New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1897-03-10

clubs, societies and even churches seem
to have failed Of their mission if they
do not get numerous and hattering news
paper notices. Ministers of the gospel,
in some cases, cultivate notoriety with
diligence that would assure them rich
harvest of spiritual results if their ener-
gy took that direction. Dramatic artists
and sporting heroes pose and struggle
increasingly to catch the public eye and
live in the seventh heaven SO long as
they can keep people talking and writ
ing about them.
In recent speech on the arbitration
treaty, at banquet in Baltimore, Sena-
tor-elect Wellington said: "From war
arose that greatest abomination-
man slavery. By war these human
beings were freed. But such situations,
which brought about war in the past, are
disappearing. For that reason we are
turning to arbitration as another means
of settling our differences. In our his
tory as nation we have had four wars,
two of which were unnecessary. The
revolutionary war was justifable. The
second war with England was unueces-
} sary; so was the Mexican war. A gen.
} tleman wrote of this war: cause of the
war, Texas; result of the war, taxes
Then comes the civil war, which was
justifable, because, like the revolution
airy war, it was for human freedom. It
demonstrated above peradventure the
fact that America could govern herself.
But after that war came the best demon
stration of the need of international ar
bitration. We demanded of England
satisfaction for destroying American
> commerce during that war, and in the
conference at Geneva, America won and
gained her greatest victory. Therefore,
say the arbitration treaty is right. It
IS the triumph of this dying democratic
administrations diplomacy. There can
lie no gain in war between two great ma
lions. To-day our flag waves over A.
merican citizens, who have but one
thought, one religion. and that is that
the leaven of American freedom should
90 over the world.'
Referring to Bryan's gifts as an ora
to1, ex-senator Ingalls, commented last
week as follows:
."Coincidence of three things is neces-
sary to great speech. There must be
speaker, an occasion and an audience,
either sympathetic or hostile. OF these
the audience is perhaps the most impor-
tant. Shakespeare, who says everything
better than anybody else, hits the truth
, when he makes Rosalind declare that
GA jest's prosperity lies in the ear
u OF him that hears 1t; never in the
/ tongue
OF him that makes it,
! ''This IS as true of an Grafton as it is
of a joke. The prosperity of a speech
lies in the ears of the audience; never in
the tongue OF the orator. Quite likely
Demosthenes, with his mouth full of
pebbles, delivered powerful harangues
against the huctuating clamors Of the
lnarticulate seas, but it remains true as
r popularity considered, that the great
. effective speeches Of the world have
been made by the hearers quite as much
q as by the orator.
+ ''rhis was pre- eminently true of Bry-
ans speech at Chicago, which will prob
ably stand as an historic example among
y the conspicuous oratorical triumphs OF
' the nineteenth century. Taken as an
intellectual effect, the address was dis
e tinctly commonplace. It had neither
e depth, conference nor originality. It's
e platitudes were the canned goods of the
e trade. Its ornaments we've tinse]. Its
e climax was borrowed without credit
s But Notwithstanding these defects and
h infrmities, judged 10y results, it must he
r taken as one of the most remarkable
: achievements of our times. Its pros.
t perity was in the ear of the convention
s not in the tongue of Bryan. He was
e like the rod that conducted the bolt
n from the surcharged thunder cloud. He
y said at the opportune instant what the
e frenzied multitude wanted to utter. HI
e was the crater of the volcano; the vorte,
f Of the cyclone. He was the centra
d figure in an unprecedented drama. HI
d eliminated in that tremendous episod'
# which cannot be duplicated.
,, opportunity knocked at his gate