Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-07-18
NATURALIsT TERMED "NATuRl
FAkER" ~ T. r., HAS
SPOKEN HIS MoND.
CLUSTERING COWARD
Or. Long Has That to Say OF Bull
Moose 40 An Animal; A. Poll
tical Emblem hs Sees =
Close Parallel.

ture faker will turn!
| For now comes the Rev. William ].
Long, first and permanent president Of
the Oyster Bay Ananias club, with :
piece In this weeks Independent In
which he scurrilously attacks and de-
flames the bull moose both a. beast
and as plain political emblem.
Mr.. Long will ever be remembered
as the clergyman who invoked the
presidential anger, and, ~ natural
consequence, the Theodoric vocabu.
larry, upon his devoted head because
he told how wolf killed caribou
fawn. In his retreat at Stamford.
| Conn, Mr., Long has suffered tn COM
parative silence these seven years, but
now he bursts out with q paean OF Joy
because, as he hopes, the party Theo-
dore Is to be the party of the bull
| moose.
Encouraged by many letters from
editors, lawyers and especially from
progressive statesmen" Mr.. Long,
with the help OF numerous extracts
from book entitled The Wilderness
Hunter" written by one T. Roosevelt
years and years ago, has written some
things. For instance:
The bull moose lives on the public
domain and Is a very wasteful feed.
7 OF Fiighty DlsposItlon.
He Is OF wandering and Tightly
disposition. His flesh, moreover. ID
coarse and stringy; his hide is thick
and of very poor quality 40 + Roose-
welt says. and he ought to know.
"The bull moose never steals; he
simply takes what he wants. He has
fed on public property so long that he
considers It all rightfully his.
Our authority declares (p. 205)
that the legs OF a bull moose are 80
long and his neck so short that he
must go down on his knees to crop
the tender grass or to get mouthful
OF snow to quench his thirst. The pic
ture Of the bull moose in an At
titude Of grace 10 he eats and
drinks from the public hand, 10 an ad-
mirable one. 1t will be especially sig
nificant II the new party has the wis
dom to choose leader Of almost mon.
opolistic virtue, who is more emphatic
than Moses In the matter Of the COM
mandments and who wrestles nightly
in prayer before he goes out with his
Gideon band OF Flinne to fight the
Lords battle.
"A curious fact about the bull moose
ment Is that he really answers . call
and comes headlong to meet 1t. A
most everything will serve for m is
ceptive attitude.
,, shows symptoms of emotional fits and
OF disordered intellect. As T. Roose.
Welt says a. 229): He frequently
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sion which amounts to downright stu
pidity' The leader who adopts the
bull moose as his emblem, therefore.
should be wary OF talking too much.
knowing that words are remembered.
lor of writing confidential letters that
are almost certain to be purchased by
the MISREPRESENTATION vile and Sian.
derous instruments Of the corrupt In.
terests, without conscience or any APP
probation of true greatn ess.
His Great SelfIshness.
Another noticeable characteristic
of the bull moose Is his inordinate and
Interchangeable selfishness. Whether
roaming the woods In solitude, or tear.
!! ing up the earth, or coming headlong
| to the call, he Is thinking, first, last
and all the time, of the safety OF his
own skin and the fullness OF his own
stomach. can take off my hat to
COW moose, having frequently seen her
sacrifice herself to save her offspring
or to protect the herd In the winter
yard; but never yet saw bull
| moose do thing for anybody but
himself He is the incarnation OF self
interest
Further indications of the bulls
! essential selfishness are found in hts
| frequent abuse and browbeating Of all
other moose that are smaller than
himself. He cannot tolerate rival.
but flies into jealous rage at the
first suggestion that there Is any other
bull moose in the universe
Mr.. Long finds the bull moose very
fond OF bright lights--attracted by
them, in fact-and this he considers
another excellent reason for It's serv-
ing as the emblem OF the Theodore
party Another trait he notes, and
wonders II 1t is not also applicable
the faculty of getting nice, soft,
warm and bed by the sim
pie process of driving from its own
some deer OF lesser bulk and pugnac-
/ ity.