Ernest Poole
Ernest Poole
Ernest Cook Poolewas an American journalist, novelist, and playwright. Poole is best remembered for his sympathetic first-hand reportage of revolutionary Russia during and immediately after the Revolution of 1905 and Revolution of 1917 and as a popular writer of proletarian-tinged fiction during the era of World War I and the 1920s...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth23 January 1880
CountryUnited States of America
towns dukes kind
What kind of crops do they raise in the towns? Only Grand Dukes, Bolsheviks and drunkards!
cutting house tree
Here we grow the flax and grain; here we raise the meat they eat, and the wool to keep them warm; we cut trees to build their houses and firewood to heat their stoves.
thinking cities people
The trouble with those people is that they think all the best things are made in the cities. It is not so.
real russia done
All the real things in Russia are done in the villages.
children vote more-money
When the women get the vote, we'll spend more money on the children.