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VOLUME 7, NUMBER' 21
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LONG DJDMANDS JUSTICE
Uudor dato o Stamford, Cpnn.,
May 27, tho Associated Press car
ried this dispatch:
Dr. William J. Long today made
'public a loiter sont by him to Pros
, ident Roosevolt. Tho lottor says in
, part:
, "To His Excellency, Theodore
i Roosovelt, President of tho Unltod
I StatesMy Dear Sir: Tho issuo
1 between you and mo is no longer
one of animals but of mon. It is
not chiefly a mattor of natural his
tory, but of truth and personal hon
' or. In a rocont magazine artielp
you deliberately attack me, as well
as my book. You havo used the
enormous influonco of your official
' position to discredit mo as a man,
to injuro my reputation ,and inciu
dontally to mako a poor man oven
, poorer by destroying, if possible, the
sale and influonco of his work. Jn
my book I have given tho result of
long years of watching animals .in
tho wilderness with no other object
than to studV their habits, and. so
far as niarican, to understand 'tho
mystery of. their dumb lifo.
"In overy prefacq I have stated
and I now repeat the statement that
every incident I have recorded frbnr
my own observation is true as far
as an honest, educated man can see
and understand the truth. In your
recont attack this, is what jrou chief
ly deny. I havo spokon tho truth
and you' accuse me of deliberate
falsehood and misrepresentation. As
president of the United States you
have gone out of your way publicly
to injure the private citizen who was
attending strictly to his. own busL-
nesa; as a man you havo accused
ot talsehood another man. whose
1 Ideals o truth and honor are quite
as high as your own. That is the
whole issuo botween us. I meet it
squarely and so must you. If I havo
spoken falsely, if in book or work
of mine, I have intentionally de
ceived any child or man regarding
animal life, I promise publicly to
retract every, such word and never
, to write another animal book. On
1 tho other hand, if I show to any
dtsinterested person that you have
accused me falsely you must pub
licly withdraw your accusation and
apologize.
."As a man and as president no
other honorable course Is open to
you.
."You base your recent charges
chiefly on the matter of a big whitq
wolf killing a youncr caribou bv n
bite in, the .chest described by rao ,in
iMoruiern xraus. You declare the
thing to he a mathematical impos
sibility and declare by no possibility
could a wolf perform tho feat." -
Mr. Long declares he knows, from
his own observation and from tho
testimony of Indians that wolves do
soinotimes kill in this way, and then
quotes tho signed and witnessed
statement of S. J. Hapidan, an edu
cated Sioux Indian, who states ho
saw a horse which a wolf had killed
by tearing its chest. In addition to
this Dr. Long says ho himself had
scon 'a deer which had been slain
in this manner by a wolf and further
recites that his Indian, Matty
Mltcholl of Bonny Bay, Newfound
land, declares that tho big whito
wolf frequently kills caribou in this
manner. Continuing, Dr. Long says:
"Theso are tho facts underlying
tho lncldont which you declare to
bo impossible and false. If this
tostlmony is "hot enough I will fill
it up to full scriptural measure. You
can not, at this stage, Mr. Roose
velt, take refuge behind tho presi
dential prerogative and maintain si
lence. You have forfeited your
right to that sllenqe by breaking
it and coming out in public to attack
a privato citlzon. If your talk of
a square' deal is not all a sham;
if your frequent moral preaching is
not hypocrisy, I call upon you as,
.president, as a man, to come out and
,admit tho error and Injustice of
your charge in the same open and
public way In which you mado it."
SENDING BUGS AFTER BUGS
It is estimated that tho green bugs,
through their ravages this season,
will causo a failing off of not less
than 8,000,000 bushels of wheat in
the yield in Texas. Mr. Conrad!
claims that ho could havo gathered
enough lady bugs iii ono county in
east Texas to destroy every green
bug in tho wheat growing region of
tho stato. While they prefer the
green bug as an article of diet, they
also prey upon many other kinds of
insects.
Dizzy Spells
That dizzy" spoil is, an Important mes
sage from tho' heart a pjca lfb;r help,
If this message receives no attention
others como; Shortness of breath, pa'l-
I?i&LP9r woa ,r , antlnS wells,
smothorihg dr choking sensations,
pains around tho 'heart, in stdo or
shoulders, and so on, until it receives
'the necessary help, or .is compelled to
glvo up stop. :. l i
You may furnJsh, this.aiuVwIUi '
DR. MILES' HEART CURE
which cures heart disease In overy
. Every day Wo read of sudden deaths
from heart disease, yet it is a fact that
the heart had upon pleading for help,
and gave up tho strugglo only when It
. had exhausted tho last spark of vital-
J7TUUU tny can it sudden.
"For more than alv vnnve t ,..
troubled with my heart. 1 would havo
,uzzy spoils, then difflculty in breath
ing, choking sensations i,of
would ilutter, become painful. I cbuld
iiut mvuine jying aown. I commenced
caicing ur. mhos' Heart Cure, and in a
r ' -.Wi. ,::- """ viimuiy uureii."
jvuiMJNiu jg, JOHNSON, Olivia. Minn
The Ilrst bottle will lionnfiV W !'
he druggist will return your money!
An Austin, Texas, dispatch to the
Chicago Record-Herald, follows:
It, T. Miller, state commissioner
of agriculture, wants to turn loose
many millions of lady bugs upon the
'wheat fields of Texas for the pur
pose of destroying the hordes of
green bugs
Lady-bug, lady bug, fly away homo;
Your house is on fire; your children
alono,
This couplet, so familiar to chil
dren, has caused the lady bug. to be
well known to the people, but it was
not until recently, Mr. Miller says,
that its value as an exterminator
of tho whoat pest became known.
The legislature was asked to make
an appropriation for gathering vast
numbers of the lady bugs together
and colonizing them upon the wheat
landg where tho green bugs are now
committing their ravages. The re
quest for this appropriation was
made in all seriousness, but the
committee to which the bill was re
ferred looked upon the matter as a
joke and it was killed.
The state has a bug farm in opera
tion at College station. It is con
ducted by A. F. Conradi, who has a
wide reputation as an entomologist.
Mr. Conradi' has been, experimenting
with the lady bugs and green bugs
for, a long timo. I-le lias demonstrat
ed to his own satisfaction that tho
green bug is the natural prey of
the lady bug. The latter is a voracious-
eater and. feasts all day on
green bugs without satisfying its ap
petite. The appearance, Of the green
bug pest ever'&tof'or seven years is
due to tho sfact that the lady bugs,
having decimated their natifral prey,
starve to aeatn tnemseives.
When the lady bugs are all gone
or reduced in numbers the green
hugs Begin to multiply with marvel
ous rapidity and in a short time they
become a pest. They commit their
ravages for a year or two, until the
lady bugs learn of their new feed
ing ground and Increase in num
bers: sufficiently tp s destroy them.
Mr: Conradi says that the young of
the green bug are born alive and are
not hatched from eggs.
It the legislature had made the
appropriation asked, it was planned
by Mr. Conradi to go to some of tho
east Texas counties, where vast num
bers of the lady bugs are! fOuhd, and
gather a few millions of. them and
ship them into the suffering wheat
growing region of tho state. Mr.
.Mijler says that if the appropriation
naa Deen maae promptly, so that
the lady bugs could havo been dis
tributed over tho wheat fields earlier
in tho season, several million bush
els of wheat could have been saved.
TILE BROADER HUMANITY
The poverty of city slums is a.
consequence and an associate of vipo
and weakness, either physical or
mental. It results from the sins of
fathers. Some suffer for their own,
but it. is usually vicarious suffering.
Ill health and incapacity are legacies
from other generations, and the nat
ural law of the city's jungle tramples
the weak mercilessly. The bitter
ness of poverty seems doubly to be
pitied when it is suffered by help
less, blameless dependents, who
mako up the most pitiful aspect of
the slums. Onlookers lookvith ach
ing hoarts upon struggling parents
and joyless children with lives of
privation before them. Often purses
are emptied in lavish charity which
brings comfort all too rare in these
lives, but afterward comes the lapse
into want that seems more terrible
than before.
The problem is perennial for those
who dispense charity. Relief of an
kind in the form of gifts can only
be temporary. The helpless, are also
hopeless, and can not be taught even
to help themselves. Those of physi
cal strength 'can be sent back to
the land, if they -will go, but as a
rule they are either unable or un
willing to do heavy manual work.
They lie In tho grip of the old econ
omic law, In a law older than society,
older than humanity itself, the sur
vival of the fittest. That law has
been appealed to for ages past to set
tle the problem of poverty. The
weaker must go to the wall, the
fortunate strong m ones have said.
The commercial orld is organized
on that hasis, and puts a premium
on ruthless oppression. In the great
cities the rich are .still growing richer
and the poor are growing poorer, in
obedience to this law.
Is this law of nature all powerful
over man, or is there a divine law!
a higher law of altruism, that will
supersede it? Must the world al
ways be dominated by the principle
oi sen, ojr win it yet realize and give
precedence to the brotherhood of
man? - '
Signs are abundant that mankind
is approaching a higher plane. The
world is learning that qommercial
success can be . overdone; that its
most effective method' is legalized
piracy and its ultimate Ambition a
monopoly of dollars. In his great
material triumph the winner finds
honor withheld, and suspicion ram
pant. Wo are' beginning to IooTc at
things differently. It Is coming to
be recognized that theMuty of the
strong is to help the weak; that in
helping each other we help ourselves,
and that selfish greed is productive
of unhappiness for those who get,
and misery for those who lose.
Socialism, is it? No, it is human
ity rising above the level of the
brute in the jungle. It is " not
economic doctrine that, is moving
man, but human kindness. Minne
apolis Journal.
that, the constitution has -gerrymandered
thestato in favor of the dem
ocrats, which is, of course very
shocking to republican ideas of pro
priety, such a thing as 'a republican
gerrymander never having .been
known. .But the real reason is tho
now stato would fall into demo
cratic possession and. add seven
votes of that political color to tho
electoral college a year from next
fall. If it had been supposed that
Oklahoma would prove to be so
strongly democratic, the last con
gress would have withheld its en-J
abling ordinance at least until vafter
the next presidential election. New
states are desirable only as they1 are
republican -in politics, Springfield.
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