Henry G. Earth was never my favorite subject in Primary School, but he was a focus unavoidable. I can still quote in it's entirety his infamous speech upon seizing the Capitol, and run down the extensive list of powerful seats which he systematically dethroned in the following days. There's a rhythm to it that makes the memorizing easier. The boys and I figured it out under the bleachers while spying on the girls' Boxer Hockey practice. My pupils and I could also list off Earth's accomplishments in the wars of 1894, 1915, and 1947, not to mention recounting the unbelievable feats of his outfit at the Battle of Little Rock that single-handedly ended the tyranny of Democratic policy.
He is a hero, immortalized by history.
It helps, of course, that he rewrote the history books - the ones I was taught from in school. But there are other accounts as well. Elias Gutenberg, decedent of the great printing-press inventor, took it upon himself in the days of Earth's rule to secretly print the truths that he foresaw would be otherwise forgotten. He kept record of Earth's wicked acts against families who defied him. There were work-camps and torture prisons, places of exile and human testing facilities. Gutenberg, a war-correspondent until blackballed for his stories, chronicled the real "feats" of Earth and his men as they conquered their enemies by means inhumane. His books, printed one-by-one in his basement, were circulated through the western territories until Lord Earth caught up to him. Legend has it, Earth had the writer tied to his press and burned alive like a witch to a stake.
And this is the man who "set us free." The man we remember on April 22 as the All-American Jesus, turning our nation upside-down and bringing us finally to a state of unity.
Lord Earth did all he could, but Elias Gutenberg's books remained in the hands of a few faithful activists. History would not be forgotten, as long as they were around. People like the Roosevelts, the Ellingtons, and my grandparents - Millie and William Hearst.
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