ADDRESSES OF MAJOR LACEY 163 



round-up shows a sickening aggregation of unnecessary 

 and unsportsmanlike slaughter. The sportsmen who 

 would enforce the laws must obey them himself and set a 

 proper example to the rising generation. 



I heard the other day of a dealer in bogus butter, who, 

 having been sentenced to fine and imprisonment for his 

 offense, remarked, on retiring from the court room, that 

 he would not have minded his punishment so much, but 

 he disliked to be fined for selling bogus butter by a judge 

 who wore dyed whiskers. 



In 1870 I crossed the plains when the buffalo could be 

 counted by the thousands. A recent Indian massacre had 

 occurred in Colorado, and I was shown the fresh graves 

 of a dozen men by the roadside. When the night came 

 on and the stage driver lit the lamps of our coach, so as 

 to make an especially good target for a hostile arrow, or 

 bullet, considerable of the enjoyment of the trip was taken 

 away ; but I forget readily the discomfort of that part of 

 my journey, and remember with pleasure the herds of 

 buffalo, elk, and antelope that enlivened the scene. 



Today I estimate the number of living buffaloes at 400. 

 Prof. W. T. Hornaday, who is present, told me a few 

 minutes ago that his estimate is 600, and I would not for 

 a moment, offer my judgment in contradiction to such 

 eminent authority on this question. Thirty years ago a 

 difference of 200 in the estimate of a number of living 

 buffaloes would have been too small a matter for consid- 

 eration, as that would only be about enough to occupy 

 some industrious and enterprising killer two or three 

 days ; but today there are nearly as many millionaires in 

 this city as there are buffaloes in the whole world. The 

 natural suggestion is that we are getting long on million- 

 aires and short on buffaloes. 



The annihilation of the noblest of all the American 

 mammals is one of the crimes of the nineteenth centurv. 



