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Comments by Readers Wolves and Lawbreakers To the Editor: The outgoing and the new administration remind one of the invasion of wolves and their destruction in western Kansas. After the buffalo...

...After the buffalo extermination on the plains, the wolves flocked to Kansas in such numbers that it made stock raising on the range a losing proposition and the stockmen cast about for some means to exterminate them...
...He infected the human wolves with an odor of dishonesty, and this in time will be self-destructive...
...Last night both went to the theater, where a magician asked for a handkerchief...
...Kansas City Times...
...There is no other man in this nation who did so much to impress this on Mr...
...Water Power and our National Destiny THE water powers of this country have a higher ulti-mate significance than is generally conceded to them, and they are certain to have a dominating effect upon the material progress and integrity of this Republic...
...the other owns the only newspaper in town...
...I say no...
...He isn't...
...P. P. Vallery, Snoma, South Dakota...
...Can it be accomplished...
...For the land's sake...
...The way our financial leaders and our political leaders are hedging convinces the average American beyond a doubt that Mr...
...It was the jury that was off...
...Theodore Roosevelt and his administration spent seven years in infecting the human outlaws in this nation so that the average honest person would know them...
...A Good Reason.—How was he acquitted...
...Roosevelt as did W. J. Bryan...
...Roosevelt became President no one doubts...
...One is the proprietor of this hotel," answered the accommodating clerk...
...At intervals they broke into argument, which involved personality...
...It also illustrates the outcome...
...Roosevelt hit upon the Kansas plan...
...asked a salesman...
...He adopted in human form the same plan that the Kansas stockman did in the wolf case...
...A Magician Mystifies TWO men sat in the hotel lobby glowering at the smoke which they blew toward the ceiling...
...O. Leighton, Chief Hydrographer, United States Geological Survey, in Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science...
...exclaimed the landlady...
...San Francisco Star...
...wolves, instead of roaming around nights killing calves and worrying the cows, were busy with themselves, either scratching or sneezing, and were too feeble for any serious attack...
...To these stockmen this plan worked most satisfactorily, for when the next calf crop came around the...
...Chicago News...
...Ain't it wonderful what some animals can be trained to do...
...About that time a stockman, who was formerly from Missouri, had a vision which revealed to him a simple but positive means of destroying the wolves...
...The magician studied the cloth for a few minutes, and then said, dramatically:— " 'Thank Heaven, there's at least one clean sheet in this town.' "And now the publisher says the hotel bedclothes were alluded to, and the other insists that it was the town's newspaper...
...It so happened that about this time there was a dog distemper and scab in the above named state and it appeared to this stockman that if a few wolves could be infected with this disease that they would exterminate themselves...
...That there were all kinds of dishonesty being practiced in both private and public life, when Mr...
...If the question asked in this article and answered by the writer is true, the American people must look for new leaders along nearly every line of honest progress and development...
...Roosevelt was oftener right than wrong in turning on the searchlight...
...A man jokingly handed him a big square of muslin...
...He doesn't seem crazy...
...Marvelous.—"More than five thousand elephants a year go to make our piano keys," remarked the student boarder who had been reading the scientific notes in a patent-medicine almanac...
...Insanity...
...In casting about for some means to alleviate and diminish the wrong-doing, Mr...
...What's the matter with them...
...So clear did this husbandman make it to his associates that his plan was adopted...
...If we are to place ourselves in an economic position in which we may finally prevail as a world power, our point of view regarding fuel and water power must be changed, and our policies must be altered so that we may wisely prepare to use the vast power resources which we are now neglecting.—M...
...A few wolves were caught and penned up with the diseased dogs until they were infected and they were then turned out among the other wolves and they too became infected...
...From all outward appearance, President Taft and his administration are preparing to dip and annoint at least a part of those who were infected so they will show no signs of the Roosevelt marks...
...The above is to illustrate the grabbing and ravenous conditions that existed in every walk of life about the time that Theodore Roosevelt took the reins of this nation in hand...

Vol. 1 • July 1909 • No. 26


 
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