The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1910-01-02
Apologetics of a Sucker

chance was eliminated. opportunity
was eliminated and honesty annihil-
ated in the fralneup previous to this
speed contest.
1T may have been so. think 1,
was.
1T is alleged by some of the partic-
ipants, your honor, that this race was
held within an enclosure. According
to the broad-n.inded views. held by us
who lived in the days of the unfenced
range. IL was an enclosure. As fragile
memory serves me, there was barben
wire fence partially bounding this in
closure on the east to the north, by
the elasticity of my imagination !
could discern the aurora borsaiiS. on
the south was the succession Of the
equinox and on the west sir, was the
end of time
las recall 1t now. those two sturdy
horses could still be running and not
have covered ofic-fffth of that
s!ra GETAWAY course.
"Sir, as / have said before. there
was a race. And with the permission
Of the court. asking its pardon for this
depression, ] desire to ask Won. sir.
have you ever been placed in a posi-
ton where twenty-six simoleons. shek
els. pesos. yen. also known in this
country as dollars. represented an
overwhelming majority Of your capital
stock. And. sir, has IL ever been your
misfortune to have taken fair chance
by the foretop and cast the die to win
or lose this. your all in all, on the re-
suit of a scrub horse race2 If so. sir.
,,fa In, IN
ciate the poignant pains which per-
meated my more or less ponderous
avordupois when / saw the Pride OF
Forsyth falter in the stretch and lope
lessurely under the imaginary wire like
a winded range COW. long after the
unbeatable and invincible ,Dixy.' car
rying the colors of the sour dough coat
and coon skin cap had been twice cur
ried down in the near stall.
Day Of Disappointment.
"Sir. this was NY day of grevous
financial engulfment
But. sir. | was not the only sucker
in that concourse of spectators, There
was wall that could be heard from
Lavina to Milestone. the reverberationa
though they were breathed upon b,
a south sea simeon and caused the
tipple of mine No. to wobble in its
socket
Trouble was on. Conspiracy was
rife-and had been rife from the mo-
mcnt ! was met on my way to the Ep
worth league. And the warmer waxed
the controversy. the rifer il becamL
Sir. | am trying to make an honest liv
ing practiclng law the best know how
with what little stock l have in trade
The owner OF the Forsyth horse. hav-
ing lost his money and his pride in
the race. asked ne in my capacity as
an attorney to undertake the recov-
cry for him of his horse. Then I. also,
was unjustly branded a conspiratoI
and by that familiar process knowi.
as the double-cross. ] am now before
the bar of justice pleading to an in
formation. ! wish II understood here
I'm this presence. with these honorable
men congregated around. that ] am
ashamed of myself. deeply Inundated
and feel the consequence of this false
position more than l am gifted to tell
at this time. may 1t please the court.
Il might say more. II would pos
sibly have become ne tn say less.
But | desire here and now. In TIN,
presence to state that hereafter on
those golden Sunday afternoons, when
the sun laves with its warm waves
that hibulous Rahvion. the city OF
Roundup. that II there is Il horse racN
i'm one direction. or a dog fight in the
other direction. | shall attempt as
nearly as possible tn steer in a straight
line In Numerically opposite dirccs
ton
"s'ir. am only an ordinary. sinful.
wicked man. But | will say that l
plead guilty with humiliation and with
shame. I know the flesh Is weak. that
we are linked with the lust of sin. en-
xironed by the lechery of temptation
but with me. the spirit viii be Willing
and shall hereafter walk p!onsly IN
the pleasant furrow of reetitude ana
righteousness and never more Will be
accused of horse raeing-where the
race is jobbed"