In 1869 he started his work for temperance instigated by three drunken men who came to his home with a paper signed by a saloonkee...per and his patrons on which was written "For God's sake organize a temperance society."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Indigenous to Minnesota, and almost completely ignored by its people, are the stark, unornamented, functional clusters of concrete...--Minnesota's grain elevators. These may be said to express unconsciously all the principles of modernism, being built for use only, with little regard for the tenets of esthetic design.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Music is so much a part of their daily lives that if an Indian visits another reservation one of the first questions asked on his ...return is: "What new songs did you learn?"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The trenchant editorials plus the keen rivalry natural to extremely partisan papers made it necessary for the editors to be expert... pugilists and duelists as well as journalists. An editor made no assertion that he could not defend with fists or firearms.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In 1862 the congregation of the church forwarded the church bell to General Beauregard to be melted into cannon, "hoping that its ...gentle tones, that have so often called us to the House of God, may be transmuted into war's resounding rhyme to repel the ruthless invader from the beautiful land God, in his goodness, has given us."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
From a bed in this hotel Seargent S. Prentiss arose in the middle of the night and made a speech in defense of a bedbug that had b...itten him. It was heard by a mock jury and judge, and the bedbug was formally acquitted.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If we should swap a good library for a second-rate stump speech and not ask for boot, it would be thoroughly in tune with our hear...ts. For deep within each of us lies politics. It is our football, baseball, and tennis rolled into one. We enjoy it; we will hitch up and drive for miles in order to hear and applaud the vitriolic phrases of a candidate we have already reckoned we'll vote against.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They had their fortunes to make, everything to gain and nothing to lose. They were schooled in and anxious for debates; forcible i...n argument; reckless and brilliant. For them it was but a short and natural step from swaying juries in courtroom battles over the ownership of land to swaying constituents in contests for office. For the lawyer, oratory was the escalator that could lift a political candidate to higher ground.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The candidate tells us we are the "backbone of the State," and we know that it is true, not because we are possessed of certain en...dowed virtues, but because we are a majority and have the vote.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »