Henry Watterson: “Notwithstanding this splendid indorsement, I went to the National Convention feeling very like the traditional “poor boy…”

From fakers who have cards up their sleeves, not to mention snakes in their boots, we hear a great deal about “the people,” pronounced by them as if it were spelled “pee-pul.” It is the unfailing recourse of the professional politician in…

Too many churches—or, shall I say, church fabrics—breeding controversy where there should be agreement, each sect and subdivision fighting phantoms of its fancy.

With a kind of education—most men taught to read, very few to think—the masses are likely to demand yet more and more for themselves.

O Liberty,” cried Madame Roland, “how many crimes are committed in thy name!” “O Churchism,” may I not say, “how much nonsense is trolled off in thy name!