Bisbee daily review., 1909-09-16
THE BRASS TUBE
 OBJECT NOW


 Dr. Cook with deliberate, premeditated
 impesture. The Scotch verdict mot
 proven" is one which we will have to
 rest upon for some time to come. m less the records and data the doctor
 has brought back with him are found so inadequate as to put him out of I all standing in court At Copenhagen
 he has told the press that one of his
 thoughts at the pole was that 1t might easily be said that he never made the journey, and that he would have
 but scant evidence to offer against
 such charge. Since the doctor has
 himself thought of this, the thought is
 permissible in others, but he is more at liberty to speak it unreservedly than any other man in the world. The degree of respect due from every man
 to any one man who will make such
 pertious adventure will be freely
 paid up to the point where he is clear
 ly convicted of being blowhard and
 fakir, whether or not he has actually discovered the North Pole. Nothing
 but proved fakery will ever condemn
 him in any manly mind.
 At Copenhagen he supplied what seemed a fatal commission in his first statement issued at Erlak. In the Er- lak statement he made no reference to t.o,-.>S. ooabod an,th{,or hx, r,ybfcb hfc presence at the pole can be proved !'y future explorers who reach the spot through a close following of his maps and charts. He tells us, at Copen- hagen, that he buried directly under heath the United States flag he raised on the pole, a small brass tube. ltl is enough. The flag may be blown 0r swept away, but the cache will re- main, and, of course, there will be lt' difficulty in locating the spot where pr Cook says it was dug. There, tbis record be a true one, the proof of the Cook discovery will be founh hv any explorers who may hereafter 20 up to the north star for the pGT- pose of finding something which has been hidden there. Heretofore through many generations we have always been looking only for a pole and wondering what we would do with It if we should get it. Hereafter there will be an added incentive to all such effort It is a brass tube we must look for now The pole now ba- comes a secondary consideration. It is many years since we knew just, where the pole is located. The prob lem has been how to get there Incl problem now is whether We shall lind a small brass tube when we do get there. This doubt will add great zest to all future polar exploration.
 The doctor, we must say, is proyok- Ingly slow with his demonstrations. As soon as his route is accurately charted expeditions will be organized to follow it to the point of destination. As 1t is roughly charted by him it is new route; one never taken by, anyl explorer in those attitudes. The world, accordingly, must depend upon Dr. Cook for detailed information as to how to get there. One thousand arc light of illumination suggests that the doctor may possiblyI refuse to give such data to the scien- -ihc bodies he will meet in Copenhage, and elsewhere but reserves is for lls own prof in the publication of a book.
 Since this is offered by a would bel defender, Dr. Cook may have reason 10 ask to be saved from his friends more than from any of those who are hcllned to look his white gift horse nara Tn the mouth. We are not fin. credulous, and if we appear bastv if is only because We want to yindi. 'aoe LIT. Cook by the early discovery oI ms cache under the north star No aoubt he has blazed the new trai, hr "hicn he got there, unselfish as n,o |, ''eers alWaws are, and anxious to r...,. out a ne" road for others to follow |, when the world gets the markings if VIII do the following, and do it speed. iy. And it can not believe that Pr.