Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-13
ANGEL ATTACKS ROOSEVELT
EDITOR OF OUR DUMB ANIMALS
TAKES UP CONTROVERSY.
President Like Powder Magazine
No: True Sportsman-Writes
Bloody Books.

BOSTON, June ia criticism of Pres
ident Roosevelt by George 7. Angel, head
Of the Massachusetts Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Animals. because OF
the things he has said regarding nature
takers" and the Rev. William ]. Long, is
to be a feature of the next issue of our
Dumb Animals over his own signature Mr..
Angel will say:
We tried very hard to prevent Mr.. Roose-
velts being appointed assistant secretary Of
the navy, because, wrote Gov. Long.
We felt sure if he received that appointment
We should get into war with something
about something We failed. and the Cuban
and Philippine wars have cost thousands of
lives, hundreds of millions of dollars. an
enormous increase of pension list, and
the end is not yet.
There can be no doubt OF President Roose-
velt's courage to lead Balaklava charge
of GOO to explore the bottom of the At
lantic in submarine or float over the top
of the Washington Monument in an arship
TO test the military value of that kind of
navigation; and there can be no doubt that
he has done much good work since he be-
came President. and we hope he may do
we cannot help thinking OF him as a powder
mill, liable at any time to explode and do
vast damage, and we most earnestly wish.
as we suggested some months since. that he
might have in his cabinet as secretary of
peace some strong man to whose wise coun-
sells he would respectfully listen, so that he
may studiously avoid everything which
would plunge our nation into another war.
Long a Real Naturalist.
Telling of the controversy between Pres
ident Roosevelt and the Rev. Mr.. Long. the
editor of the Washington Cd. CO Club, Eel
low and Mirror, writes:
'One only has to read the books of the
two men to determine upon which side of
the scale lies the verify of this controversy.
Long went into the untraclled wilderness.
practically alone and unarmed, bent on the
study of animals in their native lair, with
the love of the dumb brutes In his heart
and a desire to know them and impart his
studies to his fellow-men.
Roosevelt, on the other hand. went afield
armed to the teeth with repeating rifle,
&c His books are stepped in the blood OF
wanton slaughter, and he revels in the tell
ing Of the wounding of beasts. the killing of
fawns and mother ANIMAL.
President No Sportsman.
Far from being the foremost authority
on American mammals, Theodore Roosevelt
has written himself down as being not even
true sportsman.
That he cannot tolerate criticism. one
has but to recall the events which led 10 his
having George T. Angels paper, devoted to
the prevention of cruelty to animals, de-
barred from schools because the Boston
phianthropist fit to rebuke the Pres
ident for his wanton slaughter of dumb
beasts
We are not aware that our paper was
shut out from the Washington schools 10y
order of the President-as il appears TO
have been upon the order of the superiE-
tendent of the public schools-because we
ventured to attack the Presidents hunting
expedition at the west. but We ought to
feel profoundly grateful to whoever caused
the order to be issued, II attracted the at
tention of nearly every newspaper in Amer
lea and also many in Europe and was per-
haps the most valuable advertisement our
paper ever received.