The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1910-03-17
BRAVO, GOVERNOR, BRAVO !.

der Peary to the people of Atlanta
as the discoverer of the north pole,
Governor. Brown has in rare fashion
exercised splendid Judgment, thus re-
fusing to lend the dignity of the ex-
ecltive office of Georgia to what may
perhaps turn out to be the second
monumental fake of the age in con-
necticn with the mooted problem of
tae discovery of the pole.
Commander Peary stands in the
attitude Of claiming to have pei
formed great scientific feat, rank
ing as one Of the marvels of all time.
without having produced proofs of his
achievement, even when the congress
Of his nation asked for them as a
Basis upon which tc decorate him
with medals and advance him into the
highest rank in the naval service of
his country. 1t was he who first
pointed the finger of scorn at the
claims of DR.. Cook and yet he ha<
gone not one step further to esta.
fish his claims, in fact not as far as
did the doughty but unfortunate
Brooklyn physician, VIII, in humilf
alton, is an exile in foreign lands be-
cause the University Of COPENHAGEN
did not find that evidence submitted
was strong enough to show the actual
discovery of the pole Again. Pearv
is not lecturing for the benefit of
scientific research under the ausrices
OF some organized movement. He is
appearing before the people of the
country as an ordinary platform at
traction at so much per and why
should he have the governor of =
great state or the mayor of it's great
est city Introduce him to the pecole.
thus standing sponsor for him and
giving their endorsement to his unes-
tablished and very doubtful claims?
The governor very politely Gut very
emphatically refused to have one
thing to do with Peary's lecture in
Atlanta last night and quite properly
gave his reasons for his position
Among other things saying:
"Peary. to destroy the value of
Cooks narrative, must first discover
the value of his own. If Cook has
handed us gold brick, Peary has
handed us a paste diamond, or for a
silver platter, has given us a basin
made of a very cheap grade of pewter
1t is up to- Peary to explain how
Cooks story can be false and his ideu
teal story can be true. The Ameri-
can people will not accept his smile
as proof that lie is not as great a
fakir as he charges Cook to be.
Fantastic snow shoes. riffs in the
ice, colored ice, the sun going in a
circle, not setting, ice-covered sea,
as described by Peary are almost
identical with similar descriptions
from Cooks narrative.
The Mount Mckinley ascension
story has no bearing on the identical
story of the north pole. A man may
tell thousand lies, yet tell one great
truth.
Even if Cook were to assert that
his story was a fake it would not
make it false, unless he were forced
to confess that 1t was false; for the
two stories are the same. and. like
the Siamese twins. they must live
together or die together. You might
as well say that Chang was Chinese
and Eng was an Englishman, as to say
that Cooks story is false and Peary's
true.
Tile world loves a good loser. It
condemns an ungenerous winner But
give it time, and it discerns Between
winner and a pseudo winner.
Il have no interest in the ccntro-
versy, save the right to have the
truth; but when Peary- asks me to
belieye the same story false from
Cook and true from him., respectfully
decline to consider SO easy
Till Representative Macon's ex-
pose of Peary,. | believed that the
stories of both were, true. nut that
if either We're False, gbotA were false,
were fakes. Boa weree Eer 8. or
both were champion liaRS The are
generally linked together. though it
now appears that Peary- copied rr.
Cooks story.
"Barnum said that the people li,ed
to be humhugged. But If asn to be
hImbuSged, l would ireier 10 be la. en-
in Ky the original humGug, than by,
the counterfeit humbug They are