The recent attempt to secure a charter from the State of North Dakota for a lottery company, the pending effort to obtain from the... State of Louisiana a renewal of the charter of the Louisiana State Lottery, and the establishment of one or more lottery companies at Mexican towns near our border, have served the good purpose of calling public attention to an evil of vast proportions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I cannot exaggerate the waste of the President's time and the consumption of his nervous vitality involved in listening to congres...smen's intercession as to local appointments. Why should the President have to have his time taken up in a discussion over ... who shall be the postmistress of Devil's Lake, in North Dakota? How should he be able to know ... who is best fitted to fill such a place?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American.... America is the only idealistic nation in t...he world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My country is bleeding, my people are perishing around me. But I feel as a South Carolinian, I am bound to tell the North, go on! ...go on! Never falter, never abandon the principles which you have adopted.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
--Here, the flag snaps in the glare and silence Of the unbroken ice. I stand here,... The dogs bark, my beard is black, and I stare At the North Pole. . . And now what? Why, go back.
The discovery of the North Pole is one of those realities which could not be avoided. It is the wages which human perseverance pay...s itself when it thinks that something is taking too long. The world needed a discoverer of the North Pole, and in all areas of social activity, merit was less important here than opportunity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We joined long wagon trains moving south; we met hundreds of wagons going north; the roads east and west were crawling lines of fa...milies traveling under canvas, looking for work, for another foothold somewhere on the land.... The country was ruined, the whole world was ruined; nothing like this had ever happened before. There was no hope, but everyone felt the courage of despair.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We hold on to hopes for next year every year in western Dakota: hoping that droughts will end; hoping that our crops won't be hail...ed out in the few rainstorms that come; hoping that it won't be too windy on the day we harvest, blowing away five bushels an acre; hoping ... that if we get a fair crop, we'll be able to get a fair price for it. Sometimes survival is the only blessing that the terrifying angel of the Plains bestows.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The sense of place is unavoidable in western Dakota, and maybe that's our gift to the world. ...In these places you wait, and the ...places mold you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »