendidly for you
! and yours. Your Friend, l."