Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-12-11
Public Opinion on Iowa Subjects
as Reflected in the Iowa
Newspapers.
The News Of Iowa From Hun.
dreds Of Different Towns
and Communities.


and Communities.
SOUTH DAKOTA PROSPERITY.
lSioux City Tribune.]
Colonel John II. King of Huron. S.
D., has been in the city for the past
two days to confer with Colonel M. b.
Davis anent O'Brien county land cases.
While here Colonel King lost no oppor-
tlnity to send forth joyful paean
of appreciation of the state of South
dakota. He says prosperity has settled
upon the entire state, from the valley
OF the Jim to the Missouri river. He
estimates conservatively that $4,000
people have settled there this year, cit
ing, evidences of growth at Mitchell.
Huron. Watertown and other cities
where the wand Of prosperity has
touched with success.
A CHAPTER ON HUNTING.
washington Press.l
Hunting is survival from the stone
age,-at any rate from an age when
MEN needed to hunt wild flesh for food
and for skins to clothe themselves
w'ithal. 1t was then an occupation, a
necessity, not q sport or a pastime, as
now. The passion got into human
blood as an instinct, and survives. Men
love the sport. 1t Is healthful, invigor-
ating, as 1t gives hard exercise in tho
open air, and the awful tire is whole
some. But WI, need not pretend we
hunt with the primitive mans motives.
We kill for the love of 1t. Armed to
the teeth by science and art, we give
the other fellow in fur or feathers or
scales no show. When early man had
only club or a stone, before he had a
bow and arrows and spear or hook, and
had to hunt for meat and clothes. or
starve and free he was as often
hunted as hunting, and it was a risky
plucky business. Necessity justified
the killing. 1t was root hog, or die.
We do not need to hunt, but lots of
men have sporting blood in them still.
and sally forth with deadly guns, dogs,
horses. boats, hooks, lines and flies. and
yvantonly kill for the fun of it, and re-
sent and humanitarian criticism on the
t,ne-sided warfare, carried on hitherto
TO the total extinction of buffalo and
other animals. They approve OF game
laws only as a means OF prolonging the
fun.
II animal and man stood on an equal
lty. as in the early ages. one could re-
spect the game, but creatures now have
mo more show than have the miserable,
doomed bulls In the bull rings of Spain
and Mexico, AMI the chase is mere wan
ton slaughter, and is brutalizing.
An animal, rot needed for food. has
MS much right to life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness as a man has, and
1t is a sin to kill 1t. for sport,-to hook
II fish to throw 1t back, or let 1t gasp
Its life out on land, and be wasted: to
kill birds for the plumage to trick out
vanity; to kill deer In wantonness-no
no account.
It Is cruel; 1t Is useless slaughter.
there's nothing brave about 1t. And
1t SO sets the hair on many people that
they read with all due resignation ac-
,cidents to hunters. No less than twelve
men. taken for deer in Maine woods,
have been shot and five OF them killed
lately, and one is rather glad of 1t.
They got only. what they would give
The poetic justice Of their fate would
nave been perfect IL the deer had killed
them instead Of their erring fellows in
the carnival OF slaughter. What bust
ness had they hunting deer, whose flesh
and skin they did not need? And there
have been like fatalities in the Adiron-
lacks
What right nad Roosevelt to slaugh-
ter lions" in Colo? They wouldn't vote
for him, anyhow, or oppose him on the
stump, either. He was driven by sur
viving brutal instinct that has no right
place in civilization. II he wanted to
show his prowess, why didn't he leave
his gun and logs. and tackle a lion
alone. on equal terms? He weighs about
as much as lion, and has claws and
teeth. II the caricaturists may be be-
Ifeved.
Suppose a Let of angels should come
down here, armed with celestial shoot
ing irons as much superior to ours as
ours are to Indian tomahawks and Zulu
spears, and should go cunning for US,
how'd we like that? It would not be a
bit funnier than a hunted bear burning
to hunt hunter. The average hunter
sees no humor in that. Oh, but he
makes time, ana Calls on all the gods,
and hits the road. and thoroughly dis
approves of hunting as a sport. when
the bear is hunting him. The argu-
ment is unanswerable when the bear
gets move On him and racks. trots.
PAGES and gallops toward the hunter.
And the man of peace. observing the
race, is like nen-pecked husband who
Got it, Betsey! go it. bear!"
He didn't care cent which got it in
the neck.