St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-28
HONORS FOR ORATORY.
Oratorical Association
Chooses Representatives to Com
pete in the State Contest.

SHOOScS Representatives ~ SOIu-
pete in the State Contest.
The Manchester Oratorical association
held it's first preliminary contest last
evening in the chapel of the college and
it proved a grand success in every re-
spect. The audience was all that
the chapel being taken, and
the hall filled with eager onlookers.
| standing on chairs. The contest was
for the selection of two men to repre-
sent Manchester in the state contest of
the State Oratorical association, to be
held in this city April Is. The two men
chosen were W. P. Lee and B. W.
Irwin. The exercises were opened with
prayer by Rev. G. f. McAfee, followed
by piano duet by Miss Minnie Kitchen
and Ed Darling.
The first speaker was J. W. Cochran,
il, who spoke ON Literary Piracy"
He spoke with great clearness, but not
with sufficient force to carry his audi
ence. His Grafton was a plea for
an international copyright. He said
that owing to the lack of this
by the European novel, which was social
iStic in it's effect. w. p Lee, who car
ried off the honors of the evening, gave
an Grafton on the inequality
of Equals. He said, "In the
dedication of our republic the
notion of equality was made en-
phatic. we hold said our forefatherS,
these truths to be self-evident, that all
men are created equal But
equality is of more remote origin.
BY the aid of history we can see its
lines clearly drawn in monarchieS,
empires and republics. In all affairs of
our government we find equality eX
hibited in its purest from, in the symbol
of our freedom-the ballot box. Here
men of all ranks and conditions express
Gods sunlight is as free to
the poor as it is to the
rich. The orchestras of earth have
been strung, and the panoramas of
heaven set in motion for no nations, no
tribes, no individuals. Thus far God
and the government have stamped
all men equal. But they are
not equal. These similarities but
point us to their common origin.
The characters of nations differ as the
SUMS rays strike them perpendicularly.
In the veins of the Italian lives and
flows sunny Italy; in the German,
sturdy Germany. Education, availing
itself of natural and climatic
differences, rears the mlghtlest
structure of inequality. Men may
power. equal in reputation, unequal in
character; equal in wealth but unequal
in wisdom. Let communism recede
into the darkness whence it came, let the
effulgence of the sun of liberty disperse
the clouds that we may see the spires
on schools and churches all
over our land, mingling in the grand
chorus of statesmen and poets and
orators and homes and mothers, all bid
ing us go forward, that with brave
hearts and trained minds we may go
up and possess the goodly land.'"
Conscience in Politics." was the sub
| ject of G. A. Winter, and "The
Pope in Politics" that of B. w. Irving,
who captured the second honors. Mr..
Irving's delivery was by far the best,
voice was well under control. He
thought that the Roman power was
looking to America as its home
and was working with that end
in view. America is the hope
of Rome,'' said Pope Leo. ALREADY"
the speaker said, 1.-The Bible is driven
from some of our public schools and
Roman Catholic university has been
planted in the capital Of this country"
The judges on thought and compost
ton with their markings given in ranks
On Thought-Maj. B. F. Wright,
Lee, 1; Irving, 4; Cochran, 3; Winter,
4. Hon. ii. l.. Humphrey, of Hudson,
Lee, 8; Irving, 2; Cochran, l.; Winter,
q. Charles Il. Thompson, Lee, 1;
Irving, 8; Cochran, 2; Winter. 4.
On Deliyery-H.M. Knox, Lee, l; Irv
ing. 8; Cochran, 2; Winter, 4. Prof. G.
! B. Gilbert, Lee, 3; Irving, l; Cochran,
2: Winter, 4. Nathan Ford, Lee, 8;
Irving, l; Cochran, 2; Winter,
4. Gen. Sanborn. Lee, 2; Irv-
ing, /; Cochran. 4; Winter, 3;
III. Knox Taylor. Lee, Q; Irving. l;
Cochran, 3; Winter, 4. These markings
gave W. P. Lee first place and B. W.
Irving second. While the Judges were
rendering their decisions the male quar-
tette of the college rendered several Sc
lections.
There was large number of students
present from Hamline and the state
university.