The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-04-17

statue is finished the workman stops
Nothing is more difficult than per.
feet close. Few poems few pieces OF
music, few novels end Well A gooc
story. great speech. perfect poem
should end just at the proper point
The bud, the blossom. the fruit No de.
lay. great speech is a capitalization
in its logic, an affiorescence in It's poe
try"
GREAT ORATORS OF THE PAST
Can you give few Illustrations
drawn from your own experience and
observation of public speakers?"
Well, TO tell you the truth" re-
Joined Colonel Ingersoll. Il have not
heard many speeches. Most of the
| great speakers in our country were
before my time. l heard Beecher. and
/ he was an orator. He had imagination,
! humor and intensity. His brain was
fertile as the valleys of the tropics.
He was too broad, too philosophic, too
poetic for the pulpit
Now and then he broke the letters of
his creed, escaped from his orthodox
prison and became sublime
Theodore Parker was an orator. He
preached great sermons. His sermons
on Old Age and Webster and his
address on Liberty were filled with
great thoughts, marvelously expressed.
When he dealt with human events,
with realities, with things he knew. he
was superb. When he spoke of free
dom, of duty of living to the ideal. of
mental integrity. he seemed inspired.
Webster l never heard. He had
great qualities-force, dignity, clear
ness, grandeur-but after all, he wor-
SHIPPED the past He kept his back to
the sunrise. There was no dawn in
ms brain. He was not creative. He
had no spirit of prophecy. He lighted
no torch. He was not true to his IDEAL
He talked sometimes as though his
head was among the stars, but he
stood in the gutter. In the name of
religion he tried to break the will of
stephen Girard-to destroy the great
est charity in all the world; and i'm the
name of the same religion he defended
the fugitive slave law. His purpose
was the same in both cases. He wanted
office. Yet he uttered few very great
paragraphs, rich with thought. perfect
ly expressed.
Clay | never heard, but he must
nave had commanding presence. a
chivalric bearing. heroic voice. He
cared little for the past. He was a
natural leader, a wonderful talker--
forcible, persuasive, convincing. He
was not poet, not a master of meta
phor, but he was practical He kept
IN view the end to be ACCOMPLISHED |
He was the opposite of Webster. Clay
was the morning. Webster the evening.
Clay had large views, a wide horiz n
He was ample, vigorous and a little |
tyrannical
Benton was thoroughly commonplace. |
He never uttered an inspired word. lie
was an intense esotist. No subject was
great enough to make him forget him
self.
Calhoun was political Cdl.;nis.-
narrow, logical. dogmatic. He was net
an orator. He delivered essays, not
)rations.
KoSSUTH AND TOM CoRWIN.
l think it was in 1851 that Kossuth
visited this country. He was an
orator. There was no man. at that
time, under our flag. who could speak
English as well as he. In the first
speech | read of Kossuth's was this
inc: Russia is the rock against
which the sigh for freedom breaks"
In this you see the poet. the painter.
he orator.
S. S. Prentiss Was an orator. but
With the recklessness of gamester.
le threw his life away. He said pro-
ound and beautiful things, but he
acked application. He was I'M
wen. disproportioned-say ordinary
Kings on great occasions, and now
md then. without the slightest provo
alton. uttering the sublimest and
most beautiful thoughts.
In my judgment Corwin was the
,reatest orator of them all. He had
more arrows in his culver. He had
,enius. He was full of humor. pathos.
git and logic. He was an actor. His
ody talked His meaning was in his
yes and lips.
Governor o. P. Morton of Indiana
ad the greatest power of statement
f any man / ever heard. All the !
reument was in his statement. TheJ
acts were perfectly grouped. The
onclusion was a necessity. The besti