Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-04-13

sCleuUnC, anu would not De DelleVe0. IL
takes a strong man to announce thing
that is new in the field of chemistry or
metallurgy, and unless he is possessed
of a national reputation in his profession
he had better remain quiet. If he don't
want to be abused, slandered and ridi-
culed, he had better keep still, and it il
but truth to state that many who do
make the discoveries for the reason
above stated keep it to themselves.
1t is a singular thing, but it seems to
be part of human nature to oppose
every innovation, and to ridicule every
man who announces new discovery
and in almost every line of industry if
he should undertake to interest capital
to perfect his discovery and bring it to the
front, he has an up hill task and hard
road to travel. We have in our mind
poor Severn who invented the Severn
wheel" which is now universally used
on all buggies and express wagons in
the United States and Europe. This
poor man tried in vain to introduce his
wheel to the carriage makers of this
country, and for many years he received
nothing but abuse for his pains and was
virtually driven out of all the great es.
adjustments in that line in the land
Still, as matter of fact his wheel was,
and is, so far superior that no other
wheels are now made, or sold for all that
class of vehicles.
When Robert Fulton first invented
the steam boat and announced that he
on certain day would steam up and
run from New York to Albany, the pub.
lie made of him laughing stock. His.
tory relates that one man wanted to bet
500 it would never get to Albany, and
after the boat had made the trip success.
fully up stream, so strong was his preju-
dice that he wanted to bet another 500
that she could never get back again to
New York.
We remember too how hard it was
to introduce the cyanide process in the
Black Hills. We remember a night in
the old Merchants hotel in Dead wood
(this was in 1891 how they abused Mr..
Frank and Darling who brought the
process to the Hills. They called him a
humbug and fool until at last smarting
under their ridicule he raised his right
hand and said: ~ want to tell you
mining men here, you may abuse me
all you wish, but the day is coming, and
the time is short, when all of you will
be compelled to own up that cyanide is
King" And then how they laughed
and how the papers Zone of them at
least roasted him, ridiculed him as the
chief of humbugs. But he was persist.
ent, and time and the experience of our
mill men haye made of him true pro-
phet, and justified his claim. And thus
it was with poor Galiles, who discovered
that the world was round and that il
revolved. They would have killed him
il he had not recanted. He took it all
back, said the world was fiat and had
four corners and then they let him 90,
However, it is recorded that when he
had regained his freedom and was in a
safe place, he whispered to his neighbor
"it moves though, and it is round.
Guadiana Bruno did not fare so well, for
il was for like ofiense they burned
him at the stake. In fact it has been
ever thus from the crusifction of Christ
even to the present day. every good
thing that has come into the world has
met with opposition when it was new.
But this will not always obtain, for even
now science has made such giant strides
of late that men do not have time to ge
rutted. They are pushed out of on'
groove into another, and still another s'
fast that they are willing to exclaim
"show me" "show me,' and | will be
J lieye. c. w. ROBBINS.