El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-10-07

New York, n. Y, Oct. declaring
that he left this country at the height
Of the pro-Peary campaign against
him. because of a nervous and physl-
cal breakdown, and because or d De
sire to rest and gain time TO mar Ia
the proofs Of his Polar claim, anu 70
secure evidence exposing olshollSS1
and fraudulent methods in the cam
paign against him, Dr. COOK now In
ally comes back with startling charges
against.AI Perry
Dr Cooks brief. which is taken from
his book My Attainment OF the RoIe'
'sThe weaving of the leprous blanket
of infamy with which Perry ana MS
supporters attempted to cover me can
not he understood unless we look
through Perry's eyes-regard oIner eA-
DlOrers as he regarded them; regard
the North as his inalienaole properly
as he did and regard his infamous
high handed injustices as right
Il have now decided to uncover Jne
incentive of this One-Siued LlBul ~
which I have so long maintained
nonattacking attitude -
Now that the storm mas spent ~
force; now that the hand Whlch uIu
the mudslinging has within us sISsp
the unearned gain which II sOusuL5
now that clear point or ODseIN l!Oll
can he presented, I am compelled, win
much reluctance and distaste, 10 re-
veal the unpleasant and unknown past
of the man who tried 10 rum ne
showing how unSCrupulOus ana Drlls-l
he was TO others before me; with eEl-
dence in hand. I shall reveal now ne
yE-ove his web of defamation and now
his friends eonspired with him IN lne
darkest meanest and most Drazen Gull
sDfracv in the history of exploration
SideIights on Peary.
I'm doing this, my aim is not 70
challenge Mr.. Peary's Polar clalIl' Dul
to throw light on uuWrWltten pages
of history which pages furnish the
kew to unlock the long closed door
of the Polar controversy ana the pIO-
Peary conspiracy. ,-
ssFr0m the earliest days, Mr.. Peary s
effort to reach the pole was underJa-A-
en- primarily for purposes Of personal
commercial gain. For 20 years he mas
passed the hat along lines OF easy
money. That hat would be passing 10
dav If the game had not been, in the
opinion of many, spoiled by my sue
alEor nearly 20 years he sought to be
promoted over the heads of stay-at-
home but hard working naval officers.
During all of this time, while on sal
airy as a naval officer, he was away
engaged in private enterprises from
which hundreds of thousands OF dol
lars went into his pockets. BY wire
pulling and lobbying he succeeded In
; having the American navy pay him an
uearned salary. Sunch man could
not afford to divide the fruits OF Polar
+ attainment with another.
I'm 1881. as the steamer Kite went
north, Mr.. Peary began TO eY1nce the
brutal selfish spirit which later was
shown to every explorer who had the
misfortune to cross his trail hansen
/ had crossed Greenland; his splendid
I success was in the public eye. Mr.,
/ Peary attempted to belittle the merited
applause by saying that NanSen had
I borrowed the 'Peary system But
. Peary had borrowed the NordenskiOld
{ system, without giving credit
RObs Natives of Weapons.
at about the same time that Mr.
I Peary took the great meteOrite OF
. Iron StOne-the natives sole source
/ of metal for weapons-from the Eskl-
/ mos in 1897. group Of seven or eight
EskimOs were put aboard ship
against their viii and brought TO New
/ York for museum purposes They
/ were locked up In cellar In New
! York, awaiting a market place Be
! fore the profit time arrived, because
[ Of Unhygienic surroundings and i'm
/ proper food. all but one died WheT
/ in the grip Of death, through a Mrs
/ Smith who ministered to their las
wants. they appealed with tears T.
/ their eyes for some word from Mr.
I Peary. They begged that he extenC
/ them the attention of visiting them be-
fore their eyes closed to a world OF
I misery and trouble There came nj
I word and no responsive call from th'
: man who was responsible for thel
I suffering. Of seven or eight innOcen
I Wild people. DuU one lUJle cnllQ sur
: vived. That One-Mene-was late
( even denied a passage back to hi
[ fathers land by Mr.. Peary.
THE sad story Of the unavoidabl
I deaths by starvation of the member
of Gen Greeley's expedition has 70
/ years been issued and reissued to TIL
/ press by Mr. Peary and his pres
I agents i'm such form as to discredi
Gen. Greedy and his coworkers. Hi
own inhuman dOinEs about the Cap
Sabine and the old Greedy stamping
grounds have been suppressed.
Allowed Natives to Die.
TN 1901 the ship Erik left Mr.. Peary
with a large group Of native helpers
I near Cane Sabine An epidemi
brought Iy the Peary ship, soon afte
attacked the EskimOs. Many died
I others survived to endure a slow tor
ture- Peary had no doctory and n
medicine. In the year previous. Pear
had shown the same spirit to tn
ever faithful DR.. DERRICK that he ha
shown TO Verhoeff. to Astrup. and &
others. Although DERRICK could no
endure Peary's unfairness, he re
NAMED against Instructions. within
reach for just such an emergency a