I'm doing a report on Mary Elizabeth Lease and I came across this little bit of information:
Lease is widely quoted as having told the farmers of Kansas--and, by implication, Populists generally--to "raise less corn and more hell." but the phrase was actually coined by Ralph Beaumont, a fellow labor lecturer. Lease later observed that she let the comment stand, when it was attributed to her, because she thought it was 'a right good piece of advice.'
i always thought that Mary said that (my teacher said so too).
So, who said it, Mary or Ralph. The article I found this on is here: http://projects.vassar.edu/1896/lease.html about halfway down the page
2007-12-15
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