Word: fanaticism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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*In 1859 John Brown, white man from "Bleeding Kansas," felt that he was destined to free Negro slaves. He must have a citadel. So, with only 18 men, he captured the U. S. arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Va., and was in turn captured by Robert E. Lee. John...
Devils turned out to have depth and determination. It tells of a buried community in the cotton fields and how the Christian religion reached them all awry and drove the prettiest daughter of the village to delirium and death. The instrument of the Word's distortion is a ranting fanatic...
From the seething midst of the thousand Societies, Associations and Leagues for the Prevention and Promulgation of Almost Everything, comes a ray of hope. "The Anti-Fanatic League" is the cheering legend signed to an anti-Methodist communication in the metropolitan papers.
All hail the Anti-Fanatic League! May it prosper and grow fat throughout the land where intolerance is still measured in terms of "difference from me."
It is better to obey God than man, and I am fully persuaded this prompting is of God. Call me fanatic or what you may. Soon after Will K. Reeme of Kansas City, Mo., insurance man, ardent Prohibitionist, was arrested, charged with writing an "indecent letter."* He admitted his authorship...