The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-04-25

New York, April 24-"There won't be an
Eskimo living in few years, unless arc
tic expeditions cease.
1T is not the white mans burden; il is
the Eskimo's burden can prove that
exploring parties commit awful sins
against the northern natives.
THE Eskimo as "a race is doomed. The
white man is killing him with liquor and
vices. The Esklmos who went to Buffalo
and Chicago, to the fairs of the white
man, returned 10 Hebron with disease.
Look at the picture given in stereOpu-
con views at explorers lectures and you
viii recognize Eskmos. so called. that are
almost white. That is one of the white
mans sins.
There is no necessity for polar eXplora-
tions am satisfied that there is nothing
at the pole except an open sea, which
freezes over There is no land there.
One might just as well so out in the
broad Atlantic from Coney Island on a
cake of ice TO prove something as to
drift across the north pole"
Eskimo determination in sight.
In such plain language DR. Wnfred T.
missionary work among the Labrador na-
tives, gave his views this afternoon on
affairs of the arctic region.
DIT Grenfell started for England in the
White Star Line steamer Oceanic To spend
a few weeks with his mother in Chester.
England. preparatory to returning by
way of st. Johns, Newfoundland, 20 his
Labrador field. Dr. Grenfell is a surgeon,
master mariner. magistrate, and agent
for Lloyd's, and he ascribes his success
as a missionary 20 his belief that the only
way 10 reach the soul is through the
body
The doctors opinion as TO the Eskimo
and his relations with the white explorer
was brought out by a question as to the
future Of the native. To this he replied:
THE Eskimo IN the arctic has improved
morally and physically, wherever the
missionary has been able 10 keep him
away from the white man. But where the
trader has come in the wake of the eX-
pl0rcr The exterminatiO ton Of the native has
begun and will continue TO the end
Easy 10 Deceive Eskimo.
The Eskimo is not wise in trading.
The Eskimo woman is unwlse in other
ways The white trader, with a few tin
whistles. VIII take the furs from the
Eskimo every time. Every time that an
exploring party has gone to new part
OF Eskimo land, the immortality of the
women there was always marked there
after.
Where one hundred years ago many
EskimOs were found in certain parts of
Labrador and Greenland, there are none
to be found now 1 never see a party
leave for polar research that do not sum
it up as another effort TO dehumanate a
people.
"A missionary is the only one who can
safeguard the Eskimo. The explorer won't
do it. The Eskimos are dying like flies
as a result OF the vices which the white
man taught them
Danes Recognize Evil.
''The Danish government has recognized
the danger of the obIteration of the ma
tive. and will not allow a trader TO go
ashore IN Greenland. ANY commercial in
tercourse must be done with the repre-
sentative of the Danish government
do YOU refer 10 any particular ez-
plOrer in your statement Of conditions
II do not ] hate to see the OblteratiOn
of any race" said DR.. Grenfell after n
pause. THE Eskimo is going many times
faster than your American Indian, ana
where the white mans sins are not kill
ing him. ne is dying of tuberculosis.
What in your opinion, is to found at
the north pole?'
Nothing but ice or an open sea, The
arctic zone, TO my mind, is q great plain
of ice. and no living man is sure in what
direction the ice sea viii flow. The ex-
plorer may find the pole, so called, but
it viii be 10y chance and by drifting