Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1869-09-03

The Independent has the followins
concerning the coming lecture sea
son In the West. The many adj
mirers of Mr.. Tilton will be gratifiet
that he has not placed his own nams
among those of the lecturers whe
will not come west this winter:
Mr.. Carter, the secretary of the
Associated Western Literary Socie.
ties, appears to have got his arrange.
ments for the next lecture season un.
der good headway. He has already
issued two circulars, containing the
names of the lecturers whom he can
offer to the Western societies. In
these lists we are struck with the
great number of new names, and al.
so by the number of old names that
are conspicuous by their absence.
Mr.. Carter announces that the fol.
lowing gentlemen can not be induced
to lecture i'm the West next season
Charles Sumner, Carl Schurz, Geo.
Ii. Pendleton, Robert Collyer. Gold
win Smith, Rev. Francis Vinton,
Rev. John Lord, Bishop Clark, Geo.
VIM. Curtis, Bishop Simpson, Hora-
tio Seymour, Emerson, SAKE, Muir.
doch, Cough, Greeley, Wendell Phil.
lips, and Mark Twain. We greatly
regret that SO many good lecturers
are unable or unwilling to engage
their services to the Western socie-
ties; which, If they perish, are like.
ly to do 80 from mere inability to
procure suitable lecturers. From Mr..
Carter's lists il is also to be inferred
that English lecturers are rapidly
waking UP to the financial attractions
of the American lecture-field for we
see here mentioned the names OF
Henry Vincent. William Parsons.
DIR. Lees, and Henry Nichols, OF
England, and Joseph Wild, of Cana
da. We are sorry not to see the
name of Justin McCarty, who has In
hand several capital lectures, that he
ought to be urged to give In this
country, and especially in the West.
Among the names that have never
before appeared on the rolls of the A..
w. l.. g., we observed those of Mrs.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Miss
Kate Field. The secretary Is to be
congratulated on his success i'm secur-
ing these ladies'; and he informs us
that there are already many tokens
that the Western folks think so too.
We have another remark to make
upon the lecture list issued by the A.
w. l.. 5. Every season, I'm nearly
every town where lectures are given,
the committee get punished with
hard words for having only "radi-
cal" lecturers, like Wendell Phillips,
Fred. Douglass, and others. Why
will they beso onesided as to procure
lecturers who'll they refer to political
matters at all, are all upon one side ?
A clue to the right answer liz furnish.
ed by the circulars before us. II an.
pears that the secretary of the A. w.
l.. s. resolved, If possible TO have
both sides in politics given a chance
and accordingly wrote to those Iumi.
nous and voluminous orators of De.
mocracy, Mr.. George III. Pendleton
and Mr.. Horatio Seymour. With
what result? These eloquent men
decline to lecture. We know that
Mr.. Vallandigham has also been
urged, and urged I'm vain, to come
forth from his painful retirement a,
Dayton, and give to lyceum audience.
the benefit of his " ise utterances up.
on topics of the day. Let this be re
membered next winter, when the
committees are fired into for having
no Democratic lecturers I'm the course
For some mysterious reason, Demo.
cratic takers shun the lecture plat
form. Perhaps the lecture rooms are
too well lighted. Perhaps the audi.
ences are too well washed. Butsure.
ly, the committees ought not to bt
blamed for this.