Omaha daily bee., 1916-04-28
Who Wrote shnkespeare,

Who Wrote Shakespeare
OMAHA, April H.-To the Editor or
The Bee The Chicago court the other
day that decided that Bacon wrote the
plays and sonnets OF Shakespeare had
all the evidence on that side. Other than
that William Shakespeare was a wander
| ing actor In London IN the time OF Queen
Elizabeth and that there are six OF his
signatures extant fbesides those found
lately by Prof. Barnett and his wife Of
the University OF Hebraska) 10 ordinary
documents on court records relating 10
property, there Ia nothing TO show that
he wrote the greatest Of all literature
and much TO the contrary.
II seems that In 1901 fshakespcare died
in 1876 Shakespeare was given a thou
sand pounds and sent from london TO
Htratford on tho Avon, which was a long,
long way IN those days. This was done
in order TO induce him 10 incur the risks
cntailed by allowing his name to appear
upon the plays. For had Queen Eliza
beth known that Sir Francis Bacon. aft
erwardg Viscount 81. Adams, had writ
ten them, she would have cut Off his
head. since she was determined TO pun
ish the author Of Richard II, F" and she
Ia reported TO have said, "Seest thou not
that I am Richard IL"
There In no evidence that Shakespeare
ever earned as much as len shillIugs IN
any week while ne lived ~ London Of
the three llkencsses oxtant Of slmks-
speare known as the stratfor1 Lust, the
D'Avonant bust and the wood cut In
the first edition Of the works IN 1923.
known as the Drochout print, not one
Of them can be called authentic. III
seems almost Incredible" says Laurence,
that people with eyes 10 see should
have looked on this so-called portrait
for 200 years without porcciying that Il
consists OF q ridiculous putty-faced mask,
fixed with n stuffed dummy. clothed in
trick coat II one will notice, II will
be seen that the coat In impossible, be-
cause the front and back are composed
Of the Same left arm. and the right-hand
side Of the forepart 10 obviously the left
hand side Of tho back part, giving a
harlequin appearance TO the figure.
Bacon's scientific works are under his
own name, and they are DE Augmentls
and NoyUm organum. The first 10
about better advanced teaching, and the
second refers to the new logic Of Acicnce
that Ia, the inductiyo method, as an ad-
dition TO the book Of Aristotle, called
the Organum, which treats Of specu-
lative or deductiye or old formal logic
On the title page OF DE AugmcntIs,"
published in 1916, and IS the froDtlspiece
to the play Of King Henry VII" In the
Latin edition, published IN Holland IN
l642, tho same wood cut appears In
both we see that ridiculous coat on one
Of the figures OF the dummy Shake
speare. To the left Sir Francis Bacon
stands himself in the garb OF a philoso-
pher and with grand Rosccrucian resets
upon his shoes to prove II. On the right
we see him again, but this time dressed
in tho boots OF the actor and IN his left
hand he shakes a spear. The turning
wheel in the center OF the picture shows
the emblems Of many of the plays, vii.
liam Shakespeare could not even write
his own name and the clerk had to do
II for him II generally appears as
"Wilm shxpr'' and then Shakespeare
puts his mark as Ian *" or blot.
Some twenty years ago the people
thought Ignatius Donnelly OF Minnesota
crazy when he said he had found the
key TO declpher Shakespeare and claim
ing the authorship for Bacon. But he
was right. for Bacon signs the plays In
cipher often and In very many ways
Not only by secret numbers, az "53,
secret letters, like "hie," "hig," hoe
hog" or take this from King Henry
be delivered as far as charing Cross
There are hundreds OF these ciphers that
show that Bacon meant that the people
should know that he wrote the plays
and sonnets when the time came that 1t
would not be dangerous TO his person
GEORGE r. WILKINSON