Show I EXPlORER REPLIES 10 TO CRITICS Last Message B Before fore Sailing on Arctic Expedition a Plea on Behalf of Eskimos Seattle Wash Juno June 30 who will wil sail al for tor Nome tomorrow to tomorrow to to- tomorrow morrow to take charge of or tho the Canadian governments government's arctic exploring expedition tion ton was tho the guest of or the tho College club at luncheon today and made what ho expects will bo his last address for tor nearl nearly three and a 3 half hat years years Ho Ito 10 said In am going goinS on a strictly scientific expedition for the tho Canadian govern govern- meat ment There is an unexplored area ofa of or ofa ora a million square miles rUes in the arctic rend and we vo shall tr try to learn what It 1 contain con- con lain tain tales If It I there thoro Is land Ind it probably Is uninhabited If It I inhabited its Is people must be bo spoke with wih deep feeling of or the misrepresentation ho he had suffered suffered suf out I bred because of or his recommendation to tho the government that all an white people be barred from tho the Eskimo territory to protect the tho natives from extermination b by disease and particularly measles He said I r 0 have ha been boen quoted as particularly wishing missionaries excluded and havo o hn been violently attacked b by tho time Canadian clergy in consequence I fou sought ht to have havo all civilized al peoples kept away from Crom the Eskimos who arc are healthy prosperous contented and have as good morals as our own I thought t an nn appeal to the tho government o to protect these people needed no diplomacy I believed er e every human person would approve 1 my appeal Some persons might bo be ferent orent to the tho fate tto of ot th the Eskimos 1 thought but It I never occurred to me nio that I would meet active opposition in my effort to save tho the natives from froni de do- |