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ROOSEVELT AND THE PUGs

A few years ago, when the people Of st.
Paul were about to be treated to the
ennobling spectacle Of a couple of human
bull dogs worrying the life out of each
other, there was popular revolt, and the
event was called Off" Even down In
Texas they found that the sentiment Of
the people would not tolerate any such
exhibition. One after another all avail
able places have since been canvassed by
the hackers of prize1ghters with a view to
finding a final home for the undisturbed
prosecution of the noble art. They have
found it at last. The state of New York
IS the one state in the Union in which
such performances can now be seen I'M
der the protection Of public authority.
Whiethe then sheriff of Ramsey county,
Mai Ed s. Bean, toyed with the situation,
appeal was made to the governor; and.
through the Intervention Of that official,
Fitzsimmons and Hall were gled to get
out of the state without testing the merits
of our penal system.
Down in New York the question is now
becoming one of serious practical concern
whether, in the opinion of their rough
riding state executive, prize fighting is an
essential to the realization of the
strenuous life" Teddy is something Of
a "scrapper' himself, notwithstanding his
teeth and his eyeglasses, and It is not
surprising that he has played the role
of assistant bottleholder in his official
capacity to the two great American
heroes, Sharkey and Jeffries
There is nothing at all to be urged in
favor of the protection extended to these
persons and their following of gamblers
and thugs by the head Of the police de-
partment in New York. There was no
reason why one should expect from that
official such action as would put an end
to the business He does not set himself
up as an exemplar of what is strenuous"
and ennobling In the discharge Of public
duties and obligations Gov. Roosevelt
does That gentleman has been posing
before the world since the battle of FL
Caney, as he had posed before, as a SUI
periOr type Of the scholar and gentleman
in politics, so devoted to his high ideals of
citizenship as to represent the very in
carnation of patriotism, courage and
purity in our citizenship. The imperialist
press is extolling him day after day as
great, high-minded and altogether sub
lime character. Yet he had IT in his
power to defeat that exhibition of brute
strength and endurance which was re-
Gently made at Coney Island He knows
that the spirit, If not the letter. of the
Horton law is against such exhibitions
But he held his strenuous tongue and hid
his strenuous gaze behind his eyeglasses
so that he could have no personal or Of
fetal cognizance of the event.
AS nation we are fast developing along
the lines of blood and Drawn as the high
est expression Of national achievement
The advent of Imperialism has made that
sort OF thing cardinal requirement to
the realization Of American DESTINY az a
worlc power. 1t is entirely fitting no
doubt, that the lowest expression of the
sentiment should have the official sane
ton Of Its highest representative in active
political life among US. the strenuous and
cultured Roosevelt.