Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-05-21
STATE Observation-Disclosures.


those men whom the Creator OF the
world has endowed with His gifts. and
who have used those gifts for His puf.
poses--l Applause. 1t is a shocking
and monstrous thing to have man
abuse his powers, TO have the gifts Of
Cod Put under foot by those who should
hold them aloft for the benefit Of man.
kind. When you think over all that
this man Shakespeare wrote and you
think that in the midst Of the coarse
age in which no lived there was d re-
tinement that never has been surpassed.
when you find that there are lessons
inculcated Of modesty to women,
courage to men, and -unseliishness to
both sexea, and of reverence to tho law,
and you find the whole polIty Of men q
AFFAIRS 30 reflected in this mans teach
ing, you feel that he was divinely
gifted, and you thank God that he was
So Applause. | am deeply grateful
that the fortune Of my life sent me
here, and sent me here to-day to be
present with you. ladies' and gentlemen,
on this OCCASION Loud cheers.
After the luncheon came the presen.
tation OF the Booth portrait to the
Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Iir
minghanl, by tho Players Club of New
York, at which Mr.. Bayard made
another address. lie said he came to
birmingham at the invitation OF the
Dramatic Club, which had for ono of
the obiecte of its existence tho per-
petuation of the names of the professors
of tho art of typifying humanity.
Every honest contributor to that work
was the servant OF true art. He had a
great respect for those who devoted
their faculties to the expression of the
best thoughtH OF other men. That was
the function OF tho actor, and let not
this function be moderated. He must,
II he were true actor, suppresss him
self Ii be were to act it was essential
that no should not be tho creature OF
impulGe, and that he should be the
faithful portrayer Of another mans de-
liherate philosophy and Judgment. II
there were difference between the
civilized man and the savage, it was
that the savage was an egotist, think.
ing only of his own feelings, whilst, on
the other hand, the civilized man was
he who thought that the chief power
of man was to govern himself APP
plause. What raised an actor from
being mere imitaIor into being an
artist was that he was the impersonatoI
of other mems judgments. He was
glad to lind himself in any degree and
at any time associated with an attempt
to emphasize the feelings of mankind
towards the illustrious of their race.
The name of this building and it's pur-
pose was to lead mon to remember and
to respect one of the most divinely
gifted of their Species Applause
and, therefore, when din addition was
made to the collection in that mo-
mortal, whenever the portrait of any
true and faithful pupil, scholar. OF
professor, who had given his faculties
to the better appreciation of Shakes.
peare had been given to them he should
rejoice, and he felt honored that he
had been allowed TO add his individual
voice on this occasion to new tribute
to that profession to which Shakes.
peara belonged, and of which he was
the head. The likeness was that OF
man who was an honest interpreter oil
Shakesneare's meanings Cheers.
Mr.. Bayard also visited the principa
municipal buildings in Birmingham,
and was afterwards entertained at lunch.
con by the Mayor, Councillor James
Smith. Responding to the toast of his
health, Mr.. Bayard said he was good
deal impressed by the fact that for the
first time no stood in the room where
John Bright had been heard, always
with respect and always with influence,
influence that was not restricted to his
own side of the Atlantic. He believed
there was no community in England
that was more in sympathy with the
United States than birmingham. lie
spoke of the progress made by tho city,
remarking that the motive underlying
all the progress was work for the
benefit OF all and not for the advance
ment Of the few. He could quite
imagine he was speaking to an au.
dience Of Americans; not only was NJ
translation needed for tho words he
spoke. but none for the feeling lie OK,
pressed. There was common man.
hood belonging to them alto theii
language, to their literature, and theil
countries; therefore ii was easy for al
Americana true American-to oper
his heart to an Englishman. Neither
had anything to conceal. neither had
the disposition to attempt concealment
it was not in their blood He believed
when tho time came for serious di.
United States, that the men who had
been hitherto opposed would step for.
ward each with his hand extended, anc
in it he would find the hand of his
Anglican brother. In wider range anl
wider thought let them believe that,
when tho time should come for serioui
and decisive measures, there would bt
the common cause of the worlds civil
cation and advancement at stake, il
which the hand of Great Britain anC
the hand of her child, the United
Statea, would be found together. /
would be quite impossible for an Amer
lean to stand IN Great Britain, and il
would DO quite impossible for an Eng
lishman or British subject, true t.
| his country, to stand in America with
ont feeling TINT there was so much il
| common between them that could no
be divided, that there must DO founc
u mode of settlement for minor differ
| ences.
Mckinley Lieutenants at Dover.
An Addicks man informed reporte