| Show COOKS CASK STILL OPEN The Tho Springfield Republican hits has been boen an aim able and amid staunch exponent of the sentiment of oC this coun country co country un try tr which Is no more than a natural result of the thc American desire for fair fall fairplay play at all times Its comments on the decision rendered by b the time Copen Copenhagen Copenhagen hagen scientists arc for rOl that lint reason renson of o more than common Interest The Republican notes that the tho contents of or the box submitted to them might as fl well have been sawdust adust as out fur far as any value vallie for scientific purposes Is concerned There were iere no original documents document notebooks diaries observational observational observational data and amid so jQ un only on I a state statement mont ment from froni Lonsdale that the things still sUlI exist and are arc somewhere on the thew No Na wonder ndel tho tim way w I 0 to tn Denmark w n J raper pa er goes go s on to observe thero there runs through the time report of oC tho the university committee a note of oC Indignation The members talk or 01 act as fiS though they had hall been and to all ap up appearances appearances they tho have hao been A tribunal recognized by b all aU as sa eminently com cent competent potent and lair fair lr hiss has written no case caso across Dr Cooks CoolS meager report n support of oC his Ills claims And until further urther evidence appears this is a II verdict that nIl all will accept But after this admission of the failure of oC Cook to prove his claim the Republican turns to the other side Ride as follows It would be hue wrong however to assume as the tho friends of Commander Peary Pealy are arc doing doln that the case has hM been definitely d closed and that Cook must stand branded henceforth as the greatest Impostor of oC all history Many things timings remain to be cleared up If II word tord should now itow come como that he had killed himself no one ono would longer langel question tho the fact of ot Imposture but there would still be much to be ex ox explained explained If lC 1 for example ho Is a shameless Impostor why wh did he lie pre pro present present sent so meager a case when a very ery full and plausible one could easily have been trumped up If It as so often otten has been urged against him hint observational data could bo be manufactured by almost anyone from tho almanacs sufficient to confuse If not notto notto notto to deceive the scientists why was this not done Would an Impostor having gone so far Car have failed Called to make such sucha a provision Again Commander Pears ness had loft left open onen a a still surer way wa of ot I cici escape pc for tor the deliberate impostor He need not have sent any report to the university of Copenhagen at this time He need only have stated the Impossibility of ot submitting his lila original re ro records records cords since for the most part they tho wore acre among amons his elects effects to Whitney and kicked off ol the tho steamer Roosevelt by b Peary Pery It would be necea necessary sary to wait walt until next summer before beCore these effects elects could be recovered and then his case would bo be made tip up and submitted along with tho time scientific in instruments Instruments Instruments used on the Journey journe And by b next summer the tho impostor would bo be bothe bothe bethe the better prepared to fake fako a case Furthermore Peary Penn now says he had complete and accurate information of oC the falsity of oC Cooks claims before leaving the time far tar North If It that Is so why his spiteful action In having Cooks effects excluded from his steamer Why did dIll he not welcome their carriage southward as being calculated to give the time Impostor moro more rope with which to hang himself These and anti other troublesome ques goes questions questions are suggested And finally there remains to be explained the time most re to remarkable and troublesome fact of all to which wo we have before beCore called Many physical conditions obtained at the tIme pole were unknown and had hall been the subject of much divergent conjecture among scientists An Impostor might have guessed on nil all of ot them thom and ancI guessed right once or 01 twice But by br all aU the laws of oC chance no Impostor could have havo guessed them all aU right and this Is what Cook did measured by Pear Pearls s account This fact alono alone js s sufficient to keep the case until further developments In InI satisfactory open explanation or of these strange features have hae appeared |
