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Show f; JzzrzlUt, the lizzl C'Mzzn? Cince the Utah Legislature made that strenuous rttack upon the jackrabbit over the shoulders of he Telegram during the recent session of the As-: rcinbly, many friends of the long-eared advance; rqnt of civilization tave waited patiently for the fad-eyed arn'm?.! to Jhaye his inning. " JTow the vindication vindi-cation of the jackrabbit is complete. Hugh O. Pen-tecpst, Pen-tecpst, a lecturer of prominence, In discussing the race suicide theory of President Roosevelt in Lyric Hall, New York, said: "The jackrabbit seems to be Ir. Roosevelt's ideal citizen." If Mr rentecost does not misrepresent the President's views, then th Utah Legislature in censuring The Telegram in or- er to reach the jackrabbit, has put itself on record as objecting to being compared with the "ideal citizen citi-zen in point of intelligence and enterprise. The Telegxam and other Mends of the jackrabbit were confident at the" time the Honse passed the resolution resolu-tion of censure that the lawmakers had gone off half-cooked half-cooked and would regret their hasty action. But let qs quote further from Ut. Fentecost'i lecture: "The class of Roosevelt's ideal person is one who is ready to work, ght, gcfTcr and hare children. He regards others as shirkers" and criminals.' To be married and have children, if you are intelligent and are sure you are bringing ypur children into a desirable world, i well, but marriage and child-bearing, as it now goes on among the poor and ignorant, is a crime against the race. As people become more in- telligent they have fewer children, and I venture to say that after many people have had children grown, if they Jiad "the experience over again, they would have Rone, fio long as conditions remain as they are now it is foolish for working people to marry, and stiJJ more foolish for them to have children if they do marry, for every child bom to them is a new little slave of mine or mill," This explains in detail Mr. Pentecost's views with regard to President Roosevelt's "ideal citizen.'' He is a somewhat strenuous stren-uous individual, but the jackrabbit will. not object to the" comparison. ' L |