St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-02-21
The Annual Home Contest al
the University at Ham
line.
Eight Young Demosthenes
Strive for the Local
Laurel Wreath.
y Wide Range Of Subject and
y Great Depth Of
Study.
Wheeler, Bonney and Tuckey
Awarded in Order
Named.

One Of the closest oratorical contests
of any of the state colleges was the
home contest at the Hamline university
chapel last ing. Eight of the bright
est minds in the college were pltted
against each other, and the outcome was
awaited with iptensest interest by the
large audience, which included many
from other institutions. But one or two
of the subjects were especially new in
collegiate forensic displays, but the old
ones were attlred in new dress and
proved that the OrationS treating OF those
subjects dozen years ago are only
landmarks showing the world do move.
First place was given to B. n. Wheel
er; second, w. l.. Bonney; third, 4. n.
Tuckey.
The II. U. Quartette opened the pro-
gramme with one of its finished songs,
and then the president OF the local ora
torical association introduced the flrst
speaker of the evening. Guy E. Max
we'll. His delivery is always in earn
est, always forcible, and fitting the sub
ject matter. A certain freedomTelieves
it from formality, and his gestures are
always we'll gagged and placed.
"Look down the path oflthe ages, and
see that nothing has endured save that
in which the vital spirit of philanthrOphy
is embodied. Humanity recognizes
what belongs to it, loves it and pre-
serves it. Philantrophy was not known
in the East, and caste Sprang up to put
iron bands on progress. Even plous
Judaism did not include love to man.
POpeS, prelateS and monaSticiSm did not
find the tombstone of social improve
ment. Piety separated from philan-
throphy could not long endure; piety
degenerated, and the Reformation be-
came necessary. In Egypt man was
nothing. Nor has she left aught
save her monstrous tombs in the wilder
ness to mark where once Strug-
gled wilderness of humanity.
In Assyria and Persia the state is all.
They carried brand and sword over the
EARTH but time is erasing their memory.
Jude, Greece and Rome have left their
names shining in the armament of his
tory: but be it remembered that moth
Ing endures even in them save what
takes ITS place in human veal. The
great kingdom of human brotherhood
alone bases her civilization on the new
commandment of charity, and is deS-
tined to be as eternal as truth"
III A Girl's ChiValry.
Miss Jean Evans, in an Grafton on
"Cbivalry," gave one Of the most de-
lightfuI speeches of the evening, as her
delivery is sufficiently charming to
make brown study attractive. She
possesses clear, ringing voice, pleas
antly modulated and always in quality
bearing relatedneSS to the subject
matter. Her gestures are few, but
graceful and fOrcible. The Grafton in
itself was not remarkable, and rather
feminine composition. but in delivery
Hiss Evans certainly deserves all hon
Orable place.
c. p. Montgomery is youthful
speaker. who lacks experience, but he
seems to have the making of an orator
in him. His voice was used with too
much of a sameness, and increasing
force toward the end of each sentence,
but that may be easily modulated. His
Grafton was very patriotic one entitled:
lone Flag, One Tongde," in which he
made very ardent plea that our own
institutions should be preserv ed intact
and America should be for Americans.
a Duel Statesman.
After music by the quartette G. P.
Stevens was introduced. His delivery
acter-and would have been improved
by greater variety of changes. His
Grafton was sketch of 1.-THE Dual
Statesmen" 1t opened with descrip-
ton of that memorable July morning
on the heights of Hoboken. and the out
come OF the duel between Hamilton
and BUR- was shown to be character
istlc of the life of the first, prophetic of
the future of the second. A few of
the dark pages in the dark life which
Burr lived were given with graphic,
telling sentences, and the closing scene
in the following words: I'm one OF the
lower parts of Staten island he awaits
the grim messenger. Burr is reclining
upon sofa. The minister is kneeling
upon the cold floor, and asks him to
swer is: 1 cannot die The silver
locks fall carelessly over his fevered
brow, and that which should accom-
pany old age-honor, love, obedience,
troops Of friends-he may never look
to have; but IN their stead curses,
not loud but deep, which the
the poor heart would fain deny, but
cannot. And so he lies OH the eternal
shore, wifeless, childless, friendless,
countryless. without God and without
hope. And as the pressed craft
tears from its mornings and drifts into
the open sea, there echoes back the
sad wall, L cannot die, | cannot die"
The labor Problem.
E. n. Tuckey gave perhaps the most
carefully elaborated Grafton of the
evening. an article on the labor prob
lem, showing much reading and
thought His delivery is very polished
and smooth, sometimes at the expense
of perfect emphasis of thought. Mr..
Tuckey has deep, musical voice, well
controlled, and which he adapts per-
fectiy to the auditorium.
1t is certain, he said, that labor, the
weaker factor in production, is as de-
serving of legislative protection against
destructive agencies as is capital. A
system IN which shrewd business tact
aud malignant greed may corner" the
food products of nation, rear colos-
sal fortune in day, and draw tighter
around its hopeless victims the hated
bonds of poverty, is by no means per-
feet. But just as certainly are improve
dence, intemperance and vicious lndo-
lence working laD0rerS their ruin.
Constantly contending for supremacy
in the economic life Of the nation
there have come down to US three
great principles, the principles of
authority, lndlVlQudllSm ana socialism.
Under no condition can any of these
govern exclusively; each in turn pre-
dominates as the times and the people
demand; the suitable cooperation of
the three will work marvellous trans
formation. Individualism is the key
note of the nineteenth century, as it
will be of every epoch of grand material
aud social achievement. But authority
must exercise its power. No moral or
intellectual barrier is sufficient against
the abuse of economic power by unprin-
cipIed men. Protection, not paternal-
Ism; individual freedom, nX liberti-
nism: voluntary and fraterHdl union,
not socialism are the lines along which
society may reach that priceless goal,
the development of all.
Tribute to Horace Greeley.
w. L. Bonney. in his Grafton, paid
tribute to Horace Greeley and the New
York Tribune. His delivery was SIN
guIarly and delightfully."- free from stage
eoeution, and his manner very much in
earnest. At times the rendering was
trife slow, but the general interest was