The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-03-09
UNHONORED AT HOME
LIST OF THE GREAT uNAPPREcI.
ATED BY coUNTRYMEN.
America Has Had Many, Even in Re-
cent Years-cermanys lngrati-
tude to Those Who Made Her
immortal In Literature.

i Poe was chiefly drunkard to his
contemporaries; the gentle Emerson
our one great philosopher, was abused
Tor his candor: Walt Whitman was
howled down, and our one genius as a
painter Whistler, lived abroad his life
long. Thoreau was considered as no
| great shakes" and Henry James is
a dweller under foreign tents.
Germany, too, has a little list:
Goethe, who was early damned an "im-
moral" and an epicurean when his
land was occupied by Napoleon (the
Little Corporal knew better; Wolfe un
homme!' he exclaimed). Heine died
in exile as IN. Henri Heine, poete ct
raconteur," at Paris. Schopenhauer
and Nietzsche abused their native
country in language that still glitters
with irony and hatred. Richard Wag-
ner had no reason to love Germany,
and there is Beethoven, who lived and
died in Vienna; Handel, an English
man by adoption; Schumann, and
many others, who suffered from neg
lect. In our own days Richard Strauss
and Arnold Schoenberg are victims.
In France the number of disconcerts,
Babelais, Pascal, Rousseau (Montaigne
was too sensible, voltaire too pugna-
cious to be crushed), Victor Hugo,
Baudelaire, Flaubert (the two last
named were publicly prosecuted for
obscene" writings-stupendous) Ber-
lioz tadjudged a madman), Balzac,
Pasteur, Verlaine, Manet, Monet-how
many more? Mind you, don't say
that these men we're all model citizens
but they were men of genius (Claude
Monet still lives, honored in his old
age), and were prosecuted. Edouard
Manet as bitterly as was Richard Wag-
ner.
Italy; Dante, august name. mighty
poet, Solitary PAGER of the Shore"
Tasso, Columbus, Galileo. Leopard
Carducci. Even little Holland allowed
Rembrandt, Vermeer and Spinoza to
die obscurely. Ireland among others /
can show James Clarence Mangan-
now don't say, tits pity he drank"
and John M. Synge. Scotland has
Burns as an awful example, while
England is first in the field as the
mother of poets: Milton. Blake, Shell
ley, Keats, Byron, Browning, Shell |
burne. Meredith, Landor and Harvey,
Darwin, De Foe, Bunyan could all tell |
tales of neglect, contumely, even
worse.
Spain scorned her greatest writer, |
Cervantes; Sweden her mystic Swe- |
denborg, her gifted Strindberg. Ibsen,
like Dante. lived in exile, solitary and |
abused by the world. Lenan of Hun
gary died mad.
Russia was not too gentle in her
handling of Dostoievsky-who was
shipped to Siberia ten years ago. Toll
5toy was hated by the throne. Tur-
genev was self-exiled, but OCCASION
'lly was imprisoned on his country
estate by the authorities. Poland's
'ard, Adam Mickiewicz, fed to Paris;
wen the spiritual Chopin, psychically
'rave, as his music proves. left War
aw forever for Paris.
Ihls list might easily be heightened.
avoid mention of Socrates, Jesus
'hrlst, Mahomet, Moses, Maimonides,
.uther Loyola and Savonarola, be-
ause they are victims to the worst
assions of mankind-the passion
reused by theological odium. Such
creme souls as Shakespeare, Da Vinci,
elasquez, Montaigne, never became
mDrolled in politics or religious rows.
you are ever assailed with any of
le great names, simply reply with the
uestlon' How were they treated
uring their lifetime by their fellow
ountrymen ?"-Puck.