The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-07-08
A FLATHEAD PAGAN.
Discourse on Woman, Lovely Woman.
Modesty ConceaIs Identity.

At a little school house not far from
Bad Rock canyon a learned disserta-
ton was presented by modest young
man who Identifies himself as "a
4 Flathead Pagan" The occasion was
the closing exercises of the public
school for the term, and this paper
was read with due form and rhetoric
by the author.
Ladies and gentlemen and little
kids, I say kids because the preacher
says children may mean mighty men
of valor. I am bound to include the
children, even if l call them kids:
1t is with mingled feelings of hest
fancy and indecision that 1 appear
before you this evening. / feel that
l am not competent to do the subject
justice. The old saying, "a prophet
is not without honor save in his own
country" occurs to me. / suppose
that is the reason why so many
preachers are the best liked where
the least known. Aside from this,
have no apology to offer on "a Trib-
ute to Woman" AS the nineteenth
century passes into history as being
the most active in the progress of
the arts and sciences, so a new fea-
ture in the evolution of conduct has
taken root l refer to the conduct
OF the human race toward the female
sex.
| Retrogress the unpaved avenue of
time; behold the appalling condition
of society in primeval times; OBJ
serve the world without science-the
dark ages-contemplate humanity as
we look backward; weak, depraved
and degenerate; fear and supersti-
ton the only religion, ignorance the
only accomplishment, selfish priest
hood the only profession; to think
aloud was crime; to suggest a re-
form was a penal offense
In primitive times woman did not
hold the proud and lofty position in
society which she now occupies. |
trust l shall not express myself too
forcibly on this subject, when / say
that woman was degraded and held
in low esteem.
/ Why has man and woman accom-
plished more in the last fifty years
than in any previous one thousand?
Simply because they have reasoned,
studied natural phenomena, discov-
cred science
What do we possess in the world
that is good and great and grand that
is not directly or indirectly the re-
suit of science?
Science, demonstrated, is inter
changeable with fact Theories are
human, facts are divine.
believe in facts. Let us be whole
sale and retail dealers in facts; i'm
agination being eliminated from our
: makeup.
They did show some leniency in
J Mosaic times; for we read that when
, wars of determination were being
waged against the gentiles by the
! Jews, they did some times spare the
| young women and take them unto
themselves.
/ Evolution of conduct throughout
the ages has elevated woman to that
proud station which Providence had
fitted her to fill. l say let us have
f equal rights to all, throughout the
{ world, regardless of race, color or
sex.
AS late as the days of Paul, the
apostle, women were placed in very
subordinate position. We do not
agree with Paul at the present time
not all of us, at any rate. Paul said !:
Let your women keep silence in the
f churches; for it is not permitted
, unto them TO speak; for they are
commanded to be under obedience
as also sayeth the law" i
: And if they will learn anything, let
| them ask their husbands at home;
A for it is a shame for women to speak
in the church"
r Let us place it like this: If tine
woman is possessed of a higher or
v der of intelligence than the man
q which is often the case--let the man
/ if he will learn anything, ask the
wife at home or elsewhere; for it is
J. a shame for ignorance to give coun
i sci or instruction to wisdom, as also
4 sayeth reason, common sense, an6
e public opinion to great extent.
Some men are like brooks, NOISY
but shallow, while even the silence Of
s. noble woman often produces an eff
a feet not equalled by manly eloquence
e If we wish to know the politica
l. and moral condition of a state, WE
a must ask what rank women hold il
e it. Their influence embraces thu
It whole of life. A wife. A mother
e Two magical words comprising the
II sweetest source or mans felicity
d Theirs is the sign of beauty, of love
l. of reason-always a reign A maj
" at the present day takes council will
v his wife, he obeys his mother-h,
S, obeys her long after she has ceaset
e to live; and the ideas which he ha,
n received from her become principles
d stronger even than his passions.