Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-05-19
MAN, THE DESTROYER
He is the One Great IntoIerant
@ Species.
GENUS HOMO, ANNlHILAT0R
Has Butchered Other Living Creatures
by the Millions.
WIPES OUT WHOLE RACES
Not Content With Killing individuals
in Hordes-Nothing Compares
With Man in Rapacity.
WIPES OUT WHOLE RACES
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Although the scientific world has aban-
doned the old theory of great epochal ca
tsstrophes to account for the humiliation
of mighty species of beasts and reptiles
whose fossil remains show that they once
existed in Incredible numbers, 1t is hard
for the layman to understand how millions
of beasts could possibly have disappeared
unless such a gigantic agency food,
earthquake. eruption or landslide caused
widespread death.
Even scientists failed, for centuries. to
recognize the real destroying agency
though all the time IT was busy annihilat-
ing all rival forms of life before their very
eyes
II is only in the last ten years that the
perfected syste moi interchange OF knowl-
edge and the Improvement in the transmits
sion Of news other than merely that of
great episodes have enabled men to learn
everything that their own species is doing
Man, and not earthquake or volcano
mood or landslide, IL the great world-catas-
trophe- He has always been. The first
man was the first destroyer. Other preda-
ceous beasts killed for food or defense The
genus homo killed for food, for defense.
for garments. for comfort and for sport
from the very first
IiAs little thlng-one OF the smallest or
the. desh-eating animals-has DESTROYED more
fban all other agencies of nature put to-
gether.
An Insignificant kind of thing It is to be
the great destroying angel; weighing less
than the inoffensive deer needing less
ground to stand on than any of the bovine
family, not quite as tall as the tallest man
apes. requiring less food In a week than the
pachyderms need in a day, weaker than
almost any beast of prey not nearly as
a a yxnlf mr. anil i,, ui<~
and smell as compared with most other anil
mails. and absolutely puny as compared to
the jungle and forest kings, whether grass
eaters or hesh-eaters.
The Iron Creed.
Even through all the recent centuries dur
Ing which ne has preached more and more
Of love and kindness and tolerance, he has
remained the most terrible and unalter-
able exponent of the iron creed of nature
the survival OF the fittest And there has
been scarcely a creature OF another mold
than his that has been fit" to exist undis-
turbed near him.
Remorseless his progress has been all
the time 1t never has been SO remorseIess
as II IS IN this century. All mans inyen-
tons and Improvements that have provided
ny1ng ships and flying cars, nets of cable
and telegraph, mechanical means TO do
away with space and time have also in
creased his ability to destroy and he has
taken full advantage of the opportunity
Is he weary of quail and grouse? Do
pheasants cease to tickle his palate? At
once the word goes forth from the caterer
70 the poulterer, the poulterer telegraphs to
the wholesale game shipper, and within a
week Indian hunters are busy Strengthening
ptarinigans in the far north: and another
species starts on its way to the great era We
Of species-man's throat
Is my lady tired of the furs that are on
the market Within a month after she ex-
presses herself MaldVSfaD Lin
Ing off black monkeys that were never
touched by man BEFORE since the first ar
ooreal ancestor of man chartered in the
primeval forests. Ten thousand trans are
being set throughout the Americas for VOL
verines- A price Is set on the heads of the
Few remaining white and blue foxes sniff
cient TO start whole tribes on the track
OF each single animal, wherever IL NAV
roam.
Is Sir Nimrod bored by wlId-fowi shoot
ing at home? Within two weeks after he
leaves New York he steps Into lion and ele-
plant and hippopotamus land from one OF
the sleeping cars on the Uganda railroad
and presently a few pairs or even dozens
OF monsters exist no longer except as dis
sected and skinned trophies.
Is the EngliShman or the American stated
with fox hunting? Down in Patagonia is
q feet ostrich-like bird. the rhea, and men
ride II down and throw 1t with the bolas-
The native hunting implement which con-
sists OF three heavy iron balls fastened
by three short thongs to a line When
thrown at q victim, the whirling balls
snake around It's limbs and bring II down
There is new Zest for the sportsman :
Within less than two months Mr.. Fox
hunter is doing his share toward annihilat-
ing another curious form OF life
DID Tyrtan king love purple of par
ticular shade? Within a generation the
mediterranean was stripped clean of the
shellftsh that produce Il.
Does an American packer hit on the idea
some morning OF cornering the crab-meat
market Before the evening of the next
day 10000 fishermen have caught and
shipped 100000 blue crabs
is there market for the oil of a certain
hsh? BY the end of that year more than
950.OOooo OF the herring-lIke menhadeii
nave gone into the oil presses and the scrap
watts
My Lady's Killing.
Ny lady has killed for vanity's sake ever
since the human world began Even in
the caves OF prehistoric man were found
woman's ornaments fashioned from antlers
and hoofs and beasts bones
Ten years ago along the African gold
coast there existed great nation. number
ing more than the inhabitants OF many
south American or European state Ny
lady grew tired of all known frrs one day
In 1875 and that year 200 600 of the African
nation were shot and shipped away to be
sold for 81 each in fur markets of the world
Ihat Is the way Coloeus Satanas the beau
uful ape with the long. shining black hair
ofed So fast did he go while he was IN
fashion that three years after the natives
had shipped 100000 their best hunting