Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1904-08-31

ana exhort, as If all wisdom and
virtue were concentrated i'm one
person, until the country grew
tired, very tired, of strenuosity
and egotism and swagger. and
longed for rest from Theodore
Roosevelt.
III the President shall offer his
fellow citizens this explanation of
why he has looped the loop from
what ne was to what he now
wishes them to think of him-the
silent, thoughtful and discreet
statesman-he will. of course. re-
veal by what means he has rescued
himself from the satanic arts of
Loeb and reduced that matchless
Meph'stopheles to his proper place
as simple secretary. And it is to
he taken for granted also that Mr..
Roosevelt will endeavor to give
satisfactory assurances that. in the
unlikely event of his election. he
VIII be able TO resist a resumption
oy Loeb of his magical influence
over the Presidential mind and
conduct.
4 Perhaps the best guaranty Mr..
Roosevelt could furnish that. if ac-
corded four years more i'm the
White House, he would not loop
the loop backwards and become
agaln his former self would be 10
ldiScharge Loeb. or put him to
Heath. Ii allowed 90 live and serve
is secretary, his sorcery might pre-
Tali and drag from their retirement
he khaki uniform. the sword and
the big stick.
Freed for the time being from
TIE malign enchantment of Loeb.
M Roosevelt is apparently sin
corely ashamed of his past. but il
iswell understood by physicians
that one who has been bcwitchcd
is Always in danger of falling again
under the spell. On the whole.
therefore, ii will be- safer and
klnler to return Mr.. Roosevelt 10
private life. The White House is
not good for him. 1t affects his
heao.
Last winter, in the House of
Representatives. the distinguished
gentlAman from Massachusetts
tNlr. GnG.ETT), in a speech COM
planned that lawlcSsness and lynch
ings in the South stimulated law
leSSneSsand lynchingS in the North.
In passing. he will permit me to ex-
press regret that the good people
of Massachusetts are so quick to
initiate Southern vices and SO slow
10 emulate Southern virtues. Now.
want to ask him if it is not fact
that the three books which Roose-
welt wrote, Ranch Life and the
Hunting Trail" oliver Crom-
iwell, and THE Winning of the
WeSt are not in almost every
private ano public library and in
very school library throughout
| he North!
II trust 1T will not shock the law
living and law-abiding people of
dlr country too greatly when tell
I hem that Theodore Roosevelt i'm
t Aese books deliberately iustifies
a I advocates lynch law for the
stealing of 4 $40 rat-tailed Texas
pony. wish to suggest to my
friend from Massachusetts that
these books of this distinguished
author, SO widely read in the North.
teac ling the right to lynch human
beings for stealing horses, might
possibly have some influence in
stimulating TO lawlessness the great
and good people of the North. Let
me quote from Ranch Life and
Hunting Trail pages II and 93:
"Rpring the last two or three
year1she stockmen have united to
put down all these dangerous char
acters, often by the most summary
exercise of lynch law. Bands of
horse and cattle thieves have been
regularly hunted down and de-
stroyed in pitched fights by parties
of armed cowboys. and as con-
sequence most of our Territory is
perfectly law abiding. A little
over two years ago one committee
of vigilanteS in eastern Montana
shot or hung nearly sixty-not,
however, with the best Judgment
in all cases.
1t is the fashion to laugh at the
severity with which horse stealing
is punished on the border, but the
reasons are evident. Horses are the
most valuable property of the from
tiersman whether cowboy, hunter
or settler 1,Thev are oTu,o,-e ,,.