GAME GERMAN AMERICANS
it becomes imperative to kill them. If, under such
circumstances, their numbers are not kept down by
legitimate hunting—and some foolish creatures protest
even against legitimate hunting—it would be necessary
to have them completely exterminated by paid butchers.
But the foolish sentimentalists who do not see this are
not as yet the really efficient foes of wild life and of
sensible movements for its preservation. The game-hog,
the man who commercializes the destruction of game,
and the wealthy epicure—all of these, backed by the
selfish ignorance which declines to learn, are the real
foes with whom we must contend. True lovers of the
chase, true sportsmen, true believers in hunting as a
manly and vigorous pastime, recognize these men as
their worst foes; and the great array of men and women
who do not hunt, but who love wild creatures, who love
all nature, must discriminate sharply between the two
classes. (Outlook , January 20, 1915.) Mem. Ed. XIV,
570; Nat. Ed. XII, 428.
his friends today. His heart is tender with sympathy for
those beaten down in the hard struggle for life, and
aflame with indignation against every form of evil and
opression. Whether the crime be one of cunnng or of
brutal violence; whether it be by the rich man against
the poor or by the mob against the doer of justice;
whether it be by the white against the Indian or by the
foul man-beast against the woman—it matters not,
against all alike he bears burning testimony. And above
all, his people are real men and real women; and those
for whom he cares, we, who read of them, grow
likewise to love; and we are more just and gentle
toward our fellowmen, and toward the women who are
our sisters, because of what he has written about them.
(Appreciation by Theodore Roosevelt used as
Foreword.) Hamlin Garland, They of the High Trails.
(Harper & Bros., N. Y., 1916), p. viii.
GEORGE V. I like him thoroughly. He is a strong
man. He is going to make himself felt, not only in
England, but in the world, and he will keep well within
the constitutional limitations. I don't think he has the
tact of Edward, from what I hear; but that may come.
But he struck me as one who has a thorough hold on
himself and thorough knowledge of the people he is to
rule. (Recorded by Butt in letter of June 30, 1910.) Taft
and Roosevelt. The Intimate Letters of Archie Butt.
(Doubleday, Doran & Co., Garden City, N. Y., 1930), I,
GAME. See also CONSERVATION; FOREST; HUNTING;
WILD LIFE.
GAMES. See ATHLETICS; BOXING; FOOTBALL;
GYMNASTICS; SPORTS.
GARFIELD, JAMES R. The appointment on March
4, 1907, of James R. Garfield as secretary of the interior
led to a new era in the interpretation and enforcement of
the laws governing the public lands. His administration
of the Interior Department was beyond comparison the
best we have ever had. It was based primarily on the
conception that it is as much the duty of public-land
officials to help the honest settler get title to his claim
as it is to prevent the looting of the public lands. (1913.)
Mem. Ed. XXII, 469; Nat. Ed. XX, 403.
428.
GARFIELD, JAMES R. See also CABINET ;
CONSERVATION.
GARLAND, HAMLIN. Hamlin Garland is a man of
letters and a man of action, a lover of nature and a lover
of the life of men. For thirty years he has done good
work; and never better work than he is doing now. The
forests and the high peaks, the green prairies and the
dry plains, he knows them as the city man knows his
streets and he brings them vivid before the eyes of the
reader. Moreover, he knows the men and women of the
farms, the cattle-ranchers, and the little raw towns; he
knew the old-time wilderness wanderers in their day;
and their successors, the forest-rangers, the stockmen
who own high-grade cattle, the officers of the law, are
GERMAN-AMERICANS. The American citizen of
German birth or descent who is a good American and
nothing but a good American, and whose whole loyalty
is undividedly given to this country and its flag, stands
on an exact level wth every other American, and is
entitled to precisely the same consideration and
treatment as if his ancestors had come over on the
Mayflower or had settled on the banks of the James
three centuries ago. I am partly of German blood, and I
am exactly as proud of this blood as of the blood of
other strains that flows in my veins. But—I am an
American, and nothing else! (Metropolitan, October
1915.) Mem. Ed. XX, 325; Nat. Ed. XVIII, 278.
____________. No man can retain his self-respect if he
ostensibly remains as an American citizen while he is
really doing everything he can do to subordinate the
interests and duty of the United States to the interests of
a foreign land. You made it evident that your whole
heart is with the country of your preference, for
Germany, and not with the country of your
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