The Irish standard., 1890-02-08
HON, D. D0UGHERTY's LECTURE.
He Lectures on Orators aud Oratory" at
Armory Hall Before Large and
Appreelatiye Audience.

AppreCIatlVo AuQ16nce.
The Brownson Catholic club and Com
pany "a" provided rare treat for the
Minneapolis public Friday evening, Jan.
81, in the form of lecture on s'Orators
and Oratory," by Hon. Daniel Dough-
or y, OF Philadelphia. Armory hall was
the place selected for the lecture, and
the spacious audience room was filled to
it's utmost capacity. Upon the platform
with the lecturer sat Archbishop Ireland
and other members of the Catholic
clergy, President Cyrus Northrop, Hon.
E. M. Wilson, Rev. M. d. Shutter, G. A.
Pillsbury aud other prominent citizens.
President Northrop introduced the lee
turer, and in so doing paid q handsome
tribute to his standing as patriotic
citizen and noted orator, characterizing
him as one who was eminent'y fitted to
discuss the subject Of his lecture. AS
She speaker, with his clear cut features,
gray hair and side whiskers, and his
robust form, clad in closely fitting
Prince Albert coat, advanced to the
front of the platform, he was greeted
with rounds Of applause. He gave the
common definition of an orator as one
who, in public speech, impresses an
audience to immediate action. He en-
umerated several kinds of speakers who
are regarded by one or another as
orators. Among these, are the debater,
the scholar, the declaimer, the thinker,
and the speaker who employs CONVEX
sational style. None of these, in the
speakers opinion, constituted an orator.
He should possess the magnetic powers
to carry his audience along with him.
The speech employed to persuade should
be build on the solid basis of common
sense. The difference between the
essayist and the orator is in the delivery.
The three requisites of an orator emu
merated by Demosthenes, action, action,
action, the speaker considered worth
less than those given by Lytton, acting,
acting, acting.
"Cicero," said he "gave the two prin-
cipal points OF speech, what and why {.
He says the orator requires the acuteness
OF logic, the learning of philosophy, the
diction of the poets, the memory of law
yers, the voice Of the tragedlan and the
action of the first players.
NOTHING Is so LdFFICULT
to find as perfect orator. One must
be born an orator. By practice and
study o man may become public speak
or, but he lacks something. Earnest
delivery bears the impress of sincerity
and reality. But delivery is not the
only requisite. The orator must please
instruct and reason. He must show a
nice sense Of propriety and purity Of
motive. The orator ought never to
prostitute his powers. He may be wrong
but he should be sincere. The glory Of
oratory is that its most illustrious inter
prefers have spoken. the thoughts OF
their souls. A lecture may be delivered
20 times to as many different audiences,
a speech but once. The best speech is
the one that has been clearly thought
out, but which in the presence of the
audience is brought out in rounded
periods, with lofty flights of oratory and
carrying all before it. Styles Of oratory
differ with different people. The orators
OF Greece and Rome used more action
than do the moderns. After a great
speech Cicero was exhausted for days.
The Latins produced greater orators
than the Teutonics. question whether
Gladstone's speeches will be read by the
general reader. It is the boast now in
England that an orator will not be toll
Grated ID the house of commons"
At this point the speaker initiated
Disraeli, Gladstone, Lord Stanley and
other eminent English statement as they
spoke In parliament He said the man
3nerisms Of these eminent gentlemen
we're quite il accord with the business
like ali. that peryades parliament
ne Sleeture,' & said he, ttia supposed to
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