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settler, the tiller of the soil, the man whose well-being 

 should be the prime object to be kept in mind by every 

 statesman. Game butchery is as objectionable as any 



Mr. Roosevelt, Governor Jackson, Mr. Selous, and Dr. Mearns, riding 

 in front of the engine on the way to Kapiti 

 Front a photograph by Kermit Roosevelt 



other form of wanton cruelty or barbarity; but to protest 

 against all hunting of game is a sign of softness of head, not 

 of soundness of heart. 



