The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-08-31
The Arctic Business.

rescue. The government planted
twenty-five healthy men in the ice
bergs in the vicinity of the north pole,
two years ago. and hes now harvested
crop OF six men nearly alive. and
seventeen corpsss OF coed men frozen
and starved. brought home in tanks
OF alcohol, aud all to make a New
Yo;k holiday. When lot of dead
bodies and Jew live ones are brought
home from the Arctic, New York
turns out to welcome the living, and
curiously stare at the collins of the
dead: flags are raised at half-mast.
bands play driges up Filth avenue, and
opera airs deWn Broadway: on its rs.
turn from the funela ceremonies,
the survivors go tostheir respective
asylums for the insane and blind;
friends OF the dead all over she coun-
try 60 into more quiet mourning, poll.
ticians get chance TO make
speeches about cur. glorious and enter
prising country. and the affair is over
until another party ret rms from Arc
tic in refrigerators. To men and wo-
men who ike to live and see others
live, this Arctic expedition business
seems idiotic The results do not
amount 10 row OF pins to any person
in this country that our citizens
should go of into icebergs to die.
There are facilities for dying right
here at home, where brave men can
pass in their chips surrounded by
friends, and be cremated instead of
served in ice. The death of these
seventeen men has resulted in nam.
ing some new inebergs after Bobby
Lincoln, Chester Arthur, and one or
two other persons whose names are
not familiar, and belief that two
men and eight dogs went few miles
further north with a Fourth of July
flag than any other lunatics and
doga. from any other nation. have
gone. What is the use of that flag
up there, stiokiug out OF the snow7
Nobody will ever see it. There is
no. even q sign or advertisement of
: liver cure o. the flag, or recipe for
curing chilblains. The geograp ers
will, tits true, hereafter havs q fly
e speck on the atlas, With the names of
I the politicians who vera holding
Office in 1884 stenoiled in the vici-
nifty, for children to get headache
over school. Int nobody in all the
5 earth is going to be wiser or happier
or wealthier because those icebsl gs
have been christened by explorers
chewing tneir seaiskin boots; full of
2 frozen toes. WHAT 8hsil it pro6t a
j country to gain lew icebergs on it's
: maps. when the discoveries have to
{ eat dog harnesses. and die of starva-
IS ton, and have to be brought home in
: sealed cana, like pickles? The act OF
b trying to penstrste the Trojan North
b ia ss foolish as it would be Tor men to
& take Towboat aud go ont on frozen
e Lake Michigan, the coolest day in
I the winter, to see how far they cou d
8 go on the ice without breaking in. II
they could go farther than anybody
y else had been, and stick up an adver-
3 tisemsnt OF a clothing store, and then
u drown, and have their bodies recov-
: cred il the spring, it would be on a
u par with Arctic exploring as lar as
q glory is concerned. II this land that
q ID discovered, or which Ia supposed &c
l. be, under the ice apd snow, could
10 be utilized to raise beans, or if il
% could be cultivated for 2ny practics
% good, there might be an excuse tc!
:" this starving TO death OF soma of ths
10 bravest mep we have;5ut the country
70 is no good ON earth. and the whole .
20 it, from Fort Couger to the NORTH
30 Pole, is not worth the lite OF q single
man. Every man, official or scien
D. list, newspaper man or lunatio, WIZ
/ is responsible for the sending Of AT
- expedition to that country, forsaker
r by God and detested 10y man, should
re be ashamed, and the ghoat OF the vic
Ill TINS should make the iivss of prumot
10 ers OF expeditions intolersole. Officer
ey like Greedy, who want glory, can 90
by tain it nearer home without imperil
as ing lives. Officers like Melville VIII
cs so on expeditions of danger becaus
they carnot live peacesbly at home
cau fnd safer relief 10 the divorc
hIACA thCIO 10 d0nSCt =
freezing to death, or being compelle
~ to eat raw dog and boot straps. Sec
lIs rs,sries OF navies can find enough t
nd occupy their brains in scrsping bal
nacles of from rotten vessels, or COZ
de Quoting political ampaigus, so tbs
pp they need not organic expeditions {
NO mon to go eli to the Arctic region 81
ID die. Ii either OF the pulilicai parts
art at their recent conventions had il
ne serted PLANK IL their platforms
10 the effect tina: NJ more North Po
cg expeditions should be sent out, hi
Ms party would have struck a key-no
he that would have endeared it ID Il
ne people WHO do not care continent
what other nation discovers ice6erl
aid rue iarlhest north. The eoysrnmel
big should now bury it's dead decent!
pension the survi 7ors. and organ'za
me company of sharpsshootefs to x
men who show the fret svmptoms
aid Arctic lunacy.-Peck's Sun.
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