Showing posts with label Oregon (Portland). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Oregon (Portland). Show all posts

Tuesday, October 7, 2025

Blog Mirror: Cassie Craven: We Want Our Country Back


From National Archives Today's Documents: Blacksmith class at Benson Polytechnic School, Army Training Department, Portland, Oregon. 7/26/1918

A truly deluded Cowboy State Daily column.

Cassie Craven: We Want Our Country Back

Craven is a right wing lawyer out of Cheyenne and is picking up her news from media.

It's interesting to note how this can work.  During the Second World War, very informed Germans who wanted to know what was going on clandestinely listened to the BBC, while many others listened to or read the German news.  Listening to the BBC was illegal.  Anyhow, many were shocked after January 1945 to find that, in spite of all the evidence that was before their eyes, they were losing the war, and in fact were going to lose it.

This is going on in our society now, although its obviously not illegal to listen to the BBC.  About half the country is absolutely horrified by what's going on, but there's a percentage, let's say 25% to 33% that fully accepts what Trump is saying.

Is Portland a war zone? Absolutely not. Is it left of center?  Yes, it has been for decades.  Is there any problem at all?

Yes, homeless on the streets, like in LA, or in Denver, or Oklahoma City, or even to a small degree like Casper.  That's a universal American problem.

It doesn't call for the deployment of troops.

This will end badly.

But Craven's "we want our country back" is actually what she means, and many who support Trump mean. The thing is, however, that the country she wants back, never existed.



Sunday, June 25, 2023

Monday, June 25, 1923. Harding comes to Cheyenne and Laramie. The Ku Klux Klan came to Glenrock


The Tribune headlined with an auto accident that occurred in connection with Hardin's visit to Denver the day prior.

In Laramie, it was noted, but the focus was on his visit that would occur today.


He was stopped by Cheyenne as well, where the city gave him a cowboy hat, and he delivered a speech on the coal situation.

Glenrock had a different type of visitor:



The size of the demonstration is surprising.  I was not small.

The paper was silent on the lawlessness that concerned the Klan, but it was likely violations of Prohibition.  The KKK was a supporter of Prohibition.

An elevated train collapsed in Brooklyn, killing seven people.

The Progressive Conservative Party won provincial elections in Ontario.

Portland: