The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-06-09
THURSDAY, JUNE Q, 1870.
THE NEW SCHOOL OF ORATORY.


under the sneers of fippant New York jour
nalists, they will find an unfailing source of
consolation in the fact that this city, in addi-
tion to her many other claims to the graft
tude of mankind, has founded new school
of oratory. If any man doubts this assertion,
let him read the extraordinary speech de-
hvered by the President of the State Medical
Society, William w. Wallace, yesterday, and
compare it with the speeches that have been
made from time to time by our gifted
genius Richard Vaux. The ilustrious ex-
ample of our worthy ex-Msyor is at
last exerting its just degree of influence upon
speechifying mankind. In Wallace a dsci
ple after his own heart has been developed,
and with two such shining lights of the new
school casting their radiance over darkened
world, the happy period must be
near at hand when the charms of
grandiloquence will be universally recog-
nized, and the absence of clear meaning and
common sense be considered the crown
ing triumph of oratorical effort.
The speech of the head-centre
of the M. d. g sparkles with gems of
expression from its very commencement. In
the first sentence he calls this Commonwealth
s'the republican kingdom of Pennsylvania,
thus displaying brilliancy and originality in
his reference to topic which in common
hands could have obtained only common
place treatment. Republican kingdom" is
such an admirable and significant phrase that
we shall not be surprised to hear of the death
of some of our jog-trot lawyers who ina
mine that they know how to talk, from the
envy and modification caused by its inven-
tion by member of the medical profession.
The dictionaries tell us of governments that
have been in turn republics and king
doms, but it was reserved for the Doctor to
claim for this State the proud honor of being
both at the same time.
From the style of the opening remarks the
intelligent physicians who constituted the
main portion of the audience must have
naturally anticipated rich treat. Nor were
they disappointed. Devoting but a few
minutes to topics which appertain strictly to
the medical profession, the orator speedily
launched into discussion of the irrepressible
woman and negro questions. With soul in
arms and eager for the fray, he turned his
irresistible oratorcal batteries upon the petit
coated prescriptionists. In the course of
his remarks he demonstrated clearly, first,
that woman was a great institution; second,
that she couldn't practise medicine in country
districts in bad weather; third, that it was
too much for male-doctor nature
to do up the drudgery of the
profession amid SHOWS and storms, and
then to give place to female rivals "when
nature is smiling with the sunlight and the
Iao tbair nj cho5o
roads so smooth that your carriage runs with
less vibration than a rail car" fourth that
woman was not able to cope with the great
''crises in medicine and surgery" even when
the sun did shine and the roads were smooth;
fifth, if woman ever did surmount the insu-
perable difficulties already stated, it would
only be after the "nature of the female mind
and affections" were changed, and if the
community was subjected to the influence
of full stock of hardened female
doctors, they would in time 'become the
teachers, the exemplars, the exponents of
their sex, and, in such case, they must and
will assimilate the whole to themselves"
Each of these arguments is very powerful,
but the last is so conclusive that the Women's
Medical College may as we'll shut up shop.
The theory it propounds is so well sustained
by indisputable facts that the world can
no longer tolerate the creation of new
batch of female emissaries of mischief. 1t
is we'll known, for instance, that all the init
mate acquaintances of distinguished male
surgeons imbibe from them an irresistible
desire to cut off legs and arms or to plunge
daggers into the bodies of their associates,
and the free use of the bowie-knife is dis
tinctly traceable to the dangerous instincts
developed by familiar association with medi-
cal students. On the other hand, all the
ladies who have been attended by female
physicians during the last ten or twelve years
have lost the natural graces of their sex, and
in the course of events their faces will soon
be covered with boards
The negro Jared but little better under the
scalpel of DR.. Wallace. Since he has thicker
lips, thicker Uranium, a smaller brain,
broader foot, and "a longer ulna" than the
white man, how dare he presume to vote or
practise medicine
AS a final extinguisher Of female and
African pretensions, the Doctor got off this
exquisite sentence:-
''Does not Revelation, elaborated by great mind,
teach us that heaven itself, disturbed by passion,
battlements the bright son OF the morning aud one
third OF the nnumcTaoe company OF angels into the
gulf whose portals are guarded by Sin and Death?"
Rash and daring mortals of the feminine
and Ethiopian persuasion, behold in this
climax the prophetic record of your doom if
you will persist in your insane efforts to ip-
wade the sacred domain which DIR. Wallace