New-York tribune., 1896-12-25

place for the proceeding thus described than du
Mr.. Bryan's manager when he pitched upon Al
lanta as the starting point for Soo,On lecture
tour. Simply TO see n man who enrns $l'""
night with his mouth Is worth something Ihe
attraction is greatly enhanced In district where
the neopIe are i'm ardent sympathy Win 'he
lecturer and have been led by the press agent
to be,ieyc that they will hear something they
never heard before
Az to the lecture itself. Of which our enter
nrisinc contemporary. "rhe Ncw-lork World
published a brief synopsis. it has to be said thnt'
although il seems to have been received WIFI
something like rapture by the enthusiastic peo-
Die who paid dollar tc hear it and meah' ~
make themselves think they were getting 'he'r
moneys worth, il did not fulfil the expectations
aroused by the press agent 1t was moi al hi III
the nature of "a bugle call for the campaign Oh
1900" MS advertised II was on the contrary.
a quite commonplace essay on wDa' Nv S"i" liz
had been especially impressed WIN durihg '"e
last few years. ''the power OF an lu"a Ano the
idea he had been especially impressed with was
1.-The Indifference Of citizens TO the great prop
lens OF government" He introduced IT in these
words: MY only purpose is to leave with you
..some thoughts in connection with subject very
near 10 nv heart In the hope that these
.,bouqhts will awaken themselves in your
..minds and that this activity in your minds
will lead you 70 better citizenship Nof SIT
ring exorlum. surely. hut very Striking TO-
minder of the tran-cnd speeches OF the CAM
paign. in which he almost invariably started out
TO give his hearers something 10 think OF. bnt
somehow the ;rain always pulled out before 10
got to it.
Without dwelling upon The Indifference Of
citizens TO The great problems OF government
which he announced as his theme. ana whl'h
was probably borne in upon him by the manlfest
Indifference of n large majority or cif'Zehs 10
his solution Of the great problems OF govern
mcnt he ambcd mp to his old story OF claSS
legislation and the discomfort it produces. ana
proceeded to rchnsh his train-end speeches.
thra ashing the old straw of masses anu
GLASSES" all over again. II was his stump
spcech made over into a lecture. He said one
new thing. however. which was that he used to
think the word fanatic" harsh term. bur
changed his mind after he was able to define it
himself. A fanatic he says "is one who
thinks so deeply upon certain subjects as 10
make himself a nuisance 10 everybody VINO
doesn't think as deeply on that subject as he
does" He was evidently thinking or himself
and with his usual scf-complacency accounting
for his being nuisance by his being. in far'.
a fanatic. who thinks more deeply than those
who consider him Il nuisance. Therein he makes
one of his common mistakes. IT he Is nuisance
which we really do not consider hint Is not
because he thinks deeply. but because he
thinks he IS thinking 50 deeply. when in point
of fact he mistakes the operations OF his mouth
for intelligent mental processes. Mr.. Bryan
fools himself with the notion that he is deep
sea diver when hr has only put his head under
water and left the rest Of himself in plain pihlc
sight 10 the intense amusement or spectators.
tn 10 date however. he may be counted aS
financial success on the lecture platform. We
conpraiulate his manager His success will no
doubt continue >o long ~ he can find coinmuni-
Ties which like thai sort o. thing. For "a Mt.
Lincoln used to say: For people who like tlat
sort of thug that Is just about the sort or thing
''they like"