Arizona silver belt., 1890-06-28
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temporaneous address. Of course, I mean by that an address which is dig nified, worthy of the occasion, and which commands attention and re- .pect. Thero never was and there never will be an impromptu speech. Of course, know that some men have delivered speeches winch have attract cd wide attention and which are re- ported to have been inspired on the moment. But in the nature of things thls is impossible; if you analyze great speech and consider what IS nec- essary to mako one, It is easy te tee that such thing as ifnpromptu ora tory is impossible. Now, speech which is true oratory must in the first place suggest sublime, deep and eter- nal truths. Thorc must be thought and it should Le thought which IS capable of producing correspondingly great emotion and sentiment in the minds of thosa who hear 1t spoken. Therefore, the thought can not help beng sincere; 1t must reflect the very truth, as the mind of tho utterer has conceived it; and SO no really great oration has ever been delivered which did not sPHng from the heart of hlin who spoke il.
 Sometimes the thought IS dsvel- oped alter excessive, and 1t might be said exquisite, labor and turmoil of the soul. The operation of construct ing or composing a speech which IS truly great IS precisely similar te that which enables the painter 10 express great emotions by colors, and with the painters brush upon canvas. Tho making of great speech IS like the formulating of great painting. Sec har inc operations are similar. The banter ronceiyes great truth, an idea, capable of suggesting the pro foundest realities of nature, and of calling into being the sublimes, emo tiOns of the human intellect; he takes his palette and his brush, and with infinite patience mixes his colers aud deyclopcs upon the aanvas tho thought which IS III mInd. He labors over it patiently, affectionately, his whole ssul wrapped up in the desire to express to tho fullest that idea or emotion which is in hiS heart Sometimes 1t Is the labor of years; dehcate shadinss, strong, vigorous strokes, defiance of technical rules, If need be, i'll order thereby the more strongly to brIng out the idea upon the canvas; the touch of brush guided with the superb delieacy which ttHth and love compel, and in this way tue painter at last produces upon canvas that idsa which was born within hlm and which makes clear 10 men, for all tine, tue power, the beauty, the strength, the loveIiaess of that conception.
 Now that IS precisely what the man who is to deliver an oraiion must do if he is true to himself and if he would mako the impression of the idea as It exists ii. him clear, strong, per sua.ive and emotion stirring 10 those to whom he l. to disclose 1t by means of word pictures. For great oration, q true oration, Is but the painting of ideas by words, instead of by colors, and the truth that is in it. wlll be sug. ecsted as imptessively snd a, surely il i the speaker has been true to himself as does the wonderful painting upon which multiiude,, for generation after generation, look with wonder and with the best emotions of their na
 lures stirred within them. Now
 when we consider that 1t is with such methods as thls that the true oration IS perfected and delivered to the hear. CTS, it IS easy t9 sec that t is impossi ble 10 formulate 1t while man i; standing upon hs feet and to create on tho instant and deliver thought:
 by word ot mouth which shall stanc the test which makes or breaks CT oratorical effort