Lex Anteinternet: Saturday, August 18, 1923. Silent Cal goes riding...

Lex Anteinternet: Saturday, August 18, 1923. Silent Cal goes riding...: 

Sigh, oh for the days this was normal, and not the sh** show the nation's politics are today.

Saturday, August 18, 1923. Silent Cal goes riding. Hoff family goes walking.

Lex Anteinternet: Sunday, April 22, 1923. Agrarian rise.

Lex Anteinternet: Sunday, April 22, 1923. Agrarian rise.: 

Sunday, April 22, 1923. Agrarian rise.

The British commenced their occupation of Rawandiz, in Iraqi Kurdistan. The Kurdish city is near the Turkish and Iranian borders.  The United Kingdom was occupying the country under a League of Nations Mandate.  The border was contested by the Turks, who had occupied the city only a year prior, which motivated the British to garrison the town.

The Bulgarian Agrarian National Union won the vast majority of the seats of the country's Parliament.  The agrarian party is the only such party to come to power by a majority of votes being cast for it outright.

The party was a founding member of the International Agrarian Bureau and part of a strong rising agrarian movement in Eastern Europe. The movement would eventually spread to Western Europe as well, but the rise of Communism and World War Two would effectively destroy it and its influence waned. The Bureau dissolved in 1971.

Lex Anteinternet: Monday, February 5, 1923. Parti libéral du Québec...

Lex Anteinternet: Monday, February 5, 1923. Parti libéral du Québec...: 

Monday, February 5, 1923. Parti libéral du Québec retains its position.

Louis-Alexandre Taschereau retained his position as Premier of Quebec, as he would all the way through 1936.

Taschereau was a member of the Liberal Party (Parti libéral du Québec) and had been elected in 1920 as the Canadian economy started to sink, in advance, into the Great Depression.  He was an opponent of Roosevelt's new Deal, comparing it to fascism and communism, and instead encouraged private enterprise to develop Quebec's forest and hydroelectric potential.  As he did so, his policies challenged Québécois agrarianism, which would begin to lead to its end.

And therefore, I am not a fan.

That may sound silly, but agrarianism is what allowed the Québécois to remain that.  Their agrarian separation and close association with the Catholic Church is what allowed them to remain a people for two centuries of "English" domination.

Taschereau was not a disloyal Francophone or Catholic, but by attacking the agrarian nature of Québécois society he was by default attacking its essence in favor of money.  Ultimately that attack would succeed, leading to the downfall of Québécois agrarianism and ultimately to the undercutting of the culture itself.  It remains, of course, but badly damaged by the experience.

Lex Anteinternet: Tuesday, January 16, 1923: Work on cattle ranch, ...

Lex Anteinternet: Tuesday, January 16, 1923: Work on cattle ranch, ...: 

Tuesday, January 16, 1923: Work on cattle ranch, Z/T Ranch, Pitchfork, Wyoming

A truly great photograph.