The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1901-09-26
WE'RE a WONDERFUL PEOPLE,
Usy Americans Met Great Emergency
Arouscs IL E'riton's Admiration.

New York letter: Take them all in
all" remarked q notable English
SPORTSMAN. over here for the yacht
races, to the writer on the second day
after The Buffalo tragedy, the Amer
!cans are probably the quickest think.
ers and the sWiftest emergency meet
crs on earth, Their brains are SEEM
ingly always on the alert. They tackle
any condition that confronts them, nc
matter how suddenly, with instant
power and effectiveness. Nothing APP
pears to surprise them, n don't
believe HI anything big enough could
| haur2n to 1dlle their head-pleces for
| any appreciate space of time. One
| might almost safely wager that If a ter
rifle tidal Wav We're to sweep the east
ern coast of the United States for a
hundred miles inland, there'd be "a lot
of quick-thinking chaps spring up
who'd attempt to untilize the force of
the "eceding wave for industrial pur-
poses.
Where in the whole world could
| there have been such amazing prompt
ness in the handling of the case of a
suddenly down-struck ruler as was ex-
hiblted in Buffalo? AS quickly as the
human eye u see and the human
mind and muscles act, the assassin was
in the iron grip of twenty hands-not
'ilV LIN VI ''Ni US loS
the ordinary encourage of European
rulers, but the hands of quick-thinking
men of comparatively humble station.
This seen 10, the stricken presidents
immediate staff instantly organized
themselves, without any lamentations
or wringing Of hands whatsoever. into
a sort of committee on ways and means
FOR the immediate relief of the chief
magistrate. From the accounts I've
wood tha u-o,,pioI rraciIapt y.,o boi--
borne out of the building in which he
was shot Within less than ten minutes
after the attempt to kill him took place.
Renowned surgeons, men, some of
them, whose works on surgery are as
highly considered in my country as
they are here, seemed to come right out
of the ground to take their places
around the operating table. A famous
surgeon who was known to be at the
Fall of Niagara was actually speeding
on a special train toward Buffalo with
in twenty-five minute after the shoot
ing occurred. The organization of the
surgeons 4 physicians around the
presidents cot was SO quickly effected
that there appeared to have been no Or
ganization at all; there was none Of
the jealous pickering such as has oc-
CURED at the dying bedsides of some
Of the European rulers. The
" ~ N"o cohS opoil as llC illoSS SIp-
able 20 perform the operation was
pushed squarely to the front by his as
sociates. They We're all agreed. with
scarcely any sort of a consultation, as
to the nature of the operation to be per-
formed, and not a half hour had passed
since the shooting before the right man
with the knife was doing his work with
bold swiftness n precision. He did
just exactly what should have been
done, it appears from the commenda-
tory messages from eminent surgeons
all over the world.
Remarkable country" remarkable
people, concluded the Englishman. Il
used to find it puzzling to account for
the astounding strides of the United
states, but 1 am not puzzled any more
now. The Americans get there to en-
ploy one of their pattest and neatest
phrases, ecaus they're never caught
mapping. Wasn't It one of the confed-
crate generals who said hat victory
lay with the army that got there fust-
est with the mostest men?' Anyhow,
that idea has been applied, with suit
able and fitting variations, to every
American circumstances, big and little,
and that, in my opinion, is why the
states now comprise a power that is
looming over the world"