The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-14
THAT MIGHTY HuNrEa.

can to refrain from expressing con. tempt for the late President when reading accounts of his hunting "ex- ploits" in Africa. news despatch a few days ago. to take one example, stated. in speaking of the hunting par ty: "The party will take luncheon with the missionaries. This morning Mir. Roosevelt spent some time shooting monkeys. particularly the coiobus." Great sport for great Nimrod, was, it not? And the despatches state that young Kermit Roosevelt also killed time by shooting monkeys while wait ing time to lunch with the mission aries."
 When MT. Roosevelt was engaged in shooting lions it was thought that he was displaying some real courage. though it was difficult to look on the slaughtsring Of zebras and rirafres as an evidence either of true courage or sportsmanship. Shooting Hons. however, was looked upon as a real manly sport. though Dr. Seaman. who has no little experience as a hunter of big game, knocks that belief in the head when he says: "A lion stands no chance at all. Before the hunters get a shot at him he has been chased by the beaters until he is SC winded that there is little life left in him" So 1t seems that all the ginger is to be knocked out of lion killing. but when 1t comes to monkeys what can be said in defence of the pot-hunter? The Kansas City Journal is one Republican newspaper that tried hard to retain a favorable opinion of Roosevelt, but this African business knocks 1t out We quote from an editorial of recent date:
 These accounts of wanton slaughter scsm to have been authorized by the are proper subjects of discussion. And each bloody list of the Roosevelt gamt- oag confirms the estimate of his PnS~sSs pn1 othsr mads aS 6y Dr' William J Long ed as mature fakers" for their temer- ity. But now 1t is pr. Long's turn.
 
 welt expedition bear out his estimate of the former President as a hunter whose interest in animals ''iies chiefly in the direction of blood. butchery and
 Certainly the monkey -killine cpl sode is distinctly disappointing. MT. Roosevelt ds,t,on made lcnd claims to oTsan- turaiist," ana pronnissd that "1s he would kill only such game as had scientific value. But 1t appears that he has pot way. spending some time in killing wart hogs after he failed to find bYf- falo. It is g. pity that Mir. Roosevelt the true sportsman and less of the wanton slaughterer. He must be a sor- ry disappointment to the English hunt CTS of big game. wno do pot & siay neiD- IC- the sake of getting q heavy bag. The ex President. from all accounts, Is not doing himself or his country much credit in his present enterprise.
 Tc speak of the Roosevelt perform ances in Africa as disappointing is putting 1t with entirely too much mild ness. There were a great many thnGs in MT. Roosevelt's oficial career with which genuine. selS-respectinG Ameri- cans could feel no patience or toler- ance. but this African business will ex- cite more contempt than anything else. The expedition was sent of with a great flourish of trumpets as though 1t was going out to conquer a new world or to subdus the enemies of the government. Correspondents. both here and abroad, constantly harped on it as a remarkable adventure undertaken by a brave man in the interests of science and natural history, and in va- rious other ways the most strenuous efforts were made to create and keep up the impression that something great and wonderful was going to be done in the name of Roosevelt. And what has been the outcome? The affair has degenersted into a monumental farce in one respect, and into an indiscrim- mate, heartless butchery of helpless and harmless animals in another. veri- ly another Bombastes Furioso has come to the front.