THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, JULY 21, 1912.
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IDAHO TRAINS RURAL TEACHERS TO
UNDERSTAND PROBLEMS OF TILLERS
Lewiston Normal School Aims to
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LclaL) Can the rural school ot the
Lewiston State formal graduate
teachers who will enable farmer girls
and boys to become successful tillers
of the soil, and will the farmer boy bo
better enabled "to beat his dad at his
own n" after he has feone to school
to these, graduates? These are some of
th Informal questions that are being
put to Pean Earle S. Wooster, head of
th rural department of the Lowiston
State Normal, and these are the quea
t tlons that his model rural school hopes
' tn unlvA in the next few years.
Realizing the backward condition of
th rural schools of the Northwest, in
contrast to the Krowin and broaden-
iln of the. agricultural fields. Pro-
fnanr Wooster took the initiative In the
, creation of a model rural school, in this
I cas located at Fort Lapwai. Idaho. He
planned that his students should stuay
(with the teachers at the country
schools, observe and see what was real-
i If needed. Last week the school com
J pleted Its first year, and nearly three
! and one-half score or leacners
been sent out with a training that is
practical and consistent with the needs
of the rural communities.
The feature of the Lewiston school
rests In the close contact that exists
J between the student and the lnhablt
i ants of the rural community. Here the
i student assists the regular teacher in
. the school. The classes are taken in
.' charge by the student, and classes are
j taken over the fields and hills. When
! the country child can be brought to
' honor the vocation of his father, then
a biff problem has been solved.
'. Practical Value Needed.
"There has been an appreciable
drifting away from the farm," stated
Xean Wooster in a recent Interview,
"We hope by our method of teaching to
check the lessening of Interest in this
matter. We want the farmer boy to
realize that we have something for
him that will be of actual value. We
have come to realize that Latin and
Greek, English and French have little
charm for the farmer boy. We hope
to show him the mysteries that dwell
In the soil."
Sucoess In this particular depends on
the curriculum of the rural high
school, a new departure in school
facilities of the Northwest The boy
from the time he enters this rural
school, under the direction of the
trained rural teacher, gradually learns
something of farming and farm life.
The curriculum of manual training,
coupled with a practical education, will
naturally conduce to his going to a
scientific school to gain more knowl
edge of his future vocation. The fact
that the school will be In sympathy
with rural life and rural sentiments
will lend much to the future success of
the system.
In this school the farmer girl also
plays a great part. She also learns all
that the three "R's" have for her, and
In addition she is taught by a teacher
who has a professional knowledge of
the home economies cooking, sewing,
practical economies, gardening and
manual work. Like her farmer brother,
she will learn the art of handling the
saw and hammer, the hoe and the
rake. She will be Just as proficient a
tiller as he. because It will be pre
sented to her interestingly.
Effort to Get Close to Nature.
A visit to Fort Lapwai discloses the
fact that the teachers live in crude
little tent houses. It would not be fit
ting for them to occupy the best of
homes. They rough it. Children play
on the Improvised apparatus. Trained
students mingle with and help farmer
boys, rural high school boys and girls
plant their plots In the Spring sun
shine under the guidance of these spe
cial teacher-students.
At the Lewiston State Normal there
are two sections of these students who
live in the rural community for six
weeks at a time, learning ot their
needs and Sesires. In the rural life th
practical Is over the theoretical, and
111 realization ot mis every euvn
being made to bring It out.
rn nrrhw,t hundreds of thou-1
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ands of dollars are being expended InJtaln other cases, wnich have been made
so Instruct Youth That Children May Outstrip Sires at Their Own Pursuits.
Course Intended to Be Thoroughly Practical
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FREE LEGAL ADVICE
SOUGHT BY CITIZENS
City Attorney Grant Believes City Should Meet Demand in Certain Cases.
Policemen Need Motorcycles.
THAT It would be an excellent plan
for the municipal government to
furnish legal advice In certain
cases and that such would be perfectly
proper and in keeping with the func
tions of a city's law department, is the
belief of City Attorney Grant.
Scores of persons, both men and
women, call upon Mr. Grant and his
assistants every month for advice.
Owing to the fact that all of the at
taches of the office are so busy with
actual municipal business that it is im
possible for them to take up their time
with such affairs, they have to decline
to pay attention to these persons.
Mr. Grant, however, believes that It
would be a good plan for the city to
provide means of supplying legal ad
vice in proper cases and thinks that
the results would justify such a de
parture from present conditions.
He believes that such a department
would be able to advise the poorer
classes in such cases as those recently
coming to public attention wherein
working people have been hounded by
"loan sharks," fceing unable to employ
any attorney to tell them of their
rights. There are many cases, says
Mr. Grant, where proper legal advice.
I furnished free, would be of actual pub-
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attention Is being paid by rural school
known to him, would not properly
come under this class, he points out.
There are some people who naturally
would try to take advantage of the de
partment to save themselves the pay
ment of attorneys fees, but they would
not be granted advice gratis, should
the city ever undertake to establish a
free legal department.
Just plain human nature has assert
ed itself so thoroughly that the police
committee of the Executive Board
called for bids on new motorcycles.
"We need these machines," ex
plained Chief Slover to the members of
the committee, "for the reason that It
is costing us too much to repair the
present ones. The reason is that three
sets of policemen are using the motor
cycles every 24 hours as we now work
the system. I want to get one ma
chine for each of the six motorcycle
men, so that each man will have his
own and will be responsible for the
upkeep. As it is now, if a machine
Is broken, each man tries to lay the
blame on the other."
"That's human nature," commented
John B. Coffey, the committee chair
man, whereupon the committee ordered
bids for the new machines. The con
tracts will be awarded in the near fu
ture, probably next Thursday.
Incidentally, motorcycles have prov
en to be of such great utility in the
police department that the Chief would
not think of being without an ample
supply.
,
Mayor Rushlight spent a strenuous
week,' catching up with' the official
business that accumulated on his desk
during the Elks' reunion. While the
big convention was at its height, he
was obliged to spend much time enter
taining and performing the official acts
necessary to the proper show of cour
tesy to visiting Elks and others who
made the city their stopping place
then.
Chief Janitor Simmons has been on
duty in the City Hall for 14 years and
has served so faithfully that the era
ployes of the City Auditor's depart
ment chipped In and bought nim
beautiful pipe.
The vacation season is on and many
of the City Hall employes are taking
advantage of the 15 working days, al
lowed them by the charter each year.
Mayor Rushlight probably will take a
vacation in the near future and George
L. Baker, president of the Council, will
act in his absence. When George 1.,
McCord, secretary to the Mayor, goes
into the mountains to tempt the res
five trout on his vacation. Willard
Tupper, secretary of the Civil Service
Commission, probably will supply for
him.
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Policemen are wondering whether
they will soon be taking off two days
each month, as provided may be done
bv an -ordinance recently passea
Whether thev will depends upon action
by the police committee. Something
may be done by the members nex
Thursday on this subject.
Ralnh C. Clyde, a member of the
City Council, is so proud of the fact
that he has at last succeeaeo. in 6v
tint- an ordinance Dassed that he in
sists uDon telling his friends about It
every time he sees one of them. The
ordinance is one wnti wouia compel
payment ui uumco, w .
mitred bv nubile service companies.
The only trouble Is the Mayor vetoed
it and the Council sustained the veto,
thereby "killing" Mr. Clyde's years
work.
Contracts for a large amount of
motor-driven annaratus for the lire
department probably will be let next
week. The bias are now otsms uuu
sldered by D. Soils Cohen, John Perry
and Dr. H. C. FIxott, members of the
fire committee.
Christian Violence Sometimes
Hidden by Gentleness
(Continued From Faee 5.)
would have become a Joan of Aro, lead
ing others to Drlvilege and freeaom.
TCn hi- rum would not have been
spiked or destroyed, but she would
hair, transferred them to the other
tri wor marshaled energies used in
the kingdom of darkness would be now
enlisted In the kingdom oi ngnu
Po it was, with both the Aposue
pni and Peter. The Lord came to
thpao violent characters and coveted
their strength, and retained It in the
ministry of his word and lite, tou re
member he said. "Simon, Simon, Satan
hath desired to have thee"; he covets
that passion, that strong feeling of
thfriA that maenificent Impulse of
thinp- hut so does thv Master; "and
I have prayed for thee that thy faith
fail not."
wvn o he would have you and me
have the strength that comes from har
monizing all our powers. All must be
brought to Him If he would succeed
In taking the kingdom.
Decision Is Not All Sufficient.
Hut it Is not enough for "men of
violence" to have Blmply decisiveness
of ourpose and harmony of powers,
they must have the energy of a strong
and lively feeling, jonn t-mvin wo.
rls-ht when he said that me gospei
awakens powerful emotions. But this
is an element In cnristianity irom
which the modern church has swung
too far away. The Christian with deep
fllnB- who can shed a tear is looked
upon today, unfortunately, as a weak
ling. We have discoursed so much upon
the wisdom of the speeches of Jesus
and upon the might of his acts among
men that we have forgotten the depths
of his feeling. Many are the Instances
on record in which the feeling or nis
great heart came conspicuously lntc
yiew. All his great work, especially In
his ministry of healing, cost him deep
emotions. He not only gave the re
quired help to that man whose only
daughter lay at the point of death, and
to that widow of Nain whose only
son was dead and the body being borne
to Its resting place, to the sisters Mary
and Martha, who wept so bitterly at
th erave of their only brother, Lazar
eth, but he gave It with that feeling
that doubled its value, inere is i
world of difference between the phy
loian or the nastor who merely cans
at the house of sorrow and suiienng
as a matter of duty, to be able to say
that he has been there, and him who
takes the suffering and sorrow of the
stricken home on his heart and goes
away melted and broken down with it.
Don't think It strange ii a ten you
today that I have had mothers In homes
if suffering and sorrow say to
Brother Reagor, don't send that wom
an to call on us any more, vv e don t
care for her visits, her calls."
And then I have had mem say, un,
would like that woman to call and
see us again; she was so tender and
sympathetic Our suffering was not
half so severe after her visit."
Feeling Is Desirable.
Now, why the difference? Both of
them were good Christian women. They
were both loyal and liberal to the
church. But the difference was one had
the energy of strong and lively feel
ing, while the other did not.
I once had an assistant In a very tal
ented Christian woman. She could fill
the pulpit acceptably In my absence.
She made 150 calls a month. But I
learned early not to send her where
there was sickness and sorrow. They
would say to me, "We don't want her;
nlease don't send her." She lacked the
onerc-v of Rtronsr and lively feeling.
The need of this element in the
church is great. It is a mighty power
with which to storm the strongnoias
of Satan. Tears will win ana noia
when words fail.
I've told you the story of the little
girl who had promised with the other
little girls in ner sunaay bcuwi uimb
to trv to do something for Jesus each
week. When the teacher called the roll
and thev began to tell what they had
said during the week to help some one,
she failed to raise her hand. And then
the teacter asked her if she had not
said anything to anybody that would
lighten their load.
"No," she said. "All I did was to
go to little Jane," one of the girls
in her class at school, who was sitting
off by herself on the playground, cry
ing. Her little brother had died and
was buried the day before.
And the teacher said, . "Well, what
did you say?"
And the little girl said, "I didn't
say anything. I Just put my arm around
her and cried too."
Ah, that was one of the ways that
Jesus stormed the powers of sin ana
suffering. And it's our way if this ele
ment Is in us. No one is gospel-hardened
by the appeal of a feeling heart
It will win when everything else fails.
It is the need of the world.
"The Kingdom of Heaven suffereth
violence, and the men of violence take
it by force."
"From strength to strength, go on,
wresuo ano bul a w-y,
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Tread all tne powers ot o&rsness uown i
and win the well-fought day." J
COLONEL ROOSEVELT'S BULL MOOSE
IS BRANDED AS DESTRUCTIVE BEAST
William J. Long, Called Nature Taker by ex-President, Casts Few Sidelights on Animal Chosen as Political
Totem by Bandana Party Useless Bovine Would Never Bo Tolerated on Private Ground, Says Writer.
William J. Long figured in a con
troversy with x-Preldent Roose
velt when the latter denounced him
as a na.ure-faker. Mr. Long hu
written the following essay for the
Independent, which is copyrighted
by that magazine and is reproduced
with the permlsslson of that publica
tion. BT WILLIAM, J. LONG.
(My "Dear Editor Tours Is only one of
many letters that nave lately come to my
desk from editors, lawyers and especially
from progressive statesmen, all asking for
an expert opinion on the bull moose as an
emblem or totem of a new political party
devoted to the nubile food. I am deliftbtei
to have your assurance that thie pure and
patriotic party nas no selt-seeKers, no am
bitious Dolitlclans. no nlotters for revenge
that It has already exorcised all its devils
and committed Itself Irretrievably to tfte so
ciety of the near seraphim. For such an or
ganisation the bull moose is, as you shall
Dresently see. an almost Detract em-blem.
At the outset, however, I must disclaim
any expert knowledge of this interesting
subject. I have met only three or four
hundred moose, among them being a few
that furnished something like a mild ad
venture: but I have had the good fortun-
to find in a second-hand shop an old vol
ume, which tells all about the bull moose,
It was written by one T. Roosevelt who, you
may remember, once had considerable local
reputation as a naturalist, especially among
Federal office-holders whose positions were
not secured by civil service regulations.
find unon examination that the esteemed
author actually killed two bull moose that
were not looking and cnasea tnree more inat
would not wait to be shot. He was also
intimate with Hank Griffin, who once saw
a moose somewhere out West. He speaas,
therefore, with authority.
In the following essay I shall quote freely
from his luminous pages, omitting only the
bloody details. very sincerely yours.
Wll-.l'l-A-Ja J. LUrtU.J
TB
HE bull moose lives on the public
domain and is a very wasteful
feeder. As T. Roosevelt well
says, "no beast is more destructive to
the young growth of a forest," When
his great paunch is full to bursting of
the delicacies he has gathered from the
common suppiy, he wanders toward his
daybed, stripping the bark from tender
young trees, especially of the rarer and
more beautiful kind, like the mountain
ash and the striped maple. His method
is to strike bis strong front feet into
the bark and tear off a great strip by
lifting his head. He chews a bit of
this, only to throw it aside and strip
another tree farther on. In trailing
bull moose one can often follow his
course far ahead by the unsightly
gashes or "peelings" which he leaves
behind him. Another destructive
method of feeding la by riding down
young trees whose tops are above his
reach. He straddles the trunk, bending
it down by his great weigh', holding it
under his belly while he eats all the
buds and tender twigs. - A trei thus
moose-ridden rarely recovers. It re
mains bent or broken, like a discarded
boss; it cannot breathe without its
leaves; It dies and the Winter snows
cover it from sight.
Such a destructive nd useless beast
would never be tolerated on private
land or by a thrifty corporation. At
one time he was of Bmall use to the
early settlers, who killed him for food
when they could find nothing better
but they could never depend upon him.
he is of a wandering and flighty
disposition. His flesh, moreover, is
coarse and stfingy; his hide is thick
and "of very poor quality, as T. Roose
velt says, and he ought to know. At
the present time he is one of the lux
uries of Democracy, which supports
and protects him that he may minister
to the vanity of a few sportsmen, most
ly of the tinhorn variety, who think
it a brave thing to follow him and to
hang his grotesque head in A their
houses; though in truth It requires less
courage and skill to kill a moose than
to kill a cow that has run wild In the
back pasture.
With such an emblem, the new party
may well inscribe "Thou Shalt not steal
upon Its standard. 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. 1
once planted a garden near my Summer
camp, and a bull moose used to come
nightly to knock down the fence and
eat every bean and pea vine that had
ambition to show its head.
Our authority declares (p. 205) that
the legs of a bull moose are so long and
his neck so short that he must go
down on his knees" to crop the tender
grass or to get a mouthful of snow to
quench his thirst. This delusion was
already hoary when I first found it in
the geography. The bull moose does
nothing of the kind. If he wants to
crop or drink, he simply spreads his
forefeet and bends his head, as any one
may see who will follow a moose for
an hour without trying to kui nim.
If. however, we consider him as the
emblem of the new party of righteous
ness. In a world wholly abandoned to
the evil "interests," we should Dy an
means cherish this old delusion. The
Dicture of the bull moose on his knees,
in an attitude of grace as he eats and
drinks from the public hand. Is an ad
mirable one. It will be especially sig
nificant If the new party has the wis
om to choose a leader of almost
monoDOlistlc virtue, who Is more em
phatio than Moses In the matter of
commandments ana wno wrestles
lerhtilv in prayer before he goes out
with his Gideon band of Flinns to fight
the Lord's battle.
Perhaps the most noticeaDie quality
of the bull moose is his shyness. He
avoids the crowd and eschews excite
ment of every kind. 1 When you find
him vou must be very still, else will
his native modesty take him away out
of vour sight. Once I ran across
party of ladies, with their guides, who
were eager to see a bull moose. At
twilight I took two of them In my
canoe, and was followed by the whole
party in breathless expectation, wnen
T called out the great bull, certain
emotional ones could not restrain their
admiration. One waved ner nanaKer-
chief; another clapped her hands; a
third cried out ecstatically, xne moose,
disdaining such applause, Instantly
turned and vanished Into the solitude
which he so deeply loves. As T. Roose
velt writes, "The bull moose is never
found in a great herd, but always alone
or in smaii iamiiy p" "-o. "
these respects he Is an excellent totem;
Via tvnifies the long-expected politician
who shall settle all affairs himself, or
in select tennis cabinets, taxing no
of courts or constitutions or the
democratic rabble, which can oniy
shout and vote and leave all else to the
true leader.
Though the bull moose is tnus in
stinctively retiring, he has another side
to his nature. At times he rampages
violently through the woods, exalting
his horn, bruntlng, squealing, stamp
ing the earth with his hoofs and
thrashing the unoffending bushes with
his antlers. Meeting nim now you
would think him a champion, a iioi-
spur, a very devil of an antagonist; but
he is at heart an arrant coward and
braggart, without a spark of real that
is, of moral courage. If he ever at
tacks It is In a nt or puna iury, uko a
cornered cat He will roar defiance at
all rivals and at the universe Itself;
but nai a twig sharply, or bark like a
small dog, and all the rampant egotism
oozes out of him. ide remembers sud
denly some very Important engagement
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A curious fact about a bull moose at
such moments of emotional excitement
is that he readily answers a call and
comes headlong to meet it. Almost
everything will serve for an Issue when
the bull moose Is In a receptive atti
tude. I have called him by imitating
the bellow of his mate, by pounding on
a stretched skin, by grunting or chock
in my throat like a rival bull, or
by simply making a loud roar unlike
anything on the earth below, or,
trust. In heaven above. Here, again, he
serves admirably as an emblem of the
new type of political leader, who stays
in retirement until the people call nim
loudly to their service. Unfortunately,
the summons to the bull moose is
sometimes arranged by crafty men
with guns, and when he rushes out
eagerly to meet the call he goes to
his own destruction.
In many other ways the bull moose
shows symptoms of emotional nts ana
of a disordered Intellect. As T. Roose
velt says (p. 229), "he frequently shows
a clumsy slowness of apprehension
which amounts to downright stupid
ity." The leader who adopts the bull
moose as his emblem, therefore, should
he warv of talking too much, knowing
that words are remembered, or of
wrltlna: confidential letters that are
almost certain to be purchased by the
newspapers those vile and slanderous
Instruments of the corrupt interests,
without conscience or any appreciation
of true srreatness.
Another noticeable characteristic of
the bull moose Is his Inordinate and
unchangeable selfishness. Whether
roaminar the woods In solitude, or tear
ing up the earth, or coming headlong
to the call, he is tninaing, nrst, iai
and all the time of the safety of his
own skin and the fullness of his own
stomach. I 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 I never yet saw a oun moose
do a thing for anybody but himself.
He is the inoarnation of self-interest
A cow or even a calf moose, if she
sees danger approaching, will warn
all others before she takes the first
step for her own safety; but a bull
moose will sneak away silently at the
first sniff of peril, leaving all others to
look out for themselves. And that, by
the way. is the real reason why
female animal Is invariably found at
the head of a band of moose or of deer
of anv kind. If they are approaching
danger, you will Invariably find the
cows ahead, the calves close Denina,
while far in the rear comes the bull,
taking care not to expose his precious
hide and running from a saie oistance
at the first warning of danger. This
characteristic of the noble totem, how
ever, need not be emphasized unless,
perchance, the new party goes over
bodily to the suffragets.
Further Indications of the bull's es
sential selfishness are found In his fre
quent abuse and browbeating or an
other moose that are smaller man
himself. He cannot tolerate a rival,
but flies Into a Jealous rago at the
first suggestion that there Is any other
bull moose in the universe. His voice
at such times is a squeaking grunt.
ridiculously small for so great an
animal, which sounds like ungwuh!
ungwuh! Herein we have a suggestion
of those ferocious warriors described
in Parkman's "Conspiracy or rontiac.
who always began a speech by shouting
"Ongwehonwe!" which in the tongue of
that tribe means, "I am the only man;
all others are squaws or liars.'
At all times the bull moose is easily
fascinated by too bright a light. Oc
casionally when I am studying the
bow of my canoe, I run across his lord
ship ailing himself with lush lily roots.
Most animals will stare at the Jack
for a time, and then turn away into
the woods. Enough limelight is as
rnnA as a feast for a sensible creature.
Now and then, however, I meet a bull
moose that stares too long at the light.
much as a politician might look too
much upon glory, ana ne enas oy
floundering headlong toward the thing
that dazrles him. At such times he is
dangerous. In his blind infatuation
he sees nothing but the Drignt oDject
of his desire, and he clumsily knocks
down everything in his path as he
Jumps toward It. Once I was upset in
this way by a fool moose mat tumDiea
over my canoe and then floundered
madly when the Jack was extinguished,
hitting out aimlessly with hoofs and
antlers. The only sure cure for such a
bull Is darkness, oblivion. When you
meet him, close your Jack, or turn It
on another candidate. Any bull moose
will sober off quickly If left In the
friendly darkness.
In the monumental work to which I
have referred, the esteemed author says
(pp. 216-217) that young moose are
easily tamed, "and are very playful, de
lisrht'lng to gallop to and fro, kicking,
striking, butting and making grotesque
faces." Later, he says, they become a
menace, and he tells the following
story:
Some lumbermen once captured a young
moose and shut him in a pen of logs. A few
days later they captured another somewhat
smaller ana put it in tne same pen.
,ha ri-at -rcmilrl crateful for a companion.
But if it was it dissembled Its feelings, for it
presently fell upon the unfortunate newcomer
and killed it before it could be rescued.
Thn hull moose emblem seems espe
cially significant in view of this record.
In a new party aevoteo. wnoiiy iu iii
public good, there can be little personal
glory, hardly enough for two and cer
tainly not "enough to go round." It Is
meet and right, therefore, that the
chosen leader should attack a rival and
despoil him of his political goods. In
a cold season 1 nave repeaieiy iuuu
where a big bull came upon a smaller
moose in a bed that he had warmed
with his own body and life blood, and
the big bull drove out the little one
and took the warm bed for himself.
Following this excellent example, there
was a righteous statesman, long ago,
who found a plausible Democrat with a
few patent uplift medicines which ap
pealed to the suffering multitude; and
he loudly denounced the poor Demo
crat as a demagog and a son of Belial,
even while he stole his referendum and
recall. Later this same hero found a
nice little party of progressives with
a chance at the next election, and
waiting till the leader fell sick, he
prodded him off and ran away with his
band of followers, precisely as a big
hull moose will drive away a little bull
and take his chosen mates for himself.
Here, then, Is an emDiem worm naving,
if the new party can only find the right
sort of upllfter to wear it on his banner
of victory,
rmr renowned authority Is In error.
however, when he speaks here and else
where (p. 220) of moose "galloping"
away when alarmed. I will not say that
a moose never galloped; I only declare
firmly that the man who saw him gallop
wan not sober. The bull mose often
bolts, as he has a strong tendency in that
direction, but he cannot gallop, being too
clumsily built for tne Dusiness. wnen
alarmed, he turns stiffly and lunges
hiindlv awav at an awkward trot, run
ning into obstacles, knocking down dead
stubs, smashing the unaerDrusn, spiasn
lng and floundering through muddy
bogs, getting more and more excited
at the Dother he is making precisely
as an excited candidate might start a
bolt and an indecent rumpus at an
orderly convention.
The close parallel between your bull
moose and your true politician may be
.,rrij further. Thus, the addlepated
creature often lets himself be hunted by
cunning destroyers that ne migni easny
..ran. Witness this scene (p. 209)
wnere . nini uw
i u , n-u a 1 h I nit rt after a
..! through a thicket
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young bull moose that he has seen to
He down for his midday rest, chewing
his cud In fancied security:
My veins were thrilling and my heart beat,
tng with that eager, fierce excitement which
Is one of the keenest and strongest pleasures
which make up the wild Joy ot living draw
ing a bead against his black side I pressed
the trigger the lifeblood sprang from both
his nostrils
and more of the same bluggy and
butchery details which go to make up
Joy and heroism.
Look on that picture then on this, if
you would know how true to political
nature is the bull moose emblem. In a
thicket of treachery and concealment an
ambitious politician rests in false secur
ity, meditating on the public good and
all the glory and horror thereof. Creep
ing upon his trail comes Boss Barnes,
his Jaw set, a cold gleam In his eye, and
his gun loaded for bull moose. "His
veins are thrilling, his heart beating
with the eager, fierce excitement'"
which comes to those other appointed of
the Lord, who battle at Armageddon
and who know the real "wild Joy of
political living."
There are many other reasons why
the bull moose is the true symbol of
political righteousness. Note that he
always makes a crooked trail, wander
ing about as if lost In the woods.
Though he travels a great deal he
never makes any real progress, but al
ways swings around to a point not far
from where he started. You shall never
find him at the end of a straight course,
and he Is never where you would hon
estly expect him to be. He is cunningly
hidden, away off to one side of his
own tortuous trail, and watching his
own back track. As T. Roosevelt says
(p. 205):
he has a very provoking habit of making a
half or three-quarter circls before lying
down and then crouching with his head so
turned that he can surely perceive any pur
suer who may follow his trail.
Ponder also the deep emblematlo sig
nificance of this fact: every bull moosa
carries his own bell. This Is the name
given by hunters to the long gland that
hangs from the animal's throat. No one
knows what purpose this moose bell
serves, but It Is filled with nerves and
is supposed by some to aid the animal's
hearing, by catching vibrations too
faint for ordinary ears. By others it
is supposed to give added weight and
timbre to the ridiculous little grunt of
the bull moose. In a political sense thla
bell signifies that the leader Is in the
habit of keeping his ear to the ground,
or else that he Is always ready to
sound the tocsin and to ring his own
praises. There was a politician in
Alexandria, in the fourth century if I
remember correctly, who was Inordi
nately fond of public attention, which
he secured by noisy demonstration, by
sounding his own praises and by con
stantly rousing the city over its threat
ened perils; and the Church fathers all
called him cymbalum mundl, the bell
clapper of the universe. If the new
party could by searching find such a
leader the bell of the bull moose would
be the most significant part of the
whole totem.
In appearance the bull moose Is an
awkward and most ungainly brute, a
rello of some earlier and more bar
barous age, when strange marsh beasts
wandered up and down the earth, meet
ing wild and hairy men. As our es
teemed authority says (p. 213), he Is
'strange and uncouth in look as some
monster surviving over from Pliocene."
Among modern, more highly developed
animals and men he la wholly out of
place. He never learns wisdom, but
comes to the same false calls and fol
lows the old, primordial trails. Re
cently some moose were turned loose
in the Adirondacks, only to vanish, and
one who watched them found they had
turned away from excellent food and a
good climate to follow the old forgotten
moose paths northward to greater wild
ness and more primeval savagery. And
when you think of it seriously, the pro
fessional politician, who lives all his
life on the public domain, agitating, de
stroying, but never creating or doing
any constructive work, is also a relic
and a survival of barbarism. He sel
dom learns, but makes the same old
holy professions and follows the same
unholy practices that his tribe made
and followed in the Stone Age. He
noisily proclaims his virtue when It
serves his purpose with the crowd, but
he is very still and secretive when he
is about his own affairs with the heel
ers and bosses. As our authority writes
once more (p. 205): "It is astonishing
how quietly a moose can steal through
the woods If It wishes." It Is also a
matter of wonder how quiet even our
loudest politician can be when he dick
ers with "practical men" or with the
wicked trusts over his campaign con
tributions.
On the whole, the bull moose Is a
bully" symbol. I know of only one
better, and that was suggested by the
parade of Barnum & Bailey which has
just passed my door. On a big wagon.
resplendent with gilt, glass ana general
sham, and capped by a clown blowing a
trumpet, is written in huge letters.
Blood-SWeatlng Behemoth ot Moiy
Writ! Largest in Captivity! If the
wicked Democrats could only capture
that creature for a totem, the new party
of the bull moose would find it hard to
win the barbarian vote at the election.
The Wilderness Hunter, p. 21.
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