Iowa andMinnesota play for a pig, a statuette rendition of the actual brother of a porcine star of aWill Rogers movie. I would like to remind you that this is, on balance, a marvelous nation.
Chuck Culpepper, "JUST FOLLOW THE BOUNCING BALL TO PASADENA", (16 November 2001),The Oregonian
IOWA: Her affections like the rivers of her borders, flow to an unseparable union.
Enoch W. Eastman, as quoted inIowa Authors and Their Works, p.ii, Des Moines 1918.
In all that is Good, Iowa affords the best.
Sidney Austin Foster (one-time editor ofThe Osage News), as quoted inIowa Authors and Their Works, p.ii, Des Moines 1918.
A beautiful summer day in Iowa leaves no room for worry.
Why, the justices [of Iowa] asked in conclusion, do statutes and civil law protect the secret of theconfession? This is based, they answered, on “the idea that the human being does sometimes have need of a place of penitence and confession and spiritualdiscipline. When any person enters that secret chamber, [the law] closes the door upon him, and civilauthority turns away its ear. The privilege of the statute purports to be applicable to every Christian denomination, of whatever polity. Under the polity of the Presbyterian denomination, this privilege cannot be applicable to it unless it be true that the ruling elders are ‘ministers of the Gospel,’” when sitting collectively as a committee.
