The Washington herald., 1910-07-02


tered in Canada. All rights resered.j
Reno, New, July 1.-Peary dis
the earth's axis. Tex Rick
ard located the center Of the uni
verse. Ronald Amundsen found the
spot where the magnetic needle
stands on its head and fixed it as
somewhere north of Canada, but
Tex has proved him in error.
1t remained for a tfirty-nipe-
year-old miner to demonstrate that
Reno, New, is not only the exact
geographical focusing point Of all
things terrestrial, but also the pre-
else magnetic center Of the civilized
world.
say civilized world design
edly, for whether you approve or
disapprove of prize fighting, YOU
cannot remain within the hospitable
gates of this city for an hour before
YOU are brought face to face with
the great overwhelming. elemental
fact that mankind, underneath It's
veneer of civilization, is primitive
and jungle-born.
There is no gainsaying it.
You may lock yourself into a
dark room or a sawdust padded ice
box, or in some other manner iso-
late yourself from external influ-
ences, and by dint of calm, dispas-
sionate reasoning reach the conclu-
sion that prize fighting is unnatural,
brutal, coarse, insane, and foolish
beyond measure; and so it would be
if humanity lived in refrigerators
and the blood OF polar bears ran
! through its veins.
LOVE OF VICTORY.
But man is a warm-blooded animal,
reared ia the sunlight. and he has not
only an elemental love of life, but a
supergrafted love Of victory and admira-
ton of excellence If it were not for
traits like these his great toes would
stin be thumbs and he would now be
swinging by his tail in the damp glades
OF fever-ridden tropic swamps.
It was this spirit of individuality. this
hunger for conquest, this desire for indi-
viduai excellence that raised him TO his
stature and subdued the earth TO the
sound OF his voice. We are hero wor-
shippers, every mothers son Of US; per-
sonal superiority Is our fetch. Only
Yesterday we offered such a welcome as
the world has never known, to a fighter.
No Roman emperor in the great epic
DAYS OF old ever reviewed such a pag-
cant of honor as Theodore Roosevelt
upon his return from E!ba." An ar
mada met him at the threshold Of his
land. unoounted thousands lined his
route of march. and rent the skies with
such a crushing uproar that the jealous
: heavens opened wide and let loose their
warning elements to drown IL
! People will say that the Roosevelt
demonstration was planned to celebrate
his conquests. and this is true. in a
measure. but for every high-domed be-
spectacled citizen who looked upon the
: central figure of that pageant as a Pres
ident, there were ten hoarse-yoiced. big
: lunged. sore-footed human beings who
! perched upon curb and window ledge
, to welcome Teddy as a man.
Not in New York.
Suppose William Howard Taft, or John
lD. Rockefeller. or Chief Justice Fuller.
or Anthony Comstock had led a regiment
up San Juan Hill. had lambasted the
trusts, tied knots in the railroads.
| slaughtered African rhinOs. and electri-
fed Europe do you think New York
city would have gone ghost dancing like
a tribe of Sioux Indians at his return?
Do YOU think that Democrats and Re-
: publicans. Insurgents and Socialists
4 would have amalgamated into one great
( brotherhood OF welcome givers?
: Not so that you could distinguish il.
n There would have heen a tug load OF
q asthmatic, high-hatted leading citizens
AT the harbor mouth and banquet OF
two at $40 a plate the newspapers would
I have been front page story to the good
9 and the autograph hunters would have
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