Social sciences; United States -- Politics and government -- 1909-1913
There are many judges, from the Supreme Court of the Nation down
to the district bench in each State, who do possess this sympathy
and understanding, in addition to uprightness, trained ability,
broad intelligence, and entire fearlessness in the face of wrong,
whether committed by capitalist or by laboring men; such judges are
the best and most useful of all our public servants; public opinion
should uphold them as clearly as it condemns their short-sighted and
narrow-minded brethren.
A Scientific Expedition
I am about to go to Africa as the head of the Smithsonian expedition.
It is a scientific expedition. We shall collect birds and mammals for
the National Museum at Washington, and nothing will be shot unless
for food, or for preservation as a specimen, or unless, of course,
the animal is of a noxious kind. There will be no wanton destruction
whatever.
I very earnestly hope that no representative of any newspaper or
magazine will try to accompany me or to interview me during any portion
of my trip. Until I actually get to the wilderness my trip will be
precisely like any other conventional trip on a steamboat or railway.
It will afford nothing to write about, and will afford no excuse or
warrant for any one sending to any newspaper a line in reference
thereto. After I reach the wilderness of course no one outside of my
own party will be with me, and if any one pretends to be with me or
pretends to write as to what I do, his statements should be accepted
as on their face not merely false but ludicrous. Any statement
purporting to have been made by me, or attributed to me, which may
be sent to newspapers, should be accepted as certainly false and as
calling for no denial from me. So far as possible I shall avoid seeing
my representative of the press, and shall not knowingly have any
conversation on any subject whatever with any representative of the
press beyond exchanging the ordinary civilities or courtesies. I am a
private citizen, and I am entitled to enjoy the privacy that should be
the private citizen’s right. My trip will have no public bearing of
any kind or description. It is undertaken for the National Museum at
Washington, and is simply a collecting trip for the Museum. It will be
extremely distasteful to me and of no possible benefit to any human
being to try to report or exploit the trip, or to send any one with
me, or to have any one try to meet me or see me with a view to such
reporting or exploitation. Let me repeat that while I am on steamer or
railway there will be nothing whatever to report; that when I leave
the railway for the wilderness no persons will have any knowledge which
will enable them to report anything, and that any report is to be
accepted as presumably false.
Where We Cannot Work With Socialists
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