Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-16
Appreciation of an Editorial.


GRAND ISLAND. Neb., Sept 10.-To the
Editor of The Bee: The scholarly and in
teresting editorial, Exploded North Pole
Theories" in The Sunday Bee, should be
republished in every u%p-to-date and TWEEN
tleth century newspaper in the country
and be read by or to every person within
it's and their call. Seldom are found more
interesting and historical facts, condensed
in as few words and indited in as force
full and elegant diction. 1t was fully up
to The Bees standard.
But, ! fear, it's fate will be like David
Hume's best production, ''still-born," the
manuscript of Gibbons Decline and Fall
Of the Roman Empire "disrespectfully"
declined; Carlyle's "Sartor Resartus,"
tranted from John O'Groats house to
Lands End with no takers; Macaulay's
Essays from India, "cut them down."
and Harriet Beecher Stoves Uncle Toms
Cabin" ring her Off" BY the fates of
these The Bee may console itself and
their recollection and my recalling them
serve as a balm to the neglected and I'M
appreciated author of that elegant article,
an article too good to be generally APP
preciated.
When we recall hat almost within the
memory of man the transmeation of the
Anian, or as 1t is now geographically
known, Behrlng strait, was more difficult,
IL not less possible, than Ponce de Leon's
search for Bimini, or the tabled fountain
of eternal youth" or squaring OF the circle
is in the kindergarten or the diachorial
navigation of Ecylla and Charybdis was
to the ancient Romans. is 1t any wonder
that there are many NORTH pole exploded
theorles2
p,.N than ANaNArVr Il. II.,.u.l ,-a AT-4.L-
with exploded theories. When our patri-
archal ancestors realized that the horse
was being used by the young men and
women to carry them to trysting places
or beyond patriarchal control more expedi-
tiously than their venerable shank's
mares" or the typical team Of the times,
a bull and an ass could waddle to overtake
them, hat animal, the noblest and most
useful Of all animals, was put under the
BAN.
To serve more than three courses at
meals, to make or sell calico, TO build cot
taEes, to make buttons. other than velvet
buttons, to nave more than 1000 sheep at
one time were crimes, some OF these almost
within the memory of man, and one of
these laws, at least, although dlsregarded.
neither repealed, abrogated nor annulled,
were Of the crimes of our nearby British
ancestors.
Is 1t any wonder that every age and
every peoples are studded with men "out
of joint with the times" heterocutes and
socialists, when with 1858 capital crimes in
England, a maiden assize'' was as rare as
an execution is today? When many OF our
servile could neither send their sons to
school nor give their daughters In mar
riage without the express license from the
superior lord and when James Fiens,
Lord Say and Seal faced the fatal charges:
Thou hast most traitorously corrupted
the youth Of the realm in erecting a gram.
mar school; and, whereas before our fore
fathers had no other books than the score
and tally, thou hast caused printing to be
used; and contrary to the kind, his crown
and dignity, thou hast built a paper mill.
1t will be proved to thy face that thou
hast men about thee, who usually talk of
a noun and a verb, and such a~bominable
words as no Christian ear can endure"
Notwithstanding the sacrilege of ques-
tloning that sacred political document, the
Declaration of Independence. in that Oft
quoted sentence, a decent regard for the
opinions Of others" l urge The Bee to con-
tinue in its iconoclastic course and work.
SAMUEL p. BRIGHAM.