Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 50, Number 43, Jasper, Dubois County, 10 July 1908 — Page 2

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9T 3 V? jr 7V POLITfCAl3AMOUe.TS. AP I.ITI' l. orator is a man of v.rba! luxuriance, and üfarly always the shallow est of sophists. There is usually little to be gained in what he says, but, to the groundlings." there :s a deep sis nlncaare in the way he says bt. to the groumiiiags,' there is a deep slcaiücance la the way he says it We had orators in the ward and in the city, the common, native garden variety of wind-jammers." and th exolc. or imported variety of Jaw-sm: as." Oratory at Its best is rather a : t art and the political ora- ' tcr Is a cwd example of a lost artist e ner expected to influence votinc in 'he wa'i oa account of speech-mak Ins Ti Republicans went to Repub- ; lican u ".igs a ad the Democrats' w-nt to imocratic gatherin.cs. and the app . ;se that the speakers received was simply the "jolly that thf.r owi crcwd was handln c them acJ ther you had it. Occasioally a man might drift in where scae really witty and able talker was roasting oat the "chin-rau-Eic." aad be impressed a little, but after he had gone home and slept over k. ana appeared at the polls, he would get tae same oM ticket and vote it in the same old way. I heard the orators lZ aa early day who were orators, but did not hear them in the political campaigns. "Bob" Insersoll and Emory Starrs were orators the like of whom I shall hardly hear a?aln. but it was not for me to be dazzled by the glittering generalities or clumsy platitudes of these 'silver-tongoed' orators of the hustiair. no matter whether they were of my own party or not. I liked a good, sensible talk, but the average line of -bunk" banded oat by the ground and lofty tumblers of the city campaigns was something to make a man laugh. And yet täe custom bad grown so trong that nothing could apparently stop it. There was always the committee on balls, aad the committee on epeakers. and there was a racing and chasing of cabs and a mounting of platforms by anxious candidates, and a great desire to present to the citixeas the "issues of the day" and solicit their suffrages on election day. And who attended these meetings? Why, mainly, the "boys." The precinct captains, the members of the ward crabs, the baagers-on that only knew Andrew Jackson as the name of a cigar, the men ob the pipe-extension gangs, the ward Superintendent, the men down ia the city hall, 'he sewer diggers, laborers, etc.. who are working for the city, aad the "pay-roll brigade " la general. And where was the private citizen? Why. be was at borne, reading the evening paper, playiag with the cat. having a quiet little game of "cinch" t tea coats a 'corner." five cents a set-up" aad Tommy around to the Dutchman's with the Wg white pitcher. Much be rarvd for oratory. If he got Better fn r. the managers of the campaign, or n.abe a letter from a mayoral' y caaI:iat. he opened it and rf ad it. and possibly speculated a Httte as to the truth of It. but, as a rule, fc- jdid not .tber himself reach as to U." meetiag There wa an exception to this, h w-tt. when tho candidate for aldfrrr.aa or the candidate for mayor e; ;ard la a ward. Then the citizens g' rurally west to the meetings. But n o boar what were glibly termed .ies" diseased. Hut to look at the candidate, siae him up. and see wheth rr they liked him. awl If he looked liK" a BHta who could fill the Job. Tb y didn't care for his "oratory." un1' " he could tell them a good story, c-- roast" the opposition candidates wifl'y. and then he was Indeed a 6'ar Th appearance of the mayor alt candidate was. of course, the great eveat of a ward camiQlgn. and filled the halls to overflowlBc Boys and women In he galleries, aad even the aisles Jammed. Perhaps some "silver-t-M.rwe-' would be making the welkin t'c? with a passionate declamatory bi--t a!t "the thirteen struggling c..'o-is." "these are the times that t'v rr.en-g souls." "when In tho course cf himnn r? rents," or somo othor "g-itr ' borrowed from a school history. a war pamphlet or the declaration of lad- rnd-nre. when all at once there J

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V, V would be a shuffle at the other end of the hall "Here he comes," and "there he Is would be the whispers and slcnals and the great man or great men would approach through the center aisle at tended by a cordon of followers like the attendant pilot-fishes to his majos ty the shark, or more properly sneak Ing. like the attendant porpoises on tne whale. The silver-tongued" "bunk-shooter would then grasp the hands of the great men. to show how close he was to the throne, and would gently but nrmiy subside, and "the Real Thine" would proceed to address the meetinsr. Close attention was always shown to the mayoralty and aldermanlc candi dates and to no one else. And what the audience was always trying to ngure out wa3 "what kind of a man Is he? and not "what are the Issues? And so the orators soared In and out of the Issues like a swallow's flicht sbove a river, and their analysis of the questions of the day left as much an impression on their beaTers minds as the bird's filght does In the air above the river s current But they were watching him. and shrewdly or otherwise making up their minds as to his sincerity, his courage, nis honesty and his cenora ability to fill the office he was seeking The main Issue was always somemiag that no one, not even the originators of it. really understood. It was usually based on a strictly scientific degree of accuracy. It started from self-evident and bitterly contested conelusion, and arrived In a labyrinth of contradiction from which there was no outlet. The celebrated traction is sue, for Instance, was one on which several campaigns were fought, and no honest man ever really pretended to understand It. The question had as many angles to It as three-cushion carom billiards, and as fast as one perfect solution to tho puzzle was of fered, something would hob up that would change the status of affairs and make it as much of a mystery as be fore. The main uses of campaign oratory In the wards was to enthuse the workers, to set the "hustlers" In the various precincts busy In getting out tho votes. To do this required that the speaker descend from tho high trap eze or tlowery declamation nnd talk about the practical benefits to bo derived by a party victory. "The thirteen struggling colonies" woro all right In their place, but that was several years back, and what the workers wanted to hoar about was the patronage to be distributed, the possibility of Jobs and positions whon the victory was gained, and "what there was in It for them." The business and professional men of the ward followed their callings on precisely the same plan. They, also, wore looking In their line for pe cuniary rowards and emolument Yet they sneered at the politicians. What itlffftrnnnn H,1 It mnlrn tn n fnllnn. ul)n was out of a placo in tho city col

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Jlp, -A J V MJ. Tin? 1 i 1 1 1 i i lectors office, whether a measure of public policy smacked of Hamlltonianism or Jefforsonianism? What ho wanted was the Job. So a great deal of tho local political oratory was practical to a degree. At the political banquets, however, the real oratory was supposed to be uncorked, and we always attended these banquets, usually at from three I to nve dollars "a throw," or a plate, as the more polite termed It But the science of after-dinner speaking postprandial oratory, as It Is called. Is largely dependent upon extraneous conditions; and particularly as to the state of receptivity on the part of the audience. After a man has drunk, say two or three glasses of sauterne, a couple of glasses of claret, and four or five or eleven glasses of champagne, he Is usually in a very uncritical condition. And almost any flowery "bunk" goes with him as something grand. But just let a man stick to "little old aqua pura" all during the banquet; let him up-end his glass and say: "Xay. nay, Pauline" to tho tootering waiters who hover near with tho Bacchanalian fluids, and "what a change Is there, my country-men," In his Judgment of the post-prandial slush that is ladled out to him. The Joe Mlllor Jests and loarned by heart or namentations of the speakers fall on an Inattentive ear; and he cannot he lured Into wild and unreasoning applause over some well-known quotation which has been delivered by an orator with the air of "I've just thought of that" Political oratory Is composed of the usual two classes of all oratory, towit: prepared and Impromptu. Propared oratory Is oratory which has been admittedly gotten up boforehand and which the speaker Is ready to hand out to the reporters on type-written shoots before tho banquet Impromptu oratory Is oratory which tho speaker has learned by heart and re fuses to give copies of. although It has been written out carefully. This compels the attendance of short-hand ONE POINT IN Might Not Build Cars, But America Has the Railroads. At Hrlarcliff Manor, the day before the great motor raco, Harney Oldflcld said to a reporter: Hero Is a good ono on the foreign cars. IX) you see that young millionaire with the strap and buckle arrangement on his low shoes? Well, ho was doing the south last month In a French limousine. "Hot ween two towns there was a teep. rough. Boft hill. With his hoavy limousine the millionaire got stuck on It. He had to turn back. Well back there In tho town thoy dvlsed him to ship tho limousine on n a flat car of tho local freight that was Just about to pull out. Ho wise-

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f. in AT WO&K. i I'ortors to take It down When the stenographers take It down, the Im ,-rt.mptu orators win sometimes glvo a favored paper an exact copy of tho I speech, so as to have It printed cor- ! rpctl'It may be hinted that all this sa vors of the cynicism of tho man who envies the accomplishment of oratory to tho "silver-tongued" tribe. Far I from it? I have "been there," Hornj tin. and havo on occasion aroused the plaudits of tho banqueteers myself. I The most pronounced success I over ! had in that way was a llttlo impromp tu gem that I delivered before a "stono sober" crowd one time. I had been given my subject six months before, and had written and ro-written my talk all out, at least a dozen times. I had polished It. and adorned It with slavish caro. and had blended with It various thoughts and quotations from the poets and the philosophers. You don't have to use quotation marks in oratory, and anyway, I did not know where these gentlemen had stoion their stuff from. I type-wrote this talk, and let It lie a couple of ''Months, and then wont over it again, shortening some of the long sentences, and rearranging and shifting until I got It down as fine as It was possible for me to do. Then I learned It absolutely by heart. I could say It backwards or forwards, bogln In the middle and recite It either way. I know It bettor than the multiplication table or the alphabet 1 "orated It" until I had, as I thought all the proper Inflections, even to a little stumble, a little "eloquent pause" where I was supposed to be overcome by the strength of my emotions. It was really a ery hard Job, the getting up of thIg mtlo "impromptu." and ono which I should hardly care to tackle again just for tho sake of doing someone a favor. Finally I had the thing down letter pet feet, and the day and occasion arrived for my Betting It cf" Now some "impromptu" speakers make tho mistake of 'spioling" their piece right off "tho hooks" without giving themselves any time for "inspiration." This is a fatal mistake, and even tho most obtuse will not be deceived you begin at top speed with your "fireworks." But ! had heard too many Impromptu speakers to be lured Into such a false position. The proper way is to select something about tho particular occasion which may strike your fancy and then start In with a few halting sentences about that Something of this sort, for Instance: "As I stand on this spot to-day. I feci Incapable of adequately voicing tho feelings that the time and the occa sion would call up In the breast of a

real orator." or "I am glad to be with material 20 Inches wide 3 yards 3G herbs, without drug's and is whultyou here, my friends, to-day; and this Inches wide, three yards 42 Inches SOino and harmless. '

audience, ami tno event which wo are ""lV! or yams &j inches wide. Tho reason why Lydia E Pinkcalled upon to celebrate, only makes ono ' 20 Inches wide, five-eighths ham's Vegetable Compound is to

mo feel my shortcomings as a speak er, or "As I entered the hall to-day I caught sight of." etc., etc. And then, when you havo edged In with one or two airy oommon-plnces you can come In with your "siss. boom. AH" verbal pyrotechnics, and glvo the audience a sure-enough "Impromptu" exhibition. The uninitiated will nay: "Ain't ho a corker?" The man thnt "Is next" will reply. "O'wan; I II bet It took him six months to frame thnt up." BRNRST M'OAFFEY. (Copyriftltt. IM, by Jowph R Dowles.) OUR FAVOR iy did so. uiinng the slow, steep run tne conductor and brakenian of the freight gathered nhout him and his limousine on tho flat car. He gavo them large, gohl tlpped Egyptian clc nrettes, and to please him the conduc tor said: "'Fine car you've got thore.' "Yes said tho millionaire. 'It's a French car. We can't build them like that In this country.' "'No. maybe not.' said the conductor, a bit tiottlotl; 'we can build railroads, though, to tnko them up th0 hills.' " Higher Than Monarch. He who reiuiiM within Mmonir rulos nasslans. riosinm more than a klmr. Milfm,

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LADIES' CUTAWAY JACKET. parls Pat torn 'n oo k ao., - Allowed. Developed in plain or striped serge, checked tailor suiting. or black and-whlte shepherd's plnld this Is a most stylish coat to wear with tho Bhort iiklrt of plain mohair or Panama cloth. The sldo.r side-back seams give lonK Graceful Hnes to the figure. The high collnr rovers nnd narrow turn-back cuffß are bound with black or Holf-colored silk braid, nnd the side-hack seams aro left rree for a short distance from the lowor edge, doing away with the vent at the center-hack. The pattern Is In seven slues 32 to 14 Inches, bust measure. For 3C bust the Jacket re quires 5i yards of material 20 Inches wide, three yards 36 Inches wide. 2-2 yarus is incnos wide or two yards 54 Inches wide; 24 yards of braid to trim. To procure this pattern semi 10 . . nts to "Pattern Department." of ttii.t pup. r rite natno ami nddreaH plainly, an.l t sure to give alze nnü number of pattern NO. 2429. .SIZE.. Nv:rK TOWN STBKKT AND NO STATE MISSES' EIGHT-GORED SKIRT. Paris Pattern No. 2439. All Seams Allowed.-Thls new flare skirt Is an exceptionally good model for skirts of linen, plquo, duck, khaki, or In fact any washable material. Tho centerfront closing enables it to be Ironed in,,,.. n . . : . r 1 01 creatVJ"JtCi box-j:!a,t ornnments the center-bnek. The wldo mas ontui or tho material is all the .. I trimming mat is required and the buttons should be of the plain bone variety, or linen covered, matching the skirt. I his pattern la In three kIo13 to 17 years. For a miss of 1 years the skirt requlros n yards of menus wuio one-half yard 42 ,.,-. U1 luiuu-vignuis yarti i inches wide, extra, for bias hands. . VVT r," V?. .,ml,c.' n enii io emits vhÄ Ä ' -Wrr.. .. . .. I mm- to tfve aizo ami number of pattern,

NO. 2439. si'.K NAM re TOWN STRICHT AND NO STATIC

Enough to Keep Him Valtlno. "I hate to have my husband find a lioraeshoc Why?" "Ho always brings It homo. imiU it up and thon waits around for luck to striKo nun. "Well?" "And thore never was such a man for Unding horseshoes." Speed of Electricity. Electricity, whore unrotardod by atiiiuBpuunc lmiuences, travels at tho rate of 2S8.000 miles a second. Along a wire u is. or course, vnntly slower; a perceptible period of time Is occupied by tho electric current In send. Ing telegrams. The Higher Aim. Who shoots at tho midday Bonne, though he he sure, ho shall never hit tho limrke; yet lis sure ho Is ho Rlmll ahooto higher than who nymoa but at a inisii -sir Philip Hlduoy.

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Possibly Turned Silly custom to Something Really Worth Wh.le. "The most considerate gl. I I r

nmrriod yesterday Mi tho ma... sii0 showed 1,., n,,,,, , rtilness hi a niOHt ununinl vn 1 1, . riny before tho woddhig Hhe raiu-.i i,. atliMitloii of tho roHt of the fan,. , . . row of ohl HhovH Htundlng in a stairs elosiM. " I want you to throw the. ,.f, tho curilugu,' sho snltl. 'They i... all mutes. I collected thnm ,n ..

way. I lunrnod Homo tlnio ugu u oortaln poor hoiiIb who have hard w to got clothos of any doKcrlptlou lt.. , a lookout for big weddings n, hang around tho hoimo at Koiixy .( , time ami pick up tho good lurk I .... Moybo they gut a lit, and may im , don'L Anyway. Tvo dono all I .,, i to accoinuiodato thorn. "Iloro aro six pairs of shoos 1 fired aftor me. if Bomobody d got llttcd In that colloctlon, it , my fault.' "

In a Pinch, Use ALLEN'S FOOT-EASE A powdor. It cures imlnful. Ing. nervous foot and Ingrowing i, , It's the greatest comfort dlm-ov. r t the ago. Makes new shoos ea. t certain euro for Hwontlr feet s 1 by all DrugglstR. 25c. Accep in, , Btltute. Trial package. I-'RKK i dross A. S. Olmsted, Lo Itoy N Wouldn't Wash It. "What is that young man i'ninjr n there ?" "Trying to attract my attention w t, the handkerchief filrtatlon. I gu- s "You do not seem to bo resin ii, i Ing." "No. I am not his laundress."- N.ist villo Aniericnn. The best manner of avenging i solves is by not resembling him w ,. has Injured us.--Porter. FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN LYDIA E. PINKHAM Ivo other mcdicino has boon so successful in relipvint' the stilVeni p; of women or received so ninny p i -tune testimonials as has Lvdiu i:. Pinklmnrij Vegetable- Compound. In every community you will liii-l women who have been restored to health by Lydia E. Pinklmm's Vi zetablo Compound. Almost ev.ry fl ed 'bv 'it. ox In? 01 h " l tfio pfnklmm T SfviritnS? 5 LyIin "l,1 nw äÄÄroSSSS linn nn l"i?ri" V v"u"u"'u iiiuuaniiu iciu-ra irom women seokimr health, and "ere. tho letters in wliieh th"y onflnlv Infn nv. !.!- t-.. "HIVV W I L 1 Lllt'l 1 I I It I I I 1 II I m tlires that rhov m.mm,m,l w t T.i,, 2, - - --. ..viu.im.u i.j mull J.. I'lnkham's Vegetable Compound. tyclia K. Pm dmtn' Yei-vt.,! lrt Compound has saved mnnr wntncn from surgical operations. Lydia E. Pinklmm's Vegetal ! Comnoimd iVmnrln f m,,.. .! successful is because it contains in Kruuienis Willen- act, tlirnet v timn tho feminine onmnism. restorim: it i I,, " . to a neaiiny normal coin it on. Women who aro snffi-rinir those distressing ills peculiar to tin ir sex snoum not lose sight of the so facts oi doubt the ability of Lydi.i K. Pinklmm's Vegetable Compound to restore their Iiealtu. Whnt a Sottlor Con Soctiro In WESTERN CANADA 160 AcrriCrain-GrowlnirUnd FREE. 20 lo 40Huhelt Wheat lolho Acre. 40 to 00 Biithel OrU lo the Acre. 35 tn SO Rutheli Darlnr to ihn Acre. Timber for Fencing and Huildinet FKEE. Good Ijiwi vrWi Low Taxation. Splendid Railroad Facilitici and Low Ratei. Schooli and Churclie Conrenietit. Satisfactory Market for all Production. Good Climate and Perfect Health. Chancel for Profitable Imreitmenti. Somn of Ihn choicest crnln-nrndticlnir lnrxlflln BnlmlrIien-nn mill Alberta limy now Ik! nc quired In tliono mont healthful Hint roiroii bccUoiih linilcr the Revised Homestead Regulations by whloli entry limy Ik tum! by proxy (on err (In r.rtlfllllntiut. IlV Ilm flltlllT. InOlllfT. Hl, daughter, brotlivr or HiHtcr of lutcnillntf home Btr.nlor. . . ... Kntry fee In crwhrnHO InllO.tXJ. Forimnipiyc'. ,MHtiieHtWeHt,"pftrtlenlnrnHtoniteH,rii tallu,cllBUB"" wi.cr ,lomuo,a,.,.i, Mill ix. to J.S.CRAWrORO. 12S W.NInlh SI., Hum Clly.Mo.1 C.J. DBOUOIITON. Rm lit Ntidutttlu i Itvt tlfe.U'.i