The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1884-05-10

look ~ =. NOW the same argu-
ments that dispose of the Irish elk
and the cave bear dispose also OF
the old siluri1n ass, for they train
ed together. They were of the
same general breed of mammals,
and were the only mollusks that
were able to hold their own against
the megathernium, the ichthyosau-
rue, and other flesh eating birds of
the birdo-reptilian period, and did
1t then only through that vigilance
which 10 the price of liberty, and
that union in which is strength.
All honor to the brave
Now then-enough Of that. Let
conjecture stand aside and history
60 to the bat. For l was there
myself and l know. The tracks
which have been attributed to the
Irish elk we're not made by an
Irish elk at all, they were made by
All Irish bricklsysr, named Stephen
McGinniss, member of the legisla-
ture. l knew him perfectly well.
He had a hOof-a hooflike y cows.
1t was a birth mark. He was a
high tempered man, and very han
dy with his birth mark. And Is
even now at this minute after the
scientists and they will see. Even
the elect may not call Stephen
AcGinnis an Irish elk with impu-
nifty, nor misrepresent his hoof-
prints in q spirit of scientific wan
tonnes. These are truths, these
are facts; in = word, history. For
l was there.
Little remains to be said. Only
this: The cave bear tracks were
made by Mr.. R. NJ. Daggett, now
grown honorably famous in other
walks i'll lite, but still depositing
the same identical track to this day,
let US freely believe, when he goes
unshOd-as was the sternly simple
custom OF the pioneer legislator OF
the territory OF Nevada in = day
when q virtuous endeavor was held
above the comfort of the body, and
Goodness above meretricious gauds
of fashion.
The tracks attributed to the old
silurian ass were not made by the
old silurian ass. ! made them my
self, and | am not an old silurian
ass. l may be some kind of an
ass, and some observers have held
the theory that l was and am: but
| am not an old sjlurian ass. Il
made those tracks, and | make the
same track now, and it appears
that even an expert cannot tell it
from an old silurian ass's track,
Just the same, any more than | am
an old silurian ass; yet the person
who calls the track out yOnder an
old silurian ass's track, does in
effect call me an old silurian ass,
by reason that | made hat track.
And it must not be repeated. For
| have my feelings as anyother,
and the man that calls me All old
silurian ass and proves it shall not
go out of this world alive. | have
sal lit. The language may be in
temperate, but the provocatlon is
great.
These scientists are in an i'll con-
cealed sweat because they cannot
tell why there are 50 many tracks,
and all going M wsy-all going
north. 1t was a large legislature,
dear sirs; and the saloon was
north. This is history, not conjsc-
turs. For | was therein person.
And they cannot divine why the
primeval man took such short steps
yet with 80 little lateral spread.
Think Of the feet he carried; also
remember his condition; of course
a person could not spread laterally
in his condition as he could former
ly when sober; necessarily he
would spread l~aterally formerly,
but not latterly, the condition be-
lng reversed, you see. This seems
simple. Also unAnswerable.
And they are perturbed because
they cannot tell why the tracks arc
SO confused, and moved in such
subtle sinuOus curves. Listen,
then; l will explain this also. 1t
is = law of nature that whiskSy can
net be conveyed in straight lines
by a Legislature, except in buckets.
A legislature eve uses buckets,
man.
| am done.
Such is history Such are the
Carson footprints. They are not
fossiliferous, they are legislative;
they are uniform, theyare identical
with the tracks deposited by all ad.
iOurning legislatures. In the west,
! mean Let us have peace.-Mark