The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-01-18
CAROLINE LOWE
ON SOCIALISM
TRACED EVOLUTION OF MAN
FROM sAVAGERY TO THE WAGE
YSTEM-WoMAN SUFFRAGE.

a
sas City school teacher, was here
last night and lecturcd at thc district
court room. Miss Lowe was here dur
ing the socialist cncampmcnt last
summer and many Ardmore people
beard her lecture before. Her subject
as announced was woman suffrage but
she said il vas mistake. that she
never devoted full lecture on this
subject but LETT the woman question
largely to the sunragetts who were
doing noble work in the interest OF
women. Miss Lowe did say that wo-
men We're entitled to the ballot, thu
mother most assurCLy had the
right to say what civic surroundings
her child should have and went back
into old history to show how womol
had been treated by the men. DO
you know" she said, that one idea
OF slaves was that they had no souls
and that was the idea men held of
women-really that they had no souls.
the most learned men in the country
once. There were two very import
ant questions that came up before that
august assemblage of the wisest men
and best scholars of the age. One OF
these questions was how many angels
can dance on the point of one needle
nd T.
sessed Of a soul by IA majority of one
vote they decided woman really had
soul and now you can realize how
/ important that majority OF one is. Had
/ they not so decided in the favor of
us women | suspect We should still be
/ denied the right of claiming soul.
/ While men admit now We have a soul
they do claim we have no political
rights. | believe the Kansas City
Judge was right when he said in two
years women would have the ballot in
muni,. pal elections and in ten years
they will have the ballot in all eleC-
tions,'
Miss Loves talk was general dis
cussion of socialism She thrust the
Bible aside for the theory of evolu.
tion but spoke in the tenderest terms
of the lowly Nazarine who produced
certain reforms in the interest of the
working peOple-himself being a car
penter.
She said hundreds of thousands OF
years ago people Were in sayagery
after remaining in this state for years
and years they went into tribal com,
munsm where all they owned was in
common and when the men fished and
hunted and the women scratched the
earth with a crooked stick to produce
food stun very much like the fashion
OF the North American Indian wher
he was discovered here by Columbus
From the state OF tribal communism
p, ople went into the period of slavery
Nearly every person was a slave, they
had no soul, they were possessed o
fear. Whatever they feared they wor
shipped, they feared the wind and tn,
sun and they wOrshipped both. They
were sold from their children anC
their loved ones at the pleasure o
their masters and after years anC
years another reform came and feud
alism took the place OF universal siay
cry. Under feudalism people We're no
sod but they lived upon the manO
whore they were required to rcmail
for a Thousand years. II the maIp
was sold the people staid with N
land ami in manner were sold toc
From the feudal state man went II
Z 60 the wage state. The nyention a
WOODEN mills made sheep grow in
more remuneratiye than agri ultur
and the lord drove all his serfs ava
from the manor and forced them I
work for wages. That period s,V' g,
lists, We are free now, We can leay
our city, county, state or country bl
there is one thing We are a slave u
she said, and our master is our loI