Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-09-26
MR. DnlaN's WORK.

NJ Bfyhn'a popularity ~ an oratoi
and advocate seems 10 Increase AZ time
advances. The audiences which hs
addresses are In every case limited
only ny the capacity Of the place Ia
which be holds forth, aud for the sake
Of convenience and brevi,y are spoken
u 40 70 many th1usands. Viewing
the mans career OF late from what.
ever standpoint may bs chosen, Il is
one Of the wonders Of our time and
place. To form some faint Idea Of the
ply alcal power alone required 10 en-.
dure tuch an ordeal, the reader needs
but to tsmomuor any railway trip he has
made that tuok him through Jay and
light with Irregular s,oTpages AMI
rect broken into by various means;
then lot him II he can add TO this
wearia2mo experience the necessity Of
being hs bright "a now dollar and ~
fresh ~ the deviation daisy ut all
points aud almost al times, with the
additional nee ssiIy Of keeping 1t up
day after day and week alter week.
Nothing but the most perfect conaii.
tuition, robust health and regular habits
could endure II, ard the wonder IL
that even Mr.. Bryan has not sue.
cumbed or at least ialtered long before
tuis. hut the merely physical require.
meut7 Of tho case are only
part ami MOI the most exact.
Ing tart of II either. To be-
ready Tor get speech whenever called
on, which sometimes happens n dozen
times In y day, ami avoid repotiiio n,
monoiony OF even an appearance Of
falling OH, ftqliros "a intellect
amounting to 4 milan spring ana
ioeuniily OF iieas we'll nigh marvel.
ouf.
Its no wonder hl, audioncel are 90
large anu that thoso who would
hear him II they could got near
enough but cannot, steadily In.
crosse In number. OF course soms ~.
Ito curiosity must DO accepted as
factor In the case, bat the onrloal,y,we
take Il, IL moro the product
u a query In tbs minds OF the
people M 10 how long tho man
eau staHd II AMI a desire TO DO pfss.
cut when nature eau no longer support
the un quail strain and takes her un.
cfflng revenge. No matter; they go,
aud few msn even amJng our great
orators have been 10 honofed in respec
TO attendance. Patrick Hsnry's i'm.
morlpl illght Of oratoty was delivered
10 about $50 persons constituting
main y tue Virginia c1nventlo n,
which was held Ia room Of about
that capacity. "Colli I, have been
here, 10 this oAken chapel Of 80 pews,"
wrote Hosmur, tho gifted author o
"Bpfondto," "lhst Patrick Henry DO.
livorcd tho greatest aud best known
OF all hi, sposohe,3 Was It here that
he uttered those w0ris Of doom 90 un.
expected, aud then % unwoloome,
we niu,t ngh,7' Even here. But the
words were spoken In tone and
manner worthy tho men 10 whom they
were addressed, anu who were 10
Impressed with them that for several
moment, they were almost awe.
stricken. Il was only when the voice
OF Richard Henry Lee, that other
matchlsss Virginia orator, who rose TO
second the words OF Henry, rang
through the room thst they were called |
back 10 themselves. " The late Villa m
II. seward'a famed GRAFTON In defense
Of William Freeman, which Horace |
Greeley pronounced zone OF the mat
tctpleces In the history OF oratory, ToA.
son, logic aud humanity" was uttered |
la the presence OF loss than 100 per.
tole aId Daniel wobslel's great ATgu.
ment Ia the Dartmouth college case
fell upon the ears Of not TO exceed |
ATTY people. There are countless sim.
liar instances, and will doubtless DO
many more; but Mi. Bryan has the
good iosIuue to speak TO acres outside,
and suraiug, struggling hTongs inslde,
aud 20 iar na shows 10 symptoms Of
weakenlng, 1T alone leIIlng 20. His
intellectual power, which some iesty
critics at the oulsel pronounced u
cisiern rather than n fauntain aud |
which alter repeated drafts upon II
would become dry, seems n anything
more eopious anu ospAeloua than at
the beginning. No two speeches arc |
* city alike, and all have s.msous on |
more special features II Interest.