The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-31
FRON OTHER PENS

SHOULD SUBMIT HIS PROOFS.
Commander Peary should submit
ms proofs that he rea ched the North
role to some scientific body other
than the National Geographic Society.
The same body which threw out and
repud1ated Cooks data should be per-
mitted to pass on Peary's.
Is the halo hanging about Peary's
head SO binding that none may APP
proach to question how or WIN?
Peary's friends were very loud in CIV
ing that Copenhagen University was
preJudiced In favor of DR.. Cook. Well,
copenhagen has shown a very decid-
ed lack of bias and has repudiated
the same university, whose ability and
authorities in such matters are be-
yond all question, with Peary's proofs?
To the average layman, Peary's &C
count of his discovery. of the pole
was very similar to that of Dr. Cook
Peary says that he discovered the pole.
But so did Cook. And when Cook
submitted his proofs to Copenhagen
they were discarded as worthless. Let
Peary take the same test and see how
he makes out.
An investigation by the National
Geographic Society is not sufficient
That body is more friendly to Peary
than Copenhagen was toward Cook
And II Copenhagen had decided in IA
voF - Cook there woulc have been the
biggest wall of Partially, prejudice
and bias that the country has ever
Observation-Disclosures Post
MUST KNOW THE LAW.
Ignorance of the law is no excuse"
is an old legal maxim. Everybody is
bound to know the law, yet nobody
does and nobody can There is too
much of it for the memory to hold
more than the smalles' fraction of it.
The greatest lawyers do not carry the
law in their heads. 1t is sufficient for
their purpose 20 know where to find
it.
Mr.. Elliott Flower has been moved
to take a census of the law of the
country, and he publishes his finding
in the Pittsburg Dispatch. He reports
$4,000 live laws, legal rules and reg
ulat1ons, which people are bound 10
obey or suffer more or less unpleas-
ant consequences. There are according
to his count. more than 5000 federal
statutes, and on, an average more than
5000 separate state laws, ignorance of
which excuses no man.
It is an old complaint that we have
too much legislation, but the burden
is increased many fold by the neces-
sity of noting also the construction
which the courts have put on these
point of the compass on every legal
principle, fill many thousand volumes,
but they are also the law.-PhiladeI-
phia Press.
OUR MEAT IN GERMANY.
In reply to a demand made by
member of the Saxony chamber. that
the embargo be removed from Amer
lean and Danish cattle, the premier
said that the tariff restrictions were
not the cause of the high price of
meats. He supported his argument
by stating that the price of cattle on
the hoof had not been increased and
expressed the opinion that the trouble
lay with the close combination among
butchers. This has been the argu-
ment which has been used from the
beginning in defense OF the severe re-
strictions against foreign cattle. If
the tariff is not to blame, would it not
be we'll for the government to inquire
into the butchers combinations? The
| indications are, however, that the
government is not so sure of it's ar
gument as it processes to be
It is significant that the premier
| of Saxony further stated that to ad-
NIT American meat would be to throw
the last trump card held by Ger
many in its trade relations with the
United States. 1t may be trump
card, but it is costing the people of
Germany a vast amount of money to
have the government cling to Bluff