The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-08-25
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does not think President Iatt mas gained
by his letter denouncing the New YORK
ring that conspired to defeat Theodore
Roosevelt for chairman OF the State con-
vention.
1T seems 10 me ,hat at least In the
West. IL adds another item to the evil
dence that the G. o. P. is completely up
in the air" said Mr.. Hancock. No one
is going TO say that Taft is not sincere,
and I DO not think any one ever has said
So That is not the question.
The issue is the Republican party.
There has been such :. bombardment OF
charges and counter charges. a great
many times with evident bad feeling among
the leaders behind IT, that letter Ike
the Presidents looks TO the average vo-
ter ike an open admission from the tit
ular head Of the party that all Is not
well with the organization.
1T shows the free lance Republican
that now Is the time for him 10 change
his vote. 1 am a Republican, and my
father was before me; but unless there
is a radical change in the tactics OF the
administration leaders. am going 10 vote
the straight Democratic ticket this fan
and in 1912. too"
Fiction writer's are fond OF exploiting
ir teary phrases that the old West is
dead. said John L. Ramsey. OF Wahpe-
ton, n. Oak. az the Metropolitan
AS matter Of fact. the West. in
some places. IS just as wild and woolly
as It ever was. II is true that you do
not see COW punchers parading in pic
turesque buffalo hide chaps, with a
couple OF big guns bGckled around their
waists. That kind was very peaceabIe.
anyway, and there never was a time in
the history Of the West when there was
more fair play than when those same
wild and woolly gentleman loafed around
the railroad stations.
up along the Canada line, IN North
DAKOTA, Minnesota, and Montana. and
down in Wyoming there are hundreds
and hundreds of acres Of land that is
absolutely aboriginal I have driven for
500 miles in Montana without seeing a
sign Of a human being. There isn't any
law UP there. Counties sometimes have
no county seats, and therefore no
sheriffs. Other counties have one town
OF perhaps 800 persons.
Every now and then you will come
across a hester. or settler. who has
cleared ground and claimed IL. They
live their own lives in their own way.
and every man is a law unto himself
In the cattle country. of the big ranges.
things are somewhat different. Of course
But when YOU hit COW towns of the rail-
ways. you'll find the young men 'toting'
six-suns just as they used to thirty
years ago.
There isn't much bloodshed and sud
den death. and all that sort OF thing.
There never was; that is, except in the
minds OF fiction writer's Killing Is a
serious business. and men in that country
Try TO side-step IL rs much as they can.
I've seen two COW punchers carrying Colts.
fight IL out 10 a finish with their fists
and never make a try 10 get their guns
going. That's the west
I've got a son who plays football az
Notre Dame College. and I'm proud OF
him. said L. J. l. Wrenn, Of Indianap-
Oils. Ind. al the Arlington. 7 cannot
about the brutality Of football
why. there were more men killed dur
ing the first two months OF baseball this
year than were Eilled during the last TWO
seasons on the gridiron. I don't remem-
her the exact figures, but that is true
And think Of the people who lose their
lives yachting. bathing in the ocean.
and in every manner Of aquatic sports.
No one ever tries 10 get legislation
against water sports.
There has been considerable hue and
cry against horse racing, but no one has
used the killing and injuring Of jockeys
as an argument I'll venture 10 say there
are more jockeys hurt every spring and
fall than have ever been hurt by foot
ball And that doesn't include riders and
drivers injured at horse shows and on
the speedways
Somehow the newspapers and petty
legislators. looking for notoriety. seem 10
have it in for the gridiron game. Every
time a man belonging 10 some eleven has
Indigestion or appendicitis, they blame it
or the game. I don't think Il is fair: and
think football is a clean, manly game.
one that will do as much good 10 a boy
as class rooms will"
Il have read recently in The Wash
ington Herald. and in papers in other
cities. much about soothing sirups. and
II seems 10 me there should be some way
to get legislation that will require
stricter regulation OF the traffic said
W Martin Ogden. at the New Willard.
THE argument that these doped' medi-
cines which are advertised 10 make life
easier for mothers weaken the little con-
stitution, so that epidemics are made
more dangerous. Is unanswerable. Health
officers everywhere seem 10 agree that
they are dangerous. If that is so, why
should there not he such a hue and cry
that legislation will be inevitable?
1T just goes TO show how Indifferent
the average citizen is 10 danger cries.
even where his own health or the health
Of his children IS concerned When the
people are aroused the men who make
laws get busy: when they are not the