The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-04-01
HOW BAD WAS he wRoNe2

regret thar abuse has been heaped up.
kon Dr Cook, alleged Arctic explorer.
StilL considering he was Unable to
gstphlish claim to be discoyefer of the
North Pole after making Tie strong
'saolaantion, il was natural that public
Fapplduse be changed to violent abuse.
meanwhile, let us be faif to DR..
Cook
He represented men of large means
WHO had much confidence in him as
a man and North Star explorer.
Capital had naught to gain by false
assertion from him.
He has spent his life as an ex-
ploier and was acknowledged one
among the most experienced men in
the frigid zones.
Had Columbus, Magellan, Balboa or
Pizarro been all or either of them
compelled to have offered proof to
an institution rs critical as the board
az Copenhagen, it is a certainty no
one OF them would have been able to
nave escaped the asylum
Dr. Cook was long in the North.
EsquinaaX admit he was absent for
many months, travelling north for
many weeks.
lie returned after such hardships
as few men could have endured and
lived to tell the story.
He wrote the history of that trip
which was reproduced in many period.
icas.
Commander peary declared Cook
could not have made the trip, alleg.
ing only SO many miles per day can
be made in the Northern latitudes. In
his own story he advocates a differ
ent idea.
lie declared he Travelled thrice as
rapidly after leaving his white con-
panions as he Travelled with them.
If Peary related the truth as to
Cook, he lied as to finding the coveted
North apex OF the earth.
In any event, is It not likely that
Dr. Cook is the victim of science?
How many navigators could prepare
papers that would pass muster at a
university where expression of sen
lonce in exactly proper and correct
words is of more importance than
a worldwide discovery? 1t begins to
rppear as If Or. Cook. tried and a
thorough explorer, has been made the
victim of an organized band of blue
bellied college professors, few of
whom have sense enough To know
when they eat what time of day il is
or what they are eating loT. OF all
The lopsided, actually foolish people
Oh this earth, il is the one.ideaod
scientist. VINO would refuse 10 meet
Jesus Christ, should that Rodeemng
parsonage refuse TO come scientificaI
", II should be remembered that
Hcrod aud PonIus plate were scient-
lists aud that The keepers Of the ark
of the covenant refused Christ be
cause he did not come the way sci
ence had prophesied he must come.
Dn Cook is broken in health and
spirit lie spent his life in the wlds
and Wilderness Of ice and death. He
told story that was replele with
common sense and filled with suffi-
cieni data to convince the ordinary
man he might DO correct
he could be mstakcnl
Possibly he was obsessed with the
polar idea.
He. true enough might have at.
tempted deceiying the world.
But he told good story and ii was
not so widely astray from fact as that
of Commander Pearv.
Right or wrong, his sacrifices de-
mand fair hearing and decent treat.
Ment
How bad was he: what has he done
10 be so terribly eXcoriated by those
who never felt the bite Of winter
eighty degrees below zero?
DR. Cook is a pauper He could not
prove his story if he were absolute
ly right. Columbus was imprisoned
for his story. yet he found a world
that multiplied the wealth of our
sphere by 10000 times and brought
forth new civilization, Is not Dr.
Cook entitled to further hearing
aud the Withholding of opinions unti,
further facts are obtained2