The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-26
WEAR FEATHER BEDS.
Col Bob IngersoIPs Suggestion to
Football Players.


Chicago, Nov 26.-Col. Bob Inger-
soils friends made an effort yesterday
| to secure his consent to take him to the
| Coliseum to see his first game of foot
ball
While he admitted that he had no
objections to foot ball, nor any to its
/ being played on Thanksgiving day,
he did say that he believed all such
| games between colleges had bad eff
feet.
Congressman Cousins of Iowa was
one of those who invited Col Ingerson
to see the Thanksgiving game.
Nov, L never saw a foot ball game
in my life drawled Col. Ingerson,
and I have seen but one bas ball
game. I don't care much about games
of skill 1 like a game where it is all
luck, or where it is most all luck with
a little skill, but I wouldn't care to see
a game of foot ball. 1t must be a good
game, though, as L see they are killing
lots of people.
"They might play it on Thanksgiving
day or on Sunday, for all care. If the
rules are bad and they cause the acct
dents that I see mentioned in the
newspapers, they should modify them.
If they don't wear clothes enough to
keep from getting hurt, let them make
a rule to wrap themselves in feather
beds.
I do think match foot ball games
and base ball games between colleges
should be stopped. 1 should like to see
every college in the country have
good gymnasium and a competent IN
structOr, and let the students 60 into
athletics for the sake of development,
not for the sake of beating some one
else in a game.
I haven't any objection to the game,
and they'll play it if they want to,
whether folks object to it or not. I do
think that college students should have
q different idea of athletics. This plan
of A trying to beat b for the honOrs is
a bad thing. 1t wouldn't be so bad if
the boys got paid for it. 1t is about
like standing up against FftZsimmOns,
1 should judge, from what read. On
ly it wouldn't last so long with Fitz-
simmons.
Isn't it funny about that fellow
F'itzsimmOns? He is a man you had
just as soon hit as not, if you got into
a fuss with him and didn't know who
he was. Looks just like Il lanky, green
farmer. But he could have knocked
the life out of COrbett in the first round
if he had wanted to. He was only keep
ing his agreement with the Veriscope
people.
People will try to object and legis-
late everything out of existence. Isn't
it funny how people fail to agree 2E,Ven
in mathematics they can't get together.
You meet people every little while who
want to upset old axiOmS and theO-
rems. suppose it was the same way
with your anti-fOOt ball ordinance.
People do get wrought up over little is
sues"
Former Congressman Elisha B.
Morse of Massachusetts came in for
a criticism in return for his structures
on Col. IngersOlIS suicide theories.
He wrote out in reply. carefully spell
ing out each word half aloud as he
wrote:
IF Mr.. Morse would read what I
said about suicide, he would have more
sense on that subject. He ought to
know that people killed themselves be-
fore I published anything on that
question. He should not hold me re-
spOnsible for the suicide of King Saul
or that of BrutuS.
IF Mr.. Morse had a clear idea of
honesty and fair dealing he would not
criticise anything about which he
knows nothing. He would not say that
the writings of a man had caused peo-
pie to kill themselves when he had
never read those writings.
J MIR. Morse may be a good orthodox
Christian, a prOhibitiOnist, and gen
eral refOrmer of mankind. but he seems
to have no idea of justice nor of COM
mon fairness. He may live and learn.
1 hope that some time he Will read
what 1 said about suicide. If ne does
and has any good sound sense in his
orthodox head. he viii agree with me.
Are you thankful yGu're aIive?'' he
jOVially asked of his friends. as if there
were no need OF answering it for him
self. That's the question. It's good
if you are thankful. If you're a law
yer, are you thankful for it2 If you're
q minister, are you thankful for it?'
There is no remedy equal to Herbine
for the cure of constipation, sick head
ache, indigestion, vertigo, loss of mem