Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-03-25
WHOLE No. 1855.

iound anywhere else for money Then
what is he doing out there among the old
| red sandstone schist? Why. hon0red sirs,
when he died out of the world for good and
all, there wasn't enough old red sandstone
| III II To make awhetstone out of Ii hadn't
begun to deposit vet. And another thing
the cave bear couldn't have lived in Nevada
| any way, tor there isn't cave in it. from
| one end of TO the othcr-except the COM
parahvely recent ones in the mines and
perhaps here and there in the mining
| stocks. Too recent to do him any good, or
hardly anybody else.
This disposes of the cave bear-as | look
at it. Now, the same arguments that dis
pose of the Irish elk and the cave bear dis
pose also of the old silurian ass: for they
trained together They were of the same
general breed Of mammals and were the
only mollusks that were able 70 hold their
/ own against the mesatheTium the ichthyo-
saurus, and other tleSh-eating birds Of the
Dlrdo -reptilian period, and did it then only
fNrough that vigilance which is the price of
| leerty, and that union n which Is strength.
All honor to the brave,
Now then-enough of that Let con-
lecture stand aside and history 90 to the
bat For was there myself, and | know
Inc tracks which have been attributed 10
the Irish elk We're not made by an Irish
elk at all; they We're made By an Irish
brlcklayer-named stephen McGinnsS.
Member OF the LEGISLATURE knew him
perfectly well. He had hoof: hoof like
COWS. Ii was q hrth-mark He was a
higll-tempered man, and very handy with
his brth-mark. And is even now nj this
minute after the scentiSts-and they will
see. Even the elect may not call stephen
McGipniSs an hish elk with impunity,
nor mlsnterpret his footsteps in 4 spirit OF
scientific want0nness. These are truths,
these are facts: in word. history For !
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 OF life hut still depositing the
same identical track TO this day let us freely
believe, when he goeth unshod--as was the
sterniv simple custom of the pioneer legis-
lator of the Territory OF Nevada, in a day
when VirtuouS cndeavoy was held above
the comfort Of the body, aud cudlinesS
above merdrieious gauds of fashion.
The tracks attributed TO the old Siiurian
ass, were not made by the old silurian
ass made them myself ] made them
myself, and am not an old Silurian ass.
| may be some kind Of an ass and some
observers have held the theory that j was
and am but am not I'm old siluriau ass.
| made those tracks and make the same
track now and il appears that even an eX-
pert cannot tell 1t from an old silurian
ass track, and neither can l. for that mat
ter; but it is not an old siiurian ass
track, just the same, any more than l am
an old slluriau ass yet the person who
calls the track ont yOnder an old silurian
ass track, does i'll effect call me al old
siluriAn ASS, by reason that | made that
track. And IL must NOT be repeated For
al t.aIf oc tYf tl,..r. nd
the man that calls me an old silUrian ass,
and proves it, shall not 80 ont of this world
alive. | have said H. The language may :
be intemperatc, but the provocation is
great
These scientists are in an ill-concealed
sweat because they cannot tell 3by there
are so many tracks, and all going one way,
all going north. II was large Legislature,
dear sirs, aud the saloon was north This
is history, not conjecture, For was there
in person.
And thcy.cannot9Vjne why th p;imeyal
man took such short steps, YET with so lit
tic lateral spread. Think of the feet he
carried; also remember his condition of
course Il person could not Spreai laterally,
in his condition, as deftly as he could for
merly, when sober; necessarily he would
spread latefally, formerly, but not latterly,
the conditions being reversed, You see.
This seems simple Also unauSwerabie.
And they are pcrturhed because they
cannot Tell why the tracks are so confused,
and move in such subtly sinuous curves.
Listen, then I will explain this also. 1t
is law of nature that whisky cannot be
conveyed in straight lines bya legislature,
except in buckets A Legislature never
uses buckets man.
] am done
Such is historl Such are the Carson
footprints. They are not fossiliferous,
they are legislative; ,hey are uniform
they are identical With the tracks deposited
BY all adjournins Legislatures In the
West J mean. Let US have peace.