Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1911-05-04
C Cd ROADS gu STI0N
Discussed From a Woman S
Standpoint.

How many of the 400 women tax
payers Of BiOuut county have thought
| about the good roads movements How
many of them have bsen or will be
| consulted! AN impertinant uueS-
ton, says an suffragettr. And
yet IT is not suffragette who asks toe
question but one of the aforesaid
400 who is Perfectly willing to let
the men do all the voting; ,erefore it
may be pertinent point to give the
woman s view just at this juncture.
WhyT Because the woman is the ul-
innate sufferer by the abominable road
system of the county, which is no sys-
TEN, but series of haphazards, seri-
Gus mishaps and dangerous hazards.
why do so many young people leave
the farm?' asks every other paper you
pick up. Let the men answer for their
boys. But what inducement is there
in Blount county for young woman
to stay at home or become a farmers
wife if she can possibly become any
thing elseT Even a clerk in a dry
goods store at 3d. 90 a week or an oper-
ator in mill has more profit and
more freedom, 1t is not the work
woman breads for women must work
in the twentieth century; that is the
price of her freedom, but it is the re-
striction of that very freedom which
every American citizen is entitled to
against which we rebels. "A wom-
an place is in the home Yea, YER
lily. but need that home be to her
Jail, and mud holes and impossible
bitches be the bars to keep her in it
Shall woman who has toiled all the
week with Der milk, butter, poultry,
or truck patch be denied the satisfac-
tion of an occasional visit to town to
market the fruits of her labors and |
personally select the articles needed for |
her family because the roads are too
bad to travel
imagine hauling eggs twelve miles
over any road leading out of Mary
vile, if they we're the purest breed the
Poultry Association could recommend, |
they would not hatch in the finest in
cubator on the market. Then take the
wear and tear on clothes and vehicles.
A farmers daughter likes to wear her
best dress to town occasionally, she
will take a whole morning ironing a
pretty white dress or gingham for that
purpose. BY the time she reaches
through countless mudholes
it is better fitted for the washtub than
the street. And the buggy? Well the
present roads of Blount County are
better for the blacksmith's trade than
any other Often the woman must
leave her buggy at the shop" while
she does her trading with the sum for
repairs deducted from expenditures.
1t is said the merchants are opposed
20 the good roads movement. This
must be mistake. If it is not mis-
aiken report it is great mistake on
jhe part of the merchants. The egg
md butter money of the farmers wife
md daughter is no inconsiderable part
If the merchants trade. If she cannot
get to Maryville over passable roads,
he will sell her stuff to the peddler,
ret on the train aud go to Knoxville
md spend her money, of course. If she
ould drive to Maryville quickly at
10 expense that railroad fara would
'e spent right here, buying additional
household necessities. If any mer-
liant should be on the opposite side of
he fence to good roads he is bound
Ipon little reflection to climb over
S quickly as possible and lend his
dice to the demand for good roads
which is the right of every
WOMAN TAX PAYER,
-Maryville, Times