Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-10-06
ROUNDUP NOT WANTED
IN WESTERN OREGON

Ed. Journal: Your clean cut and
well expressed editorial matter con-
tanned an article recently that met
with my approval. This is not the
first or only editorial that ever
pleased me, but it is oe OF the many
direct-to-the-point articles of COM
mIent that makes your paper readable
Your comment in question was the
roundup at Pendleton. You go on to
say that it is a show doomed to
financial failure, and no amount of
advertising or effort to enlarge its
Importance will ever succeed. You
are right This sort of an exhibition
is exactly in line with prize fighting,
bull fighting, mistreatment of dumb
animals. and caters to the vicious ma
ture Of the spectators. A genuinely
humane aad sensible method of edu-
eating a horse is we'll enough. but
whoever suspected that man catch
ing a calf in the ear with his teeth
and throwing him, while he lassoed
a Wild bull with his right hand and
branded the calf with his left, and
all at the same time, would be an
object of admiration, aad the recipi-
ent of the capital prize at meeting
of refined and educated people in as
late a period as the twentieth CEN
tury?
The natives of the Hawaiian
Islands, when loading cattle, fasten
a cable to the horns of each COW. and
drag them up over the side of the
boat and let them knock into the
stanchions built for them until let
down to the deck and released. The
method is barbarOus, and our foreign
missionaries decry such cruel prac-
tice. A report of this matter is sent
home with bill of expenses, and
the greatest Christian nation forgets
about it and hikes to see the Pendle-
ton roundup. We are in the habit of
condemning all these things when
they ARD found in foreign countries,
aad becoming interested in similar
things in this country.
/ once attended a prize fight with
a deacon of a church. During the
fight, which was pretty fierce, asked
him if he liked that better than bull
fighting, and he said there was some
style to this fight but that bull fight
ing was unchristian. So there you
are 1t Is all a matter of the point
of view. l suppose you come under
the caption of being effeminate.
Chewing calves ears off with your
teeth, while you brand them on the
hind leg with hot iron, is edifying,
to say the least. I suppose getting
your mouth full Of calf ear whisk-
ers makes you laugh. 1t would me.
You have hit the subject hard and
to the point. 1t is disgraceful exhi-
bition. The poor animal is compelled
to submit by virtue of force, and
an unequal chance, and we think
that greatly American. My idea of
a fair show is to give the horse, bull
or COW all the liberty and advantage
natural to them, and let man best
them If he can. There is no real ad-
miration in a contest after you have
blinded, tied and fastened the ami
NAL. Anybody could kick a lion in
the jaw after he was tied down. Jack
London once witnessed a bull fight,
and made some similar observations
to nearby Spaniards, resulting in a
pistol and knife fight, from which he
escaped with his lifs by the merest
chance. He could see no fairness in
the fight, and said so. Eastern Ore
gon will some day get into civiliza-
tion. HUMANE.