The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1906-08-30
ENGLISH PRESS SCORES
SHOW parss This Roosevelt Fellow Pre-.
sur,e TO Dictate How to Spell
Language Which 10
Ours7"

his messages In any style OF orthog-
raphy To which he may Incline" he
remarked. but l think Il Will be n
long time before such n style as that
proposed becomes very popular or takes
a great hold upon the public"
London. Aug. Alt IL somewhat
startling To find In the English press
such epithets MS anarchist" applied TO
the president OF the United states In
place Of the unbridled culogy where
with he has been laudcd In the past
two years. Every newspaper In Lon
don turns It's heaviest editorial guns
today upon poor Roosevelt. and all be-
cause he has venturcd To touch with
his p~rofane pen hat most sacred OF
Anglo Saxon possessions. the English
language.
The Pail Mall Gazette In Its terrible
denunciation says: THE sort OF man
who NO interferes with The standard
rules OF grammar and spelling AS TO
worry more han his immediate circle
of friends n relations is an anar-
chist."
The Evening News re%pudiatcs what
10 calls the American language entire
IN and gives President Roosevelt carte
blanche I'm making a ongue as little
like Anglo Saxon as are volupuk or
esperanto" II adds:
I'VE quite see the justice OF the con-
tention that the declaration OF indie
,pendcnce should apply To the consti-
tuition and language rs well as the
states. Americans nro Americana. and
.they nave as perfect a right To do what
they like with the words they use as
they have TO manipulate the stock mar
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Thc Star remarks OF Roosevelt that
having introduced "a new and guar
antced brand NJ canned beef To the
World this ~tircless ~innovator IL n
gagged In popularizing "A new brand OF
Canned spelling
'"how Dares This Fellow"
The Evening Standard loses its tenn
per completely. How darcs this
Roosevelt fellow" II asks. who Is tenn
porarily president OF an nrnlnbic re-
public, presume To dictate TO us how To
spell "A language which was ours while
America still was a ~aNage u uii-
discovered country L. Roosevelt likes
Co NEEDLE with spelling. well u COED,
SO Ions as IL h. clearly understood that
u ~ merely AN American ne
Is creating. When ~ comes TO scnti-
ment about an Anglo-Saxon hegcmony
to bolster mp an assault ON In" Eng
lish language we begin To Kick. our
AllEus w III wv ~ wv " - 'hFA
we shall write Il as Il Is proper"
I'VE have no desire To bellttlc Amer
lean achievements. and We even are
content "a admit that Walt Whitman
wrote poetry. II that Will smooth mat
ters." says the Globe. but we must
venture la point out that In literature
the United States 81 America still re-
mains "A province or England"
The writer points out that Roosevelt
hasn't the necessary authorities for
even the comparatively moderate
changes nc proposes, and he u In dan
ger OF making n dialect instead OF re-
forming "A language. The editor re-
marks IA disgust that the changes are
mere barbarisms and 'thuroly" and
"thruout" are nothing less than literary
emetics and puns.
A Sarcastic Comment.
The Leader. under the head. In
Yankee-Panky." concludes:
I'VE RELY think RuZvelt and his
trends mite lcvc ~ u own
Thay have not left us much else. In
sum instances II may be pulling, es-
.peshully TO formers and the imature
schoolboy. but It's ~orthografy has sertln
historical value and we do not X TO
part with IL. or kors III Ruzvelt,
backed up by Karncgi. seq We hnv got
10 reform our spelling We shall hay 10
and that vii be the end OF IL, FOR har-
negi has awl the dollcrs and Ruzvelt
has awl the branes. but " the same
Il will be dasht hard lines.
Another paper. discussing the future.
prlnts n letter from "A correspondent"
dated Lundun. August 20. 1922. begin
ming:
I'll will possibly hav escnpt the motifs
OF your rcders that today Ia the H.
vcrsary OF Roosevclts CRATE spelling re-
form. On this day just "A century Y
that crate man, who had acted rs pccc-
umaker between Rushcr and Japan, VINO
had flowtcd the senate. stnmpt on the
trusts, sat az tabul with cullered siti-
zens, and was expecting a third urn oN
offs az president. started To tutch up
the English langwiwdgc. How ne got
the idea history does not say.
Perhaps he was jcllus OF Julius
Sezur. who left his mark on the kalin-
der. Perhaps ne argucd that what u
.benited pagan OF shady ancestry had
done he cud do. Possibly karncgi.
who was something OF n nl~anthropist
nj the time. had arowscd him.. Any
way ne set u with an independence
OF spirit which did him credit.
"wot was gud n u In the time ov
Shaksperc and Milton wos not gud
.enuf for him and the enlitened people.
said he. So ne put on his cote and set
70 He began with 500 wirds. n sort OF
dropping OF gud scde. Today. having
ust the pillow. We are blest with n new
langwIdge some thirty fold. some sixty
fold. some X the Americans alto
gether."
Carnegie 10 Pleased.
Andrew Carnegie telegraphed To a
London paper:
II arm delighted blu not surprised at
the presidents action. which Is just
like him. He In a man OF progress.
wise 10 see and bold To adopt improved
methods. You ask whether Britain
should follow his example? You have
the answer In Professor Skeat's recent
address TO the British academy and I'm
the views OF the editor OF the oxford
dictionary. two OF the leading author
tiles. The educationalists who have
this matter In charge In America are
not revolutionists. but eyolutionists.
Recognizing that the English Ian
guage IN "a growth which must continue
10 grow on, we should not rest until IL
is as nearly phonetic as Italian. When
that day comes It's spread over the