The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1878-05-02

A Masterpiece of Finished Efoquenc
Man as He Is, and as He
Ought to Be.
THE audience which greeted Theodore Til
ton al the Opera House last night was small
"a fact for which there is no accounting. A
an orator, certainly the country can furnish
no superior; as a thinker, he has few equals
AS an exponent OF the ideas Of society, idea,
which probably hundreds OF thousands o.
men in this country have, but lack the Ina
biliry to express, he most certainly has nc
equal. But Leavenworth audiences are most
peculiar-and peculiarly so; crowds greet
NEGRO MINSTREL. TRoCPE,
while a good actor or a great orator viii be
chiilingly greeted with a beggarly array OF
empty benches; actors whose only merit is
the reproduction OF stale wit will appear TO
crowded houses, while genuine talent receives
the cold shoulder and is utterly neglected.
Ciergyme and church members will crowd a
circus tent to witness the evolutions of half.
nude women; Mary Anderson appears TO good
houses where a page stands upon the stage
but half dressed, but the people will not attend
legitimate opern boutie or the entertainments
which
POSSESS THE MERIT
OF being popular and receive the plaudIts of
audiences of other cities. There is no doubt
ofthe fact thaE this city has been the loses by
this coldness,or want of appreciation,o r what
ever it may be- called. and time will show
that IL Will lose a great deal more in the
future. ColIax BlSed 10 empty benches !;
Washburne talked 10 empty benches; Kill
patrick talked TO empty benches, while
Beecher did no: by any means talk to a Beech
er house.
s. The lEcTURE.
After being introduced, Mr. TiIton said his
appearance IN this city was entirely saex-
pectedto him, ss:he did not know until day
before yesterday that he was to lecture here.
His theme was not new one, in strange con-
trast 10 this fresh country. The subject was
the master motives, or the ruling pass .ons
which control the human heart Do you ask
c'si bono? The motive which aniInat-s the
man 10 action is tue corner stone OF TIE &C.
ton, as ia thecas Of Abra,mni. Offering up
his beloved son Isaac, or David when send
ing UrIsli TO the front to be Killed. Accord
he is" Emerson LA. 1t, "Ihe will; that i.
the man" Coieridse says ina; every man
steadily rises 10 be mn angel, or steadily sinss
down intoa devil. Show me a mans mo
tives, and IN tell you his career. Speaking
g piysici motives, there are Steam. heat,
seclriciry, aud Yet there rs not in all the
l. ~. Vii are IHpsc master ino;iyes which
animal. t,Ge human Sean?
TKE CSIyEIssAl. Mur1yE Is MoNsY
The tfasi .J1ien fom LAGOS purse is tile rul-
mug motive OF the hun,n heart 1t is Til.
money power vlich starts al other pos ars
like the 10, liSs engine. Why does the farmer
SOW his seed: !Or money. Why does the
miner sin K las sfiaft: Tor money. Why does |
the shipmas;cT send hIs ships out upon the |
ocean 10 ChtA', Portugal and smyrna. fos |
money. The parliament of Il. lkor IA erts, COM
possa q. men oI vastly different pursuits, bat |
TN, one pursuit OF Ii,.m AL is money. The |
apostle once >.ad, gold and silver have |
hone" buthe would hardly have earned his
apostleship in oar day. We belong D. the /
none y-maksng Nineteenth Century. Wash
Ington Irwin called 1t tine Almighty Dollar,
and it *, indeed, the chief omnipotence /
which some men recognize. The man of
American are vastly different. That which /
Midas touched turned TO gold but TO the \
A merican. gold is what touches him,
IN SPEAKING OF PESURIoCsNEss,
hat love of money which Is the root OF all
evil, the orator quoted the instance of the
great actor Garrick, the RoscIus of the mod
I'm stage, who WIS reckored Ne the most Pc
furious man in sIi London. referring to the
4.
Mr.. Tilton ri atsd that IL WAS the power which
quilt cities and equipped the armies with
which to burn down and destroy them; it built
<ts1e the church and palace of sin next door,
whose portal was the gateway and entrance
o hell. There were times when this money
,ower seemed To outrank the omnipotent
wen. en- pricing God and the devil in one.
N reference 10 the evils bred by this love of
money, and The change which time has
wrought IN tn. manner OF obtaining it, he
aid the tise was when gambling was a re-
ognIzed pastime; CLERGY men, statesmen,
awyers, physicians, the nobility and the
alike engaged in il now there was
N odium cast upon il, and In time that
dunn would be cast upon those who made
heir living by speculation. The woodman,
lac farmer, the mechanic, the artisan, the
aborer, must earn Their money, out /
THE sPECULAToR
Who goes into Wall street among the bulls
md bears says, pay me the piper" Take
he dollars of the Iich man. Each and every
me represents a crime, suffering, lnhumani-
y. Benjamin Franklis said the road to
wealth was as plain as the road TO Market;
hat il WAS the sod old fashioned road Of
Ionest toll. Some say that the day of mira
leg is over; but there Is one thing that is
yer new IN the morning and fresh at night
he sweets OF honest labor. The value OF
money * not what 1t will buy, but what it
osts, and some mems money costs them too
much Some mems money costs them TOO
title. What is the golden mean? II some
philosopher should attempt 10 re-beautify
he earth, ne should abolish poverty and
iches on either hand, and fill up the spsce
etween with honest labor. But while the
forld is, this cannot be, And now, let us
TURN FROM AvARICE TO AMBITION.
owe of fame exceeds the love of wealth, the
owe of life, the love of everything. II is the
most masterful of motives, the most pleasure
ess. Ii is the ignus Tdtaus OF the world, and
ct is held up as the one virtue. Il is the
weet illusion which animates the young
nan. Once lodged in the heart, it soon OBJ
ain possession OF the man, and IL is impos-
ib.e TO dislodgeft. Ii nocks the victor In the
our Of victory. 1t is the motive which bites
Ike a serpent and stings like an adder. Ma
.oleon said, after the reserSes of lsA, that the
rave, after q such sufferinG, would
e sweet indeed. 1t may achieve
IL things, but Happiness 1t cannot. How
ften do we hear that faIlacious maxim of
'allyrand, There is nothing SO successful as
But usually, nothing is 50 great a
allure success The apple for which men
trive looks golden 10 the eye, but when once
rasped turns TO ashes in the hand. IL isa
Motive which Seeds 10 be put under discip-I
me. Phillip, Of Mscedon, after being thrown |
pom the arena, looked upon the imprint of
lis form In the sand and said How small
ortion Of the ground does he occupy whom
he world Ii too small to hold" There is one
mbition which is not q cheat or an illesion-I
he ambition &C do ones duty. You have mad
he story Of Lord Nelson, rs he lay dying at
trafalgar. What made his face light up, when |
be death-dew was standing upon his browf
he words Thank Goe have done my du-
y" are the answer.
THE MOTIVE OF REVENGE.
The motive OF revenge Is one of the COM
honest, strongest and basest- When God
edged IL in the human heart he seems tot
ave regretted IL, and wrote upon the Heav-
ms, avengeance is mine" In all lands and
pueues there Is o saying, and IN English IL is | I
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