Who Pays the Bills Racked-Up in a Socialist State? (Literary Digest, 1894)This article was written long before the crumbling Euro and the economic collapse of Greece, Spain, Portugal, Venezuela, East Germany and the USSR - it is an 1894 editorial that outlines why socialism cannot not work:
"He insists that all previous Social evolutions have meant an improvement in production and an increase in income, but the peculiarity of the Socialistic programme is that “it is to be not a money-making, but a money-spending evolution,” in which “everybody is to live a great deal better than he has been in the habit of living, and to have far more fun."
This 1946 article argued that Socialism is simply un-American...
Beethoven and his Deafness (The Literary Digest, 1894)Musical historian W.S.B. Mathews considers the three musical styles of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 – 1827) and entirely dismisses the possibility that his deafness in later years effected his compositions not one jot.
The Suffragettes Appeal To The States (Literary Digest, 1894)This article tells the story of Susan B. Anthony, Dr. Anna Howard Shaw and the gang as they worked the state conventions in a effort to gain the right to vote. In states with large Republican majorities, they swore to vote vote Republican, in states with large Democratic majorities they promised to support that party:
"The State Woman-Suffrage Association should remain non-partisan and each individual woman should feel free to ally herself with whatever party she approves." The French Hatred of Germany (Literary Digest, 1894)"French hatred of Germany has been looked upon as something of a bugaboo, as being greatly exaggerated, and having little reality except in the writings of the sensationalists. That this hatred is a fact, a very serious fact..." The Mind of Susan B. Anthony (Literary Digest, 1894)For those Victorian phrenologists who made it their life's work to map out the brains of American Suffragettes, Susan B. Anthony proved to have been the least complicated:
"This is a brain in which there was no waste - no superfluous expenditure. This is a woman with a purpose from which she never swerves."
Click here to read about that moment in 1920 when American Women attained the vote.
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