The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1905-06-29

Theodore Roosevelt Is President OF
the United States. It's great
bother to have the chief magistrate
killed. In oflice. 1t disorganizcS
everything. and puts the nerves OF
everybody on painful tension, like
the strings Of plano just tuned.
Ought the executive to expose the
country 10 the confusion, danger.
and Chaos Of a change Ia the success.
sion, by taking such hazards as he
faces every hour on his present hunt
ing trIpp lie indulges In breakneck
horseback rides In snowy mountains,
chasing wolves pell.mell, and Is H.
able to bad accidents any moment.
lie rages and lusts after bears what
III healthy old grizzly should hunt
him to a tinishY There will be doz.
ems and scores OF chances to be killed.
or badly hurt, daily. He Is In CON-
slant peril, though lie fears nothing.
Is Il "a square deal" to the people,
his taking such chances? We think
he has no more right to do that than
he would have to face mobs or a
maniac, or an assassin. While he il
president, he ought not To invite pos
sible accidents and disasters. Ills
horse might stumble and ding him
with fatal force. or fall on him, or
drag him. A gun might accidentally
20 of In such a party "frenzied''
with excitement while In nc the kill
Ing, and he catch the ball. A bear
might get him. The country Ii Ia
} suspense all the time the strenuous,
) fearless, reckless man Is out needing
1.-THE call OF the Wild"
!, He has no business to he out on
/ wanton killing expedition, anyhow.
Y His taste Is the residnm OF the bar
: barian In highly civilized man.
q He Is killing Wild animals just 10
: giatify his "Berserker rage TO shed
( blood and take life. lie does not
want wolves or bears for food, aud
q not for their pelts except as trophies; I;
, a taste as low and brutal as that OF
. an Indian. IL Is not one whit more
j. respectable than cbild's pulling the
Z wings of from dies. or n boy killing
d song.birds with niggershocteIs. IL
y Is the old, aboriginal savage instinct,
d and worse, and more out OF place In
Q n civilized, cultivated man than In a
4 naked cave man, who did need the
y animals ilesl for food and Its skin
e for clothing. The ancient hunting
. by that poor creature, hungry aud
!. shiverIng, was justiilablc--he did not
II xiii out OF cruelty or malignity or
h malice aforetbouRht, but from sheer
necessity. The president OF the
Il United States. rich In his own right,
10 and getting 10000 year, can buy
;. all the bear and wolf meat his NAV
e. cries for, IN the market, and be need
Of not shoot down these Wild nnitonls az
n white men, falsely called stsports.
ir men," wantonly exterIptnated TO-
II buffalo, for fun. The pseStdent n
ID setting bad example 10 peop>e,
Is especially the young people Of thiG
le country, by this wanton, wicked, IN.
g. necessary and cruel slaughter OF wild
animals. IL is the only bad trait in
his character. In other respects hs
is an admirable. picturesque man.
This streak OF cruelty and savagery
as In him makes one suspect that hi,
ID humanitarianism may be full OF blow
y. holes. A truly metciful man Is mer
lie ciful 10 his beast, to all beasts
ur There is Scripture for II. Does thil
~ bloody streak In his mental constitu
~ tion account for his alteration OF thu
nd "big stick" and big navy aud /
nc general swashbucklcI air and manner
A towards the world? The press wouit
he lots rather have him stick to boxing
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