New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1894-04-04

itnrONgh the spec cneS IS ina auINlYe, we
lare brought face e face with The world g
Igreatsorato ], and SC does not strain the
iimag ion to picture the effect 81 these
mastery orat ions on the people who
heard them. 4
ho DO you think e lonel was the
greatest of the ancient orators g
Cicero. He was the lord Of language
BE. above al men, * pressed the great
lest and the grandest thong and the
most wonderful neralizations. He
had, II 3 supreme degree, the gift 81 i'm
Iagination, Vi. hout which he co.lli not
thaye. been IN orator. In 8 corrupt age,
he was ; patriot and gave the best Of his
| splendid Efforts to the denunciation Of
treason. There never stood before nor
after him st the bar Of Rome lawyer.
who was worthy to fasten his sandals:
His splendid gifts were exercised IN no
cramping rut. Whatever affected hui.
mainly interested him, and heil luminat-
ed it with tho splendo r of his genius.
The reverence for and the beauties of
old age were better appreciated after
they had been framed in his golden sem
fences. Friendship became holier for
his treatment, and so men became better
and broader when they heard Cicero's
exposition, Or read what he had said on
the subject. &
Elbow do the modern compare with
the ancient orasors, in your opinion, g
asked.
We can compare the efforts of the
poets, architects, ulpotrs and: painters
Of antiquity, particul arly where their
works survive in whole or il part, with
those Of the moderns, but. IN oratory SO
much depends on the individual peculi-
.a1ties Of the man, that it is almast i'm
possible to make any thing like a judici-
al comparison. The orations Of the an
clients were carefully prepared and to
that fact il due their preservation. The
most elective addresses Of the French
Revocation Wers largely extemporaneous.
and, no means having been taken IN the
tumult Of tho times 70 preserve them ex
actly, they wee lost. g the same way,
many Of the mastsrl J speeches ofthe ell
der Pitt disd with the ound Of the voice
that uttered them, yet enough remains to.
show that he, in his limited field, was q
great orator. Tex VIZ : powerful plead
E rather than ! great sratcr, and while
Burke's speeches, prepared and penned
Thy his fine scholarship and exquisite taste
are models Of splendid diction and ele-
waited rhetoric, We know that he was
Icslled the dinner bell for his rising was
q signal for friend and opponent e emp-
ity the benches. shsrida had many Of
the requisites Of : great orstor, but his
training fnads hin tsheaArical and he
worked for s1scts, md enc fcsls that the
curtain ahould have besa rlrg down on
his climaxes. 70 ny mind Curran was
the greatest oratsr Of his day, and some
of the passagss il his speeches thrill the
reader to-day Ike : trunpst blast, and
they viii continus Us thrill while truth
lsolemnly uttered his ths psver 80 effect
mankind. No, Z DO not regard Gladstone
as = great oratsr, INT is must 30 conccd-
/ Cd That he = grand spoaksr. He is
/ wanting in feeling md Imagination. He
says fine things IS stately, Well-bal-
ancsd way, but I defy his greatest adj
mirer to repeat, On tho spur Of the NO,
ment one sentence 81 Gladstone chat has
been burned into tho memory ana the
recital Of which stirs the pulse into d
4 faster beat. z
How do you think American orators
compare with those Of othe. land
The Americans are the most fluent
/ people il tho world, ana our political
methods have done much q foster the
AT o public speaking but this has not lls,
encouraged true oratory for when every
one il J spesker, people are satisfied with
1mediocrity Fhs true artist Is not going
70 enter the fsld agsinstt the St q paint.
Is, nor iii the poet compete With the