El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-10-28
Ideas Survive Sneers
Every Great Invention Has Had
To ndergO RidicuIe Of the
Ignorant At First.
By MADIrOr- c. PETERS.
Copyright 1916 by Madison c.
Peters)

II VERY man with an overmasterlne
idea has a minority of one, one
- man who believes it,
Harvey labored eight years before he
published his discovery Of the circula-
ton Of the blood. His fellow physi-
clans called him a crack Drained i'm
poster. After he was abused by the
educated classes for % years. mis- great
discovery was recognized by the pro-
fessiOn-
In the remark of a peasant girl who
came to Jeuner TO be doctored- cit
cannot be smallpox because I have had
cowpoN,' he detected "a great principle
An idea seized him. theory Tor pre-
venting the ravages Of dreaded
scOurge possessed him. His fellow stu
dents threatened 10 eEpel him from
school He tried 1t on his own arm.
He experimental for three years He
knew he was right Every phys clan III
London pronounced his folly He was
denounced from every pulpit II was
declared that the vaccinated children
became OEfaced. Assesses grew out 10
indicate sprOuting horns and that their
voices changed 10 represent the bel
lowing of bull The Naccluofeu were
stoned and driven from the streets Inc
pious argued Disease by its nature IS
contagious and TO prevent il is TO IN
terfere with Providence
First Umbrella User stoned
The man who raised the flrSl UNI
brella was stoned. The conservatives
said: when God sends rain he means
We should get wet and you have no
right TO thwart his plan BY putting up
an umbrella"
When Fulton launched the Claremont
on the Hudson. thousands lined ins
shores TO witness "Fu4ton FOllt-
Ridiculous" Navigating against the
current uD the Hudson in a yesse!
without sailstT The thing will bust
said one 1t viii burn up said an
other. while still others, as they saw
vast columns OF black smoke shoot up
showers of brilliant sparks. shouted,
they viii all be drowned" Every oody
expressed the opinion that Fu4tcu
ought 10 be in an insane asylum and
the man who revoIutionized the COM
merce Of the world was in his day
looked upon as a public enemy
pity for oliver Evans
When. 100 years ago. ohNer EFans'
the inventor. predicted that the time
would come when the high pressure 10
connective would enable people who had
brea kfasted in New York. TO take sup
per in Washington. 200 miles distant.
every body felt sorry Tor the weakening
Of such a brilliant mind as his
The wiseacre who badgereo George
Stephenson. the father OF the railway
system. before a committee Of the house
OF commons. asked, suppose an en-
zine were going along railway at the
rate Of nine or ten miles an hour. and
SUPPOSE a cow should get on the track
would not that. think you, be a very
aW kward circums stance y eS-' repned
the engineer, very awkward for the
COW"
The Quarterly Review Of Stephen
sons DAY. a periodical rejecting the
views of scholars and thinking men,
observed. What can be more palpa-
bly, absurd than the prospect held OUT
Of a Locomotive travelling twice as fast
as stage coaches" And Ashley Cooper,
an eminent surgeon Of the e-me- de-
cIared 1T was preposteroUs in the ey-
IRENE TO hold out the prospect THAI
locomotive could travel twice as fast
as q stage coach
Morse Laughed At.
Everybody laughed at Morse and his
telegraph. He was in Washington
seeking congressional aid when a con-
gresham remarked 10 one Of his con-
stituents. That old fool wants me 10
help him get a bill through congress
TO stretch wire from Baltimore 70
Washington. so that one fool over IN
Baltimore can talk to some other fool
over here in Washington. 40 miles
away" Morse rode his hobby. while all
the world laughed al him. but he put a
girdle round the globe and made
thought OmnipresenL
The sleeping car" was laughed al as
"Pullman's folly"
Charles Goodyear struggled for years
10 make India rubber OF practical use.
He paWned his clothes and MS vie s.
jewelry 10 get money to keep his chill
dren (whO gathered sticks in the field
for fire. from starving When he had
no money TO bury his dead child. and
when his other five were starving. his
neighbors criticized him for neglectiug
his family and called him uSaue. but
he struggled on. and behold his vul-
canized rubber applied TO over 500 uses
giving employment to hundreds of
thousands.
The Use Of Ii.
When Franklin drew electricity from
the clouds with kites. people sneerine-
" asked, What use is it," To which
Franklin replied w hats the use OF
boy He may become a man"
Everybody thought Bell. IN 1876. had
gone crazy. when he proposed to make
"A human voice heard over a wire
Chauncey NJ Depew. declining stock
for the use OF his rNme. said IT viii
never be more than a plaything for
Be original Be enterprising, Go
forward Don't stand still DO some
thing Be somebody
Step out OF the beaten paths. re-
member that crank. fanatic. fool. Wis
iOnary. iconoclast. are the choice cpl
thets which have been hurled at the
head of every man who ever has
blessed or who ever viii bless the
world