Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1909 — MENE IS GOING NORTH [ARTICLE]

MENE IS GOING NORTH

Esquimaux Boy Writes That Civilization Has Done Nothing For Him. New York, April 13.—Mene, the Esquimaux boy, brought from the region of the Humboldt glacier in Greenland by Commander- Peary, haa written to Chester Beecroft, announcing his intention to return to his people. "When this reaches you,” the letter read, "I will be well on my way. Never mind where I am, I km Just working north. I am homesick and disgusted. When Professor Bnmpus, of the Museum of Natural History, ref used to give me my father’s body so that I could bury It or give me my sled and gun, I gave up believing that your Christian belief, which you taught me, was meant for a poor Esquimaux boy. After all, my own people are more human and kind and 1 am going home. Your civilization has done nothing bat harm for me and my people. Good bye.” ‘