The Tupelo journal., 1906-09-14
Karnagy-Ruzeyelt IngIish


The present freaky President
Of the United States never engag-l
ed in a more unequiyocal freak
than when he announced recen-
tlys that the Carnegie scheme
Of spelling English words should
be adopted as the natural official
photography in this great Repub-
lie.
It is given out that he has
sent an order to the Public Prin-
ter at Washington to take meas
sures at once to put all public
documents issuing from that
great Government establishment
into what would have been called
Carnegie spelling, but which,
through the autocratic command
issued from the White House,
will be known as Presidents
or Roosevelts English.
Should this order be 'obeyed,.
all public documents and reports,
the proceedings of Congress and
the speeches of Senators and
Representatives, and the official
reports of decisions, by the Sup
rene Courts of the United States
will have to be printed in this
outlandish jargon.
AS this acheme was first serious
ly put forth by Andrew Carnegie
whose great literary distinction
consists in being one of the
wealthiest men in the world. and
in having given large AMOUNTS
of money to found libraries and
to endow colleges and universities
there is a probability that some,
at least, OF such school, in the
hope OF securing by such tlattef-
ing attention contribution from
the m~ultiplimillionaire orthogra-
pher will adopt his spelling. 1t
will be interesting to See what
the combined effect of so vast
a private fortune and the astoun-
freakiness of the President
of the United States will have
with the language of the Amer
lean people. New Orleans Plea
yune.
Arkansas writer in the Kansas
City journal has the folloWingt to
say anent the proposed butcher
ing of the English language I'M
der the claim of reform: Stand
pat on this spelling craze. Why
should a Scotchman and Dutch
man be allowed to mutilate our
language? Neither of them, Car
negie nor "Prezident Ruzatelt,H
has any pride, nor can have any,
in the English language. If the
'Scotchman is unable to spell
there is no reason why9he should
foist hissignorance upon the rest
of the people. AS to the Ruzafelt,
he has the reform bacillus bad
and shouIdfbe treated to an I'M
diluted dose Of oblivion. That's
all the remedy he needs. Stand
pat" G - ~
How daresthis Roosevelt fel-
low, the temporary President
,of an aniable Republic, fpresuhe
to dictate to us. how to spell a
language which is ours, while
America is still a savage and un-
discovered country. If Roose-
welt likes to NEEDLE, with spelling
we'll and'good, so long as it is
clearly understood that it is raer-
ely an American language to be
created. When itcon1es to senti-
.ment about Anglo Saxon heg-
.emony to bolster up an attack
on the English language we be-
gan to kick. Our language is
our own, and we love it, and We
shall write it as is proper. Hay
ing introduceda new and guaran-
teed brand of canned beef to the
world, this tireless innoYator is
engaged in popularizing a new
brand of canned spelling. LON
don Standard.
The Pres. veXt many when he
affixt his first to the order for re-
torment spelling. Tho his action
is being rapt hard throut the
country, and SO thoroly is the
land aroust that he may admit
he has transgrest. Bonneville
Banner.
:. When the New York Sun de-
clared that the next Goyernorof
New York would be the next
President of the United States,
it evidently got its geography
mixed, and though the boundries
of Nebraska included the Hud-
son River.-Arkansas Democrat.
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